Remembering Krista

[daftcat75]

Bonus picture today.

December 9, 2018:

We’re out of Rad Cat (save for one or two emergency tubs in the freezer.) For a brief moment in time, I was able to get these duck patties from the “local”* raw food coop. (*Still a three hour errand.) I was adding EZ Complete to balance and complete the boneless duck meat. I am not convinced that either ever really agreed with her. At least she was still get Rawz during this time too.

 

[daftcat75]

December 10, 2019 was a busy day for being adorably photogenic:

 

[tarasgirl06]

December 10, 2019 was a busy day for being adorably photogenic:
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*I'm cute. I KNOW I'm cute. I may be TOO cute, actually. And hey, Dad, about that food. I hate to bother you. But I've had better. Now can we do something about that?"*

 

[daftcat75]

*I'm cute. I KNOW I'm cute. I may be TOO cute, actually. And hey, Dad, about that food. I hate to bother you. But I've had better. Now can we do something about that?"*

Lies! Vicious rumors and bloody lies! She's never had better food than what I bought and/or prepared for her. My excess Rawz cans and budget surplus the last few months have proven as much.

She liked the duck. A lot. But her food journal seems to suggest that her gut and butt thought otherwise of either the duck or the EZ Complete. It's likely the chicken liver and eggs in the EZ Complete were brewing up some of the inflammation in her that would land her in the hospital next month. The broken tooth was probably doing a great deal of damage there too.

Incidentally, I only just this last weekend dumped jars and jars of frozen meat stock from turkey and rabbit batches. Some of them were a year old. I just didn't trust them enough to give them to my beertender cat friends. It made me kind of sad. If it weren't for the clostridium she got from an undercooked drumstick last summer, I would have loved to have kept making and serving her beloved meat jello. After fighting a month of liquid poops, I never did fully trust the meat stock again.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Lies! Vicious rumors and bloody lies! She's never had better food than what I bought and/or prepared for her. My excess Rawz cans and budget surplus the last few months have proven as much.

She liked the duck. A lot. But her food journal seems to suggest that her gut and butt thought otherwise of either the duck or the EZ Complete. It's likely the chicken liver and eggs in the EZ Complete were brewing up some of the inflammation in her that would land her in the hospital next month. The broken tooth was probably doing a great deal of damage there too.

Incidentally, I only just this last weekend dumped jars and jars of frozen meat stock from turkey and rabbit batches. Some of them were a year old. I just didn't trust them enough to give them to my beertender cat friends. It made me kind of sad. If it weren't for the clostridium she got from an undercooked drumstick last summer, I would have loved to have kept making and serving her beloved meat jello. After fighting a month of liquid poops, I never did fully trust the meat stock again.

Good on ya for jettisoning those -- better safe than sorry.
And yeah -- didn't mean ALL her food, only the duck and EZ Complete!

 

[daftcat75]

Bonus pics tonight from Dec 10, 2018 (calm before the storm!):

 

[tarasgirl06]

Bonus pics tonight from Dec 10, 2018 (calm before the storm!):

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*Beautiful, bright-eyed...and calm!*

 

[daftcat75]

December 11, 2019:

Not sure what she’s feeling here. Whatever it was, she still wanted to be right there next to me.

 

[daftcat75]

December 12, 2018:
I don’t know what I served her. But she apparently enjoyed it.

 

[tarasgirl06]

December 12, 2018:
I don’t know what I served her. But she apparently enjoyed it.
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*Dad! Thanks! That tastes like MORE!*

 

[daftcat75]

December 13, 2018:

Well, look at that! I busted out an emergency Rad Cat tub for her. She must not have been eating so well. Broken tooth already? Or other trouble?

The tub is to block her from helping.

 

[tarasgirl06]

December 13, 2018:

Well, look at that! I busted out an emergency Rad Cat tub for her. She must not have been eating so well. Broken tooth already? Or other trouble?
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The tub is to block her from helping.

Yeah. Well, she WOULD have helped.

 

[daftcat75]

Those tubs would only work with her. She was so habituated with taking the Katris or the cat tree wall (there’s a path I taught her that starts on the left tree and goes across the storage and the right tree to the counter.) OC aka Meatball would just leap up to the counter from the other side of the sink.

 

[daftcat75]

December 13, 2019:

Usually when I wore the cat bib, we were nose to nose. Every now and then, she gave me the business end.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Those tubs would only work with her. She was so habituated with taking the Katris or the cat tree wall (there’s a path I taught her that starts on the left tree and goes across the storage and the right tree to the counter.) OC aka Meatball would just leap up to the counter from the other side of the sink.

Well, he's a guy. And he's so glad when he's inside that of course he's gonna bounce around and try to eat everything edible.
As for Krista, whichever end you got, I'm pretty sure she thought you deserved it

 

[daftcat75]

December 14, 2019:
Evidence of the nose to nose cat bib. Maybe it’s because I treasured it more after her various health scares and impending mortality, but it seemed like she did this more often in her last year. After her ear surgery this June, she was on activity restriction. She spent two weeks in the pen. But when I did let her out for some supervised freedom, if I was laying on the floor, my belly and chest was the first place she wanted to go.

These first two, I’m reclining in my chair. I’m wearing a vertical cat bib. My little mountain lion.

 

[tarasgirl06]

December 14, 2019:
Evidence of the nose to nose cat bib. Maybe it’s because I treasured it more after her various health scares and impending mortality, but it seemed like she did this more often in her last year. After her ear surgery this June, she was on activity restriction. She spent two weeks in the pen. But when I did let her out for some supervised freedom, if I was laying on the floor, my belly and chest was the first place she wanted to go.

These first two, I’m reclining in my chair. I’m wearing a vertical cat bib. My little mountain lion.
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Those are the moments that make the rest of life endurable, yes?
A little mountain lion indeed. "For she is of the tribe of tiger"

 

[daftcat75]

December 16, 2018:

 

[tarasgirl06]

December 16, 2018:

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Looking absolutely gorgeous on Beethoven's 248th birthday, I see

 

[daftcat75]

Looking absolutely gorgeous on Beethoven's 248th birthday, I see

250. But what's a couple years among two and half centuries?