Ahhh, time to settle down for a nice Caturday nap….
Sorry Nine, I don’t think that is possible with Mini Cooper around.
I can not imagine a life without cats!
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DogDaz Zoo: Cat Setting
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Wishing all those who celebrate Ramadan an easy fast. – Your friends at DogDaz Zoo
Wordless Wednesday: Noel and Mr. Hare
I love my hare lamp. The kid’s think it is creepy. Nono likes it.
This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.
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Monday Mischief: Feeding Time @ the DogDaz Zoo
I am a certifibly crazy pet parent, especially around feeding time: 6 animals – 7 different foods
The Food
Food 1 and 2: Louise, with her autoimmune issues, gets Hill’s prescription Z/D (wet and dry). She has been doing really well on it and sadly, I can not find any cheaper alternatives. I feed her in a ‘slow bowl,’ which really works too. (Thanks for the slow bowl idea, Eko.)
Food 3 and 4: Sofie, eats Natural Balance Venison and Sweet Potato (wet and dry). I used to feed it to both dogs before I found that Louise could not tolerate most foods. The dogs also get unsalted veggies with each meal, or pumpkin, depending on what I have in the pantry.
Food 5: Noel eats Friskies wet food. All the cats used to be on this but Nine and Stella started to dislike it (as well as most dry foods), so now only Noel is on it. Wet is my choice and I add a good amount of water. (Dr. L says they would normally eat 4 mice a day, which would be meat and water mostly, so that is what I try for.)
Food 6: Nine and Stella don’t like any wet anymore (no matter how hard I try), so they are on Solid Gold – Indigo dry.
Food 7: The baby, Mini Cooper (who is not a kitten anymore), is on Blue Healthy Gourmet pate (wet only). She does not like Friskies. I haven’t moved Noel to the Blue because it is very expensive and if I can save a few bucks…
The Process
I have feeding down to a science. I open all dog food cans. I make Louise’s food first because I want the fork to be free from contamination of other food. (Yes fork vs spoon, because Lulu’s food is very solid and it helps break it up more.) I mix the wet, dry, and veggies with water. She then licks the fork.
Then it is whinny Sofie’s turn. I mix her dry, wet, and veggies with water and then she licks the fork. Sometimes I make them sit and give them an extra veggie or 2.
I take their food to the dog mat, they say their prayers (really they do) and chow down.
Now that they are busy I move to the counter to feed the cats. I open the cat cans. Mini first because she is a huge pest if I don’t. Then Nine on the other side of the counter, followed by Noel, the patient, in her herb window. The cats have to eat ‘up’ to keep food away from dogs.
The dogs are still busy when I go down the hall to Stella’s room and feed her (she is behind closed doors all the time so she is easy).
Back to the kitchen to make sure Sofie does not cat bowl surf the counter (which she does) and that Mini and Noel don’t gang up on Nine, who is a slower eater, because they do. They sit there and stare him down if I don’t watch.
This routine may explain why it is really hard to get anyone else in the family to help at feeding time. I actually accomplish all this in a matter of minutes, but I have a plan (you have to have a plan at 5 am).
I don’t mind the different foods, it is just the cost that is killing me, and the need to shop at multiple pet stores because the foods are special and only sold at specific places (Z/D at a PetSmart with a Banfield Vet or at a Vet) and Natural Balance at Petco or a specialty store. But I got smart this month, I went on the internet and ordered things direct. Maybe that will make life a little less crazy around pet food.
Feeding time at the Zoo! Oh yeah, I repeat this again around 4:30 in the afternoon. No wonder I am always tired.
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Caturday: Noel:leoN
Noel looking at Noel
One of my favorite pictures of Noel from 2012.
I can not imagine a life without cats!
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Wordless Wednesday: Cats 0 – Humans 1
I took this picture of Nine on top of the bedroom closet late at night trying to get some flying bug. He jumped from the top, about 7 feet high, on to the bed 4 feet away. Scare the heck out of me. The humans got the bug.
Score: Cats 0 – Humans 1
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DogDaz Zoo: Heterochromia
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/60-gorgeous-cats-with-heterochromia-iridum#.xwQWDmZer Heterochromia is very neat! – DogDaz
Monday Mischief: Nappers
These two goofballs, Sofie and Mini Cooper, spent the day napping on Peanut’s bed, with Peanut in it. They love that someone is home who can lounge around all day in bed and cuddle. Ah, how wonderful to be a student on summer vacation. (Photos by Peanut)
What mischief did you get into today?
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Black and White Sunday: A Different View
Mr. Nine in his favorite spot.
Same window as yesterday’s picture, but this time it is from the inside instead of the outside.
When I look at this picture it makes me think about how my house is a little bit crooked. No seam is straight; no blind perfect. I grew up in a perfect home. My Mom stayed at home full time and one of her greatest joys was the beautification and perfection of our home. She did an incredible job of decorating and cleaning and making sure that everything had a place. Working in business my whole adult life, I never seem to get the time for domestic perfection. On top of long work days once I added kids and multiple animals, I found that domestic bliss for me was getting the laundry done one night a week, feeding the humans something reasonably healthy a few times a day, and cleaning up litter pans, guinea pig cages, and, the usual cat barf on the rug. (Did I mention we had one well-behaved poodle when I was growing up, Louie, who was taught to never go into the living room (so no hair or mud on anything) – and who never barked or did anything disgusting in the house). Here at the zoo we live with many humans and currently 6 furballs. Mud, fur, chewed blinds, and an accumulation of dog and cat toys, litter my home. My mother, may she rest peacefully in heaven, would be appalled. I decided long ago that I was never going to be a domestic goddess instead I channel that energy into being an incredible Mom to humans and furbabies. All this emoting from a crooked string on the bottom of a mini-blind.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to Dachshund Nola and Sugar for hosting.
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Caturday: The Nine-th Stretch
Nine is lazing the day away in the herb window.
There is nothing as refreshing as a quiet Caturday afternoon.
See Sandy, he is still the man of the house.
I can not imagine a life without cats!
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