vitamin wars

[anotheranon]

In addition to acclimating the cats to their diminished diet (Kisia is crawling in my lap as I type this because she's so hungry, and we're determined to keep quantity/timing on OUR schedule), we're trying to get them accustomed to a vitamin supplement.

This has been easy for Spice - she's not noticing the food crunch as much because she's very happy to take whatever crushed pill/paste supplement she's offered if it's mixed in canned cat food. Kisia - not so much. She's holding out for dry lamb and rice, dammit and refuses to be fobbed off with ANYTHING less. No, not even people tuna from a can. The addition of a vitamin is an additional insult.

Tonight I put some of the tuna-flavored paste (we're experimenting with a bunch of different vitamins) on her foot and she did lick it off - after running around the living room trying to shake it off. I suspect the presentation left something to be desired :P

Comments

I feel your pain...

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

Having put our kitty on a 5/8 a cup a day diet to help her lose some of the pudge. You'd think we were starving the poor girl. She'll sit by her bowl and stare at us, and keep staring, and staring, and you know she's thinking "What a bunch of bipedal morons, can't they see that I want FOOD?"

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Promise Kisia she can eat every bit of every bug she captures ... ;-)

BTW, on the assumption that it's better to alert you to a book you already know about than risk you missing out ... reading this entry made me think of Louis Camuti's All My Patients Are Under the Bed. My parents gave it to me as a gift during my first year of college and I have reread it many times, loving it more with each reading ... how can one not get a ton of giggles out of the life and adventures of a vet who ended up specializing in a critter he's allergic to? I have a feeling you'd enjoy it just as much as I do. :-)

Re: I feel your pain...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and she's sure she's STARVING, isn't she? :P

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Oh, both of them can already eat any bug that comes in the house (protein on the wing!) and Spice eats bugs whenever she can, but Kisia doesn't LIKE bugs. Or most people food, and only one flavor of canned catfood :P

That book sounds awesome!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

The book IS awesome ... if you can't get hold of it locally, I'll always be happy to pop my copy into the mail. :-)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a book exchange when I get back?

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Oh yes please. I've hung onto your booklists because there were titles that interested me, but I've been too swamped to even get to my own books, let alone anybody else's. But now that things are easing off a little ... ;-)