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Calvin chooses the right channel.
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I’ll take this techno kitty and put him in my catnip-lined backpack.
Hee, hee, hee, I’m the first today !!!
she is a cuttie my cat is a rescue calio cat who is real small she smelled a gas leak in my house and woke me up early one morning by jumping on my head over and over this she never does or i woudnt have got up. she wont no longer eat her purina dry indoor outdoor cat food. have any suggestions. i love her so much. she stays in the house my first cat i have a rodesian hounddog service dog too. they love each other. debbie carter dalton ga
Debbie, try another brand or add canned food. Maybe a trip to the vet is in order. Let us know if this helps.
Try putting milk in it. Or try different food. Some times animals get tired of the same stuff.
hey what tv shows does Calvin wach:)
Who would want to watch TV when you have such a cute kitten to play with?
I would much rather play with Calvin than watch Sanjaya and his “faux-hawk.” I wanted to throw up!
Calvin was channel chasing during Sanjaya. Thats why he has the remote! He’s a beautiful little buff baby and I know Dee wants to squish his tiny paws!
ppearson–I want to squish his paws AND feet! He looks like a little bunny-cat!
I had to go back and look again…bunny-cat…What a good term! Bunny-cat. Rolls off the tongue. Now I’ll be saying that in my head all day!
Remember the “cabbit,” the cat that hopped like a rabbit, that was all over the TV stations a few years back?
Bunny-cat…never have heard that term. This kitty does have squishable looking paws and I am more of a belly rubber than paw squisher. hehehe
Last night was the first I have seen Idol this season. OMG, is that Sanjaya always that weird? Who would vote for him besides is hair stylist. I thought Belinda was very good and La Keisha (sp).
HAHA! Sanjaya is getting cockier and cockier with each round! I hope last night was his last performance–he’s frightening me! And, I was cracking up when Simon said, “Well, Sanjaya, I guess it doesn’t matter what any of us says anymore.–(after Sanjaya’s performance…knowing that the kid is still getting plenty of votes) haha!
I agree with all of you. Sanjaya has got to GO!!!!!
The only thing that is saving him is that he has the little tweeny (12-14years olders) bobbers votes. I do not see what they see in him.
I heard that Howard Stern (the radio sleazebag, NOT the lawyer sleazebag) has mounted a campaign among his listeners to call in votes for the WORST singer. If that’s true, there IS a sucker born every minute, judging by Sanjaya’s support.
Someone said that he’s getting a lot of votes from Hawaii since he used to live there. He pointed out that a prior contestant (not talented) from Hawaii had lasted quite a while due to Hawaii voting.
That being said, I think Sanjaya is very sweet and I like ALL of his hair changes - he’s just having fun. I’m not saying he should still be there. But this *is* America - if we want to elect a low-talent pretty boy to represent us - we can! (I’m not referring to Bush, either)
Has anyone else noted that 3x as many girls tried out as the boys - and the talent different is sooooo noticeable!
Sooooo noticeable!
I am so ashamed that my humble post turned into an American Idol discussion
*hangs head*
Instinct, be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
I’ve been asking for 1.5 million dollars in small, unmarked, non-sequential bills for quite a while now and haven’t gotten that!
I have turned into a lurker but that comment cracked me up, Instinct. I have had a similar request except I have asking for a lot more..I have this dream of saving every homeless kitty in the world…
Calvin you are so cute you make my teeth hurt…in a totally good way, of course
Hey Evangeline!!!
I was wondering where you had gone to since I hadn’t seen you post in a while
Hey Instinct, I only ask to win the lotto millions. I think I could force myself to get use to having those millions. Only in my dreams…..
I think there are actually web sites created by “american idol opposers” who are all rallying to get people to vote for Sanjaya b/c they think it will do American Idol in. It is sad the lengths that people will go to and I think it is just awful that Sanjaya is still around for that reason.
dose calvin wach animal planet? what a cute little guy
What a darling! And like a typical male, he has to hog the remote….heehee.
You’d know this would be a “guy” kitty!
He’s a cutie-pie.
I hope his eyes stay this beautiful
‘blue’.
So cute!
Awwwwwwwww
Look at it’s little paws!!!
*fainted from acute cuteness*
He’s a darling little baby! ! ! I love his champagne color! Oh, kittens do such cute things! Love that little sweetheart always!
I guess he’s going to watch Animal Planet all day. As for me, I’d rather look at Calvin. He’s way too cute!
Ahahahahahahaha!!!!! I have control over the remote! Bwahahahahahahah!!
OK. I’m sure he doesn’t have a manical laugh, but he’s just so cute and fuzzy and hanging on to that power for dear life!
makes me want a new kitty
Calvin discovers Tivoed cat food commercial
Anyone seen the commercials for the new “Goodlife” cat food?
TOO CUTE!!!!!! I want one of those floppy long-hair calicos!
I know. I saw that commercial and squealed through the entire thing. And that little cutie, Calvin, deserves a squeal as well.
I bet he loves to watch Animal Planet! Meerkat Manor, maybe? That’s my favorite!
Meerkat manor rocks
My Mr. Bounce likes to watch documentaries about lions. He will actually sit on the edge of the coffee table and won’t move until a commercial comes on.
Sunday night Thierry enjoyed watching the start of the Planet Earth series on discovery Channel. Amazing footage.
My Morris liked to watch “The Flintstones’, her favorite was when Fred would drive his car. You didn’t get between her and the TV when it was on. One time there was a program about cats, every kind from house cats to jungle cats, she sat and watched the whole 2 hours.
Other than that she never paid attn to the TV set.
is that a new tv accessory? where can i get one?
Too cute for words!!!!!
He’s snugglishous!
Calvin can change my channel anytime. Good thoughts and prayers to all of you on the TDK! It’s kind of a dreary day here and I don’t want to get motivated at work. I’m locked in the museum by myself for another 30 minutes.
I am reposting, since I posted too late on last kitten: Does anyone have a good link for homemade cat food recipes? Or maybe we should all be buying from an organic producer. Can’t decide what to do. I feed my cats Iams dry and fancy feast canned, so now I am hearing from you alll that those may be causing probs, too
Please don’t tell me Iams dry is causing problems…
Ooh, ditto here - my guys eat dry Iams. Anyone out there, please advise!
I just checked the MenuFoods and Iams websites. Neither of them said anything about dry food being recalled or involved.
I have been reading that certain posters on this site have had probs, but the word on Iams is not official. I was reacting to posts from daily kitten readers.
Not that I’d heard. I feed mine Fancy Feast canned and Authority dry.
My cats have recently started snubbing fancy feast, and they do not snub their canned food! I’ve put them on dry only, and am sticking to (yuck)Meow mix, because that one is so far not on any list. Now my dog won’t touch his science diet large breed dry, and we are giving balanced table scraps until I get a good sound recipie.
“pet promise” is an organic producer…and my kitties love it…no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives, no animal byproducts, no brain or spinal tissue, no rendered meats or fats, no wheat, no antibiotic fed, no growth hormone, no meat from dead, diseased, dying, down or disabled animals. 5.5 oz can is 99 cents, 3 lb bag is about 8 dollars, and no i am not in any way connected to this company. i find it at wegmans or on the internet…
I feed “pet promise” because you’ve heard about my kitty Velvet who was recently diagnosed as hyper-t and early crf. and btw, she is doing much better. she is completely off the meds for now, and we are going to see a different vet soon.
I also feed my kitties “Pet Promise”, as it is recommended by Dr. Andrew Weil. In Los Angeles, it is available at Wild Oats (a boutique grocery store that was recently purchased by its rival Whole Foods). I had downloaded a list of the top 10 cat foods, found on aboutcats.com, and tried them all. My kitties are reverse snobs. They did not like Felidae or Evo, or Innova, or anything like that. I did not want to feed them commercial food and my preferred Pro Plan is always phasing out the kitten’s favorite type. So my cats have deigned to eat “Pet Promise” and they also really like the dry food available at Trader Joe’s.
I have a recommendation regarding homemade food. A lot of breeders will have their own special recipes that they feed their cats, and a lot of them are on their websites. I don’t have any purebred cats, but I like to look at the pix of the cats on the websites, and I have found several recipes that way. My girl cat looks a lot like a Tonkinese, so I went on the websites for Tonkinese cats and got several recipes for raw diets, et. al. That might be one way to approach it. However, don’t forget to add vitamins and supplements to the food, as there are some elements that both cats and dogs will need that are not readily available through food (like taurine for cats).
I am so dismayed by this scandal. It is ridiculous!!! I have been checking with all my colleagues about their cats and making sure that they stay away from the tainted food. I even told my boss, with whom I am feuding, so that her new kitten would not be harmed (I like the kitten, if not my boss). I recommended to her that she get some “Pet Promise”.
Anyway, I hope all you TDK’ers are well, as are your pets. If I can dig up the recipes for food and supplements I will post them tomorrow. Take care–
I’m going to try this. My twisted kittens turn up their noses at the raw food I try to feed them. Sigh. They like Friskies dry though!
It’s good once a week or so to give some mostly raw or real meat - I find it takes the bird catching fever from mine. I get a small package of chicken livers and cook them a bit in the microwave - once they my cats love this treat. Also a bit of raw 99%fat free hamburger once in a while. I need to look up some of those receipes mentioned above.
Laura–Here is an email I received from a pet food company called “Halo”–I have friends whose pets love this stuff–it’s more expensive that “traditional” pet foods, however…
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Somebody is totally capitalizing on this. Can’t blame ‘em, but they are.
Thank you!
I posted this the other day but here you go, if you want to make your own kitty food:
Finicky Feline Diet
1 cup chopped cooked chicken
1/2 cup cooked rice
1/2 cup chopped broccoli, cooked until tender
1/4 cup chopped carrot, cooked until tender
Chicken broth
Process all ingredients in a food processor or blender with enough chicken broth to hold together. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
I also have recipes for crispy liver morsels, Catnip cookies. feline fish balls and tuna tidbits. (I don’t name them just make them)
Thank you for this, it sounds easy enough for use.
Rosie - Thanks for posting this recipe. I’ll have to get out my Natural Cat book again. Did you say catnip and cookies in the same sentence?
Catnip Cookies
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup soy flour
1 teaspoon catnip
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
2 tablespoons wheat germ
1/3 cup powdered milk
1 tablespoon unsulfured molasses
2 tablespoons butter or vegetable oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix dry ingredients together, then add molasses, egg, oil and milk. Roll dough out flat onto a greased cookie sheet and cut into small pieces. Bake for 20 minutes.
Store in tightly sealed container.
Tuna Tidbits
6 ounce can of tuna
1/4 cup water drained from tuna
3 T cooked egg white, chopped
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine tuna, egg white and water. Add cornmeal and flour and blend to form a dough. Knead into a ball and roll to 1/4 inch thick. Cut into one-inch sized pieces. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes. Makes 12 cookies.
Feline Fish Balls
1 (8 ounce) can tuna in oil, drained
2 ounces cooked herring, skin removed
3 baby carrots, boiled until tender, mashed
1 egg, beaten
3 tablespoons grated cheese
2 tablespoons whole grain bread crumbs or rolled oats
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons brewer’s yeast *
1/4 teaspoon catnip
Combine all ingredients; mix well. Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place balls 1 inch apart on a greased cookie sheet. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown and firm. Let cool on wire racks.
* Brewer’s yeast is an excellent source of essential fatty acids and B-Complex vitamins for a glossy coat and stable nervous system.
Crispy Liver Morsels
1/2 cup cooked chicken livers
1/4 cup water
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 cup cooked carrot, mashed
1 tablespoon soft margarine
Preheat the oven to 325 F. Place well-done livers in a blender with 1/4 cup water. In a bowl, combine flour and margarine. Add liver mixture and carrots and knead dough into a ball. Roll dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut into one-inch sized pieces. Place cookies on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 325 F for 10 minutes. Makes 12 cookies.
The tough one about this recipe is getting the cooked livers past my honey! Enjoy!!!
I don’t believe in giving my cats any kind of grains or plant matter (outside of what they might consume outside on the lawn). They are carnivores, so I give them organic bef and chicken.
Cooked or raw??? Is that all you give them? No veggies, etc.?
Rosie in SA, If you post them here or EMail the cat food recipes to me I will put them in the cook book I can then email them out to everyone I have heard from so far. I think I have this one.
tdkcookbook AT gmail DOT com
Got these, thanks Rosie!
When my Melveen was a kitten, she could not hold down ANY kind of kitten food. The vet recommended boiling 1/2 lb of ground beef along with 1 cup of uncooked rice and 2 cups water for 20 minutes (until the rice absorbs the water). The food kept in the fridge until it was eaten up (we would spoon out a portion and nuke it to lukewarm–stir carefully and test w/the inside of the wrist, like you would baby formula).
Melveen ate this from the age of 6 wks (when we adopted her) until about 4 months. She grew into a tough, beautiful cat who never had digestive problems again.
When I had to puree the food for my mama when she was in the latter stage of Alzheimer’s the dietician at the hospital said to use a bit of instant mashed potatoes for a binder. I wonder if it would work with this?
I have been making this recipe for years(no brocolli) ,I have two female chihuahuas(4lbs.) that have teeth missing they love it ,but my 1 year old cat Mai-lee can’t stand to eat any thing other then Hill’s prescription Diet .has any one heard if hill’s is on the list?
What about vitamins and taurine????
What about taurine for cats?
Thanks for receipe. I receive a cat magazine published by Tufts Veterinary School called “Catnip” they recently did a survey on food - you should look for Poultry meal as the first ingredient - NOT poultry- by- product meal - that can be anything and not always fresh either. There is also a label to look for (approval of food by animal group) can’t remember it now, will tell you later.
To anyone who would like to check out some homemade catfood or treats for kitties, here is a website I have visited.
http://cats.about.com/od/recipes/Recipes_for_Kitty_Treats.htm
Hope this helps and maybe give some an alternative to try.
By the way, kitten too cute. Some of that cuteness has got to go.
can some of that cuteness come over to my house?
Looks like the remote is this Calvin’s Hobbs.
What a sweet boy!
A~
I was wondering where Hobbs was! He is so sweet, I love that color-like a warm cuppa. If he’s a chewer there won’t be any buttons left on that remote!!
Problems with Fancy Feast? It’s not posted on any of the websites as to causing problems. If anyone has heard something please respond!
I just said my cats suddenly started refusing fancy feast, multiple varieties. Since many people described not eating as a symptom, I, only me, am being really careful and doing excessively careful act of changing foods completely.
Thanks for letting me know. I hope your babies are ok.
Mine will eat Fancy Feast but 99 times out of 100 it has to have gravy.
They seem fine, and eat their dry food. The snub freaked me, and coincidently my dog went off his feed, but has a ’successfully being treated’ ear infection. I just need to feel like i’m doing something to help them, I guess.
Mjs,
Sorry been working today…………….My cats have had problems with fancy feast, but it may be that they changed an ingrediant or 2 and caused an upset ………..I took them to the vet and they are all doing better today
Just so everyone knows I am now only going to feed my fuzzbutts homemade food…………Love will make me do anything for them so im a big old cat wierdo so be it
I think that’s going overboard, personally, but I think it also says wonderful things about you that you’re willing to go to that kind of extreme for your kitties.
I think that is just wonderful Brandi Lee!!! I am probably gonna do the same thing. Just hope they will eat it. I have tried it before, but they wouldn’t eat it. Spoiled….. I bought ground chicken and baby food chicken to mix with it. I have brown rice to cook too.
Baby food is the key I feed all my young cats that to get them transitioned from the mommy cat……although I am a little worried now with 2 grandbabies coming that the cats will jump up on the high chairs to get to the baby food LOL
Little orange remote hog!
Calvin is just way too cute! Does he have a stuffed tiger named Hobbs?
What a cutie!! He looks like he’s thinking… go ahead and try to take it from me!! teehee…
I had not heard of a problem with Iams dry food… please say it isn’t so, both my cat & dog eat Iams… has anyone heard of the dry food being affected???
I read on yesterday’s kitten that one or two posters had problems, but they were not sure. They had more than one cat get sick. They were giving Iams dry and fancy feast canned, which is precisely what I give mine, so if anyone knows anything, feel free to pass it along, thanks
All the reports that I have heard state that dry food is NOT affected. I feed mine Iams dry (weight control for the portly pusses) and they have had no problems. I have actually read and seen reports that confirm that dry food is not a problem. Hopefully nothing new will come out, but this is just what I have understood to this point.
There are numerous reports on sites referenced here yesterday that Iams dry may have some unrelated issue. It is not acknowledged by Iams. Instinct, do you have better information?
Nope, I know just as much as you do about this.
Calvin is one beautiful little boy…..love the creamy coloring….
Too cute
Great geek cat
How shocking….a man with a remote!!
What a cutie! I just love his color!
Typical male–on the couch, flat on his back, fat belly, unshaven, and jealously defending the remote!
What’s he watching, Pussycat Dolls? Josie and the Pussycats? Or reruns of To Tell the Truth with Kitty Carlyle Hart?
*removes tongue from where it has been firmly planted in the cheek*
TeeHee! He just needs a beer!! Someone get this boy a beer!!
Nope, he’s watching a James Bond with Pussy Galore! And he’s not wearing his pants either!!
He’s actually watching ‘Cat Ballou’
Afternoon Ginny!
Instinct–I meant to tell you that your response to my, “Why don’t men listen?” cracked me up! Good one. I read it out loud to my friend and he cracked up, too!
That one was a classic! I wish I had Instinct’s sense of timing. I always know the right thing to say–5 minutes too late.
Afternoon to you two, too!
My wife just nodded he head and said “Yea, that’s about right”
To which I said “What did you say?”
She threw a hand towel at me for that