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1monster

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13. My cats tend to be overfed as it is. When you have eight of them...
Mon Apr 9, 2012, 12:27 PM
Apr 2012

you keep the food dishes filled at all times.

When my oldest cat started losing weight and got seriously skinny, I was worried that either she was very sick or that the other cats (whom she has never mixed with having been in the house six years longer than the the oldest of the other cats) were scaring her away from the food dishes. So I broke out the tuna and the salmon and feed her separately from the other cats. I'm pleased to announce that she is no longer a sack of skin and bones, but now has a healthy layer of fat and muscle under that furry skin.

The other cats are more or less family to one another, and love, like, or just barely tolerate each other as the mood takes them. But they work together to keep that pretty fuffy black-and-white cat that the neighborhood adopted when someone dumped her out of the yard.

Your cat is a traitor to its race!!!! joeybee12 Apr 2012 #1
Yeah! A CINO! JNelson6563 Apr 2012 #3
Two thumbs up! n/m cmd Apr 2012 #20
I smell a DUZY. chalky Apr 2012 #24
Years and years ago, I had two Siamese who alerted us when our 1monster Apr 2012 #7
I think your house is haunted! joeybee12 Apr 2012 #8
Great, all the World needs, vegetarian cats snooper2 Apr 2012 #2
"with laser beams on their heads." KurtNYC Apr 2012 #6
My conures love steak. nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #15
My friend bongbong Apr 2012 #22
I'll post this and hide. progressoid Apr 2012 #23
What a good kitteh. snagglepuss Apr 2012 #4
Well that deserves a round of Soft Kitty grantcart Apr 2012 #5
probably protecting the bird out of spite bart95 Apr 2012 #9
Sure your cat wasn't saving it for lunch? nt MrScorpio Apr 2012 #10
My cats tend to be overfed as it is. When you have eight of them... 1monster Apr 2012 #13
Give cat a treat. Good cat nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #11
I've had many cats in my life. MineralMan Apr 2012 #12
I've also had many, many cats in my life. And you are right. Cats 1monster Apr 2012 #14
Lovely story n/t Inuca Apr 2012 #16
must have been indian kitties counting coup. eom ellenfl Apr 2012 #19
Cat are great! Typical NYC Lib Apr 2012 #17
nice! Liberal_in_LA Apr 2012 #18
Here's a video about a crow adopting a cat - so sweet! Casandia Apr 2012 #21
A joy to read Omaha Steve Apr 2012 #25
My Grandma had a huge black and white long hair tom cat, Babe, who kept bringing home kittens kickysnana Apr 2012 #26
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