cat food diary: Rise and Shine: Kit Kat Klock

cat food diary: Rise and Shine: Kit Kat Klock: "Cosmo is such a good alarm clock that I have not had one for many years. Even when my daughter had to take a very early flight last summer,..."

Rise and Shine: Kit Kat Klock

Cosmo is such a good alarm clock that I have not had one for many years.  Even when my daughter had to take a very early flight last summer, we were both awake before her cell phone went off.  In the early days, he was like one of those old fashioned clocks with a tinny alarm that seems to jump around the floor until you squelch it.  He added the efficient tooth and claw feature that permitted of no snooze control.  Now it is all subtlety and patience.  He sleeps most of the night at the foot of the bed or on a nearby chair.  Then as five o clock approaches he moves to the area behind my back, so I cannot get up without waking him.  If five o clock (often more like 4:45) comes without my getting up and opening that refrigerator, he stares at me, bats a sheathed paw or two, maybe a gentle prodding mew.  Then, once the fancy feast has been administered, he's back to bed or has settled down for a snooze on the couch or a bask on the sunniest spot of the table near the window.  I am usually unable to get back to sleep once I have performed a feeding, so I am up for the day.  We are told that prime time for a cat is the crepuscular hours of evening or morning, the twilight of vampires and hunters.  Crepuscular Cosmo...

cat food diary: Tuna Party!.

cat food diary: Tuna Party!.: "So I decided it was time for a tuna party. I got a can of coral tuna and a loaf of bread. I already had Nalo Greens from here on Oahu, som..."

Tuna Party!.

So I decided it was time for a tuna party.  I got a can of coral tuna and a loaf of bread.  I already had Nalo Greens from here on Oahu, some mayonnaise, relish, and dill.    I gave a little under half to the cat (all of the brine and some pieces, then mixed the tuna salad for my sandwich in the can.  Cosmo, as I've said before, likes to feel like he's eating the same thing as I am, so it was a very sociable meal.  I have heard that canned people tuna is not too good for aging felines, so this was just an occasional special treat.

cat food diary: Hand-Fed Cosmo

cat food diary: Hand-Fed Cosmo: "When Cosmo was younger, I wouldn't even have hand fed him through a chain-link fence, as shown here with a tiger. I tended to throw the tre..."

Hand-Fed Cosmo

When Cosmo was younger, I wouldn't even have hand fed him through a chain-link fence, as shown here with a tiger.  I tended to throw the treats or food down on the ground or put them in his food bowl.  Gradually, with the boredom of an indoor cat (or the mellowing of age) we have trained each other to hand feed.  I have trained him not to bite my fingers if he wants the food, and he has trained me to socially interact while feeding him.  As seen with the Lol cat cheeseburger experiment, he sometimes prefers food given by hand, and sometimes will only take it that way.  It's like how he permitted me to give him a "pet wipe" bath today while he was sitting on my lap.  Perhaps it really is "soothing," as the package says.  I must constantly revisit my operating assumption that all advertising is a false product of the evil capitalist running DOG lackeys.