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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2008Frank and Lyle -what's been going on
Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much has been going on I will just give some quick highlights. The brothers are getting a lot more trusting of me. I can pet either one or both. Most times, if I pet one, the other will hurry over to get their share. Me too! Me too! They have tried to sucker me into serving dinner early a few times but so far they have not fooled me. Dinner at 5! No exceptions boys. I have to leave a shirt on the back of one kitchen chair because they play hide and seek under it. One will "hide" while the other "doesn't know" he is there. Hide cat runs out and scare unaware cat. After that they switch positions and go again. One day one of them tried it with me! He ran out (not sure which one) "HA! Got you!" saw it was me and figured "what am I doing!" and ran to the back room! Every night I sweep their room and clean their litter boxes. Now that they are brave they come over and try to help. No comment on how helpful they are. I used to leave the cover on the littler box I was not clearing and one time Frank jumped into the covered box (6 inches away from the one I was cleaning) and lay down in the litter! No, they don't do that as a rule. He looked up at me outside the box and it looked for all the world like a little kid making a "poopie" joke. He then jumped out and seemed quite happy with his performance. When I clean the boxes, now, I take both covers off at the same time 'cause it is faster to work and even though Lyle is still a bit more leery of me he has pretty much never minded jumping in the box next to where I am working and doing his business. Just like a guy, I guess. They don't come into the bedroom with me in bed but they are close to it. Frank has come up on the bed with me sitting on the edge and come up to me. They will both get on the couch with me on it if things are quiet and as the photos show they think they own what used to be MY seat when I am not there. The only possible problem I have is that Lyle (who loves to be petted now) is getting fat! Frank is taller and Lyle is fatter. I am going to try to work on their feeding style and food to prevent that getting to be a problem. So here is a slideshow of them trying to merge into one cat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsider1955/sets/72157604080211588/show/ and here are where most of the other new pics are. http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsider1955/sets/72157604027099994/ > Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much > has been going on I will just give some quick highlights. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsider1955/sets/72157604027099994/ It,s great to see them making so much progress.  SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much has > been going on I will just give some quick highlights. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsider1955/sets/72157604027099994/ They are great looking boys. MLB > Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much has > been going on I will just give some quick highlights. > > The brothers are getting a lot more trusting of me. I can pet either one > or both. Most times, if I pet one, the other will hurry over to get > their share. Me too! Me too! Thanks for the long update Andy - its so great to see how well they are training you and trusting you :-) They are a super handsome pair and they look so comfortable in your pictures. Susan M Otis and Chester > Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much has > been going on I will just give some quick highlights. Thanks for the update, Andy. Love the photos, especially the 'merging' ones. LOL! Lyle does look a bit chunky. Good luck with the diet! Caliban still tries to fool me that it's breakfast/supper time at least an hour early. He'll be happy when we change over to summer time. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. >> Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much >> has been going on I will just give some quick highlights. > > Thanks for the update, Andy. Love the photos, especially the 'merging' > ones. LOL! Lyle does look a bit chunky. Good luck with the diet! I am trying to work out the dry food thing. I do want to be able to have something they can nibble on durring the day or night when they get hungry but I read the ingredients on every dry food no matter how expensive and they are all cereal which I do not like. It may be that I can put a small amount out and they leave it until they are very hungry and that may solve the issue. I am not sure that is the case yet but it may be. I would rather whatever "snack food" I put out is crunchy but perhaps dried meat would work for them. The canned food I give them is pretty much cut up meat and it dries out pretty fast if not eaten so I give them a can between the two of them and in a few hours they finish it. Maybe I need to drop the snack idea (dry food) and just do a can twice a day. Does anyone know of a dry food that is not all corn meal (as in first listed ingredient?). > I do want to be able to have something they can nibble on durring the day > or night when they get hungry but I read the ingredients on every dry food [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > a day. Does anyone know of a dry food that is not all corn meal (as in > first listed ingredient?). I think I've made my opinion of dry food abundantly clear, so I won't go into that again, but I can tell you that when I cut Caliban off dry food completely, he went from 6.5 kg to 4.99 kg in about 6 months. I also weighed his every meal (which most times consists of fresh meat): 70-80 grams of meat twice a day. If you really don't want to give up the snacks, a small amount of dried meat sounds good to me. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. . . > If you really don't want to give up > the snacks, a small amount of dried meat sounds good to me. I am trying to figure out how much it really means to them to have something out. It may be that a very small amount of something there is enough for them to feel "secure". It may be they don't even care. In the mean time I will look at the Royal Canin (per Helen) and see what it would entail to make my own jerky since the store bought is loaded wth salt and other bad chemicals (explaining why I love it so much :). It was very hard to feed Zak canned food since it would stay out and then I fridge part and take it out a bit at a time and warm it up and it did not work out very well. I love that between these two they can finish a whole can before it gets dry and cruddy. It is also a little event for us. With Zak food was never a big deal "between" us. Andy > I am trying to work out the dry food thing. > > I do want to be able to have something they can nibble on durring the day > or night when they get hungry but I read the ingredients on every dry food > no matter how expensive and they are all cereal which I do not like. Have a look at the Royal Canin ingredients. I think the first one is dehydrated poultry meat and the second one is rice. Helen M >> I am trying to work out the dry food thing. >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Helen M Gonna look at it. >> I am trying to work out the dry food thing. >> I do want to be able to have something they can nibble on durring the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Have a look at the Royal Canin ingredients. I think the first one is > dehydrated poultry meat and the second one is rice. The Lidl High Premium one has a small amount of barley. Splodge is okay with it; anything with wheat in it (or other "cereal"- containing catfoods, wet or dry) gives him instant and very severe smelly diarrhoea, like a human with coeliac disease (he would have died if we hadn't spotted that this was the problem). This Lidl stuff was Muriel's main food for years and she stayed remarkably healthy to an advanced age - died with all her teeth. But. The manager of the Lidl branch that I find most convenient to get to has decided, off his own bat, to stop stocking any petfood. Anyone know how best to fix that? ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts >>> I am trying to work out the dry food thing. >>> I do want to be able to have something they can nibble on durring [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: > Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts Call them? Doubt it will help but who knows. http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.service.c.hotline.index such a lucky slave > Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much has > been going on I will just give some quick highlights. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsider1955/sets/72157604027099994/ Thanks for the great report. They are great looking kitties. You are doing a great job with them. Charleen > Ok, here is my not very timely Frank and Lyle report. Since so much has > been going on I will just give some quick highlights. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsider1955/sets/72157604027099994/ > Thanks for the great report. They are great looking kitties. You are > doing a great job with them. > > Charleen Thanks, I am trying.
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