This cat never ceases to amaze me. Since he's been on a mainly canned
food diet, plus his pred. every other day (doing well on it, BTW) he
still keeps trying to find Bonnie's food. She still won't eat canned so I
have to hide her food from him, but leave it so *she* can find it since
she free-feeds and I don't want to limit her to two separate meals of all
dry (expanding food in her tummy and all that). During the day isn't a
problem since they're separated. But in the morning and at night he goes
on the prowl looking for her food. He's discovered the spot on top of the
TV in my room and watching a fat cat precariously balancing himself
between the arm of a chair to the TV top is pretty funny. Since that
didn't work, I started putting her food on my dresser but he started
jumping up there (!) amazing in itself since he stopped jumping to high
places when he got sick. Soooo... I move her food to a higher spot when
she's finished for the time being. I move it to a tall dresser about 5'
tall, covered with clutter so there isn't room to jump up there (like I
really thought he'd jump that high). Twice now I've caught him up there
eating her food. grrrrrrrr... Running out of hiding spaces! Now I
wonder why he hasn't found the dry I leave for Shamrock to crunch on
that's right on a kitchen countertop.

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Sherry - 19 Mar 2004 03:29 GMT
>This cat never ceases to amaze me. Since he's been on a mainly canned
>food diet, plus his pred. every other day (doing well on it, BTW) he
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>wonder why he hasn't found the dry I leave for Shamrock to crunch on
>that's right on a kitchen countertop.
ROFL! He's a crafty guy. I'm just happy he's feeling frisky enough to steal
Bonnie's food, as I'm sure you are too!
Sherry
Cheryl - 19 Mar 2004 03:42 GMT
> ROFL! He's a crafty guy. I'm just happy he's feeling frisky enough to
> steal Bonnie's food, as I'm sure you are too!
Heh. The first time he was "crafty" enough to find it, I let him go ahead
and eat it (there wasn't a whole lot there anyway; I have to carefully
measure Bonnie's food out too since she's on her way to being a fluffy
cat). He earned it. But I can't let him get away with that often. He just
doesn't do well on dry food. :( He still cracked me up that he made it up
that high, and that he was so damned determined. You should see him. lol
He sits on my bed with his nose up in the air sniffing out where the food
is. He zeros in on it, and there is no stopping him.

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Karen Chuplis - 19 Mar 2004 03:31 GMT
> This cat never ceases to amaze me. Since he's been on a mainly canned
> food diet, plus his pred. every other day (doing well on it, BTW) he
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> wonder why he hasn't found the dry I leave for Shamrock to crunch on
> that's right on a kitchen countertop.
But it's excellent exercise!
Karen
Cheryl - 19 Mar 2004 03:46 GMT
Karen Chuplis <kchuplis@alltel.net> dumped this in news:BC7FB7A4.21F35%
kchuplis@alltel.net on 18 Mar 2004:
> But it's excellent exercise!
It is! But with a prize he doesn't need.. hehe He just looks so proud of
himself up there but I can't let that make me give in. He really needs to
lose some weight. But at least I know for now it isn't as much of a problem
for him that I thought. He's still very agile.

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Laura R. - 19 Mar 2004 04:40 GMT
circa Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:03:16 -0600, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Cheryl (jlhshadow@NOSPAMhotmail.com) said,
> Now I
> wonder why he hasn't found the dry I leave for Shamrock to crunch on
> that's right on a kitchen countertop.
Because that's no fun. :-)
Laura

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Karen M. - 19 Mar 2004 18:41 GMT
> This cat never ceases to amaze me. Since he's been on a mainly canned
> food diet, plus his pred. every other day (doing well on it, BTW) he
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> wonder why he hasn't found the dry I leave for Shamrock to crunch on
> that's right on a kitchen countertop.
ROFL! You *have* to take a picture of that! I'm so glad he's feeling
so frisky and agile. I bet he thinks he's the sh.t, pulling one over
mom time after time. Don't tell him about the food on the kitchen
counter, it would just take the wind out of his sails... :)
Cheryl - 20 Mar 2004 07:16 GMT
> ROFL! You *have* to take a picture of that!
Heh. I've missed a lot of Kodak moments lately. I have to remember to
keep the camera handy. :)
I'm so glad he's feeling
> so frisky and agile. I bet he thinks he's the sh.t, pulling one over
> mom time after time.
LOL You should see the look he gives me. And then the look when I take
the food away. If looks could kill....
Don't tell him about the food on the kitchen
> counter, it would just take the wind out of his sails... :)
Funny thing is that he sits on the floor looking up at Shamrock eating
and crunching up there. The counter is no higher than my dresser, and
definitely much lower than the 5' one he jumped up to so I don't get it.

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Karen Chuplis - 20 Mar 2004 18:00 GMT
>> ROFL! You *have* to take a picture of that!
>
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> and crunching up there. The counter is no higher than my dresser, and
> definitely much lower than the 5' one he jumped up to so I don't get it.
It's like the dragons in the McCaffery books. How much weight can a dragon
lift? As much as he thinks he can. How high can a cat jump? As high as he
*thinks* he can :) Maybe the dresser just *seems* easier (color, lighting,
etc.)
Karen
Rona Yuthasastrakosol - 20 Mar 2004 18:15 GMT
> It's like the dragons in the McCaffery books. How much weight can a dragon
> lift? As much as he thinks he can. How high can a cat jump? As high as he
> *thinks* he can :) Maybe the dresser just *seems* easier (color, lighting,
> etc.)
>
> Karen
Since I'm on an OT roll...(again!)...have you ever read the Fionovar (sp?)
Tapestry series by Guy Gavriel Kay(e)? If you like Anne McCaffery, you'd
probably like him, too. The Tapestry books are still amongst my favourite
fantasy books.
rona

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Karen Chuplis - 20 Mar 2004 23:11 GMT
>> It's like the dragons in the McCaffery books. How much weight can a dragon
>> lift? As much as he thinks he can. How high can a cat jump? As high as he
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>
> rona
Haven't read them. I'm pretty narrow in the "fantasy" reading genre. For
some reason, few appeal to me, but I love McCaffery. I'll have to look at
them.
Karen
Cheryl - 21 Mar 2004 04:16 GMT
> It's like the dragons in the McCaffery books. How much weight can a
> dragon lift? As much as he thinks he can. How high can a cat jump? As
> high as he *thinks* he can :) Maybe the dresser just *seems* easier
> (color, lighting, etc.)
That could very well be it. So perhaps his confidence is building with the
jumping he's doing lately and the counter is not a safe place to keep it
away from him. Hmm.. Thanks Karen. I'll be monitoring that food more
closely. It's easy to tell if he's found dry food because he won't leave a
crumb in the bowl. The others only eat a small amount and leave it.

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