Wallie again //

I still have yet to catch him, he's very good at evading me and now I can't even find him again. I've been up at walmart 2x every day this week, once when i get off work and again between 2-3am.

If I don't get him tonight I have to reschedule everything.

Pet Food

Time to throw out all the cat and dog kibble. Or at least take a new look at what you're feeding your pets.

In order to thrive our cats and dogs need a carnivorous diet. Sure, for the last couple decades they have survived on the garbage the pet food companies push out and the vets get paid to suggest (..*..cough*..sciencediet!..*cough*), but these foods aren't worth the money we spend on them.

When you look at the ingredients on your pets food you want to pay attention to the first FOUR ingredients. You dont want corn or any grain fillers (a LOT of our cats and dogs are allergic to grains!). You want it to list a meat. Not just "Animal by-rpoducts". You want a real meat CHICKEN,LAMB, VENISON, ETC they need to tell you exactly what they're using!

Some good quality dry foods are WELLNESS and NATURAL BALANCE. I'm a big fan of NB because it's a good quality but it's not horribly expensive.

Popular belief has people believing that dry food helps clean pets teeth. This is far from the truth and dry food can lead to many health problems. Cats in particular don't drink a lot and get most of their water from the food they eat. That's why it's important to feed wet or canned food. The brands I listed before Wellness, NB, etc are great wet foods as well.

Personally, I feed a raw/RMB diet (rmb = raw meaty bone). Everything ranging from chicken to mice is served. ProRodent.com is a good source of prey food for your cats and dogs. Some of our older pets do take longer to transition to the diet. The younger they are (or if they were stray, barn, or feral cats at some point) seem to be easier to switch.

My dog Holly, took to it easily. I was pretty shocked considering she's 6yrs old. She isn't able to handle dry food or any of the commerical chew bones, it makes her gums bleed and if she's forced to eat it she'll just go hungry. She easily eats the RMBs though.

For more information on Raw/RMB or Prey model diets check out these links!

rawmeatybones.com
dogster.com

too many cats

UTI's in cats

Apparently one of our furbies has a UTI.

Which brings up a great topic how to properly prevent them.

Cats, especially males are prone to UTI's. They don't usually drink enough water, because they're picky. They're attracted to fresh running water, like your faucet sink.

You can buy expensive fountains for them. I have not seen any good reviews, many of the models grow mold easily.

I suggest letting your faucet run very slowly and placing a bowl under it, that way you're not wasting too much water and the cats can either drink from the stream or the bowl.

Another way to help, is to stop feeding dry food. Dry food does not help clean teeth. It is not better for our pets, it is actually a lot worse. So switching to a can diet or raw will greatly help out your pet.

And always providing fresh clean water ;)

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills WAY TO GO!

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Beverly Hills have all banned declawing! Finally the US is catching up with the rest of the world on this.

Found a couple farmers looking for cats so I can find homes for some of these guys. :)

FFFFFFFFREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Is such a beautiful word.
Got a bunch of free Evo dog food samples. Two bags of free Royal Canin cat food and when I got home today, someone had left a bag of dog treats on my porch lol

Found chicken for .80cents/lb so we bought 27lbs. Part of it is going to the animals.

Today was a total waste.

Pip and Squeak had a vet appointment, their owners never showed. NEVER AGAIN will I adopt to anyone under 20 or before the cats are already fixed. I figure since they already paid, they'd show but NOPE. So pissed. I donated the money to QCAWC instead.

Wallie's appointment was rescheduled for this upcoming thursday.

And I'm just super annoyed. My friend got another declawed (FULLY not just front) cat. He's not as friendly as she hoped. So her husband was talking about dumping it out in the country.

WTF Mike jumped in before I could and told them to bring it to us first.

So hopefully they won't do this to us when I catch Wallie. I'll be so pissed if I have to deal with two new additions at once, even if Wallie is going to be outside after he's fixed.

Peoria IL here we come?

A cat needs to be taken from Chicago IL to Peoria tomorrow morning. It has a home in Peoria but she can't drive that far to get him and if he's not picked up he'll be PTS. I sent an email to the coordinator stating if they can get the cat from chicago to here, I'll make the run to peoria.

We'll see.

Decided not to trap last night, too many people around and he didn't come out to eat so I just left the food where I usually do and left. Gave me more time to finish up cleaning.

I missed two days!

Dang, lol I fail already. Some friends and I are trying to post a blog for the whole month. Failure!

Good news on Wallie! Mom said she'd pick him up after his vet appointment and hold on to him over night. Talked to Mike some more and he agreed to let me trap him and hold on to him until his vet appointment.

Tonight, I'm going to make an attempt after work. So HOPEFULLY I will have pictures and a good description of the lil guys attitude. I bet he's a sweet boy, I'm just counting on it lol

Holly and I went to petco and got a new beta. Not sure what to call him. He's the same color as Fishy-bob, but he's a crowntail. not sure what Fishy-bob was. It's very pretty though and he's doing good.

I'm reporting a volunteer at petco to the rescue she was wtih. She was handling a BC mix and kept smacking him for acting up. That makes dogs hand shy and doesn't help them get adopt. What an idiot, I don't even understand why she'd volunteer if she was just going to ruin a dog.