Pets.

[Mimi]

Has anyone ever had a cat that absolutely hated treats? Licorice won't eat any of them.

Our 3 are hit and miss on the treats, typical cats. Now that one of them requires a prescription diet, we've kind of phased out the treats to ensure he's not eating something he shouldn't.
Love the video, especially the line about eating the mouse and leaving the head on the bed!

I've kind of phased them out too for the same reason, but I didn't want the other one to suffer because of her so I've been reintroducing them to her. She ain't having it.

[Dr. Medulla]

Has anyone ever had a cat that absolutely hated treats? Licorice won't eat any of them.

Always and forever? That's weird. Our cats act like the morons in the treat commercials. Somehow we've fallen into a pattern where if one of us leaves the house for more than, like, 20 minutes, the return is celebrated with treats. The expectation is just there now. If it happens more than twice, the number of treats is only a couple, but if we were to skip it altogether, the look of confused hurt and betrayal would melt anyone's heart.

It seems like for at least ten years now, I don't know. She sniffs them and walks away. She loves cheese though, but since I'm lactose intolerant, it's not like I have it just lying around in the fridge. I wish she were like your cats. Butters is like that. He'll yell at me when he wants something. No soulful eyes just scratchy meow-like cries.

Does Licorice eat dry food of any kind? If so, it just might be a case of experimenting with different flavours. If she's a catnip gal, there are catnip treats that turn ours into turf gang warlords.

No, she has kidney disease so it's all wet, all the time. Now that I think about it, ever since she was diagnosed in 2008, she's turned her nose up at treats. She's also weird about catnip too. I love her, but damn she is high maintenance.

Poor little girl. I wonder if her aversion to dry food/treats is an awareness on some level that she just can't digest it well.

[Mimi]

Always and forever? That's weird. Our cats act like the morons in the treat commercials. Somehow we've fallen into a pattern where if one of us leaves the house for more than, like, 20 minutes, the return is celebrated with treats. The expectation is just there now. If it happens more than twice, the number of treats is only a couple, but if we were to skip it altogether, the look of confused hurt and betrayal would melt anyone's heart.

It seems like for at least ten years now, I don't know. She sniffs them and walks away. She loves cheese though, but since I'm lactose intolerant, it's not like I have it just lying around in the fridge. I wish she were like your cats. Butters is like that. He'll yell at me when he wants something. No soulful eyes just scratchy meow-like cries.

Does Licorice eat dry food of any kind? If so, it just might be a case of experimenting with different flavours. If she's a catnip gal, there are catnip treats that turn ours into turf gang warlords.

No, she has kidney disease so it's all wet, all the time. Now that I think about it, ever since she was diagnosed in 2008, she's turned her nose up at treats. She's also weird about catnip too. I love her, but damn she is high maintenance.

Poor little girl. I wonder if her aversion to dry food/treats is an awareness on some level that she just can't digest it well.

You and I think alike.

[Mimi]

Not that anyone really cares, but it's bugging me. Licorice was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2018 not 2008. Ok, I feel better now.

[Dr. Medulla]

Not that anyone really cares, but it's bugging me. Licorice was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2018 not 2008. Ok, I feel better now.

I read it originally as a typo.

[Kimmelweck]

Up at 4am playing “catch the string” with my 3-legged houseguest Chestnut.

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[Dr. Medulla]

Up at 4am playing “catch the string” with my 3-legged houseguest Chestnut.


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Poor old sweetie. Still, even with the missing limb, he's got a good life.

[Sparky]

Up at 4am playing “catch the string” with my 3-legged houseguest Chestnut.


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That's awesome! It always amazes me how adept animals are at making due with disabilities, such as a missing limb, deafness or being blind. We know of a couple of people who have cats that are blind (kept indoors of course) and they are having fantastic lives. In fact one of them is paired up with a deaf cat, they're best of friends and do everything together.

[Kimmelweck]

Poor old sweetie. Still, even with the missing limb, he's got a good life.

That's awesome! It always amazes me how adept animals are at making due with disabilities, such as a missing limb, deafness or being blind. We know of a couple of people who have cats that are blind (kept indoors of course) and they are having fantastic lives. In fact one of them is paired up with a deaf cat, they're best of friends and do everything together.

I think she’s a little over 2 years old. Her owners told me she lost her left front leg to an infection when she was very young, shortly before they adopted her, so I don’t think she’s even aware that anything's missing. Actually gets around pretty much like any other cat. I took about 50 string-chasing photos and that was one of the maybe 3 that wasn’t just a grey blur of cat-tornado.

I was at my friends’ house when they first brought home Carlos (their Chihuahua). The cat was…not pleased. Carlos was just a dumb, overly-friendly puppy, but at their first meeting, Chestnut bounced around the room and up the stairs like a bullet ricocheting off the walls, and then spent the rest of the evening on the top step, pouting and glaring down at us. They get along great now though – they sit side by side begging whenever they catch me eating. I have them both here until Tuesday.

Carlos the dog was also a rescue pet, having just recovered from being hit by a car shortly before they adopted him. He’s fully recovered now – a muscular little guy who handles stairs like a little Mary Lou Retton.

[coffeepotman]

My Baby had to leave us after 13 years, out of nowhere she got cancer, she went quick, it was like 2 weeks and she was gone

[Dr. Medulla]

Baby .jpgMy Baby had to leave us after 13 years, out of nowhere she got cancer, she went quick, it was like 2 weeks and she was gone

I'm so sorry to read this. We've gone thru slow declines and a quick illness with cats before and neither situation ever prepares us for the hollowness to come. You enriched each other's lives, tho, a blessing even if it didn't last as long as you'd like.

[coffeepotman]

Thank you, she was special

[Mimi]

Baby .jpgMy Baby had to leave us after 13 years, out of nowhere she got cancer, she went quick, it was like 2 weeks and she was gone

I'm so sorry. I had one that went quick like that. It's so confusing.

[Flex]

so sorry to hear cpm. it's never easy - at least she didn't have a lengthy period of suffering.

[Sparky]

Baby .jpgMy Baby had to leave us after 13 years, out of nowhere she got cancer, she went quick, it was like 2 weeks and she was gone

I'm sorry for your loss, try to remember all the love she brought in to your life.