Posted on 05/08/2008 by Barb
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I’m taking my long-term cat-care-provider responsibilities v-e-r-y seriously. Very seriously indeed. I’m wanting to be the best long-term cat-care-provider in the whole world! (It really eats into the knitting time, so not much to report on that front.)
So on the recommendation of Alex and Andrea, I decided to stop free-feeding (they’re a bit portly), and serve them Science Diet rather than the “grocery store” cat food delivered with them last week.
Everyone I talked to agreed: Transitioning them over the course of several days to a week is the way to do it, very important.
So after work yesterday I bought me some Science Diet … not too much, though, just in case they don’t like it or it doesn’t agree with the little darlings. And I put together a well-thought-out transition plan.
I divided out the remaining old food.
I combined it with an appropriate ratio of the new food.
I put each day’s allotment in a baggie.
I labeled them: Thurs 1:5 (new:old); Fri 2:4; Sat 3:3, Sun 4:2, Mon 5:1.
Tuesday they’d get all Science Diet.
(You know where this is going, don't you?)
I put all the little baggies in a little brown Starbucks bag.
I closed up the bag of Science Diet.
I set the Starbuck’s bag beside the Science Diet.
I neatened up the counter.
I went and watched American Idol.
Eventually I went to bed.
This morning:
Bo, you’re so busted!
So … I think I have my answer to the question of whether the cats will like Science Diet! But, is it fact or myth that normal, healthy cats will get sick if not carefully transitioned to new food? (If it’s fact, I’ll spare you the photos!)
Posted on 05/05/2008 by Andrea
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You could say I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed lately. Since my vacation, I've only had time to go through one day's worth of the 900 photos. Rather than waiting until they're all done, I thought I'd show the photos I have ready so far.
They're from our half-day in Dublin, when we first arrived in Ireland. We wandered around the city, saw the Book of Kells
(very impressive), strolled through St. Stephen's Green (sort of Dublin's equivalent to Central Park), window-shopped Grafton Street, and got a peek at the Dublin Spire, which was near our B&B.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
We were quite jetlagged so we didn't really do much that day. The next day, we left Dublin behind (until the last part of our trip), and we took a bus across Ireland to Galway, on the West coast. I was enchanted with Galway. Maybe when I have time to go through some more of my photos and post them here, you will see why.
In the meantime, instead of finishing with my photos I'm trying to finish staining and sealing our bedroom closet door before I go out of town on Wednesday. I didn't realize I'd chosen an oil-based stain and that it would require far more time to dry than a water-based stain. So once you factor in drying times, I will just barely have enough days to get this done before I leave on my work trip to California. Nothing like trying to get ready for a business trip and having to finish up a home improvement project at the same time.
Still, it's spring and it feels good to be busy beautifying my house and getting things done. I have big plans for fixing up our house this summer. Probably nothing dramatic, as far as most people are concerned, but neither Brad nor I are very handy, so every little bit seems like a major accomplishment.
And if you're still reading this far, I guess I'd better throw in a knitting update. I have actually had a little time to work on the Show-Off Ruffle Skirt. Once I finished the bobble section and dropped all the stitches, the project has gone from agonizingly slow to lighting fast. At this rate, I'll be done in no time!
