Scarey Cat

Scarey Cat
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What big eyes you have!

Sakaura is the boss cat. She goes where ever she pleases!

She seems to want to taunt poor Snoopy by acting like most favored cat. But Snoopy does not fall for that. As long as she has food, she could care less about being favored!

Snoopy, Oct 26

Snoopy, Oct 26
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

Time for a progress report, I suppose.

First, Snoopy's hair has mostly grown back. It is not really as matted as it used to be - maybe her "miracle cure" from diabetes cured her bad skin condition, too.

She's a bit more comfortable around the house, but still does not like the other cat - ONE.BIT. At least they do not fight, so all is good.

Frisky

Frisky
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

My next door neighbor, Robin, has a geriatric cat, named Friskie. Don and I laugh at this since she really is anything but.

She's a crotchety old cat, who seems to prefer women to men. I suppose that is no surprise since she lives with all females.

It was surprising to me that she moved here and is an indoor/outdoor cat who never seemed to realize she was not at home. I'd have freaked out that my cat would have tried to return back to my previous residence.

Robin says she refuses to stay indoors all the time, so she lets her out and then back in again. She's the queen cat of the neighborhood. Several cats try to come around but she lets them know who's the boss!

Cat Miracle Diet

Most diets fail because we are still thinking and eating like people. For those us who have never had any success dieting, now there is the new Cat Miracle Diet!

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DAY ONE

Breakfast: Open can of expensive gourmet cat food. Any flavor as long as it costs more than .75 per can -- and place 1/4 cup on your plate. Eat 1 bite of food; look around room disdainfully. Knock the rest on the floor. Stare at the wall for awhile before stalking off into the other room.

Lunch: Four blades of grass and one lizard tail. Throw it back up on the cleanest carpet in your house.

Dinner: Catch a moth and play with it until it is almost dead. Eat one wing. Leave the rest to die.

Bedtime snack: Steal one green bean from your people's plate. Bat it around the floor until it goes under the refrigerator. Steal one small piece of chicken and eat half of it. Leave the other half on the sofa. Throw out the remaining gourmet cat food from the can you opened this morning.

DAY TWO

Breakfast: Picking up the remaining chicken bite from the sofa. Knock it onto the carpet and bat it under the television set. Chew on the corner of the newspaper as your person tries to read it.

Lunch: Break into the fresh French bread bought for the dinner party on Saturday. Lick the top of it all over. Take one bite out of the middle of the loaf.

Afternoon snack: Catch a large beetle and bring it into the house. Play toss and catch with it until it is mushy and half dead. Allow it to escape under the bed.

Dinner: Open a fresh can of dark-colored gourmet cat food -- tuna or beef works well. Eat it voraciously. Walk from your kitchen to the edge of the living room rug. Promptly throw up on the rug. Step into it as you leave. Track footprints across the entire room.

DAY THREE

Breakfast: Drink part of the milk from your people's cereal bowl when no one is looking. Splatter part of it on the closest polished aluminum appliance you canfind.

Lunch: Catch a small bird and bring it into the house. Play with it on top of the down-filled comforter. Make sure the bird is seriously injured but not dead before you abandon it for someone else to have to deal with.

Dinner: Beg and cry until you are given some ice cream or milk in a bowl of your own. Take three licks/laps, and then turn the bowl over on the floor.

FINAL DAY

Breakfast: Eat 6 bugs, any type, being sure to leave a collection of legs, wings, and antennae on the bathroom floor. Drink lots of water. Throw the bugs and all the water up on your people's pillow.

Lunch: Remove the chicken skin from last night's chicken-to-go leftovers your people placed in the trash can. Drag the skin across the floor several times. Chew on it in a corner and then abandon.

Dinner: Open another can of expensive gourmet cat food. Select a flavor that is especially runny, like Chicken and Giblets in Gravy. Lick off all the gravy and leave the actual meat to dry and get hard.

Snoopy for the cure!

Snoopy for the cure!
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

Playing with Picnik and since I could not get rid of her red eye, I thought I'd let her go pink.

We have had some serious spats lately. Sakaura does not like the fact that Snoopy has gotten a bit braver and she makes sure she puts her in her place from time to time.

I gave her claws a good trim this morning. She has an unfair advantage over poor clawless Snoopy.

Mexican Standoff!

Mexican Standoff!
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

Why did Snoopy get so brave as to come out into Sakaura's territory? She is not one bit happy to have her sitting there staring at her.

Don and I are laughing at the big deal we have made of Snoopy walking two or three steps when she used to freely roam the house like she owned it.

I do believe that she is getting much braver though and this is with NO medication.

The best part of waking up

The best part of waking up
Originally uploaded by fbruehl

This week we have seen more progress in cat behavior than we have in the past 9 months. Snoopy has actually begun to come out of her "safe spots" and into the open. This is most always related to eating, but that is okay. Seems she will do anything for food.

Yesterday she actually left the bathroom where she eats dinner and on her own walked into the living room and got up on the sofa where Don normally brings her physically every day. He says it confirms to him that she really likes that spot and the growling she does when he carries her there is only related to the fact that she does not like to be picked up. Whatever!

She and Sakaura still do not kiss and groom each other but they have had a few very close encounters in the past few days with no fighting.

Baby steps!