OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
> > "Andy" <q> wrote
> >
> > > "Nancy Young" > wrote
> >
> > >> Seems to me after all this time they'd have figured
> > >> out a way to fork split them so that the halves are just
> > >> a teensy bit more even, not like 70/30?
> >
> > > Write them. It's mad science. Has been for decades.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > (laugh) But then what kind of nonsense could I amuse myself
> > with? I need lopsided breakfast bread.
> >
> > nancy
> >
> >
>
> But generally when you send complaints to a company, they send you
> coupons...... ;-)
>
> Got some free cat food that way! <lol>

Generally when you give a product compliments you get twice as many
coupons.

Sheldon wrote:
> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
>>In article >,
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Andy" <q> wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Nancy Young" > wrote
>>>
>>>>>Seems to me after all this time they'd have figured
>>>>>out a way to fork split them so that the halves are just
>>>>>a teensy bit more even, not like 70/30?
>>>
>>>>Write them. It's mad science. Has been for decades.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>(laugh) But then what kind of nonsense could I amuse myself
>>>with? I need lopsided breakfast bread.
>>>
>>>nancy
>>>
>>>
>>
>>But generally when you send complaints to a company, they send you
>>coupons...... ;-)
>>
>>Got some free cat food that way! <lol>
>
>
> Generally when you give a product compliments you get twice as many
> coupons.
>

hey, you oculd try both and get lots of coupons

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In article .com>,
"Sheldon" > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> >
> > > "Andy" <q> wrote
> > >
> > > > "Nancy Young" > wrote
> > >
> > > >> Seems to me after all this time they'd have figured
> > > >> out a way to fork split them so that the halves are just
> > > >> a teensy bit more even, not like 70/30?
> > >
> > > > Write them. It's mad science. Has been for decades.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > (laugh) But then what kind of nonsense could I amuse myself
> > > with? I need lopsided breakfast bread.
> > >
> > > nancy
> > >
> > >
> >
> > But generally when you send complaints to a company, they send you
> > coupons...... ;-)
> >
> > Got some free cat food that way! <lol>
>
> Generally when you give a product compliments you get twice as many
> coupons.
>

Hmmmmm... Might have to try that.

Orchid was dying. Granted, she is 16 years old but 1/2 siamese.
Three trips to the vet, no joy. Gave her Pen' injections as needed but
she still ended up a snotty nose fur covered skeleton. :-( This started
about a year ago.

We generally feed Purina dry food and Friskies canned since they like
it. Most of the cats are healthy, a couple are fat.

Orchid has a passion for Tuna, so I started offering her 9 lives "tuna
select". A dark tuna with egg bits, and protected her from the other
cats when she ate so she could eat all she wanted.

Over the past couple of months, she has improved and is actually putting
on weight! :-) She is now strong enough again to jump up into her
"protected" feeding area, and is getting the strength to meow again. She
was so weak, she had lost her voice.

Even her backbone is nearly covered again. Her mother lived to be nearly
19 so maybe she will make it to that age now. Her sister, Athena, does
not even look geriatric and is still going strong.

Appears that 9 lives canned is far superior to Friskies. We will
probably be switching the entire gang over to it now.

If I tell this story to 9 lives, think they will send me coupons???? ;-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
...
> In article .com>,
> "Sheldon" > wrote:
>
>
> Appears that 9 lives canned is far superior to Friskies. We will
> probably be switching the entire gang over to it now.
>
> If I tell this story to 9 lives, think they will send me coupons???? ;-)
> --
> Om.

Really!?!?!?! If this is true, I'm switching cat foods!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kili

In article >,
"kilikini" > wrote:

> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article .com>,
> > "Sheldon" > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Appears that 9 lives canned is far superior to Friskies. We will
> > probably be switching the entire gang over to it now.
> >
> > If I tell this story to 9 lives, think they will send me coupons???? ;-)
> > --
> > Om.
>
> Really!?!?!?! If this is true, I'm switching cat foods!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> kili
>
>

This story is 100% true. :-)

9 lives Tuna Select brought Orchid back from the edge of death!

The other cats have done just fine on Friskies, but Orchid was
chronically sick. Whatever was in that seemed to really help her.

It's nice to see her not so pitiful and hollow-eyed now.
There was literally almost nothing left of her but bones and fur.

I want to see if 9 lives comes in the larger "dog food" sized cans
instead of just the little flat ones. We use the larger cans of friskies
and feed 6 cans per day for the entire gang, plus free-fed Purina
kibbles.

Orchid was too ill to eat dry food. We fed her canned 2 to 3 times per
day, all she was willing to eat.

Still do...
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

> In article >,
> "kilikini" > wrote:
>
>
>>"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
...
>>
>>>In article .com>,
>>> "Sheldon" > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Appears that 9 lives canned is far superior to Friskies. We will
>>>probably be switching the entire gang over to it now.
>>>
>>>If I tell this story to 9 lives, think they will send me coupons???? ;-)
>>>--
>>>Om.
>>
>>Really!?!?!?! If this is true, I'm switching cat foods!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>kili
>>
>>
>
>
> This story is 100% true. :-)
>
> 9 lives Tuna Select brought Orchid back from the edge of death!
>
> The other cats have done just fine on Friskies, but Orchid was
> chronically sick. Whatever was in that seemed to really help her.
>
> It's nice to see her not so pitiful and hollow-eyed now.
> There was literally almost nothing left of her but bones and fur.
>
> I want to see if 9 lives comes in the larger "dog food" sized cans
> instead of just the little flat ones. We use the larger cans of friskies
> and feed 6 cans per day for the entire gang, plus free-fed Purina
> kibbles.
>
> Orchid was too ill to eat dry food. We fed her canned 2 to 3 times per
> day, all she was willing to eat.
>
> Still do...

Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?

Once i was sitting on the floor to watch a t.v. special and cutting up
veggies for salad (all neat and tidy with cutting board and newspapers
on the carpet) when "Sasha" after calmly but intently watching me cut
up the veggies reached out and tentatively grabbed a chunk of green
pepper. Pull it over to herself when i did not object and gobbled it up.

Since then i always feed me cats lettuce, green pepper and whatever
other fresh veggies i have on hand. Diced and added to room temperature
rice with oat bran added and all mixed up and dressed with a bit of meat
stock. They get the occasional raw chicken gizzards but not often, a
real treat for them that they inevitably have to 'kill', pounce on, play
with etc. etc. before they get around to eating it.

Of course anytime i am making a large amount of meat they get their
share. "Asparagus" is adorable but not to bright and takes her cue from
Sasha, who always knows, sometimes i think before i do, when i intend to
make a meat loaf.

One time i was making meat loaf for a dinner with guests and i was
pressed for time and was intently focused on cooking and did not pay
attention to Sasha waiting patently for her raw ball of ground meat. I
was just about to stick it in the oven when i realized, saw the most
joyous look of immanent expectation....how could i let her down?

So i took a couple of tablespoons of the seasoned meat loaf mix and
rolled it into a ball and gave it to her.

She had never had 'seasoned' meat loaf mix before and at first it was if
i had served her a bad meal, she gave me such a look! And IMO actually
sulked for a few minutes. Then seeing she was getting no real response
from her sulking she went back and investigated the raw, but seasoned
meat ball, and after a few licks and sniffs, and a bit of nudging about
with the paw, gobbled it right up.

Course probly my favourite anecdote about Sasha is the one where i am so
pressed for time early in the morning that i wash the bottom pot part of
the pressure cooker and sit it on the floor for a minute while i do
something else that leads to something other and then out the door and
gone all day and come home to a kitty sleeping soundly in the bottom of
the pressure cooker, an ordinary, stove top pressure cooker, curled up
into a tight little ball and cosily snoozing away.

I have a big heavy old glass american punch bowl (early 1900' pressed
glass) on top of a built in cabinet, i thought me cats were real
acrobats for the longest time, routinely i would find one of them in the
punch bowl snoozing away, obviously having had to jump almost 6 feet
across from the top of the fridge to the top shelf the bowl is on.

Then one day i was making a pot of stock and heard a noise behind me,
turned around and looked up and the kitty was strolling calmly across
the top of the window between the fridge and the cabinet, i uttered
enough of a slight gasp to cause her to pause, almost unconcernedly, and
give me a look of concern about me, an, "you o.k." kind of look from the
cat who then proceeded primly to the fridge and jumped down about 1 foot
and from there to a counter top and then the floor. With a very
distinct request for food i was making (a fish stock).

The more i think about it the more anecdotes that come to mind.
So ill stop now.
---
JL

"Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message
...
> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > "kilikini" > wrote:
> >
>
> Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?
>

I can't BELIEVE your cats eat salad! Mine won't touch most people food
unless it's shrimp or crab. They won't even eat chicken.

kili

In article >,
"kilikini" > wrote:

> "Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote in message
> ...
> > OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> >
> > > In article >,
> > > "kilikini" > wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?
> >
>
> I can't BELIEVE your cats eat salad! Mine won't touch most people food
> unless it's shrimp or crab. They won't even eat chicken.
>
> kili
>
>

Mine devour chicken....... :-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article >,
Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:

>
> Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?

My cats like _anything_ green.

Prolly got used to it by offering them fresh grass, and fresh green
catnip that I grow for them. :-)

>
> Once i was sitting on the floor to watch a t.v. special and cutting up
> veggies for salad (all neat and tidy with cutting board and newspapers
> on the carpet) when "Sasha" after calmly but intently watching me cut
> up the veggies reached out and tentatively grabbed a chunk of green
> pepper. Pull it over to herself when i did not object and gobbled it up.

Hmmmmm... Mine bat around green olives and "taste" them but never
actually eat them, but nobody is interested in green peppers AFAIK.
OTOH, I hate green peppers so it's not like they get offered often.

>
> Since then i always feed me cats lettuce, green pepper and whatever
> other fresh veggies i have on hand. Diced and added to room temperature
> rice with oat bran added and all mixed up and dressed with a bit of meat
> stock. They get the occasional raw chicken gizzards but not often, a
> real treat for them that they inevitably have to 'kill', pounce on, play
> with etc. etc. before they get around to eating it.

Love leaf lettuce, celery tops, kitties DO like some fresh greens to
munch. Since I save them for the cockatoo, kitties get some by default.
<G>

>
> Of course anytime i am making a large amount of meat they get their
> share. "Asparagus" is adorable but not to bright and takes her cue from
> Sasha, who always knows, sometimes i think before i do, when i intend to
> make a meat loaf.

Mine know when I'm cutting meat and beg relentlessly!
"pay no attention to that water gun! Mom will give in if we are
persistant".

The cats have me well trained. <G>

Sasha sounds like a special kitty!
Some really are brighter than others IMHO.

>
> One time i was making meat loaf for a dinner with guests and i was
> pressed for time and was intently focused on cooking and did not pay
> attention to Sasha waiting patently for her raw ball of ground meat. I
> was just about to stick it in the oven when i realized, saw the most
> joyous look of immanent expectation....how could i let her down?
>
> So i took a couple of tablespoons of the seasoned meat loaf mix and
> rolled it into a ball and gave it to her.
>
> She had never had 'seasoned' meat loaf mix before and at first it was if
> i had served her a bad meal, she gave me such a look! And IMO actually
> sulked for a few minutes. Then seeing she was getting no real response
> from her sulking she went back and investigated the raw, but seasoned
> meat ball, and after a few licks and sniffs, and a bit of nudging about
> with the paw, gobbled it right up.

ROFL!
Sounds like mine!
They will turn up their noses until they realize that is all that there
is!

>
> Course probly my favourite anecdote about Sasha is the one where i am so
> pressed for time early in the morning that i wash the bottom pot part of
> the pressure cooker and sit it on the floor for a minute while i do
> something else that leads to something other and then out the door and
> gone all day and come home to a kitty sleeping soundly in the bottom of
> the pressure cooker, an ordinary, stove top pressure cooker, curled up
> into a tight little ball and cosily snoozing away.

Heh! It's amazing the size of box some of them will fit into!
Even if they "spill" out over the top...

>
> I have a big heavy old glass american punch bowl (early 1900' pressed
> glass) on top of a built in cabinet, i thought me cats were real
> acrobats for the longest time, routinely i would find one of them in the
> punch bowl snoozing away, obviously having had to jump almost 6 feet
> across from the top of the fridge to the top shelf the bowl is on.

Cats don't jump.

They levitate.

>
> Then one day i was making a pot of stock and heard a noise behind me,
> turned around and looked up and the kitty was strolling calmly across
> the top of the window between the fridge and the cabinet, i uttered
> enough of a slight gasp to cause her to pause, almost unconcernedly, and
> give me a look of concern about me, an, "you o.k." kind of look from the
> cat who then proceeded primly to the fridge and jumped down about 1 foot
> and from there to a counter top and then the floor. With a very
> distinct request for food i was making (a fish stock).
>
> The more i think about it the more anecdotes that come to mind.
> So ill stop now.
> ---
> JL

Oh Do go on!

Cats are amazing people. :-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > ha scritto nel messaggio
...
> In article >,
> Joseph Littleshoes > wrote:
>
>>
>> Anybody else have cats that like a fresh green salad?

I have a cat who like tofu and seitan! She is always on a diet, LOL!
>
> My cats like _anything_ green.

Yes! like lizzards!
Pandora

"Joseph Littleshoes" > wrote

> The more i think about it the more anecdotes that come to mind.
> So ill stop now.

My cat's a picky eater. Considering that when I got her, you
couldn't feed her enough, she was voracious, starving, she will
turn her nose up at people food.

Unless the people food happens to be Cheez Its or Doritos,
any kind of cheese snack. She'll lick the cheese off until the
chip falls apart, thing is you have to hold it for her.

Gets kinda gross.

nancy