Rosie�s Morning (Day 9)

Nothing much fantastic to report this morning. Rosie looked interested in food, but when offered, she didn’t eat much.

Since cats are finicky/fussy eaters (but wait, I should not use the words “fussy” or “finicky” because that’s just the way cats are and we should not expect them to be otherwise as that would be a practice of anthropomorphising, which is not correct!), I thought I’d offer a variety of food to Rosie and see which she likes.

The myth of the finicky cat: http://feline-nutrition.org/the-blogs/the-myth-of-the-finicky-cat

Yesterday, after her “rescue”, I offered Rosie a mixture of home-cooked chicken, canned food and steamed fish in a single dish. She ate most of the steamed fish. By night time, she didn’t want steamed fish anymore.  This is expected of a cat.

As the second vet explained, that’s just the way cats are. Sometimes, they would love a certain food and the next time you offer it, they would turn up their noses and refuse to eat. Or, sometimes, though they may be hungry, they would like just lick a bit, then run off to groom themselves (yes, Cleo does this all the time), then they return after a few minutes (or longer) and asks for food again. So, unlike dogs where they can be trained to eat twice a day, cats are different.

So, is it right to try and train a cat? Or, would it be better to let a cat BE a cat.

I’ve always been a supporter of the latter theory, as far as possible. Let a dog BE a dog and let a cat BE a cat.

About a week ago, due to all the time spent on Rosie, taking her to the vet, waiting at the vet’s, I skipped giving lunch to the brood, and what-do-you-know, they were okay! Nobody appeared to be starving. So, they were getting meals twice a day (breakfast and dinner) and everyone seemed fine except that late at night, they would rush to the pantry and hope someone would give them supper. We resisted.

We thought that would be simply ideal to “convert” everyone to eating twice a day. So, feeding twice a day it was….until we noticed that the PatioCats all went to the playground to eat kibble from the feeder at 6am every morning. They were hungry because they didn’t have supper.

So, after being reminded that a cat should be allowed to be a cat, we’ve relented and now, it’s back to small meals 3 times a day. And the cats were so happy when we reverted to the old system that that night, they all slept peacefully and happily. You could really see the difference.

Sorry, I digressed.

Back to Rosie….

Last night, I remembered about Nutritional Yeast :http://consciouscat.net/2015/02/16/nutritional-yeast-secret-weapon-get-finicky-cats-eat/, so I sprinkled some into her kibble and Rosie happily ate it all up.

This morning, I made steamed liver. The first vet did say eating liver is good for liver diseases. But Rosie didn’t like it. I offered a little bit of steamed liver with some home-cooked food, and she only licked a little bit of it. Then, I offered kibble and she ate some, but not much. She wasn’t interested in the Nutritional Yeast anymore this morning. This is just how cats are.

Perhaps she was afraid of Heidi and Daffodil, so she hesitated to eat. I had to put her bowl in the bathroom.

She only licked a little bit, then it was back to some force-feeding.

Sigh….

Never mind.

Slowly does it.

And she also vomited some bile in the morning, before eating. I think she wanted food first thing this morning but since I needed time to prepare, her enthusiasm waned. Then, she vomited the bile. It was just a little bit.

We are not letting Rosie out of the house anymore, but she will get a free run of the house with the windows locked. There are two litter boxes, one in the cage and one in the kitchen. But she refuses to use either of them.

We’ll see how it goes.

Rosie was clearly angry yesterday, after being caught and caged again, after her 7-hour adventure on the roof.

She was so angry with me that she growled and hissed when I force-fed her later last night.

Sigh..sorry, Rosie. I have to do this.

But the saddest thing is that Daffodil still does not recognise Rosie. Rosie tries to go near her, and Daffodil would hiss at poor Rosie and even smack her. The other day, we thought Daffodil had accepted Rosie again, but after one trip the vet’s, we were back to square one.

Yesterday, when Rosie was “missing” for 7 hours, Daffodil didn’t seem bothered at all. It was Zurik and Heidi who helped us look for Rosie.

Zurik…as gangster-like as he is, he’s quite okay, actually. What a controversial guy he is, that Zurik.

Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2017/02/26/rosies-morning-day-9/

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