PS: Per usable ounce of food Dixie's diet costs no more than Fancy Feast and I
anticipate far fewer health problems and certainly fewer worries about the
quality of food. The frozen cubes are easy for me to handle too. And I am
vegetarian. I tried cooking for her but this is so incredibly easy.........I
would never have believed it.
If you have men who will
exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion
and pity, you will have men who
will deal likewise with their
fellow man.
St. Francis
----- Original Message -----
From: Marylyn
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: just beginning
Feel free. Just know that the Primal is bought in frozen cubes, the
veggies are frozen organic and picked up at a good grocery and chopped in a
little Black and Decker chopped and the others are powders just mixed in.
Trust me. There is no great time spent on her meals. It is as easy or easier
than opening cans and having to dispose of them (farm, too much wildlife to
just pitch them in the garbage can).
I love ferals and have had the privilege of having several as friends. The
Royal Princess Kitty Katt and Ebony Thomas Katt were both feral. Have you
tried the Feliway spray (not the plug in) in the litter box area? None of the
ferals I have dealt with like scented litter (a big pain) and all liked the
extra large Rubbermaid boxes as opposed to litter boxes. Dealing with these
wonderful guys/gals is challenging. Dealing with colonies must be exhausting.
Taking care of the ones that show up at my mother's is hard enough and that
consists of food and water + spay and neuter mainly. Blessings be to you for
all your work with them. One day, when you leave this world, you will find out
how much they appreciated your kindness.
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Dubose
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: just beginning
Wow, Marylyn, that's an impressive diet!
What a lucky girl she is....... :)
Right now I have to depend on high quality foods that I can get @ the
store, like the ones I mentioned.
I have 4 felv+ cats, many other rescue cats (I do Siamese rescue) that
have come to me w/ chronic health problems (3 of which are on Zithromax
permanently for chronic URI, thanks godoess it's only every 3 day), and I also
maintain several feral colonies.
Several of my rescues have behavioral problems also, meaning, I spend a
lot of time washing the litterbox areas in the cattery & the kitty room.
Plus I have my own business.
Someday I would love to be able to spend more time preparing all of their
meals.
Do you mind if I crosspost your diet to a few friends of mine that also
have felv+ cats?
That is a wonderful idea about writting your memories down.
Susan J. DuBose >^..^<
www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com
www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org
www.shadowcats.net
"As Cleopatra lay in state,
Faithful Bast at her side did wait,
Purring welcomes of soft applause,
Ever guarding with sharpened claws."
Trajan Tennent
----- Original Message -----
From: Marylyn
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: just beginning
Repeating myself re Dixie's diet which seems to be working great for
her: She gets Transfer Factor, Just Born, a supplement Dr. Boswell fixed for
FeLV+, lots of high vitamin c veggies (carrots, spinach, broccoli, green beans
and peas) ground up and mixed with Primal Raw, Fast Track and various
probiotics, Lysine, Interferon (oral every other day), Barley Cat and now
Sheep's yogurt. Obviously she doesn't get every thing every day. A lot
depends on what is going on with her and what just feels right at the time.
She eats 2-3 times a day and really has surprised me with the veggies and
yogurt. This girl eats better than I do. I use Brush Away on her teeth
(almost daily). She is wonderfully happy and healthy and I look forward to
many years with her. She has been with me over 2 years and is probably around
5 years old. She is a throw-away so no one is sure of anything............just
that she is marvelous and amazingly grateful for anything you give her.
An idea if you can handle it: Start writing Monkee stories and
emailing them to yourself and/or your friends so you will always have all the
wonderful memories. The purrs, how Monkee got the name, how he came into your
life, litter training.............. all those things that tend to disappear
from the mind when it is totally stressed as yours is. This may help you clear
your own mind and get very close to Monkee. It will definitely help to read
and re-read them when, hopefully a very long time from now, Monkee leaves this
world.
