Cat Love
You can't really raise a cat without sometimes engaging in tough love tactics. My cat is coming up on eight months old and I just had her spayed the other day. The doctor told me a couple of things to be on the look out for that would warrant bringing her back in. When she didn't eat the first evening I didn't worry too much about it. Midway into the second day I got a little worried but decided to try her on some soft food, which she has never in her life had before. Oh she ate that right up. No appetite problems here at all. I explained to her that you're not getting this everyday. We'll finish up this can and then you go back on the dry. I got you that big bag of Science Diet kitten formula and there's still pounds and pound of it left. That's your food. That's what you're going to eat. The next day I put the dry out and she wouldn't touch it. You damn well better eat that food missy. Bernadette and I agreed, oh she'll eat it when she gets hungry enough. 24 hours later she still wasn't eating so I mixed some of the dry in with a few tablespoons of wet. She seemed to begrudge the crunchy bits but she ate it up anyway. Later in the day I put a small bowl of dry on the ground and she walked right by it like she's blind in both eyes. You can be that way all you want but when this turkey and gravy stuff is gone there ain't no more wet food in the house. And even if I were to get you some more you're not eating it every meal. You hear me? You've got to meet me halfway. You eat this delicious, and I might add, rather expensive, dry food and I'll give you some of this disgusting wet stuff once in awhile. Like once a week. But not everyday. I don't know how long I should withhold soft food from her if she won't eat the dry. I think one or both of us maybe has some kind of emotional or behavioral problem. I don't know if maybe I should schedule us for an outward bound program for troubled fathers with troubled pets. My Vet alluded to a pet psychic that she consulted with about her own pets. Honestly though, I don't think I love my cat enough to consult with a pet psychic. I think I'm having a breakthrough here. I think admitting you don't love your cat enough is half the battle. The other half of the battle will be getting that funnel in her mouth.
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