Hairy the House Cat

Well Hairy snuck in twice yesterday. No big deal. In fact she seems to be liking the indoor life a bit more now. She's not quite as curious and not seeking out a hiding spot as much, although she still has fits to get into the bedrooms, trying everything to get the doors open. Of course the first thing she usually does when she gets in still is rubbing her declawed paws over all the cloth furniture as if to sharpen her claws and if you try to stop her you get a little "love nibble" to the hand.

I was watching TV and she sat down beside the Lazyboy I was in and washed herself for like a half hour. Then she saw my shoes and jeans lying on the floor and curled up on the pants leg, using the shores as a pillow. Well ok I guess it's a guy thing but I tend to wear gym shorts in the house and wasn't in a hurry to toss the jeans in the hamper. She might have laid there all night if I had let her.

After a while I saw Blackie on camera #2 laying out in the driveway looking all lonely. I guess Brownie was out on the prowl. So I went to the cabnet and pulled out a can of Rival chicken flavor that I got from Big Lots for $.35. I like to get it sometimes I guess partly because the kitty on the can looks like Hairy. Unfortunately it's the one brand that Brownie so far just will not eat. To each their own, I guess.

So I emptied the can on to a paper plate and Hairy ate maybe about 1/4 of it. She won't eat a whole lot at one time, unlike Blackie who will eat just every last bite and demand more. Seriously! You could give him his own can and practically before you can get to the door sometimes the plate is clean and he will lift his broken paw towards the empty plate and look up at you with sad eyes as if to say "More please." And you just hate to say no, but everything in moderation, you know. So Blackie got Hairy's leftovers but he didn't care, of course. He just loves can food. If he won't eat it just toss it out! It must be spoiled.

You know, this is getting kind of expensive. In addition to dry food they prefer to have at least 3 cans a day between them, which I guess for 3 cats that's not an awful amount of food but even at 3/$1 that's like $30 a month alone. So much for delivered pizza for me I suppose. LOL

I tried something the other day after I made some chicken soup. I admit it. I like to eat the noodles dipped onto a cracker and deal with the juice later. So I had all this chicken broth and wanted to try something different. I figured there's no good reason why a cat can't eat it so I dumped most of the broth into a bowl for the kitties. Well Blackie is the only one who would even touch it but he loved it!

In case you're wondering I had a little bit left from my bowl and I decided to cook up some pasta noodles and then after draining I mixed in the remaining broth and sprinkled with grated parmasian. Not bad at all! I was going to put some Ragu or something in the bowl but it wasn't necessary. Some chicken bits and a few veggies like steamed broccoli might have been nice though.