“The RoseBouquet”

Last Thursday I ran out of cat food, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to drive to the shopping mall just for that, so I went on the internet to look for homemade cat food recipes. Found some too.

One lady vet said that cat are carnivores - meaning they are meant to eat raw meat. Her recipe called for two little chicken legs ground up raw, bones and all, add a few vitamins and make a slurry, which you freeze in small containers so you only have a small amount in the fridge for a few days at a time. I happened to have most of that stuff on hand, and a Vita Mixer as well as a Champion Juicer/grinder, so I decided to try it.

When I had the batch just about done, I put a fork full down in Snowflake’s food dish to see whether he would even eat it. He gobbled it up! Since then I’ve offered him one heaping fork-full whenever I come into the kitchen for my three meals a day, but oh the side effects!

I was told that the neutering surgery would make him a tamer, quieter cat. The reverse has happened. I’ve been pondering if his behaviour is as a result of the surgery or of this new diet. Today he is not getting any more of the raw chicken - no matter how much he whines and begs for it. When I’m finished this issue of the RoseBouquet I’m going out to buy him some regular cat food again.

What Snowflake been like? He’s been racing from one end of the house to the other and leaping up on his high window look-outs like his tail is on fire. Now that tail is constantly twitching in what I thought was a cute tickity-boo manner, but he can’t stand a hug for more than two seconds, and he’s off and running again, meowing like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum because it can’t have what it wants NOW. He’s been up on my desk (which I had trained him not to do), and the kitchen table, and on my bed, waking me up, leaping into the sink in the bathroom, drinking from the toilet, and just one crazy act after another.

I’m beginning to wonder if I can stand my roommate any more. So today I’m hardening my heart, and resolved to ignore all whining until I can go get regular cat food. This new diet just gives way too much energy for one cat.