Thursday, April 6, 2017

Cat tails (epilogue)

That's it: no more dried cat food pellets for Floofy.  When she came to me 4 Ramadans ago, she was only about 8 months old, and of course she was a local cat.  Which means that if she had been raised by humans, then she would have eaten rice.  So that's her new diet: rice with canned cat food, preferably fish.  I thought I could grind up the cat food pellets into a coarse powder, then add water.  Boy, that was a mistake.  I had created a turd, except that it took effort to make when I could have just fed it to the cats and they would have done all the work creating turds.  Now nobody wanted the cat food powder, and I had to dump it all.  I wasted half a bag of cat food.  Then I tried the other approach.  I had bought some canned cat food a couple of days ago, but she had no appetite then.  Now she has her appetite back, I've been serving her a mix of rice and canned cat food.  At first I served it cold, because I had opened up the can and portioned it out to be kept in my cooler, and the rice was cold too.  But she didn't like that: she scraped at it as if she were in the sand box.  Yeah I know it all turns to poop, Floofy.  So I heated the mix up to slightly above room temperature, and that was acceptable.  This mix already has moisture in it, so inshaAllah there should be no more blockage.

Erin my love, I hope you are keeping safe in your travels and getting lots of sleep.  Please remember that in order to speak better, you need to practice.  So write, write, write your heart out, and study English grammar and vocabulary.  Eventually you will be speaking poetry at all times.  I've had plenty of practice speaking: I used to work on the phone for a living (among other things).  So I'm actually quite comfortable talking to strangers.  I just don't want to.  But nobody can say the right words all the time.  Just shoot for most of the time, OK?

Natty, that's a sexy workout video.  I enjoyed watching you move your cute little butt.  Check out my snapshots below, I'm wearing as much clothing as you are!