I have done something moronically stupid

[wolf63]

Frankie has been off colour the last couple of weeks - nothing serious enough to take him to the vet over - but not so annoying as usual.

The last couple of days he hasn't been eating with as much enthusiasm as usual (think Labrador in a cat's body0.

So today I bought some dearer cat food to see if that would cheer him up. Unfortunatly it did. I am never going to be able to eat the 'normal' Felix, Whiskas and Tesco again.

What have I started?

[ladyalex]

An expensive habit

[lankeela]

Not sure why YOU are eating cat food in the first place lol.

[lizzydrippin]

Too late now, you've gone and done it! Still, not to worry, give him a few weeks on whatever it is you've given him and he'll be favouring the old stuff again thinking its something new (thats if you're really lucky)

[wolf63]

Just re-read my post - you are right Lankeela I should stop eating the cat food.

Lizzy - you are right. Cats are so unpredictable when it comes to food. The dirty look that I get when I put something 'unacceptable' in their bowls says a thousand words - most of them nasty words.

Merlin doesn't eat so much as her brother - but she is all curves and looks twice his size.

[pastafreak]

Caspar has just spent the last hour wearing himself out shouting at me because the food in his dish is unacceptable.

Hopefully he will sleep now from sheer exhaustion.......
(but I know at least one deaf ear is open...waiting... ;-( )

[Barmaid]

I adopted an "eat it or starve you fussy little sod" stance. So he adopted a "I'm going to bring you a live mouse every day til you stop feeding me sh!t" stance. Manipulative little so and sos.

[jules77]

Brings back memories of when my vet said my cat only had six months or so to live (he was 18 at the time), so I started spoiling him..........he went on for another 3 years, and would only eat Sheba, and an average of three foil tins a day at that!!

[sue11]

oh dear oh dear (shaking head with sorrowful expression)....now you have done it, I promise you there is no going back now, today Sheba, tomorrow fresh prawns, steamed fish and fillet steak....mark my words...

[paraffin]

Moggies are as changeable as the wind! One day they want this, the next - that - never satisfied! Costs us all a small fortune to have them - but we wouldn't be without them no matter the cost, would we?
So who really "owns" who? Mmmmmhhhhhhh.........that's a difficult one (NOT!!!!!)

[wolf63]

But we are good mums/slaves and we have the idea at the back of our mind "maybe something is wrong".

I think that there has been a shift in dominance in the household. Merlin is strutting around as if she owns the whole world. She is usually the undercat (don't know why she has massive paws and a fiesty female temper) but maybe there has been fur flying - there was actually chunks of it at the top of the stairs.

It is the look of total disgust that we get when we supply the 'wrong' food. I am sure that all kittens do some sort of telepathic training course - manipulating humans.

I actually went out this morning for some Tesco's deli roast beef for Frankie. He loves it. They had a bit that was reduced to about half price. I gave a chunk or two to Frankie and he sniffed it and stormed off. Merlin was eating her treat so I ate the roast beef

Merlin has arrived for a cuddle - better go..

[paraffin]

There's no hope for you, is there? They have you wrapped right around those little claws, haven't they? One squawk from them and mummy comes a-running with their Tecso's roast beef!
Will any of us ever learn? I doubt it!!!

[sue11]

Mine got fed up of Tesco roast beef ages ago! Bandit likes tinned tuna steak and Ozzie loves aged cheddar and a dish of evap milk to wash it down with! If I am cooking any kind of roast, whoe betide me if I don't save them some nice bits for them!

[paraffin]

What did I say? All of us on this site today are just helpless slaves and no-hopers - held to ransom by the pleas of those felines with hollow legs and bottomless pits for stomachs!!
Fetch the men with the white coats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bensmum]

Flossie has taken a shine to Waitrose terrine foils which means a special shopping trip for me. She also loves pate but only the smooth sort, not the coarse one.
Like pasta's cat Flossie just bellows at me if I get it wrong and once she's wound up she goes on for ages. Fortunately Daisie is not so fussy or so noisy

[pastafreak]

Caspar NEVER touched the food that I had put out this morning.....instead he spent all day howling-as predicted. I finally cleaned his dish and gave him a tin of the pate he likes......he is now sleeping like a baby. I wonder how long it will last-I dare not move!