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So some weeks back, we took the cats in for their more-or-less annual checkups, and the vet noted that Kunoichi had expanded from 13 to 16 lbs.<\/p>\n

Our previous feeding strategy was "bowl of kibble on floor, graze as hungry," which has always worked with our other cats, but not with her (she's also hampered by being an inside cat, to be sure).<\/p>\n

The current strategy is, instead:\u00a0<\/p>\n

* The kibble bowl goes down for an hour or two around breakfast and around dinner. This has worked fine, except we keep forgetting to put it back up.<\/p>\n

* The cats get gooshy food once a day. (The vet suggested that canned food, being more protein, is metabolized better than kibble.)<\/p>\n

We've never done the gooshy food thing before, so it's been a bit educational for us, too. Kunoichi apparently had during a previous ownership, though, since the first time we opened one of the tins she made a Kunoichi-shaped\u00a0hole in all the intervening furniture to get into the kitchen. (Neko was all, "Huh? What? Huh?" But she's learned since.)<\/p>\n

This part has worked pretty well — they share a bowl (a plate, actually) with a gooshy-food serving. \u00a0I think I could probably reuse the plate each meal, in fact, since they clean it until shines.<\/i> \u00a0In fact, I think they're beginning to lick the glaze off …\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don't know if Kunoichi has actually lost any weight, but she seems more active, so that's good, and worth the marginal extra effort. But, boy, have they become even more Johnny-on-the-spot whenever any of us enter the kitchen. \u00a0<\/p>\n

(Below courtesy of\u00a0http:\/\/twolumps.net\/d\/20130107.html<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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So some weeks back, we took the cats in for their more-or-less annual checkups, and the vet noted that Kunoichi had expanded from 13 to 16 lbs. Our previous feeding strategy was "bowl of kibble on floor, graze as hungry," which has always worked with our other cats, but not with her (she's also hampered … Continue reading “The Gooshy Food Saga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-41617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/201301075B15D.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133707,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/our-sweet-sweet-cat.html","url_meta":{"origin":41617,"position":0},"title":"Our sweet, sweet cat","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jun-17 11:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kunoichi has always been a sweet-tempered kitteh. 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