11 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

  2. A vegetable salad would be fine for Summer-the-little-stripey-cat who, being a vegetarian like her dad, loves bell peppers and lettuce. She even likes to lick the coating off the croutons and eat the small ones. She also loves Triscuits, the thin 4-cheese kind but has no interest in the carnivorous food that her half-siblings eat.

      1. Some “oral care” dry food and some “cat naturals” which is “her” brand of dry food since kittenhood. Other than that lettuce (prefers red leaf but will accept iceberg) and, as noted, peppers. She especially loves the orange bell peppers but also wants red, yellow & green – we have to buy the “stoplight” peppers just for her. Triscuits – she prefers the four cheese but will also eat other varieties but not the cracked pepper ones. Occasionally a slice of apple which tends to end up half-eaten on the counter and looking very bedraggled. And she’ll eat all the roasted cashews she can find. But her favourite is a small sampling of B&B spread (we don’t use butter)on the edge of a cutting board. In the mornings she gets up before me and waits on top of the refrigerator while I get coffee started. Then she moves to the counter and waits by the cutting board until I get the B&B out and give her some.
        We usually have salads for lunch and have to block her access to the counter then otherwise we’d never get finished making it……

        1. I should add that I found Summer when she was barely a week old, eyes still closed, and quite helpless. I bottle fed her for six weeks so she didn’t have the typical kittenhood and became very attached to me. As she grew she wanted to try every kind of food we ate but didn’t like a lot of things. She has never shown the slightest interest in the canned stuff the others eat. But she makes it clear from vocalizations and body language what food she wants.

          1. This accounting is quite lovely. Especially the ” to try every kind of food we ate ” – part !

            I once, long, long ago and never with any lovely one since, had had a kitteh who in her adulthood ( when I first came to her ) seriously loved, with the spiced tomato and meat sauce messed all over it, to suck up and chew up and then swallow single strands of warmed spaghetti pasta.

            Nomming down to its very last millimeter — her wee head in a ( non disease – caused )torticollis – type tilt — a solitary sloppy noodle was just so, so darling.

            Blue

          3. The dry food is not vegetarian but I don’t think eggs or diary are in it. I did spend a lot of time researching various formulae and the two I mentioned were about the best. Vet’s advice was not to enforce vegetarianism on a cat as their digestive system is not adapted to a pure veggie diet – unlike humans who can do this. In any case I wanted to give her the oral care food because that really works well for kitty teeth. I’ve had cats in the past that were completely carnivorous and they had problems with tartar and eventual gum disease. That doesn’t happen with the oral care dry food. There are vegan cat food products but AFAICT they needed to be combined with special supplements and were/are too complicated for a cat who wants her noms Now!!

  4. I like that Mz Hili gets to BE up upon the kitchen table. And with, there, humans’ food preparations.

    Why not ? Immunities built by ( at least ) all mammals’ ( incl humans ) interactions with their total environments is .scientific evidences. of … … good, good health.

    Blue

    1. And what’s a little cat hair in the food?

      😀

      Or maybe Hili’s not as deciduous as my cats are…

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