100 Ways to Spoil Your Cat

87. A Bed Time Story

Miau miau!

Well every night i go to bed about midnight. Since my to cats romeo and juliet sleep with me, i have to give them a treat first, and after that we go to bed...so maybe five seconds later it goes, hush fush under me, on top of me, and so on. Then they finally stop and romeo puts his had on my chest and looks at me.

I say to him oh now you want to hear your little boy story, so he listens and purrs and goes ma, ma then I start to tell him the story. When you were a little boy i fed you with a bottle and you were so gentle and kind. In between it goes again ma ,ma. Then i tell him that i fed him till he was about nine months old, and say to him shame on you, by now you should be eating normal food. While all this time juliete lays by my side, she gets up and i can see in her eyes that she tries to tell me, what about me. She jumps over romeo and starts to play again.

By this time i just about had it, and it is almost 1am. So i start yelling, if you guys don't stop i will take you to the humane scociety, then you will see what life you have. They both look at me stop and lay down.

So now dr. Jon, tell me what i already know. My cats do understand every single word i say, and that is the truth.
I hope you enjoy the little story, and i know that i have the best cats in the whole wide world.

Thanks for viewing this e-mail and i hope you have a nice day.

Elisabeth Flores

88. Punky Bits

Punky is our "senior" girl kitty in a herd of about 20. We have a colony of feral cats that are more family than feral, and we foster for a rescue organization as well.

Punky knows she's special because every tiime we have steak or chops for dinner, she gets "Punky bits". These are the trimmings of fat (and not so fat) off the meat, and she sits and waits patiently for us to finish, when she knows her daddy will put her Punky bits in her dish. No doubt in her mind she deserves such special treatment!

Chris Davis
Alvarado, Texas
USA

89. Cubby Holes for Outdoor Cats

My Manx cross cats, Bonus and Additional, live with their DSH mom Domino in the garage with the hay, and in the tack/feed room. They are excellent mousers, and keep the mole population at bay also. So I try to make their lives as comfortable as possible.

When I stack the horses' hay, I offset some of the bales to include cubby holes. They have cat ladders to climb up to the garage rafters from both inside and out, and I leave a fan on during the hot summer days. I feed treats and canned food in here, and better quality dry food.

In the tack room, they do have to share dry cat food with the neighborhood raccoons who can also come in at night through the cat flap door, but I refill every morning, and clean the water dish.

Also in here are a number of nests of towels and horse blankets, and when it is frosty, I turn on an oil filled heater next to the fleece-lined cat bed under the saddle rack.

Elaine Bessuille
Yarrow, near Chilliwack, British Columbia

90. Flea Comb

1. Give her little bits of tuna or a sardine!

2. Comb her with a flea comb.

Carol Braden
        
91. Great Foods and Lots of Playtime

My cat Snowy Sky loves Boars Head Cracked Peppermill Smoked Turkey Breast, always have a fresh pack on hand. She also loves Virginia Baked Ham, she'll gobble it right up.

She always has fresh wet and dry food daily and fresh water 3 times a day. Her favorite toy is an aluminum foil ball, easy to make, she'll play with it for hours. I love to play hide and seek with her, she gets a big kick out of that.

She sleeps with me every night, just like a human. She lays her head on the pillow and stretches out. I adopted this little beauty from the S.P.C.A. and she is the light of my life.

Sue Rumfield
Nazareth, PA.