What do you look like?

[Headache]

My stalker wanted pics of my legs and feet...

Instead you may have pics of my 16 year old frisky feline Spider. I feed him raw now and I wish I had done it long ago. He gets a better quality food, my wallet gets a huge break and if I had fed him raw from the beginning he'd probably still have his teeth. I never worried about his teeth, it was the meat hooks he has stowed in his feet that have shredded up many hands thinking it would be "okay" to play with him.

And does he love a good bout of hand wrestling.....

[stuartcnz]

A bit of fresh fish, makes cats fur go really nice and healthy and shiney. If you ever want to give a cat a treat, that's a pretty hard one to beat. But it does have to be fresh though, they turn their noses up at anything else.

[Headache]

He doesn't like fish or mice(he'd rather play with the mice) and he's pretty much settled on fowl as his meat source of choice.

I try to be as species appropriate as possible and feed him only meats that were naturally part of a feline diet in the wild. Fish were never on a cats menu(unless sick or starving) until commercial pet foods became the norm. Fish do not contain the appropriate vitamins and minerals(namely thiamine and calcium) a cat needs.

I tried raw as I was running out of cost effective alternatives to combat the myriad of health issues he was developing. Currently, the only issue I have now is the remaining teeth he has left which need to be pulled. Even his coat has improved so much that all the hair that had fallen out(his left side looked like someone had run a dull clippers over it) has regrown and shines.

It was turning to raw food for my cat that was the deciding factor in my trying it out for myself. The results have been well worth it.

http://www.catinfo.org/

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[Stealth Camper]

Which stalker?? Seems like we were all encouraging you to post something.

I understand how you feel. Took me a long time to decide to put a picture up here. Still not sure am comfortable with it, but nobody has jeered yet....

[splummer]

i also understand how you feel. i wont post a pic ,being a private person there is only so much i will share with the world, i was not sure if i even wanted to put my location on the internate, steve

[Dennis The Bus Dweller]

I hear you folks and that's why when it came time to post my pic I just pulled a photo off the web and posted it here and you guy really still think it me I still haven't posted any pic's of my wooden leg

[stuartcnz]

Fish were never on a cats menu(unless sick or starving) until commercial pet foods became the norm. Fish do not contain the appropriate vitamins and minerals(namely thiamine and calcium) a cat needs.

Fish most certainly are a part of a cats natural diet. Some cats will catch ther own fish believe it or not. The key is that it has to be FRESH. I've never seen any cat turn it's nose up at a fish that had been out of the water for less than half an hour. longer than that, will depend on the cat. After a day or so, not many will be interested.

The healthest, glossiest looking cats I have seen have always had some fish over the previous week or so.

While living on boats, we had a cat, who would steal freshly caught fish, if not given to him. His pattern when we had a good catch was to eat a huge amount, then go to sleep in the weather cloth for a week. That was one very contented cat.

[rlaggren]

About 6 years ago in his prime my Little Horror (stripey American cat) sailed through the port hole over my sleeping head with a mackeral half as long as he was. I only know because that was his only way int/out of the cabin and that fish certainly didn't swim up the drain; he woulda had to slide the damn thing through the port sideways! He was deep into it when I woke up and let me know I was NOT going to take it away from him.

He acted the most "natural" I'd ever seen him, that time. Well. 'Ceptin' the time he had a spitting yowling fit through the plexiglass companion hatch at a raccoon. Super cat but zero brains. <G>

Rufus

[Headache]

Fish were never on a cats menu(unless sick or starving) until commercial pet foods became the norm. Fish do not contain the appropriate vitamins and minerals(namely thiamine and calcium) a cat needs.

Fish most certainly are a part of a cats natural diet.

Wow did I word that poorly. I apologize stuart. It should have been, "Fish were never alone on a cat's menu...".

They still don't provide a complete nutritional profile. Something else should be fed as well that has additional thiamine and calcium.

[stuartcnz]

Not sure about the thiamine, but fish bones must surely contain calcium. The important thing with cats is to let them have access to the whole animal that they are eating. they will eat the bits that they require.

[Rudy]

On topic is this photo of Rudy and Bob showing off the front hubcaps from a 1969 Pontiac that were now riding on my 1966 camper.






Another one of Bob and me.

[Rudy]

Back in my younger days when I was a body builder.

[dburt]

Where did you get that picture of me on the dock?? And to think that you would photoshop your head in place of mine!!

[Dualfuel]

Shouldn't you be the governor of some western state?

[Rudy]

Shouldn't you be the governor of some western state?

You are TOO clever!