Pet parents are fortunate to have something furry to hug and hold in overwhelming quarantine moments.
Following are several virus safety tips and practices from our 18-year-old Persian cats, Myster E. and his sister Whyspurr.
Realizing that pet food may be difficult to come by and to avoid lining up to buy it, we began making their food.
The benefit of their new diet is that ALL vomiting from canned foods has stopped. I am not sure if there is a mystery ingredient that is added to pet foods, but the end results were wearing the cats, me and the rugs out!
Whatever we are having for dinner, so do the cats. We will cook up an extra hamburger patty, or full chicken leg, turkey, or open an occasional can of tuna. We learned that cats enjoy cooked green beans, broccoli, carrots, celery and cauliflower etc..
We are still in the experimental stage of recipe making. Currently we add 1/8th veggies to 7/8ths meat, toss in some warm water, and a tad of ‘U-Stew Powder for Cats’ by ‘Know Better Pet Foods’ because it includes the necessary taurine and digestive aid.
www.knowbetterpetfood.com
We pop the mixture into a blender, buzz it up, as the cats dance at our feet. When we place their meal onto plates, they gobble it up. Blender left overs are put in a freezer baggie, onto a cookie sheet, frozen flat, and stacked in the freezer like a deck of playing cards. We won’t run out of pet food and their renewed energy has them running and playing.
Cold food is hard on digestion, so their food is defrosted and served warm to assimilate for higher nutrition.
Our cats love going for walks in their stroller. Myster E. insists on riding, surf-like on top of the stroller like a Cadillac’s hood ornament. Passersby stop, chat and pat him. We had to stop walking for several reasons. Since the virus is contagious, and we wash all incoming mail and groceries then we don’t want a kind A-symptomatic friend, stranger or neighbor touching him trans-furr-ing microbes to where we kiss him.
Also, the virus floats in the air and stays active on sidewalks. People spit, cough and sneeze, so running the stroller’s wheels over human excretions and then rolling them into our home had to stop.
For these reasons; dog parents have stopped people from patting their dogs, and wash their dog’s feet with Dawn soap upon returning home to eliminate virus microbes.
We leave our shoes, outside, so we don’t bring lingering virus cooties into our home and walk them throughout the house.
We bought grass seed to plant indoors for our cats’ health, a ‘Da bird’ feather toy to entertain them and cat nip to rub over their toys.
www.dabird.com
Also, BASS’s bio flex’s teal brush for humans and pets is designed to relax you as you brush your hair or your pets’ bodies. It feels like someone is massaging you. Our elderly cats normally resist grooming, but with this brush they won’t get out of our laps!
https://www.bassbrushes.com/the-bio-flex
For treats and exercising we use the cats’ stalking instincts by hiding kibbles around the house, like Easter Egg hunts, for them to seek and eat.
Pets help us feel less isolated, loved and are a gift during difficult times. The more you play with yours, the more you bond and laugh. Enjoy your fur babies while keeping yourself and them safe.
