Tag Archive for 'health'

Cat feeding schedule tips?

Lucas, our beloved 17 year old Siamese, and the nicest cat you’ll probably ever meet, had a seizure last night, and now needs both more medications and a even more special diet – and now, no dry food anymore.

Since we have two other lady cats who do need to eat dry food, we need to switch them from self-feeding dry food to having scheduled feedings. We’ve always had good luck with self-feeding dry food (with scheduled wet food on occasion) in the past, so it’s been a while since we’ve taken all the food away and only brought it out on a schedule.

Any tips on switching the ladies to only scheduled dry food feedings? I think they’ll both adapt eventually, since they are very social cats and are used to following us around, but I’m concerned about how best to make the switch without upsetting everyone anymore than our recent vet trips have done.

“Pay yourself first”

Got back from a Dr. appt (nothing big) and one of the health handouts he had written himself for a journal.  His FAQ’s included one about “As a busy Dr., how do you keep yourself healthy?”.  He said he pays himself first – an old concept, but one I always forget in the larger scale.

Done getting caught up in all the stupid stuff – in quadrant IV or whatever it is on that Seven Habits chart (that training class was a looong time ago!).  Onwards to quadrant I and things that are actually important.  Time to ignore some of the stuipd questions.  Time to actually do constructive stuff again.

Just sent my resume out (internally), and had plenty of coffee (regular) so far today, so that must explain the chipper and can-do attitude!