The Two Kitties

Earlier this year I mentioned that I would be posting more about Bella and Sophie. Bella is back on raw 100% now which is great. I also found out I was overfeeding her the raw so that wasn't helping her weight to decrease at all. She recently tried some quail and loved it. Sophie liked it too which is great.

Sophie has been more difficult switching to raw. She has always been able to self regulate her eating and so doesn't have a problem with over indulgence. But Bella will steal her food so they both eat meals in their crates unless I am sitting there watching. I have had to get Sophie switched over from kibble to wet cat food and now we are working on the transition to raw. She is at about 1 tsp of raw each meal and rest cat food.

They both get a little kibble for a snack and by little I mean about 4 pieces of kibble. I also use it for treats if I am clicker training them. Instead of cat treats for a special treat they get kibble and they think it is something special.

However, I have come home occasionally to what should look like this

And found this instead......

Which is why you end up with this...

Ahh they are so sweet though - best buddies!

Happy Valentine's Day

Also Happy Birthday to Reese's namesake. Today was the birthday of the Grandma that Reese is named after. Her proper name is Margaret Reese, call name Reese. Margaret is my Irish grandma that Reese is named after. We always went to dinner with Grandma on her birthday and she always ordered the chicken kiev.

I received some beautiful roses!

I bought Reese a bed yesterday for Valentine's Day. She loves to mess up the blankets on the couch or bed and create her own little nest so I thought she would like her own little bed to curl up in. 

And she would, she came right over and jumped in. There was just one problem......she didn't fit.

Either the back-end hangs Ten, or....

front end does.

Of course she had to try it with her bone to see if that would help......  nope - still doesn't fit.

I will have to take her with me to the pet store to get her a proper fitting bed to curl up in. I won't share with the store personnel that the last time she tried out a bed there, she tried it out by peeing on it!

Wordless Wednesday 2

Still a Work in Progress....

But I think we are starting to see some progress. Here are a couple of videos of some running contact work. The first one is from about a week ago and she is still bouncing quite a lot. In the second video, from tonight, I think there is improvement. There are a few bouncy runs but overall I think much better.

Pawty! We're Havin' a Pawty!

Happy Birthday Reese!  Reese turned 4 years old today, so we thought we would throw a little party. First up was a morning hike.

Then we started getting ready for our party. And......we had a little Cake Wreck!

Yep, I FAILED! It really wasn't that hard to do.

But then I fixed it by jamming the H in there. The purple weird things on the right are sheep.

Getting ready

to blow the candle out!

And of course she got to eat a piece.

And no she didn't stay on the table. About two seconds after this picture was taken she took her piece to the floor where a proper dog eats her cake!

Finally, Reese opened her presents. A new ball (yeah, we don't have any of those around here do we?) and a new achilles tendon to chew. 

Nose Problems, Quail and Feather toys......

I am going to try some new things on the blog. As you can see from yesterday's post I have started a Wordless Wednesday feature. It was an old picture but one that I like. I used to follow a blog that did this and I thought it was cool. Buzz's food lady doesn't have her blog anymore but I have seen others that do it as well. So I thought why not.

The other news is in the sickness and health department. A week or so ago Reese had developed a bump on the bridge of her nose sort of like a bug bite. It went away and then it came back again. Then it seemed to be a bit better. I started to think I was seeing things. Then a week ago last Monday the whole bridge of her nose was swollen. But after she was up out of her crate for awhile it looked a little better and she wanted to play and seemed to feel fine. Then by the end of the night it seemed better. 

I thought she had gotten bit by something or run into something with her bone. She loves to hide her bones. She will hide it and rehide it and rehide it for days until finally she decides she is ready to chew and eat it (don't worry it is an edible bone). So she didn't get bones for a bit to see if that was it.

Then last Saturday she was laying in her crate in the living room snoozing and when she got up and came to see me she had bumps on her nose again. Not a bump but multiple bumps. They got bigger and bigger. By Sunday it was obvious that something more than a bug bite was going on. It didn't seem to itch too much but at one point she did scratch them and rip a couple open.

We went to the vet on Monday and he is not sure what it is. She is on an antibiotic and that seems to be helping. The sores are drying up and have scabbed over. She has about 6-8 of them. Her stomach doesn't care for the antibiotic too much but seems to be adjusting. At least I am able to get them down her and she has only managed to spit one back out. IF the antibiotic doesn't work or they come back again we will have to look at a biopsy. The skin scraping that was done on Monday didn't show anything so we are hoping that it is just some kind of bacterial infection.

Bella has tweaked her knee again and her luxating patella is acting up. So we are really working on her weightloss goals. If we can get some of her weight off it will help immensely. Reese ran into the den where Bella was tonight and got a little too close saying hello. Bella growled at her and Reese high-tailed it right out of there. I was very impressed, good Bella - you show her who is boss. Last weekend I picked up some quail for Bella and she really likes it so I am happy about that. Will have to get her some more so she has some variety with the rabbit, turkey and chicken.

Sophie is doing well - stealing time on her human's bed whenever Reese is not there. I came home from work and the feather toys were spread out in the living room so someone had obviously been playing. I did some clicker work with her and Bella a number of years ago and we worked on it again the other day. They both still remember so we will do a video soon.

Wordless Wednesday