{"id":8986,"date":"2013-09-05T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2018-05-03T08:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:22:50","slug":"my-cat-is-addicted-to-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/my-cat-is-addicted-to-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"My Cat is addicted to Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stoned-cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stoned-cat-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"stoned cat\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stoned-cat-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stoned-cat-946x1024.jpg 946w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stoned-cat.jpg 1721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a>It did not happen over night.\u00a0 Back when I first got Brandi, my orange fur ball, I did what most single guys do at the time.\u00a0 Go to the store and buy whatever dry cat food was on sale.\u00a0 She was not thrilled with it, but liked it well enough.\u00a0 And life was good.<\/p>\n<p>However, every now and again, I would forget to fill her food bowl.\u00a0 She would let me know this&#8230;. at 6:00am.\u00a0 She was pretty insistent that she got her food.\u00a0 If not, I would sometimes find gifts around the house that used to be food.\u00a0 I fixed this quick enough by getting an auto feeder.\u00a0 Life was good again.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day I was talking to a Vet and she told me that I was basically giving her McDonald&#8217;s every day, thus her weight problem.\u00a0 I needed to move her to better quality food targeted to overweight cats.\u00a0 When I first bought it, she did not like it AT ALL.\u00a0\u00a0 So I bought what seemed like still healthy but not weight-loss food.\u00a0 She likes that, so when I put the weight-loss food in, its her &#8216;disappointment&#8217; food; called that because of her reaction when she sniffs it.\u00a0 Then I put a little &#8216;favorite&#8217; dry in and she is happy.\u00a0 So as long as she gets some of the favorite food, then she can eat the disappointment food when she is really hungry.\u00a0 Life was good again.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day, I was talking to another Vet, and doing some research online and found out that older cats need wet food, and a dry food only diet was not great for cats of any age.\u00a0 So as a single guy I bought wet food that was on sale as a compliment to the dry diet.<\/p>\n<p>And then things went bad.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that some brand of wet food is just as bad or worse then McDonalds because its FAR more addicting!\u00a0 Yes my cat LOVES wet food.\u00a0 So much so that she is no longer thrilled to get the favorite food, no, that was just a gateway drug to the Crack wet food.\u00a0 And she has to have it.\u00a0 The big mistake was we started feeding her wet food in the morning.\u00a0 Then for a few weeks I had to get up really early in the morning, so I feed her then.\u00a0 Now, as soon as the sun starts to rise, the demon cravings kicks in.\u00a0 She HAS to have her wet good fix!\u00a0 And after lots of meowing, if I do not get up, she needs to make a point.\u00a0 Peeing on the shower mat is her first go to.\u00a0 Then perhaps dropping little post food gifts on the floor.\u00a0 One time peeing in my girlfriends slipper. And JUST INSIDE the slipper.\u00a0 Pretty skilled if you ask me. For whatever reason, she blames my girlfriend for holding out on her.\u00a0 Could still be jealous of the &#8216;new woman&#8217; in my life.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m a slave to my Crack based wet food addicted cat.\u00a0 I have to get up early in the morning, even on the weekends to give her her fix or else she will make me pay.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to buy healthy wet food and introduce that in the morning and give her a little bit of crack at night.\u00a0 Hopefully, she will start to focus on wanting her fix at night, which is much easier to deal with, then at 6:00am.\u00a0 Well see.<\/p>\n<p>So a word of warning.. Be careful, DO NOT let your cat become a wet food crack head. 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