This page is a mixture of items that we have referred to many times in our Cattery, and hope may be of interest.

Recipes

Glop

This well-known Recipe is useful as a convalescent diet, for weaning kittens, for lactating queens, or just for that occasion when your cat is having a fussy food day.

 Combine Mixture to cooled Gelatin and place in the refrigerator where it can be kept for 7 days. The mixture will gel as it cools and can be scooped out as required. Warm slightly in microwave before feeding. Do not return reheated mixture into main supply. Mixture can also be poured into an ice-cube tray and frozen until needed.

Mum's Casserole

Although our cats free-graze all day on Premium cat biscuits such as ProPlan Total Care Kitten, Royal Canin Kitten, Science Diet Kitten and Advance Adult biscuits we also offer high-quality tinned cat food as well as snacks such as fish, Tuna in Spring Water, grated cheese, fresh steak mince and raw beef or veal.  After much experimentation, I have finally come up with a mixture of my own that everyone of my cats and kittens love, and lick their plates clean.  

Keep in mind that these portions are enough to feed my cats for one evening meal.  It can easily be made in either smaller portions or frozen in individual meal sizes.

HINTS AND TIPS

Identifying Kittens

If you have two similar kittens in a litter and need to identify a particular one that has been sold, paint one or two of its toenails with a coloured nail varnish.  Remember to inform the new owner that you have done this, just in case the kitten is entered in a show before it wears off!

Hair Dryer

To avoid upset at bath-time, get your cat used to the sound of the hairdryer by having the cat sit with you in the bathroom, turn on the dryer and use the hot air to chase a table-tennis ball or piece of paper around the floor.

Sore Eye

Place one teabag in half a cup of boiling water and allow to cool.  Bathe the eye gently with cotton wool.  Repeat as necessary.  If the condition persists or shows signs of infection, consult your Veterinary Surgeon immediately.

Diarrhoea

Mix Slippery Elm with wet cat food daily.  Again, check with your Veterinary Surgeon if condition persists more than 24 hours.

 RAINBOW BRIDGE

 Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.  There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.  There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.

The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance.

His bright eyes are intent; his eager body quivers.

Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.

The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….

Author unknown.