So we are taking care of three cats. One full inside fat diabetic cat Named Odie, one inside / outside cat who is sort of gray with white paws also a white tiny mustache, who is named Tupac. Then there is the totally feral untrusting outside cat we all call Smokey.
We feed the inside cat three times a day as he wants with wet food. At night we leave him with what ever wet food he did not eat to finish.
Tupac we feed as many times as he wants when he is in the house, he is very tiny and slim, we give him drops but if we miss them for a few days he starts to spot on stuff. Often Tupac will come in and go straight to the bedroom rather than eat. But he tends to spend most days inside with us, and nights unless it is really cold, outside with smokey.
Smokey seems to be a nearly feral female who distrusts most people or close quarters. She has gotten to trust Ron and I enough to come with in a foot or so of our legs. She will respond to our voice and come very close to us as long as we make no sudden movement. She startles very easily. So she eats her food, both dry and wet, on in the family room Ron built out of the carport. The dance all these cats play is amazing to watch if you care for them.
So while Ron and I pay for the vet bills for Tupac and Odie we have not gotten Smokey into a carrier to do so. But to feed these three every time they demand food takes 90 cans of wet food plus a bunch of dry food.
While Ron was getting Meow Mix for the family room dish, inside we have been giving Odie Fancy feast and mixing both for Tupac. But today Ron came home and said he got two bags of food made by the companies that make the treaties we give the cats. Temptations.
I looked at the ingredients and stuff and it seems OK to me, but both / two bags were about the same amount we paid for one of the bags of Fancy Feast. Hey if they eat it I am OK with that.
So here is the real point of the post. We go through about 3 cans a day which means is 90 a month. Depending on how many days in the month or when we order, we sometimes order two of the 90 cans a month. Each order costs us $78.74. We get 
So, to the point of the post. Are you not glad I am finally getting to it? When the cases come in we have to wait until the old cans are gone and then do the “CAT FOOD CAN SHUFFLE” Ron prefers to put it off until I do it. Below is the pictures of the cat food can shuffle. Hugs. Scottie
This is the place we store the cans and where after the shuffle they go.
First I have to open each of the three boxes of 30 cans each and put them on the counter.
Then I start shuffling them. This is the part Ron hates and why he leaves it to me. If you look at the first pictures you will see the cans well mixed, so the cats don’t get the same can of food at any two feedings. I would get bored if every meal was the same as the last. Ron will keep opening cans until he finds something the cats like and will eat. So below is the rest of the photos. Hugs. Scottie
Scottie's Playtime 
I hope Ron feels better soon.
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Hi Suze. Thank you. He had that dang infection come back. I have to find a way to make him deal with that tooth. Otherwise it will be a reoccurring thing that will only get worse. Hugs. Scottie
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I hope Ron feels better soon, too.
It seems like a lot of work to put away the canned food, but we each have to organize the way we need, to best get the work done.
Off topic, I sent you an email with a nice story. I also sent you one a couple of days ago, then never did write here that I sent it. Have a great rest of your weekend, and here’s to Ron recovering well!
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Hi Ali. It is the same issues we have been dealing with that he won’t deal with. His tooth got reinfected as I wrote, so he needed to go to convenient care. But also to be fair we both have been down emotionally. The cold gets to both of us with our illnesses, bone issues, syndromes … etc. Our pain levels go up, our emotions go down. We just have to deal.
To the cat food. We spend a lot on both wet and dry food. All cats have as much dry as they want to eat … with the caveat we have to leave the door open for smokey to come in that far. We tried leaving the dish outside, which she loved, but so did the many raccoons, possums (which are horribly ugly creatures), and during the day crows. The crows were the worst because they made a lot of noise and shit on everything, including the dishes if they were empty.
So we moved to feeding them, mostly Smokey, inside the family room. Tupac and Odie already took most of their meals inside the main house. But here is something interesting. Several times we have caught smokey coming up to the doors into the main house only to turn back when she sees us looking. This spring when it is warm enough to leave the doors open I wonder if she will come in all the way. Hey I have known people who have made family cats of feral untrusting strays. It could happen. But I do not need more vet bills.
OK, later I will look into the emails. Ali the last month when I couldn’t deal with stuff, I let an entire month of comments and blogs just build up. I really have to try somehow to either deal with them or admit I need to let them go unread / answered. That is something I have a real issue with. I have been thinking that maybe I need to set my alarm and get up at 2 AM and just work on getting the backlog caught up. Ron is worried if I do that (I am needed about 12 hours bedtime each day, or I get more ill) my health will fail more. He and I are at odds at how much time I spend on this, he would prefer more movie watching and X-box game playing and less stressing over the news.
Thanks again Ali. I will check out the email you sent later, as I am on a roll getting comments replied to right now. Your emails / links are always interesting, informative, and welcome. Thank you for sending emails and the links in your comments.
Hugs and best wishes. Scottie
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Possums can be ugly-they make themselves so to scare off predators. They also eat ticks. I learned that on Big Bad Bald Bastard’s blog a few years ago.
Let the backlog go. Cheers to your health, Scottie! More movies and XBox, less awful news. I read such a nice piece about letting things go, how even if it’s only good for oneself, that’s to the greater good, too. I’d have forwarded it to you, but it’s religious. It’s permeated with religion, I mean, not simply religious. I think it’d be distracting to you, rather than the idea that more things that feed the soul, fewer things that eat it.
The things I sent, if I recall correctly, you will enjoy. I tried for pertinent but good.
OK. Make sauce, and Play On.
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Hi Ali. And on that you get the last word. Night. Hugs. Scottie
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