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Cat owners are a special kind of people

I have thought for a long time that animators (what I want to be) are a special kind of people. It takes a real masochist to enjoy animation because it’s tedious, it’s frustrating, people won’t hesitate to tell you when you’ve done something wrong; it can be embarrassing acting out the stuff you have to animate, and this is something you’re prepared to devote the rest of your career-oriented life…

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Kismet fetching

Another video of Kismet getting some exercise, but now she fetches!

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Exercising Kismet This is pretty much what it looks like to play with Kismet several times a day!

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Review: Nature's Variety Duck Bites

Review: Nature’s Variety Duck Bites

Once in a while I’ll go into my local pet store and see that some freezer items are on sale. I figure even if they’re closing in on their “best before” date, they’re still frozen so if I can get a bargain on what is often a very expensive diet to feed, I’ll take it. I saw the duck bite sample sizes were on sale and grabbed a bag. I know my cats like cooked duck, but the raw is quite a bit…

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Amore Pet Foods - Kismet & Mo's opinions

Mo will eat pretty much anything. We cannot go wrong with food for him. The only time we did was with a very metallic smelling can of tuna (cat food, not human grade) that I was gifted. Kismet on the other hand is relatively finicky. She vastly prefers kibble and raw chicken or beef (tried lamb and duck, was a bit of a bust), and will eat wet if we tempt her just the right way or hide raw in it.…

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Commercial raw brand - Amore

While searching for samples of raw food I could try with the cats this summer, I stumbled upon this hidden gem. They carry dehydrated food and ground/frozen food. I found them when I was looking for commercial raw, but they send out samples and I just received mine today. Apparently they are only available in Canada – the company is based in British Columbia. Website says they are 90% meat, and…

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Budgeting...

So last month I actually ran the numbers. I work very few hours each week at a job that tends to not pay well (at all, but better than rock bottom), so I end up with about $190 minus the taxes they take off for the entire month. I don’t need to say my rent is substantially more expensive than that – almost 7 times more expensive than that – and then there’s food, transit, gas, school supplies,…

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Ambushed!

Whenever Kismet wanders into the bird room, I usually take advantage of it now to clip her little harness on so she can get used to it. When it gets warm next year, I would like to be able to take her out on the balcony with me, and on trips I would like the added security of having her harnessed. It would also help if she wants to hang out with me in the bird room and I have to turn away once in…

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Mr. Bean, anyone? Thought I would share this piece I did for school, my first full 3D sculpt of a celebrity face.

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New litter boxes!

When I was sick last month, I tasked The Vegetarian with cleaning the cat litter for one day. He didn’t think to top it up, and tired of dealing with the nasty (picture below) litter box he got for Mo when he got Mo ten years ago, along with Kismet starting to pee higher and higher on the walls to the point of squirting up and out of the taller litterbox onto cardboard storage boxes behind it, I…

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DIY cat scratcher replacement: complete!

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the posts have been slowing down a lot – partly because I had been ill, and partly because I’ve been inundated with homework since school picked up at the beginning of September, along with working part time and having other responsibilities like the pets and occasionally feeding myself. Autumn and winter are also more frequent for family get togethers with my…

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Clicker training I haven't done this lately, but I would love to get back into it. Kiwi, one of my first lovebirds, and probably the bird who was most keen on people-pleasing was a great clicker trainer.

Cupid and her bells

All the birds do this to some degree, but Cupid seems to LOVE bells more than the others. She could do this for minutes straight all day. I love it! She gets at least one dangling bell in her cage every week so she can occupy herself with it.

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When I grow up, I want to be tall

A classmate of mine and I Skyped while she was back home in China and she got me a gift and helped me place an online order that would have been 8 times more expensive had I ordered from Canada. About $8.50 there, about $70 here.

Well, we were able to meet up yesterday and she’s been asking me for pictures. This is probably what I’ll look like whenever I’m home in the colder seasons. It’s SUPER…

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Excitable lovies

This sound is by far my favourite sound that lovebirds make, but it’s part of their mating vocalizations so I tend to not encourage it… but man, is it cute!

My beloved Kiwiball.

Tweety bum.

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Cats in the sun

The Vegetarian always complains having the blackout curtains open makes the apartment too hot – I personally think it’s fine. But did you know cats have a regular body temperature of 99.5°-102.5° Fahrenheit (37.5°C-39.2°C)? It’s no wonder they can always sun themselves and crawl under the covers on hot nights. I love opening the curtains for them because they really do seem to enjoy sunning…

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Territorial

Kismet has since warmed up to both humans in the home, so she’ll follow both of us around at times. Her second safe room was the bathroom, so we praised her a lot when she left the original safe room, our bedroom. Kismet is a cat who loves her belly rubs so she got a lot whenever she went into the bathroom, and eventually she started associating the bath mat as her belly rub spot. Sometimes…

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