My little watchdog

When she grows up, Honey will be an awesome watch dog.  Now, however, she is like any little kid and is afraid of the dark.  I have almost floor to ceiling windows in the dining room.  I keep the blinds up about a foot so the cats can sit in the windows in the sunshine.  Well, the other morning around 4am, I was awakened by Honey's furious barking.  It was a threatening bark.  I levitated about 3 feet, shot across the bed and grabbed the shotgun.  I tore through the house to the dining room and Honey was defending us from that dog barking back at her in the window.  She could see this because I keep a night light on in the kitchen and it reflects into the dining room.  Honey just knew that there was a dog in her back yard and she was gonna let the world know.  Well, no use going back to bed as the adrenaline was pumping, so I stayed up and did some sewing.  Needless to say, I now lower those blinds all the was.  I was so proud of her.  The hair was standing up on her back and she meant business.  Of course, she was glad when her momma came to her rescue.  The other dogs didn't move.

Pet Food

My cats, as I have said, before, are all seniors, well ancient.  All are 15 and 16 years old.  I have tried almost every food out there.  They liked the Royal Canin but threw it up.  Same with Blue Buffalo, ProPlan, Purina One, and Nutro just plain made them sick.  So I had been using Iams Indoor food.  It was so-so and they really didn't like it.  Plus Van threw it constantly.  I added wet food.  It helped, but he still threw it up.  So I finally tried the Purina Beyond.  It has been fantastic.  No body has thrown it up.  They seem to digest it well.  I feed them that and add two cans a day of Purina Indoor wet food.  I am loving it.  I keep it in the fridge because it has no preservatives in it and one lady told me that by the time she got down near the bottom, she was getting bugs in it.  So in the fridge it goes.  And I only buy the 3 pound bags. 

Honey

Honey has decided she is a big girl and wants to eat what the other dogs eat.  The trouble is that the other dogs are seniors and Honey is still a baby.  So I cheat.  I give her some of what they eat along with her puppy food mixed with wet food twice a day and I leave her about 1 1/2 cups dry out during the day.  She is not a big eater and she likes to snack.  She is real picky also. 
I was making their food.  Well, I bought ground turkey and I got bad turkey.  It made all of them sick.  Back to Purina.  And they seem really healthy on it.  I am using the Purina True Instinct with turkey and venison.  I have checked the ingredients list and it looks as good as the higher priced ones and to date none have gotten sick with Purina.  I also use Purina One canned dog food and Friskies canned cat food.  Of course they get extras like apples, carrots and green beans.  Honey has already learned to love carrots.  Not great on apples yet, but she tries.  She is the sweetist dog.  When she looks at you, she cocks her head like "What?" She is a far cry from what she was when I found her.

My 15 year old kitties

 This is Sally on my pillow.  She is blind and 6 months older than her boys.  She navigates the house with no problem and even goes out in the back yard with me.  She sleeps on the pillow.  I do not. 

These two are Spats and Picasso.  Spats is the one in my briefcase.  He made himself comfortable.  The other one is Picasso.  Picasso had gotten up to 19 pounds.  I have gotten a lot of the weight off him.  I went to an Iams indoor and hairball control dry food and I give them two cans of wet food per day.  That is two among all 4.  Sometimes they want more wet food.  At this stage I pretty much just cater to them.  They are my babies.  There are no knick-knacks sitting on any flat surfaces because Spats knocks them off to watch them fall and break.  I have no plants in the house either.  I am at present growing basil and cat grass for them.  That is the only type of plants I ever have in the house.  I tried growing my herbs in the house.  Yeah, they really enjoyed those.  Love my kitties.