Welp, I know what I’ll be having nightmares about later.
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Decades ago we had an office Goldfish named magic Ralph. He appeared to have gone belly up; we launched him to the Other World via the usual watery transport. My God! What if he survived… and thrived. Ralph! Forgive me!
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John Waters was wonderful, as to be expected. Catching up on internet readings this morning I was reminded of a hilarious reference he made about two turds in a punch bowl.
What a great evening 
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Thanks for the gift link. Hopefully she learns something during her (too brief) stint as a FF worker. Maybe not, though.
I’m kind of hoping she ends up reporting back to the judge that she keeps getting serially hired, then fired, as the store managers figure out who she is.
Then she’ll have to serve the full assault sentence.
And now it’s over $10K. I’m kind of surprised it’s not higher given it was linked in the WaPo story - I mean just due to the breadth of distribution of WaPo vs, e.g., local Cleveland outlets.
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This thing.
My remaining dog always ate so fast that he’d choke himself and be in danger of throwing up. We tried the weighted stainless ball in the food bowl, but that didn’t slow him down much. So we ended up getting the type of bowl with the 3 large finger-like projections coming up off the bottom. That did slow him down.
This thing has a whole `nuther dimension to it. My daughter got it for her large breed puppy she just adopted (he’s about 6 mos old). She had to stand there and take his bowl away (we gave her an extra of the finger projection type) about every 30 seconds, pausing for 30, then returning the bowl for another 30 until he got through the whole 1.5 cups. Time consuming but at least he’s not sensitive to people messing with him while he eats.
But this mat is about 20 inches diameter with maybe a couple hundred of the felted material flaps. She pours his kibble on it and then stirs it around getting it sifted down under the flaps. Takes him almost 10 minutes to root it all out. No vomiting.
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That’s a good idea! We have this for our cat - it might not work as well as the mat, but it’s easier to clean.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TCK38WZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
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It appears we now have a cat in the backyard in addition to the birds, rabbits and occasional turkey buzzard. I don’t know if he/she is a stray or belongs to a neighbor, but this cat was intently watching the gambel quails walk by the seed platform. I tried to get close enough to check for a collar, but he/she ran away.
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Does the pet need to be fed in just one feeding or can that be broken into 2 or 3 meals?
I used to pet sit for a German shepherd and the poor thing would wolf down his gravy train and alpo to the point of ralphing up everything, but only when his people were away. I called my vet as to ‘what to do’? I was advised to divide the meals into 3 or 4 servings across the day. It worked!
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Kitty is hungry!
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Well, I did put out some carrot peelings from a soup I made, perhaps kitty can share them with the rabbits. Can you turn a cat into a vegetarian??
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He gets 3 cups divided as 2 meals, a.m. and p.m. So she’s able to grab her shower in the morning while he eats, then gets dressed quickly and runs him out to potty, and get a good walk in before she goes to work. She could potentially break the evening meal down into a couple of sittings, but this mat is working pretty well for her. He seems to be a pretty smart pup some ways, so I’m wondering how long it might take him to get the notion to pick up the mat and shake it, then gobble up all the food that comes out.
He was either stray up until he was nabbed by the coppers (he’s estimated to be 6-7 months old), or was kept outdoors, but in any event was never potty trained. So she takes him out right after breakfast (6 a.m., including weekends), as soon as she gets home, then again right after his dinner, and again before bed time. He’s taking well to his crate and has never had an accident in there.
And his accidents are getting fewer, and farther between. But he still hasn’t learned to go stand by the door when he feels the urge.
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I looked up this recipe because Steve from DC left a bunch of great sounding dishes he’d had on a recent trip to Miami:
Here’s the thing about the NYT recipe - it says in the description “a fat roast of beef”, so I’m thinking something along the lines of chuck, but then it calls for a 4 pound beef round roast.
So far as I know, round is among the leaner of beef roasts.
Wondering if the author meant “fat” as in “large” rather than “fat” as in, well, a roast with a fair bit of fat?
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There are commercial vegatarian cats foods out there but what’s the use if your cat is an outdoor cat? Your new cat is doing what cats do, hunt. Ours eats voles and grandpa mice. He’s not a bird man which I’m sure our card-carrying-Audubon-member neighbor would be happy to hear (if he’d just shut his trap for a minute and let me explain about my cat’s dietary choices.)
Yes, he/she appears to be an outdoor cat and yes I think he/she was hunting (gambel’s quails). There is adequate cover (in the backyard) for the quails and rabbits, but if they aren’t careful… well that is the food chain.
I didn’t see him/her today… perhaps this cat is hunting in another backyard.
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We have had a few ‘roamers’ on the hunting circuit around here. We don’t go for the phoney cat stories anymore.
A cursory look through other Asado Negro recipes also call for eye of round, so likely “fat” as in size, not fat content!
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Keep up the good work, dad!
