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Thanksgiving with your cat – pumpkin!
Share Thanksgiving with your cat –
If you’re like me, you’ll want to celebrate Thanksgiving with ALL your family members, which of course includes our cats. Thanksgiving menus have many traditional dishes, pumpkin pie is a favorite – yum! (especially with vanilla ice cream). We like it and so do some cats. That’s good because pumpkin is healthy for cats, so you can have Thanksgiving with your cat – pumpkin!
Did you know that pumpkin contains several nutrients? If your cat has a reasonable, well-balanced diet, most cats won’t need additional supplements, but as part of a healthy diet, according to foundanimals.org pumpkin has
- Vitamin A makes for a good immune system and vision
- Vitamin E is an antioxidant and helps regulate enzyme activity
- Lutein keeps eyes, skin and fur healthy
- Vitamin C also helps with enzyme reactions and collagen synthesis
- Alpha carotene is another antioxidant that helps keep cells healthy
- Calcium keeps bones and teeth nice and strong
- Iron is important for oxidation, cellular respiration and hemoglobin production.
photo by shari smith dunaif © 2018
Pumpkin can also be used medicinally for your cat: if you notice that your cat is constipated, do what some veterinarians suggest, feed them pumpkin. It’s effective due to the fiber and moisture contained in pumpkin. Pumpkin can even aid with hair balls because the fiber helps move the fur through the cat’s intestines. They just poop it out instead of throwing it up, which always seems really unpleasant for my cats when they do that heaving cough.
How to serve pumpkin to your cat
Get canned pumpkin with no additives: no spices, no added sugar, nothing. Don’t get pumpkin pie filling, get just plain, pure canned pumpkin. Add a teaspoon or two to their regular wet food dinners. I’d start with teaspoon, if they like it, next time try two teaspoons.
photo by shari smith dunaif © 2018
Don’t let them eat the stem or the rind. Don’t feed them the mushy stuff inside or any raw pumpkin, it’s too strong for them to digest. Probably like us. If you have an actual pumpkin, as long as it’s fresh, you can bake the pumpkin flesh until it’s soft, then let it cool before you give it to your cat.
So share Thanksgiving with your cat with pumpkin, just skip the ice cream. At least for your cat.
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dangers of gift wrapping for cats
cats love gift wrapping
The holidays are fun for all! Which means, of course, cats love it too. Maybe they get toys for Christmas, or treats on Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. Gifts are a big part of how we celebrate most holidays this time of year – gifts that have to be wrapped. So when you take out the rolls of wrapping paper and ribbons, keep an eye on your cat. If you notice your cat too interested in the ribbon – get it away from your cat! 
Ribbon, string or anything similar, even rubber bands, for that matter, could be dangerous for your cat if they ingest it. So wrap your gifts, play with your cat, but keep them safe and make sure ribbon that they play with doesn’t get chewed on and swallowed.
Christmas eve or Christmas Day, whenever you and your family unwrap your gifts, that is also when you must watch your cat playing and possibly chewing and eating discarded ribbons.
Happy holidays to all two and four footed creatures!
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thanksgiving foods you can share with your cat
sharing Thanksgivings dinner with my cat
I am thankful for many things, including my cats. So, while I partake in our family Thanksgiving feast, I’d love to share it with my cats. But what is safe for them?
Foods that are definitely NOT safe for our cats are
- processed foods
- dishes that have onions, garlic, chives or leeks
- bread and bread products
- butter
- dishes with raisins and grapes
- sugary foods, like yams with marshmallows
- all desserts
So what’s left?
- roasted turkey: I rinse the meat to make sure there is nothing but plain turkey meat. Remove any bones. It provides high quality protein.
- apples: provide fiber, vitamin C. and antioxidants. However, be very CAREFUL that your cat never eats the core or apple seeds. The seeds contain cyanide, which is very BAD for your cat.
- cooked carrots: high in fiber and vitamins. Raw carrots are hard for cats to digest.
- broccoli: contains healthy fiber, rich in beneficial nutrients like potassium, calcium, protein and vitamin C; has anti-inflammatory properties; supports eye and heart health
- sweet potatoes are rich in beta carotene and antioxidants, and high in vitamins A and C. Sweet potatoes with purple flesh have potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that may lower the risk from heavy metals and oxygen radicals.
- green beans are a source of vitamins A, C and K. They also provide calcium, copper, fiber, folic acid, iron, niacin, manganese, potassium, riboflavin and thiamin, as well as beta carotene.
- spinach: anti-inflammatory properties and supports heart health.
- pumpkin : a great source of fiber, vitamin A and antioxidants. Can help both diarrhea and constipation. Make sure to feed your pet either fresh pumpkin or 100 percent canned pumpkin — not pumpkin pie filling.
We suggest a small amount of safe human food mixed with your cat’s regular food; just make sure that it doesn’t contain sugar, spices, salt or butter. Finally, avoid offering food from your plate at the table, because even cats can become “beggars”.
happy Thanksgiving to all! ?
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Christmas cat sings Rocking ‘Round the Christmas Tree
Sing and and dance with rocking Christmas kitty cat
Rocking ’round the Christmas tree with this singing Christmas cat! We keep playing with this fabulous Christmas card – Christmas cat sings, meows and dances – well, more like shaking than dancing, but Christmas cat moves!
A fun way to share a merry Christmas –
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, to all humans and kitty cats, oh OK, we love dogs too!
