Muffin pt 5 - Muffin loves Mario

So Mario has a tendency to (sorry Mario, but it's true) be a little too friendly with kitties and forces his affection upon them usually 'til they hate him. He has been doing this to Muffin every time he sees her, and calling her "Cookie" (though I think he might actually genuinely believe that's her name). SHE. LOVES. HIM.When he approaches her at first, she does her usual hiss hiss rigidbody thing and backs herself into the wall as much as she can and flattens her ears and all that other regular madkitty stuff, but then he starts scratching her back. And she starts kneading. And then her eyes close, and her ears come back up... and tonight she even PURRED! Only for about 3 seconds, but she...

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Muffin pt 4 - Days 4-6

So here's a photographic summary of Muffin's first 4 days in my studio:She was barely detectable on day 1...She was still barely detectable on day 2, but she made friends with a LADYBUG!And then she ATE and DRANK! And then I started finding kitty debris all over the place... so she must have been around cleaning herself and lying on things!! I imagine she started rolling at some point on the carpeted scratch post... I bet it felt WONDERFUL for a kitty who's been semi-matted from lack of personal hygiene for the last... well, who knows how long she's been that way?! In the last two days, Muffin has really been doing well! She now realizes that when I go into the studio I'm not going to touch...

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But Sara, I feed my dog ULTRA PREMIUM PurinAWFUL/BeneFULLOCRAP! And my cat gets complete and balanced WhiskASS!

So I'm taking some time this afternoon/evening to do just a LITTLE more reading on a topic I never seem to get bored 0f: pet food. I know, I know - boring, boring stuff. And it is, in a sense, but it's also IMPORTANT if you have pets!!!! First things first: the AAFCO is the Association of American Feed Control Officials, and is the group that deems pet foods "nutritionally complete and balanced", which truly means nothing, 'cause they don't seem to actually know anything about pet nutrition whatsoever. Let's start with some common ingredients found in commercial cat and dog foods (taken from www.dogfoodproject.com):Meat"Meat is the clean flesh derived from slaughtered mammals and is limited...

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