and so the days go on...

and the raw food diet continues... 


i ran out of wet food. 


i honestly keep it around for "treats" anyways. i'm weird. i just find a wet food diet to be strange, and i've always fed kisa dry food with the occasional wet food special treat maybe once or twice a month. so since i ran of out wet, i could obviously go get more, but i want to ween her completely off her normal diet and just do the raw diet. 


so yesterday and today i mixed it up with a tiny bit of dry food and she's been eating it without hesitation. maybe tomorrow i'll be brave enough to just put out the plain old raw food. or maybe she'll be brave enough i mean. 


:) we'll see. 

raw food diet day 2

i decided to just put more wet food now with the raw food(about half n half). she is a little hesitant at first, but realizes she's hungry a few minutes later and eats it up. i think it's because she has no dry food just sitting around for her to eat whenever she wants. it's working guys! (even though i feel a tad guilty) i wonder what the long term affects will be.

raw food diet day 1

alright i'm going to start with saying, really? it's hard enough to find a wide array of people on a raw food diet, but your animals? a few months ago my dad's dog was diagnosed with heartworm and he heard from his holistic vet that putting the dog on a raw food diet could help. this really pumps up their immune system drastically. so why not cats? maybe they'll live till 20...


as soon as i got kisa at 3 months old she has been fed holistic natural food. (gluten free, no wheat, no corn, no soy, no meat by products) and i don't care about spending $25 dollars on a bag of food every month. she's important to me so therefore she should be fed well.


how weird is it that animals can handle raw meats but humans can't? i just find it strange...


here's a good article to read about it:

Is Raw Meat Safe?

Cats' digestive systems are finely tuned to handle things humans can't. Their stomachs have a highly acidic environment, which is an excellent deterrent to ingested bacteria. In the wild, cats sometimes eat some pretty putrid stuff with no ill effects. Wild cats die more often from infection due to injuries than from food poisoning. However, there are steps you can take if you have concerns about salmonella, e coli, or other bacteria. 

• Avoid packaged supermarket ground beef
• Buy "free-range" meat and poultry from a trusted butcher
• Add priobiotics (which help maintain intestinal health) to your raw food mix
• Always use safe handling procedures, and take up and dispose of uneaten food within 30 minutes

read more here.


the other day, my brother eruch said he was going to pick up raw food from fiesta pet deli  for his dogs and cats and asked me if i wanted some... sure, why not? let's see how kisa likes it.


it comes frozen and should be kept frozen except for the portion you feed for the present day and the following day. the mixture i got was of beef and chicken(with neck, liver, etc) eruch told me to slowly introduce it by mixing a little wet food in with the raw meat.


disclaimer:  don't take too much advice from me, this is all very new to me. so do your research if you're interested in feeding you pets a raw diet :)


day 1:


no dice. i mixed about 2 tablespoons of wet food with the raw meat and kisa sniffed it a few times and walked away. i've caught her several times up on the kitchen counter eating leaves off of my flowers instead.


she's also been incredibly loving because... she wants to be fed REAL FOOD. 


now we're fighting.


be back soon with more updates! let' see how this process goes.

happy birthday

happy birthday(on april 27th) to my beautiful creature friend. you're 5 now :) and a little fat, but that's okay. i still love you.

kisa that cat

kisa photoshoot as follows:

KISSES!

oxoxxoxoxo forever. 

kisa obsession.

I CAPTURED THIS. and i can't stop looking at it. she is my favorite kitty in the world. and i have special reasons for it. i WISH you knew her like i did. i love you keeeeeeyyyyy-suhhhh

florida life in comparison slash father's day thoughts

first and foremost lemme mention how happy i am to have kisa back in my life. she's still getting used to the new apartment(as are we), but i know she'll adjust. she's so adorable... even though she sometimes hisses when we give her too much attention. i love when she crawls out from under the bed(her favorite sleeping spot) and jumps up onto our bed at 4am to get some love. it's quite annoying, but so special. :) welcome home lil girl. i love you!

it's so different living back in florida. i constantly miss prague and think about waiting for trams and eating pickled cheese. i really miss the few friends i made and my young students kissing me all over my arms. little julius. dammit. and ferdo. fando. frantyskoo. among other nicknames. (czech nicknames are so friggen weird.)

yesterday i gave 5 massages. it proved to be tough for me, but i pulled through. my wrists are a little sore. sometimes i wonder if my hands are growing cause they look so big. if i had health insurance i'd go get xrays... but alas, my health insurance lives in prague. that's pretty messed up that i had insurance in a foreign country rather than the country i am from.

i slept in this morning. i could tell that i needed it. now i am enjoying a big cup of french press kenyan coffee from starbucks that erick so graciously handed over to matty and i. i can tell this bag will not last long. i have to work today... i am not a happy sunday worker, but before that happens i am going to enjoy this morning sitting in my little cozy living room.

so, it's fathers day and it's been haunting me for days. i haven't really been on a talking/seeing basis with my dad. i saw him the day after we got back from prague(just over 3 weeks ago), and then spoke to him once on the phone a week after that. i'm not a big fan at the moment. drama drama drama. it doesn't feel good. at all. i don't really want to go into it, but one thing i can say is.... he never contacted me for my birthday nor christmas while i was in prague.... no cards, nothing. and while i was abroad, he emailed my brother and mentioned randomly "i am not going to support your sister while she's on vacation." that's what he thinks of me. no support, and i'm not even talking about money. and that kind of sucks. but anyway, that's that. hopefully time will heal all wounds. i just sometimes wish for someone that was better.

it's strange how i didn't really expound upon why florida life is different in comparison to prague. oh well... some other time.

some things i am excited about that are completely and utterly up in the air:

-trip to the keys with matt's family
-trip to see my sister in colorado at the end of the summer or early fall
-trip with my mom to baltimore in july to honor my grandmother after 6 months passing