What's on your mind?

[Dead1]

7 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

The game is adapted slightly, we use a hard plastic ball filled with ball bearings so you hear it coming. 

That is really cool.  How do you score runs?  Do you still run up and down the pitch?

[RelentlessOblivion]

2 hours ago, Dead1 said:

That is really cool.  How do you score runs?  Do you still run up and down the pitch?

Yeah still run, there are sight classifications so I get a runner, and the ball has to bounce twice before the batsman.

[Dead1]

 

43 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Yeah still run, there are sight classifications so I get a runner, and the ball has to bounce twice before the batsman.

Cheers for the explanation.  It's a great bit of innovation to enable people with visual impairment participate in a sport like this.

[AlSymerz]

What day are you on the ground @RelentlessOblivion I think the tests are televised I'll try and catch it.

[RelentlessOblivion]

day 2 tea break so Thursday

[AlSymerz]

Tea break, that's at about 3pm local time if I remember correctly. I'll try to catch it.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Adelaide is the day/night test so tea is at around seven local time. Think that’s 7:30 Victorian time

[AlSymerz]

Oh ok, ta I'll be sure to check it our and see if they put anything other that boring chit chat on.

[Thatguy]

4 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Adelaide is the day/night test so tea is at around seven local time. Think that’s 7:30 Victorian time

Wear an obnoxious metal shirt so if the camera catches you we'll know its you.

[AlSymerz]

How could we miss him? He's the blind guy!

[RelentlessOblivion]

2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Wear an obnoxious metal shirt so if the camera catches you we'll know its you.

No can do, club uniform only

[markm]

All right cat people, our two young cats eat out of each other's bowls. My wife has given up and-basically they're her cats. My thing is, we've got a 2 year old and a 6 month old on kitten food. I don't really want the older cat eating the higher calorie kitten food. Wife says, after talking to her cat resources, it's pointless, they're not dogs and won't respond to correction like dog would. I've tried but it kinda feels like a loosing battle. She'll respond to my voice if I'm there, and shrink down waiting for me to let my guard down. I've tried the spray bottle thing. Wife says, that will make her fear me and won't correct the behavior. Don't want that.  I'll pick up kitten and move her and praise her when she eats her food. She's like, whateves dude and and when I'm not looking sneaks into the older cat's food.  I think it's become a game of catch me if you can. Thoughts?

[FatherAlabaster]

@markm I don't think the 2 year old will suffer enormously from having a bit of kitten food. You can feed them in separate rooms (i.e. put the kitten in the bathroom at mealtime) and take the food away once they're done, if you're really worried about it. Your wife is right, they aren't like dogs, and the spray bottle is not the right tool for feeding issues.

BTW, moved to What's On Your Mind, as cat food in itself may not be metal enough for the other thread.

[markm]

7 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

@markm I don't think the 2 year old will suffer enormously from having a bit of kitten food. You can feed them in separate rooms (i.e. put the kitten in the bathroom at mealtime) and take the food away once they're done, if you're really worried about it. Your wife is right, they aren't like dogs, and the spray bottle is not the right tool for feeding issues.

BTW, moved to What's On Your Mind, as cat food in itself may not be metal enough for the other thread.

Good point, feeding cats is not very metal 😁

[FatherAlabaster]

3 minutes ago, markm said:

Good point, feeding cats is not very metal 😁

At least not kibble for housecats. Feeding meat to big cats can get pretty well into classic 90s death metal territory.

[markm]

Tiger King!

[SurgicalBrute]

1 hour ago, markm said:

All right cat people, our two young cats eat out of each other's bowls. My wife has given up and-basically they're her cats. My thing is, we've got a 2 year old and a 6 month old on kitten food. I don't really want the older cat eating the higher calorie kitten food. Wife says, after talking to her cat resources, it's pointless, they're not dogs and won't respond to correction like dog would. I've tried but it kinda feels like a loosing battle. She'll respond to my voice if I'm there, and shrink down waiting for me to let my guard down. I've tried the spray bottle thing. Wife says, that will make her fear me and won't correct the behavior. Don't want that.  I'll pick up kitten and move her and praise her when she eats her food. She's like, whateves dude and and when I'm not looking sneaks into the older cat's food.  I think it's become a game of catch me if you can. Thoughts?

The baby eating the older cats food isn't a huge deal...mine would do that all the time. As long as the weight is staying up where it should be, I wouldn't sweat it too much. Same with the older cat. It really only becomes an issue if that one is putting on a lot of extra weight.

My boys are a pain in the ass...The one likes to wander around, eat a little, then wander some more. The other eats his own food, and then will sneak over and grab his brothers portion. He started putting on more weight than he should carry, so now I have to keep the one guys food hidden while he wanders and pull it out when he comes over to my desk.

...Mark, one other thing, depending on whether your cats are boys or girls. If they're boy cats, make sure they're getting wet food in their diet...the kind with a lot of gravy. Cats aren't always the best at getting enough water in their diets, and it can cause bladder problems, especially in boys. My last guy had a lot of problems because of that

[markm]

1 hour ago, SurgicalBrute said:

The baby eating the older cats food isn't a huge deal...mine would do that all the time. As long as the weight is staying up where it should be, I wouldn't sweat it too much. Same with the older cat. It really only becomes an issue if that one is putting on a lot of extra weight.

My boys are a pain in the ass...The one likes to wander around, eat a little, then wander some more. The other eats his own food, and then will sneak over and grab his brothers portion. He started putting on more weight than he should carry, so now I have to keep the one guys food hidden while he wanders and pull it out when he comes over to my desk.

...Mark, one other thing, depending on whether your cats are boys or girls. If they're boy cats, make sure they're getting wet food in their diet...the kind with a lot of gravy. Cats aren't always the best at getting enough water in their diets, and it can cause bladder problems, especially in boys. My last guy had a lot of problems because of that

Ok, cool, that sounds important. They're girls but we them canned wet in the morning and evening.

Any opinions on the best wet food? We're using Sheba in gravy. In dogs they're seems to be a lot more marketing, maybe even research  in pricy natural foods with better ingredients than your typical Purina kind of fare with crap ingredients like corn and wheat. 

[SurgicalBrute]

46 minutes ago, markm said:

Ok, cool, that sounds important. They're girls but we them canned wet in the morning and evening.

Any opinions on the best wet food? We're using Sheba in gravy. In dogs they're seems to be a lot more marketing, maybe even research  in pricy natural foods with better ingredients than your typical Purina kind of fare with crap ingredients like corn and wheat. 

Some of the Purina brand wet food isn' too bad. It really just depends on what version you're getting. I've been giving mine the small cans of Fancy Feast..the kind with the gravy...which is surprisingly one of the better ones for helping to keep your cats hydrated. Wellness and Tiki Cat are some of the other ones i can think of...honestly, your best bet is to ask your vet if they have anything they'd recommend

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Even many of the more inexpensive brands have gotten the message and stopped putting all the grains and filler crap in the cat food. You just have to find one they like, cats can be finicky.

My cat has given up eating the dry food. For the first year we had her she'd eat whatever dry food I gave her, no problem. But then she started gettig picky. I've tired at least 5 or 6 different brands that she won't touch, until she started losing a lot of weight so then I just started giving her the wet food a few months ago out of desperation, and now that's all she gets. I probably feed her too much because every time I come downstairs to the kitchen she starts meowing and doing figure 8's around my ankles until I open a can for her. If the little cans are roughly 3oz then I guess she gets about 12oz a day, sometimes 15oz which I suspect is probably too much, since I don't think she even weighs 8 pounds. (I think I've read one ounce of food per day per pound of body weight is ideal) But then I figure fuck it let her eat, what else does she have to look forward to in life?

She won't come upstairs and hang out with us, she stops at the top step and won't come any further. I really think she sees the ceiling fans (even when they're not spinning) as birds of prey and gets scared. So the only time we even get to see her is when we go downstairs in the kitchen. But then all she does is meow non-stop, follow me around and walk under my feet so I have to stay aware and be nimble to avoid stepping on her. She won't stop until I put food in her bowl, so I do it just to shut her up.

And as Surge said, I give her Fancy Feast (and I keep a couple other brands on hand as well for variety, but the FF seems to be her favorite) and I just add a little extra water to it, even to the ones that come with 'gravy.' She doesn't get her hydration any other way than just from the wet food. She won't drink from a bowl, I had a little cat fountain she used to drink out of but then she just sort of stopped. Over the summer she was hopping up to drink directly from the kitchen faucet, but then she stopped doing that too when the weather cooled down. 

I only have the one cat so I don't have to worry about which cat is eating whose food, I just have to make sure I don't leave anything out on the floor overnight for the mice and rats to feast on when she's sleeping. She gets them if she's awake though, we get presents all the time in the morning, mice, rats, birds...she left a dead rat laying across my shoe one time, the kid thought it was the funniest thing ever.

[SurgicalBrute]

5 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I think I've read one ounce of food per day per pound of body weight is ideal

Basically...if you're cat is eating nothing but wet food, you want to give her one (small) can for every 3 pounds, based on her ideal body weight. If she's constantly bugging you for food, the best idea is to break it up into smaller meals...so maybe 1/2 the can every time you go down, or something like that. The good news is cats will lose weight pretty fast once you get them on the appropriate amount.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Just went down to heat the kid up some leftover pizza but I didn't feed the cat. It's 5pm she's had 3 small cans already today. I'll give her one more at some point later when I go down to cook my steak pinwheels, but I'm gonna start keeping track and limiting her to 4 cans a day, 5 is too much. I'll sometimes give her half of a larger 5.5oz can, but that's still about the same amount as one of the small cans. 

[zackflag]

It is currently 3:46 PM where I am and the sun is setting....

I am not ready for this shit yet. 

[AlSymerz]

It's not even 10am here yet and we are pushing 29 degrees C already. Finally we are seeing the sun after record breaking rains and months of shitty weather. But it is not going to last, thunderstorms tomorrow and slowly dipping back to below 20 by the end of the week.

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

31 here so summer has finally arrived. Let’s see how long that lasts