Andy got a little present this morning
He sort of appreciates it…
…I think!
I hope he’s figured it out: Cat grass is cool! Cat grass is yummy!
After Andy scratches himself, I’ll pull a few blades and let Andy sample his grass.
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Andy enjoyed several blades of grass once I hand fed them to him. I hope this isn’t how it goes from now on, but cats being cats, I suspect we have a new bad habit! The grass grew amazing fast. This was day five since I planted it. It was already sprouting within 24 hours of being planted!
I’ll have to get some for my cats. =^..^=
It’s easy to grow and your cats will thank you for the effort! It doesn’t last long, though, and I recently bought a second planter. I’ll start the second one so that Andy always has fresh grass. It seems like I get about a month out of each planting, but I’ll need to track the current one to verify that presumption.
It’s a nice idea with winter coming.
Kitties will thank us!
Indeed
Awe!!! Thats amazing! I have a 1 year old kitten who umm…is different and loves his grass, and avocado and cherries and cabbage and melons and peaches. His favorite is romaine lol. Does he do anything similar 🤔
Andy likes his grass but nothing else in the human food range.
We kitties won’t pass up a snack of nom nom grasses once it’s passed our visual and sniff inspection.
Andy likes me to handfeed kitty grass to him.
Wow. Snoops would have devoured it before it had a chance to settle in
tell Andy he needs to mow his grass!
He wants me to hand feed it to him. Oops! Never do anything with a cat you don’t want to do for the rest of his or her life1
Andy has trained you well. He is a kitty Jedi.
Yes, though he has been helping himself when I’m not around – he thinks I haven’t noticed…!
❤️️ the greens ⤵️
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Yum! Anything for our kitties, eh?
Not only do you grow wheat for Andy, but you also give it to him by hand! Spoiled Andy ! 🙂
In friendship
Michel
Michel, as soon as I hand fed him the wheat grass I thought, “Oh! Oh! NOW I’ll have to hand feed the little darling from now till he goes to kitty heaven!” Yes, he is very spoiled. (How are you doing, my friend? Glad to hear from you!)
dood…grazz iz WAAAAAAAY better than nip we thinkz 🙂 N JOY 🙂 ♥♥
Fresher, too! Andy is is kitty heaven getting his own plot of real wheat grass! I have enough seed and “soil” to keep him in yummy grass for a long time. He sits by it when I’m in the area and waits patiently for me to get the hint: “Give me kitty grass, please!”
Every day, something nice, a gift for Andy 🙂 ! amitiés
Yes, Andy is very pleased with his gift! He’s always had a delicate stomach, and the wheat grass helps that.
You are a lucky boy Andy. My cats are jealous.
Not to shame your cats’ human – well, maybe a little! hee! hee! – but it is mindlessly simple to grow wheat grass and Amazon and other purveyors sell the basic kits for a nominal cost. I was especially pleased with this kit because the low, shallow growing planter requires very little planting soil (which comes in a compressed disc you activate with warm water) and just enough seed to cover that disc’s worth of planting soil nicely. Though I am a pretty good gardener, I believe even a black thumb could grow this really easy to grow wheat grass. The instructions that came with the kit were explicit and anticipate the worst problem – over watering. The clear planter assures that you can see if you have over watered the grass and if it looks like the grass in my photos, you know you are a successful gardener! Your kitties will worship the ground you walk on if you do this for them. (Of course, they probably already do, based on what you post!)
That is indeed fast growing grass! We tried growing grass in a plastic container during the winter. Once was enough. Tyebe drags the grass all over the house and since we have laminate floors there is nothing to stop the dragging. Tyebe manages to tip it over and then she eats it. There was a huge mess everytime she got hold of it. Now she goes without grass in the winter.
Jean
That’s one thing I liked about this growing kit: the acrylic planter is shallow and resists over-turning by an enthusiastic kitty! I bought it and the growing materials from Amazon, but it probably is available elsewhere. I highly recommend it for the ease of growing the wheatgrass and the smart planter. You also can tell easily if you are overwatering the wheatgrass, one of the first causes of failure for many people. I am eager to find out if I have enough light to grow it in winter. As you know, winter wheat is planted in fall and continues to grow (slowly!) throughout the cold months so it is mature and the seed can be harvested in your country and mine by early to midsummer. I take that as a good sign: surely one can grow it inside in winter, too!
That is a nice patch of cat grass! Hopefully Andy chows down on it soon!
He’s had quite a bunch of it, but not enough to even touch the total! One cat should be able to have a nice supply for some time. I have several starts of it since Andy’s always been intere3sted i8n grass.
Good for your long haired boy. Will help him get the hairs out easier the natural way – so less hairballs.
Exactly! Do you grow it for your Katze? I remember you saying your cat is long-haired, too. It also has beneficial vitamins and minerals that are helpful for building immunity and a healthy kitty boy.
I grow it for Kessy. She isn’t long haired, FunTom had a long haired ancestor. He had shorter hair than a Maine Coon, but longer than your average house cat.
Good for you! Kessy and FunTom have a good human Mom!
Andy and Dougy had a Birman father. I met their half sister and an auntie at the veterinarian’s one time, and it was a shock to see two short-haired cats that looked nothing like the kitty boys. Their mother was a tabby-marked Persian with reddish-brown hair, some of which I can see in Andy’s coat. Dougy showed a bit of their mother’s coloration, too, though both are basically (to my eye) black kitties.
Genetically all panthers are tabbies (talking about domesticated cats here, not big cats) so yes, you could see stripes on Andy. (Learned that from Tinykittens)
I can see the class tabby “M” on Andy’s head when he’s in certain light.
Good for a kitties tummy!
Ine3dded! And Andy has always had a delicate tummy.
I couldn’t grow that here. Way to many Strays, plus, Susy eats plants.
Well, it is supposed to be eaten.
Try growing it inside. This particular kit feature3s that low planter and excellent results, as you can see. Even if you have kitties that rip the stuff out and scatter it everywhere, the low planter results in a tangle of roots, within days, that help anchor the wheatgrass in the planter. I try not to promote commercial products (I never get compensated! LOL!) but this one is the best I’ve tried and used over the many years.
Grow some inside on a window sill. (There is the risk a kitty will knock it off… give some thought to where plants and cats both get what they want!)
Oh Believe Me, my girls get what they want!..most of the time. They get Catnip, periodically but, I am not going to grow it.
Susy would Want the plant, dirt, pot all over the floor.
Don’t let her Calico Cuteness deceive you.
LOL! I had good luck growing it in a window by the kitchen sink, thanks to too many things obstructing kitty curiosity, mainly water.
Andy just needed a little help to sample it! 🙂
…and we have a new bad habit to deal with. LOL!
My cats love cat grass. It doesn’t last long. They mow it down almost as fast as a lawn mower.
This grows so fast, Kate, and is so easy to grow, I highly recommend it!
Being an indoor cat, he may not have known what grass was right off the bat, eh?
I picked outside grass for him from time to time, but this is better for him. It is more tender for one thing.
Sweet boy.
I’ve never heard of that
Here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatgrass
Cats like it and it has some dietary benefits for them. People use it for the same reason. “Cat grass” actually is wheat grass.
🙂 Thanks
Thanks for the link
That stuff grows fast! Special formula for cats I assume…
No, it actually is wheat grass, which the newly sprouted leaves of the common wheat plant. The seed is GMO and not treated with any chemicals and can be used by cats (or humans) as a dietary supplement for many vitamins and minerals. It helps with digestion, bloating (kitty gas is nasty if small volume!) and upset stomach. Andy likes it a lot!
He really does look like a teddy bear with his new haircut!
He’s had three groomers over the years, and after his first session, his first groomer suggested this style instead of a lion cut. I’ve stuck with it since because it is a cute cut for pug-faced Persians. More to the point, it doesn’t involve the pom-pom tail. Andy is very, very, very sensitive about anything done to his tail, and it is his best feature!
I think that’s the right decision, as I imagine the tail wouldn’t trap much heat anyway compared to the body. He does have a magnificent tail!
It might even serve as a fan!
2 days too late for mardi grass LOL
LOL! We slept through it.