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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Great that she is eating something again!

    If you keep on cooking, keep an eye on the nutrients. Raw chicken hearts are great for Taurine and Vit B12 - and cats usually love them (don’t do more than a 2 at one go and maybe only twice a week - can also disturb the stomach a bit, while they are getting used to raw meat)

    If you go with cooked muscle meat (chicken (all parts, but without bones!), pig (when cooked, raw it can bring some bacteria, minced meat (beef and pig) seems also to be a highlight)

    Look into BARF and the supplements needed, if you can’t feed a whole animal.

    I’m fighting since 3 months, because my cat wasn’t eating and am cooking for him since.
    By now we give him 2 antibiotics and an antiemetic as subcutaneous injection daily. And it seems that finally helps - but we often had stable weeks, so I’ve lost some trust in the good times

    Anyway, if you have any questions, I’m happy to answer if I can help





  • Didn’t try, but could work

    I had some very good experience with lady bugs against aphids. So I was looking for something like that and found a “caterpillar fly” (direct translation, not sure if this is correct. Scientific name: Trichopoda pictipennis)

    Maybe I could set them out in my balcony garden. But as it’s not a real garden, but only a few larger flower boxes, I’m afraid they won’t make it long with an active infestation.

    But I also haven’t found a shop for them yet and don’t know, if they can be applied like lady bugs.
    Can’t stress enough how well that worked against aphids - and I really like them :⁠-⁠)
    With a little “bug hotel” they also came back and tried to settle. But sadly our apartment block had the balconies renovated and I needed to move the hotel and now need to start fresh…


  • Thanks!
    Checked them already after skull givers answer, but haven’t found anything - maybe they already all hatched now…

    This season is already fucked and gone. So I’m currently looking into ways to prevent this next year.

    I’ve read that spraying peppermint helps to keep them away. But we got a bit really wanted mint plant this year, which sits just 25-50cm away from the tomatoes.
    Either it’s a different mint and only peppermint works, or the plant alone just isn’t enough…


  • Ah, I think you’re right!
    We are having an infestation this year of those fuckers, but I’ve only seen the adult ones until now.

    Thank you very much!
    Those have become a pest here.

    If someone knows how to keep them away, it would be very much appreciated.

    Edit: the only thing I’ve found was manual removing them or spraying them with vinegar and soap water. I’ve now freed my 3 poor plants of them manually (into a bag with vinegar, soap and hot water)
    At least now I know, why all our tomatoes this year started to rot with some mold infection



  • naeap@sopuli.xyztocats@lemmy.worldCat distribution
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    We found our cat young and starving, being left alone outside.
    But he was used to be outside and just locking him in would be cruel.
    He mostly happily hides in a hole or some cellar around, when he is outside anyway.

    We tried giving him a safety collar, but he was already like 6 months old, when we found him and wasn’t used to one. So he always got rid of the safety ones and we were too afraid that he should strangulate himself with a non-safety one.
    He is chipped. So I hope this is enough, when someone catches him.
    But he is very shy with other people and it worked out for 13 years now I’m different areas of the city - sometimes, in his young and wild years, he was gone for 2-3 days, but he always came back happy and hungry :-)




  • naeap@sopuli.xyztocats@lemmy.worldPray for my boi
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    We feel you :'(
    Since 1.5 months we’re fighting for the life of our cat Loki. He usually had 6-6.5kg and only has 4.25kg left because of his gastritis, after surgery of an unrelated eye tumour, when we’re did a gastroscopy.

    We tried to give him some stomach protector, which he hated. So I mixed it into his food, which only led to him declining his diet food more and more.
    We switched the stomach protector to something more easily eaten and we started cooking for him - every 2h from 5 in the morning until 1 at night (sometimes also at 3, when he had appetite)
    Didn’t really help…
    So he got daily subcutaneous infusions with antibiotics and after a week or two he was much better and even gained like half a kg.
    He was happy, we were jumping in joy.
    But exactly after the last control visit at the vet, he declined his food again and 2 days layer he was diagnosed with a pancreatitis.

    So he would need to go for 24 hours stationary at the vet with IV infusions.
    That didn’t work out, as he wouldn’t hold still without us.
    So we went with him and did daily IV infusions for nearly 2 hours a day and he finally got better.

    He gained nearly 1kg and we were happy as fuck - him as well, as he was enjoying just being outside again.

    Then he started puking again…

    So the vet told us, that we need to switch to a specific diet food instead of our low fat cooking.
    He surprisingly ate 1-1.5 portions, but after that he declined it again - even with Mirtazapin to give him some appetite.

    That was yesterday. So last night he like really proudly showed me his puke, with a face of “look what this new food has done” and we switched back to cooking.

    I’m currently at the end of my wisdom and we’re emotionally completely drained.
    I’m self employed and haven’t worked for the whole time now, because I can’t focus anyway and with him being miserable I was just a 24 hours nurse. My wife luckily had a vacation now, so she could jump in a bit, so I could catch up with some sleep…

    But it’s a daily rollercoaster. Sometimes he has good days and wants to go outside, sometimes he just want to sleep and mostly he cuddles with us.

    He is the nicest and bravest cat I’ve ever had and we’ll fight however possible. But have my whole sympathy as we now how shit it is to see your loved cat deteriating and you can’t do much but watch :-(

    I actually wanted to add some pictures as tax, but I can’t find an easy easy in comments (in my mobile app) now

    At least feel hugged from very understanding other cat owners, currently facing mostly the same dilemma
    (By now I could probably fill a book just with the shit that happened in the last month…)


  • Happens to everyone

    Just having a multitude of terminals open with a mix of test environment and (just for comparison) an open connection to the production servers…

    We were at a fair/exhibition once and on the first day people working on an actual customer project asked us, if they could compare with our code.
    Obviously they flashed the wrong PLC and we were stuck dead at the first hours of the exhibition.
    I still think that this place was cursed, as we also had to do multiple re-soldering of some connections of our robot and the sherry on top was the system flash dying - where I had fucked up, because I just finished everything late at night and didn’t made a complete backup of everything.
    But it seems, if luck runs out, you lose on all fronts.

    At least I was able to restore everything in 20mins. Which must be some kind of record.
    But I was shaking so much from the stress, that I couldn’t efficiently type anymore and was lucky to have a colleague to just calmly enter what I told him to and with that we’re able to get the show case up and running again.

    Well, at least the beer afterwards tasted like the liquid of the gods