{"id":6685,"date":"2016-01-20T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2016-01-20T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:06:11","slug":"cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seishi, aka Mr. Bingley, has a delicate tummy. He declines people food, but will eat tinsel, string, anything he shouldn&#8217;t. And will return you anything he liked yesterday but which nauseates him today.<br \/>\nMr. Darcy, aka The Night Fury, aka Shu, will eat anything BUT people food. Unless it&#8217;s cake. And plastic bags. But he has a cast iron stomach and almost never returns anything. Shu tends to get fat&#8212;and Sei doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;after trying absolutely everything, I think I&#8217;ve got at least the longest-running answer yet. Sheba makes little packets of two individual portions. I break them apart, one salmon, one fish. I take the covers off, I offer both to Sei and feed him whichever one he goes for. I feed the other to Shu, who eats anything. We have now had two weeks with Sei not returning me his dinner, no matter which one he gets. <\/p>\n<p>Am I a sucker? Oh, yes. Absolutely. And we still have to keep plastic bags out of Shu&#8217;s reach. Turns out they use fish-oil somewhere in the manufacture, according to legend, and he&#8217;s not the only cat.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve ordered some fish-oil tonic for Mr. Shu and we&#8217;ll see if we can have sanity around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seishi, aka Mr. Bingley, has a delicate tummy. He declines people food, but will eat tinsel, string, anything he shouldn&#8217;t. And will return you anything he liked yesterday but which nauseates him today. Mr. Darcy, aka The Night Fury, aka Shu, will eat anything BUT people food. Unless it&#8217;s cake. And plastic bags. But he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6687,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions\/6687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}