I hope you humans aren’t thinking you can pawn off the usual Temptations as a treat for Cat Appreciation Month! No way. To show off your appreciation for your cats, you need to put some thought and effort into this month’s treats. Maybe some elbow grease too. I have some suggestions below.
- Serve up a recipe from my second Dear Sparkle book: a Tuna Float! Here are the easy instructions: to 8 ounces of tuna juice, add one scoop of ground chicken and top with freshly made, unsweetened whipped cream. Except for whipping the cream yourself, that’s not too hard and it makes enough for a whole cat household!
- If you are creative in the kitchen, maybe you can try your hand at whipping up a good recipe for catnip cookies. I looked all over the internet and the ones I saw were pretty lame — I mean one teaspoon of nip for a whole cup of flour? How would you humans like it if someone made a batch of chocolate chip cookies that only had a spoonful of chips, total?
- If you are not big on cooking or baking, never fear — there are still simple and elegant ways to please your kitty this month. Any cat will appreciate freshly grilled wild salmon, for example.
- Can’t even grill? You can always pick up some sashimi from a sushi restaurant or bring home a shrimp cocktail (just toss out the cocktail sauce — we won’t need it).
- How about this: just serve up some creme fraiche, nicely presented in a small crystal bowl. Classy!
- If your cat’s not the fancy type, you can still make him feel special by serving up some down-home fried chicken from the best chicken joint in town. You won’t give the pieces to him whole, of course — you tear off the meat and feed it to him by hand. He will like the personal touch.
- Here is my personal favorite: catch something for your cats and bring it home alive for them! Don’t fret — it does not have to be something warm and fuzzy or feathered. We like bugs too! And especially moths. One of the best things my human ever did for me was catch a big, fat moth in her cupped hands — she came over to me and uncupped her hands and it flew out! I had, oh, about a minute and half of fun before I caught and ate it.
How do you like my treat ideas? Do you kitties have any suggestions of your own? Let your imaginations run wild!
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Here!!! Here!!!! Great suggestions Sparkle. You are right that extra special treats should be happening. Haven’t seen any over here yet. I’ll make sure HH reads your blog today. Thanks,.
pawhugs, Max
Great idea Sparkle. I’ll start nagging M.
We’ll have to get Mum to be creative.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Sparkle, we hope our mom is reading this…we ‘specially like the idea of bringing something live home! We’ve never had a live mousie before and we think now would be a good time to get one!!
I think catnip cookies sound wonderful. We cats should organize a recipe contest for the peeps. I’m sure someone could come up with a good recipe for them.
We like the idea of the bugs – but mom suddenly had visions of wild packs of crickets. We don’t think that is going to happen….. maybe just some special gooshy food for dinner!
Great suggestion!!!!
Fried chicken! We do love fried chicken. *dancing in anticipation* Are you listening Mom?
Hi Sparkle, thank you so much for the treat ideas!! These are great ideas and I will try some. Only, I’m not sure about the last one…ha ha ha. If I see a moth in a house, I usually catch and kill it before my boys find it!
I want a large fish from Pike’s Place. Is that so much to ask?
Geeat suggestions Sparkle! Now I think I want a Silvervine Slider!
You are just one thinking cat aren’t you?
Those are pawsome suggestions, Sparkle! We just hope our Mom is taking notes. MOL!
Great ideas! We want to see our Mommy catch us something!
Great ideas Sparkle. We can’t wait for summer when the big moths come back. Dragonflies are very tasty too.
Great ideas for every month, lovely Sparkle=isn’t every month “cat appreciation month”??…Happy weekend, sweet friends…xoox…Calle, Halle, Sukki
Oh we like the idea of a moth appetizer!
purrs
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Those are great treat suggestions Sparkle! Our mommy catches us moths too even though she thinks it’s kinda mean for the moth but she knows how much we love it!
Your suggestions are all terrific, Sparkle. I gotta go, now and get working on Mom!!!
Wonderful suggestions, but we have one mighty lazy mom. We’re lucky if she remembers Temptations!
you have great treat ideas, Sparkle! we especially like the one about catching something for us. We think our mom should bring one of the neighborhood pidgeons in the house for us to play with!
Pip, Smidgen, Minie, Hollie
I’m afraid the whole thing on the list that appeals to me is the fried chicken and, of course, the live thing. TW saw someone in the pet store buying a mouse and spiders to feed a snake. I wonder if TW would buy them for me. I’ve been snacking on Dreamies. They’re like Temptations only they’re only available in the UK. A furrend sent them to me.
We are straightforward. We saw Nip Leafs growin on the plant stand an demanded one each. It werked. TBT squeezed each leafs good. We were buzzed for 10 minutes at least!
Great suggestions, Sparkle! My kitties aren’t big fans of seafood (it’s odd, actually), but any time there is chicken to be had, they both go completely bananas. So any time I have chicken, I keep some separate and plain for Scarlett and Melly.
Great ideas!!! (Nip flavored cookies, interesting!!!) Going to have to meow to my human mom about these ideas.