About animals

My last cat died in 2012. I used to feed him dry food mostly. As he grew older I had to change the normal adult food later for a slimming diet because he was growing fat and he suffered from the spine. Much later this food was echanged for a special urinary diet when he started the disease that ultimately killed him. He absolutely loved tuna. I remember feeding him much tuna when he didn't eat dry food any more.
One important thing is to put a lot of water at the disposal of the cats as cat are prone to urinary diseases when they get older. As for fish, I remember that the veterinarian was a great enthusiast of sardines as a suplement. She said sardines contained everything a cat needs. So I bought him a fresh sardine now and then without fishbone and cooked it in a bit of water (no salt).
This link may be helpful:
http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com...-feeding-cats/

That's good to know about the tuna. In case my cat needs water and she is not just training me out of boredom, I've added another place for her to get some.

Lol! I think she is really thirsty, but she probably loves that extra atention. And many cats love to drink streaming water, don´t ask me why. There are even cat fontains. I had to love at some of the videos:

http://heavy.com/pets/2016/07/top-10...ter-fountains/

If that fountain works, I won't have to leave the faucet on.

Your cat probably will prefer you comanding the faucet.

I will just give her water when she wants it. However, those fountains look like a good idea for when we are gone overnight and can't take the cat with us.

It also will make the cat more independent of you, when she wants to drink water during the night, for example. And a fountain with running water may be a nice plaything.
I only knew the importance of drinking much water for cats, when it was too late and Tino was already very ill.

It makes sense to get one of those. Thanks for the recommendation. She does like tuna also.

You are welcome. I hope the cat and you enjoy it. If you get such a fountain it would be nice to have an feedback. Might be useful to other cat owners.

I will. I think you are right that she is thirsty.

Here is a video of a crow feeding a cat and dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ3o5S61lBY

Thanks, Yes/No. The animals are very cute, but it looked as if someone was trying to train them for the video. Anyway, cat and bird went away when they had enough of it.

They did look trained. Here's the one I was originally looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-wrt9BLWQE It is about a crow taking care of an abandoned kitten.

It´s very touching, specially to watch how they do everything together. Here is one extended version of the story with statements of every one involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JiJzqXxgxo

It looks like a better made video.

I was thinking about anthropomorphizing animals and I wonder if this idea has a history. That is, did people in the past have a problem with this? There is Aesop's fables where animals are acting very much like humans. Based on this Wikipedia article there is also "personification" which would be done to non-living concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

It looks like it goes back to 1753 as a word, but it is the perspective on reality that I am curious about, but then it was used as "anthropotheism": making Gods look like humans.

The article notes even Darwin accepted anthropomorphism with a quote from him: "Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies." So perhaps the annoyance with anthropomorphism begins in the 19th century.

A very interesting article, Yes/No. I suspect that the anthopomorphisation be it of gods, animals, forces of nature or inanimate objects,follows the (not necessarily conscious)aim of making all of them more familiar to us. If we think they are all like us, feel like us and even think like us, it becames easier to understand them and deal with them.
I believe there are points of contact between animals, and there certainly are between humans and their pets.Your cat knows exactly what she has to do if she wants water or food.The problem IMO is to be able to distinguish a projection of my own feelings into the animal and a genuine response from the animal.
The video shows how these different animals are able to adapt to each other. I was thinking how badly they would hurt each other if they weren´t.The cat makes velvet pows
so she doesn´t hurt it´s small and fragile "mum". And "mum" uses her beak only to provide food for this somewhat "different baby". It would be interesting to know if the relationship went on and how once the kitten grew up.