These ManCats are Cheddar and Colby! They were the very last kittens born in our house, way back in 2011.
Today, in looking for something to write about for ManCat Monday, she was looking through the kitten pix and she kinda got lost in remembering the sweet babies born here at Furry Dance Cattery.
So we thought you would enjoy seeing Colby and Cheddar, too...Little ManCats in training!
and the cutest little video of them frolicking around the bed!
Teri's got selfies with all us kitties, and sharing them on the BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop just seems purrfect, cuz they are helping celebrate National Pet Month on this Hop!
Kely and Teri
Coco and Teri
Disco and Teri
And that last photo, the one of Disco and Teri, well it's entered in the Cat's Pride Couple of the Week Contest! We'd love it if you'd go vote for them! You can vote once a day until June 10th and we could wind some green papers or at least a years worth of cat litter (and it's even the brand we use!)
And help celebrate National Pet Month by joining in the BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop...it's the perfect way to show the love you share with your pets!
We can always depend on the Campbell family to send us sweet photos of Percy and Brinkley from time-to-time. They are part of our extended family and two very handsome ManCats!
For most of their lives, they lived in North Carolina in a lovely home with the most perfect Catio ever! But then they had to relocate for a while in Beverly Hills.
Now that sounds faboo, but they didn't have the room to have kitty races nor did they have a Catio! But they made do, and didn't love their humans any less cuz of the downgrade!
But, now they are back in NC and Oh-So-Happy to get back to their familiar place, with lots of room to race and lots of time out in the Catio again!
When we aren't napping... we are eating, hahameow! And we wanted to give you a repurrt on how we are lovin' the Taste 'n Review job we have taken on for Balanced Blends™Raw Diet for Cats!
We promised we would do a weekly Tasty Tuesday post about our culinary adventures...but if you look, you will see we missed last Tuesday and this past Tuesday, so even though Tasty Thursday doesn't roll off the tongue so nicely...here's our tardy update!
Boxes are always fun, but it's even better when a box arrives for us that has tasty noms in it! The Balanced Blends™arrived in a styrofoam box with a month's worth of frozen goodness inside!
We had two delights to choose from -- Chicken and Beef! And after 3 weeks, we can say we eagerly scarf down either of those delicious varieties with equal gusto!
We had already been eating some raw diet along with our Weruva Paw Lickin' Chicken, so we really didn't have any problems transitioning to 100% Balanced Blends Raw Diet, and had no tummy upsets or refusing to eat issues, either! In fact, Disco has put on 4 ounces in the past month, so he is getting his portions cut back a bit!
One of the things that Teri liked about Balanced Blends™website that it has good information on how to transition your cats onto a raw diet.
Right now, we are eating 100% Balanced Blends™ Raw Diet for Cats and as we kinda share 3 bowls, we aren't sure who is eating the most, but Teri puts approximately 1/4 of an 8 ounce package in each dish. That is about 75 calories and we get fed twice a day, and our caloric requirements are around 175 a day, so we get an extra snack before bedtime (or in bed, as Kely is doing in this video!)
Balanced Blends™ has started a risk-free, money-back guarantee for their raw food! They wanted to make it risk-free for pet parents who are considering trying their raw diets and it's a great opportunity for any of our readers who are "not sure" about trying their raw diets. If for any reason, you are not satisfied with their food, they will give you a full refund!
Balanced Blends™ was founded on the principles of providing appropriate diets for cats and dogs, just as would for the rest of our family. Their simple idea is to blend the best of both worlds (nature and science) - a natural diet added with minimal amount of vitamins and minerals, creating a complete and balanced raw diet for the optimum nutritional needs of your canine and feline companions.
A well-balanced diet requires more than just fresh raw meat, bones, and organs (and fruits and vegetables for dogs), it also needs just the right blend of vitamins and minerals. All of their recipes are formulated to meet AAFCO nutrient profile for all life stages and have NO grains, NO glutens, NO fillers, NO artificial coloring, and NO artificial preservatives. The chicken is USDA GRADE A, raised cage free, antibiotics free and has no added hormones. Their beef is USDA approved, naturally raised, antibiotic free, with no added hormones. and the fruits and veggies in the doggie formulas are organic, too!
Heck, Teri says we are eating better than she does!! It's true! She said it's hard work finding good, wholesome, humanely raised food for herself, but that Balanced Blends makes it super easy for her to feed us the best!
Currently they are only shipping to the lower 48 states, but we hope for our friends all over the continent, that as the company grows, so will their territory! Teri really likes the convenience of online raw cat/dog food delivery!Balanced Blends comes right to our house! No muss, No Fuss. Just thaw it and serve it! This video is of Coco and Disco chowing down!
You can set up an auto-ship and manage the frequency on their website, and you can change, pause or cancel your subscription easily. And, there is free shipping for orders 20 pounds or more and makes serving the best even more affordable!
Here's the ingredients and current pricing of their cat formulas:
Chicken Recipe Price: $7.00 /LB 99.5% Meat, Organ, Bone, & Egg Yolks 0.5% Vitamin and Mineral Mix NO Fruits or Vegetables
Beef Recipe Price: $8.00 /LB 99.5% Meat, Organ, Bone, & Egg Yolks 0.5% Vitamin and Mineral Mix NO Fruits or Vegetables
And here's info on their dog formulas:
Chicken Recipe
Price: $6.00 /LB
90% Meat, Organ, & Bone
10% Produce and Vitamin and Mineral Mix
Beef Recipe
Price: $7.00 /LB
90% Meat, Organ, & Bone
10% Produce and Vitamin and Mineral Mix
But, if you get in on their Early Cat Pre-Order Campaign on Kickstarter, you can save $20 to $30 on 10 pounds of raw food! And all backers will get 5 pounds extra for every 20 pound order of the same item from their website for up to 6 months after the campaign ends on May 27th!
Just follow this link to learn more about Balanced Blends and to become a backer and order the food we love!
We like to eat! Some of us more than others, if the baby scale is any indication, and Teri has long been searching for the perfect diet for all of us, so she was pretty excited to have the chance to learn more about the new Balanced Blends™ raw diets!
Over the years, we kitties have eaten a variety of foods, but most recently Teri has been introducing us to raw diets, because she has heard how good it is for kitties, especially those with tummy issues like Disco and Kely have.
But she doesn't have the time to make the proper raw diet for us herself (it can be messy and time consuming). So she has tried various brands of prepared raw and freeze dried raw diets for us, with varying degrees of success with our acceptance of these new foods.
Cats are very texture and mouth-feel oriented, so cats that started out on dry kibble or on a canned food that is chunky or shredded will need some time to transition to a new form of food. Also, she was having a hard time finding a raw diet for cats that didn't have veggies in it.
So she was very excited to be asked to try the new Balanced Blends™ raw diets, and to spread the word to our audience about the Balanced Blends™ Kickstarter pre-order campaign! What's not to like?!
She had been searching for a convenient raw diet to add to our usual diet that she felt good about feeding and that was also made with the best practices. And ordering online and having our food shipped directly to our house is something she likes, too!
(Note: Only the Balanced Blends™ formulas for dogs have vegetables in them)
Balanced Blends™ has formulated complete and balanced raw diets for cats and dogs with meats raised naturally, with no added hormones and antibiotic free. A well-balanced diet requires more than fresh raw meat, bones and organs (and fruits and veggies for dogs).
Teri felt good when she read none of their formulas ingredients are sourced from China--even the vitamins and minerals! Not many pet food companies can say that!
Balance Blends™ uses chicken thighs instead of necks and backs as they believe the bone content is too high if the leading ingredients are necks and backs. They use egg yolks-rich in protein and amino acids that are essential for a well-balanced feline diet. They also do HPP (High Pressure Process) in the final packaging to eliminate the risk of re-contamination from repackaging.
Teri didn't know what HPP processing was, and you might not either, so here's an explanation. It is a water-based process that uses high pressure to kill pathogenic bacteria without heat or cooking. Balanced Blends™ does not reopen their foods to be formed into patties, nuggets or bite-sized pieces and that eliminates the risk of re-contamination after the HPP process.
Balanced Blends™ has answered all her questions about their foods-ingredients, operations, sources and she felt good that their formulas were developed with the help of a well-respected veterinarian who has done a lot of research in feline nutrition!
We have been eating Balanced Blends™ eagerly for a couple of weeks now and we have made the transition to eating 100% Balanced Blends™ raw diet just this week! We have had no tummy upsets and did not turn our noses up at any of the formulas for cats.
We don't often eat beef, so our preference was the chicken! But we are getting used to the taste of the beef formula now and Teri just mixes the two together sometimes and we gobble it up, even making slurping sounds when we eat, hahameow!
If you would like to learn more about Balanced Blends™ raw diets for pets, just visit their website at www.balancedblends.com. They are having a Pre-Order Special that will save you $$$ and it starts on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 and ends on May 27th.
We want to let you know that if you would like to try Balanced Blends™, and get in on the 'Early Cat' special order pricing, just follow this link to their Kickstarter Project page!
So for the next month, we will be doing a weekly 'Tasty Tuesday' blog post, with updates and photos and videos of us enjoying our Balanced Blends™ meals, just like Kely is doing here!
