{"id":1451,"date":"2009-09-02T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T18:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2009-09-02T13:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T18:11:03","slug":"cooking-for-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Cooking for the cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/y-cat-food-1.JPG' title='y-cat-food-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/y-cat-food-1.JPG' alt='y-cat-food-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess it was inevitable that I&#8217;d eventually try making some homemade cat food to see if my cat, Lily, likes it. With some minor adjustments, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/tedeboy.tripod.com\/drmichaelwfox\/id19.html\">this recipe<\/a> from veterinarian Michael W. Fox. It&#8217;s a thick stew that sets up when it cools. It&#8217;s all meat (don&#8217;t ask) except for some mashed chickpeas and mashed yellow squash.<\/p>\n<p>I put the cat food into Pyrex dishes that come with tight-fitting covers. I&#8217;ll freeze it. Dr. Fox recommends feeding it to the cat three times a week in addition to the cat&#8217;s regular rations.<\/p>\n<p>If Lily doesn&#8217;t like it, I guess I&#8217;ll take it somewhere far from the house and dump it so that the varmints can have a feast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it was inevitable that I&#8217;d eventually try making some homemade cat food to see if my cat, Lily, likes it. With some minor adjustments, I used this recipe from veterinarian Michael W. Fox. It&#8217;s a thick stew that sets up when it cools. It&#8217;s all meat (don&#8217;t ask) except for some mashed chickpeas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cooking for the cat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}