In pet news, I saw an ad on IMDB television for a new (to me) cat treat. Inaba's Churu is now Mark's and Mile's favorite treat. The point made in the ad was that first ingredient in these is meat (tuna or chicken). I checked the Hartz Delectables that I've been using to hide Mark's medicine, and the first ingredient was water.

Mark has been getting resistant to taking his meds. I ended up getting some clam juice to spruce up what had been his favorite medicinal goodie, and he still needed persuading most days.

So I got a variety pack of Churu to try this stuff out.

Big win! The cats slurp this down without even sniffing it first. Carol and I were smushing Mark's medicine with a spoon and mixing it into the Delectable pate' to try and hide the flavor. Now, I just put the pill on top of a quarter teaspoon of Churu, and it's gone.

I took Caz shopping with me on Sunday, since it was the warmest day this week. We stopped at the Hamburg park to take a short walk on the way home.

There's an asphalt walking trail around this park. As Caz and I started along the trail, I noticed that next to the trail was a stretch of undisturbed snow, then, just about leash-distance away from the paved and plowed trail, the ground was trampled smooth with paw prints.

I observed to Caz that I'm not the only one who likes to walk on the paved and plowed trail, while the walkee gets as far into the brush as his leash will let him.

Caz was unimpressed with my Sherlockian powers of observation.

Then I noticed the half-footprints from an adult human male on the snowy edge of the plowed trail. I'm not the only one to walk a big dog who'd like to go just a little further off the trail.

After a few days of easy pilling Mark with the new treat, he figured out how to eat around the 1/4 pill and just eat the goodie. So, it's back to smushing and mixing.

Why couldn't I have stupid cats who can't figure these things out?