Kew's Cat Sitting

02/05/2022

Friday night drinks with Chewie 🛁🐈

02/01/2022

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01/16/2022

Happy Caturday from Chewie! 🪶🐈

01/01/2022

Having a drink with Chewie to ring in the Mew Year 🥂

11/04/2021

THE INVISIBLE SLIMY MONSTER IN THE WATER BOWL

Ever rub your fingers on the inside of your pet's water bowl and you feel a slippery slime of sorts? Well that invisible goo is called Biofilm.

Biofilm is a collection of organic and inorganic, living and dead materials collected on a surface. It is made up of many different types of bacteria bound together in a thick substance that acts as a glue to both hold the bacteria together and adhere it to a surface.

Biofilm can often be good bacteria but there is also the bad!

Biofilms provide a safe haven for organisms like Listeria, E. coli and legionella where they can reproduce to levels where contamination of products passing through that water becomes inevitable.

Bad Biofilms have been found to be involved in a wide variety of microbial infections in the body such as urinary tract infections, middle-ear infections and bladder infections.

Many pet parents are guilty of simply refilling the water bowl over and over without a wash and this becomes a wonderful environment for biofilm to soak around in.

How to reduce Biofilm:

Remember to clean your pet’s water bowl at least once a week if you can and change water daily.

For pet daycares where a host of different bacteria float around in water bowls, wash daily!

For best results, run your water bowls through a hot cycle in the dishwasher with an eco friendly, non-toxic soap to really clean out the biofilm!

Rodney Habib Pet Health Site

"An educated, informed and well-researched community of pet owners can only put more pressure on the pet food industry to be better! When pet owners know better, they will only do better!"

(P.S. - I am going to get lambasted over the "wash once a week at least" concept. However, after a wonderful discussion with a well known pro-active veterinarian/scientist, when she studied the bacteria looming in pets' water bowls she found if you have a healthy beast, biofilm can actually be full of wonderful, healthy bacteria. It's like playing in the mud as kids and having good bacteria all over you! So sometimes cleaning regularly can wash all the good stuff away. ;) )

10/30/2021

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09/26/2021

BeedleJuice checking to see if I'm ok 😽 🪲👀

09/26/2021

Jack requires a toll before I leave 💸🐾

08/27/2021

Shadow would like a glass of reflection 🍷🪞

08/15/2021

BeedleJuice showing her relaxed and silly side. 😋
Her humans hadn't taken a vacation for a long time, so the first couple of days were very upsetting for her (and for me). So thankful she appurreciated interaction after some overnight stays in the house 🏡

08/10/2021

Princess Batman loving her new catnip pillow from the local Corvallis pet store Animal Crackers 🌿 They have such quality catnip products, never disappointing, even with the most persnickety cats!👃🐱

08/08/2021

Gypsy is purrfecting her tuck dive 🍤

08/04/2021

Buff has made purrogress with me this eve, venturing up onto the couch! The lure of a few treats on the floor may have helped ;) 😺

07/30/2021

Xander & Winki in a catnip disagreement

07/30/2021

Night from Frankie & Buff 🐱✨ 🌃
It was so gratifying that Buff (foreground) let his guard down on my first visit (it took 2 hrs but we got there!) 💛

06/30/2021

https://fb.watch/6rsY7PYMcF/

06/27/2021

Gypsy here to remind everyone to stay hydrated! 💦🐈

06/21/2021

Bizzy Jilly Bee ♪ 🐝💨🐈

05/30/2021

New fuzzy clients, Smaug & Pippin 😽

05/20/2021

Greetings, just wanted to update friends & clients that I received both Pfizer shots. Thank you for your continued business & loyalty, it means a lot that a couple of you told me you'd postpone your trip if I had intense side effects! 🐾🐱

05/09/2021

Sweet Coraline 🐈‍⬛

05/08/2021

What's in Jamocha's coffee today?! ☕

05/08/2021

Jilly feeling the Friday spirit 🐾 with audible purring 😁

04/17/2021

Caturday greetings from Simon 🌞

04/12/2021

Lily & I workin' up a sweat! 🏃‍♀️🐾

03/25/2021

March Meowdness starring Clancy, Xander, & Sammy!

03/21/2021

Springtime warnings, please no lilies 💐 They are beautiful but deadly⚠️
https://healthtopics.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/health-topics/feline/lily-toxicity-cats #.YEkQIRtDp1c.facebook

What is lily toxicity? Takeaways Lilies are lethally toxic to cats. All members of the plant genus Lilium, including Easter lilies, contain a chemical that can damage cat kidneys. Ingestion of even a small amount of plant material from certain types of lilies is a veterinary emergency for cats and e...

03/09/2021

Greeting friends & clients 👋 Could you let me know if you are vaccinated (or planning to be)?
I plan on getting mine, just waiting for my turn! Thank you, looking fwd to working with you! Thank you for the continued business! 😺

03/07/2021

Rigby's midnight snack on Caturday night 😋

01/17/2021

Caturday ballgame with Sammy 🧶🐱

12/19/2020

"What are you lookin' at?"
--Snowball ☃️

09/26/2020

Cozy Shadow evening 🍂

09/19/2020

Cozy day with Shadow 🖤🤍🐈

09/14/2020

After 3 days of hiding in the shadows, Shadow decided to let her guard down, at 3️⃣am, inviting playtime! This is big milestone, a game changer for our time together! 😺🐾🧶