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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

  • Great that she is eating something again!

    If you keep on cooking, keep an eye on the nutrients. Raw chicken hearts are great for Taurine and Vit B12 - and cats usually love them (don’t do more than a 2 at one go and maybe only twice a week - can also disturb the stomach a bit, while they are getting used to raw meat)

    If you go with cooked muscle meat (chicken (all parts, but without bones!), pig (when cooked, raw it can bring some bacteria, minced meat (beef and pig) seems also to be a highlight)

    Look into BARF and the supplements needed, if you can’t feed a whole animal.

    I’m fighting since 3 months, because my cat wasn’t eating and am cooking for him since.
    By now we give him 2 antibiotics and an antiemetic as subcutaneous injection daily. And it seems that finally helps - but we often had stable weeks, so I’ve lost some trust in the good times

    Anyway, if you have any questions, I’m happy to answer if I can help


















  • naeapOPtoNature and Gardening@beehaw.orgBugs on our tomato
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    Didn’t try, but could work

    I had some very good experience with lady bugs against aphids. So I was looking for something like that and found a “caterpillar fly” (direct translation, not sure if this is correct. Scientific name: Trichopoda pictipennis)

    Maybe I could set them out in my balcony garden. But as it’s not a real garden, but only a few larger flower boxes, I’m afraid they won’t make it long with an active infestation.

    But I also haven’t found a shop for them yet and don’t know, if they can be applied like lady bugs.
    Can’t stress enough how well that worked against aphids - and I really like them :-⁠)
    With a little “bug hotel” they also came back and tried to settle. But sadly our apartment block had the balconies renovated and I needed to move the hotel and now need to start fresh


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    Thanks!
    Checked them already after skull givers answer, but haven’t found anything - maybe they already all hatched now

    This season is already fucked and gone. So I’m currently looking into ways to prevent this next year.

    I’ve read that spraying peppermint helps to keep them away. But we got a bit really wanted mint plant this year, which sits just 25-50cm away from the tomatoes.
    Either it’s a different mint and only peppermint works, or the plant alone just isn’t enough


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    Ah, I think you’re right!
    We are having an infestation this year of those fuckers, but I’ve only seen the adult ones until now.

    Thank you very much!
    Those have become a pest here.

    If someone knows how to keep them away, it would be very much appreciated.

    Edit: the only thing I’ve found was manual removing them or spraying them with vinegar and soap water. I’ve now freed my 3 poor plants of them manually (into a bag with vinegar, soap and hot water)
    At least now I know, why all our tomatoes this year started to rot with some mold infection



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    We found our cat young and starving, being left alone outside.
    But he was used to be outside and just locking him in would be cruel.
    He mostly happily hides in a hole or some cellar around, when he is outside anyway.

    We tried giving him a safety collar, but he was already like 6 months old, when we found him and wasn’t used to one. So he always got rid of the safety ones and we were too afraid that he should strangulate himself with a non-safety one.
    He is chipped. So I hope this is enough, when someone catches him.
    But he is very shy with other people and it worked out for 13 years now I’m different areas of the city - sometimes, in his young and wild years, he was gone for 2-3 days, but he always came back happy and hungry :-)