Wonder if They'll Deliver Cat Food to the Hayloft?

Here I am, scrambling to find hay, keep Buddy's back relaxed and schedule summer riding lessons around everything else and Dipstick, our FIV-positive barn cat who was my mother's cat nobody wanted, decides that he'll slip up to the hayloft and get stuck there almost every day.

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to climb up in the hayloft and get a whiny cat down when you're wearing your pajamas, bathrobe and slide shoes?

But I've found a service that will deliver cat food. Wonder if they'll deliver it to the hayloft and let me skip that climbing-up-the-ladder-in-my-pajamas step? (Domino's pizza won't deliver out here....) It's at holistic cat food.

Come to think of it, it would be a good thing if my cats, especially Ye Olde Cat in the Hayloft, got extra high quality, healthy cat food. Dipstick is healthy now, even though he's FIV-positive, but holistic cat food would probably give his immune system an edge.

And if they'd deliver it, life would be easier. I spend a lot of time trying to find hay. I spend no time at all looking into cat food, and I'm afraid my cats get whatever's on sale.

After all the pet food scares lately, surely they deserve better than that. In addition to holistic cat food, they also have dog and other pet food. All probably healthier and higher quality than the food the people in this house consume (but not higher quality than the hay and feed served down at the barn).

Now, if only they'd deliver holistic people food, already prepared.

Comments

[jules]

Hey, you could rig up a serving tray to a rope & pulley arrangement, & deliver his food & water bowls up to the loft that way. A bit Heath Robinson-esque perhaps ... maybe even a litle bizarre but I have cats too & yeesh they are contrary beasts. And it's less awkward than climbing up & down shaky ladders with a squirmy protesting cat! [& what's a little bizarre behaviour between friends?]

[Grey Horse Matters]

I think I have just realized why this cat's name is Dipstick!Maybe there is a way to rig up some device so he can get up and down by himself.