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Guess Who’s Sweet 16 Today?

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Happy Sweet 16 to Our Cat Samantha

We can’t believe our cat Samantha is 16 years old!

We are so happy that our senior lady has been doing well. Even though she can challenge us with her appetite, Sam gets around great in spite of her partial blindness, high blood pressure, and hyperthyroidism. She still (mostly) takes her pills like a champ. For a cat who at one time raided a robin’s nest, Sam gets along surprisingly well with all of our birds. Now that we have the baby chicks in her upstairs room (stay tuned for a video coming soon), she sleeps up there every night on the little futon. When she goes on one of her supervised outdoor adventures, she likes to hang out with the guinea hens (and the chickens once they are free-ranging again).

Our Cat Samantha and Her Guinea Hens
I think she was going to join the guinea parade!!

Sam doesn’t want for a lot, since she doesn’t play with toys, but I started a new catnip plant for her so she can have one in her upstairs room as well. I think I need to give her some other plants too, but other than grass, does anyone know what would be good for her (the grass always comes right back up!)?

Happy, Happy Birthday, Sweet Samantha, we love you so much!
Love, the Momz, Dadz, Luke, & all of your flock!

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  2. I’m pretty sure I wished Sam a Happy Birthday on Facebook on her day, but just to be sure, I’ll say it again: Happy Birthday Samantha! Take good care of your little charges – I love that you love them!

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  5. Happy belated birthday, Sam! Soth loves parsley plants–I was trying to keep a little one in the kitchen but it had to become a backyard herb because he kept nibbling every one I started until there was nothing left. He also liked my baby basil plants, too, and that’s on the list of cat-friendly herbs I found.

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    • Thank you! I thought basil might be on the list, but I’ve had trouble getting mine to grow this year. But parsley I do have, and I can definitely see Sam liking that. I have some seedlings that I can bring in once they are a bit bigger (Sam will pull them right out of the dirt if they’re too small!). Funny thing is, I grow both of those herbs for the chickens too! LOL

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  10. Oh, Happy Sweet 16 to beautiful Samantha, my buddy and love always!! My former roomie, lol! I am sorry I didn’t go say hi to her tonight, I almost did when I was in the house, and then got sidetracked-but I am sure she had a great day! I just love how she hangs with the birds, inside and out, that is just so cool, she loves their company! Give her an extra birthday hug, Jan, and tell her from me please! 🙂

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  12. Happy 16th birthday, Samantha! You’re a lucky lady to have such a wonderful home (farm) to live on. Other than a catnip plant, I can’t think of any plants you’d enjoy. None of my kitties were ever grass eaters, and like you, any grass they ate came back up.

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    • The truth is, the catnip comes back up sometimes too! But it’s still not as bad as the grass when we had that. In fact, when she goes outside all she does is eat grass, and I have to be sure I wait for it to come back up before I bring her back in the house. LOL!

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  17. Happy Birthday beautiful Samantha! The only safe plants i can think of for a kitty would be catnip and grass. There is also catmint which is similar to nip, but that is about it.

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    • Those are great – thanks for sharing them! I was interested to see spider plants on one of the lists though, I always thought those were bad for cats. We used to have some and I worked hard to keep them away from them!

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