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My cat (female, 3 years) is eating only Blue Buffalo kibble. That was the diet her foster had her on and we just continued that. Her foster mentioned that she’s pretty picky and is quite sensitive to food. We have had her taken to vet and tested and the vet mentioned that she’s perfectly fine and healthy (touch wood 🧿). She does not eat wet food at all. She’s a bottle baby if that matters.

Now to clicker training… it’s nothing crazy. We want to be prepared in case of an emergency (like earthquake or floods or wildfires etc). She’s slippery as an eel and hides in places no one ever thinks to look at. So in case of a real emergency, we don’t want to be panicking that we can’t find her. So we want to clicker train and crate train her.

Now the issue is that, the clicker we bought comes with a guide. It says that if she’s not food motivated (she isn’t), then we should stop free feeding her (she isn’t the type to snack, she eats at specific times but we leave a little kibble out so that she doesn’t go hungry) and switch to wet food. Furthermore, the guide says that if our cat doesn’t eat wet food, then we must begin to transition her to freeze dried food and then hydrate the freeze dried food, thus gradually getting her used to the wet food texture.

I found Instinct freeze dried food but when I read the ingredients I was…confused…? There was Lactic Acid listed in it among other things that I can’t even pronounce. Furthermore, when I tried reading more about this online, people mentioned that it’s better to have the cat on kibble than freeze dried food.

I am concerned and thoroughly confused now. Please help me find a good diet for my cat. Is it alright if she eats only Kibble (my vet said it’s okay so I didn’t make a big fuss over it)? Do I not transition her to Freeze dried food? Is it bad? If it’s okay, then could you recommend a brand that’s good? Has anyone trained their kitty when they ate only Kibble?

Tl;Dr: My cat only eats Blue Buffalo kibble (never wet food) and my vet says she’s healthy, so I’m not worried about that. But my clicker training guide says non-food-motivated cats need to switch to wet food, then freeze-dried as a stepping stone if they won’t eat wet. I tried Instinct freeze-dried but got spooked by ingredients like lactic acid, and read online that kibble is actually better than freeze-dried anyway. Trying to clicker + crate train her for emergency prep (earthquakes, fires, etc.) since she hides really well. Questions: Is kibble-only actually fine? Do I need to transition her to freeze-dried at all? Is freeze-dried bad? Any kibble / freeze dried food recommendations? Has anyone trained a kibble-only cat?

I had posted around 172 days ago about getting a cat and how my cat isn’t bonding with me. I’m here to give an update.

Everyone had mentioned that I should be patient and introduced me to Jackson Galaxy’s videos. Thank you for that! I’m a first time cat companion and I have learnt a lot through all the posts here and videos on Youtube. The cat I adopted is a rescue. She is a bottle baby and her previous human died. She was sent back to her original foster whose cat bullied her so she was transferred to another foster family. The poor baby has been through a lot in her 3 years. I was anxious to adopt because I wanted to do justice to her. She’s absolutely precious after all.

Through all of your kindness and all the resources you shared, I understood what I needed to do before and after I got her. When I got impatient that she wasn’t bonding with me, you all rightfully called me out and reminded me that she needs time and patience. I gave her that, I let her come to me on her own accord. I loved her from a distance, played with her, observed and learnt her ways, her likes and dislikes and how she likes to bond.

Among the things I learnt so far were that she hates being picked up (though I must for clipping nails and cleaning her face and I keep it as drama free as possible and now she tolerates it), she loves to just chill in your vicinity, she has very strict schedule and she almost always follows that. She understands when I tell her stuff (like I always inform her when I’m about to vacuum and clean so she goes and hides in the room, I close the door to keep the noise down and open after I’m done and she comes out, greets me and chills). She is our queen, she reigns our household and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

So thank you! 😊 your advice and insights have been very encouraging and helpful!

I posted in the original subredddit (not official) about how Sky kids are not staying under the round rugs in the Geyser shared memory and good god, so much bullying. I mentioned that a lot of people showed up at the memory today and I couldn’t go afk because everyone was inside the rug and all the wax fell out.

People called me “lazy”, “pedantic” and whatever else. I never knew going afk was such a huge sin. I need to go afk if I could ever afford stuff. I can’t afford candle packs! I can’t “play” the game for two hours straight, I have things to get done in real life that has real consequences and I need the candles! What else can I do? Why is there no compassion anymore? Sky community was originally so kind, supportive and caring.

I don’t “play the game” apparently. Its insane. I have been playing on and off for six years! I have goofed off so much in Sky, made some amazing friends and completed all the seasonal quests and stuff. Apart from doing my dailies and getting cosmetics from traveling spirits, I don’t have much else going on. My friends have all left long ago. I’ve made new friends but they are on different part of the world and I can only talk in the weekends. I’ve could never afford even a season pass before, I got season pass for the first time in six years only for this season. So I have quite a lot of cosmetics to get from the spirits. So what else can I possible do to “play the game”?

Why is everyone is mean, cruel and rude? I deal with people’s nastiness in real life every day, I don’t need this from a game community. All of this because I said I couldn’t afk during geyser. I know it’s not exactly a whole lot to get hurt over but I’ve noticed how cold people have become in this community. This isn’t the first instance. Horrible.

P.S: if you have nothing nice to say in the comments, don’t comment.

Please for the love of god, follow the instructions written literally on the memory title. Stay under the rug! A bunch of people showed up at the memory today and I couldn’t afk because everything bounced off their heads and fell out! Is reading literally extinct now? Does no one read? 😭💀

Edit: Apparently going afk is a sin now. I am an adult with adult responsibilities. I have chores and responsibilities to take care off. When the entirety of Sky focuses on candle running, grinding and socialising, I don’t have much choice to candle farm other than going afk in few places and hoping for the best because I cannot spend two hours every day candle running. I socialize and enjoy on the weekends but I have to go afk on weekdays. I am not rich enough to buy candle packs that cost $50 because I would rather use that money on gas or groceries. So, yeah. It’s very easy to judge people sitting behind a screen. I’ve been playing for six years on and off now and I must say that community was much kinder back then.

I haven’t unlocked the Pleaful Parent spirit (hopefully I’ve gotten the name right this time), the one in the Bonfire in Graveyard in Golden Wasteland. It’s the only spirit I couldn’t unlock. Can someone please guide me through the spirit memory? I think I need that for today’s quest.

I play around 6 pm PST. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

I was checking out some of the cool capes from the recent past and the current store and there were capes for $20!!!! I forgot how unbelievably expensive these are! I got the entirety of Witcher 3 game with 3 DLCs for less than that and I got more than hundred hours of gameplay!!!! I got Hogwarts Legacy, GTA 5 and Assassin Creed: Origins for less than that too (Individually). This is unbelievable. Those capes don’t even do anything! It’s purely cosmetic.

What truly spooks me is the fact that apart from these totally cosmetic (albeit beautiful) capes, you are also encouraged to purchase just “shoes”/“sandals” (they are TINY, you can’t even see them unless you really look!) separately and season passes separately. TGC is surely greedy. There’s no reason for selling these many things separately. They could just sell the season passes I am sure that with the player base this big, they would be reasonable profit.

If I ever utter a word about this, people lose their minds. They immediately talk about how it’s a completely ad free game that we play for free. But do we really? I mean, FOMO is real and they are thriving on the FOMO. Because then immediately it’s “you can buy if you want, you don’t have to”. This argument really doesn’t help anyone except the company. These prices aren’t fair at all. If it’s under $10 for cosmetics I wouldn’t have said anything but these prices are insane.

Edit: I also forgot the fact that it’s not even like everyone can see you wearing these insanely expensive and beautiful capes in Sky unless someone’s your friend or they light you. So if you’re a largely solo player like me, you’re buying these only for your own joy since for the majority of the time for everyone else you’re just another grey sky kid running around.

I haven’t completed the nesting season quests and that’s mainly because I’m largely a solo player. I have a few friends who light my candle everyday but that’s it. Can someone please help me complete this quest?

Rant: 🥲 I hate it when Sky forces people to complete group tasks because I have no group and my real life friends are not interested in the game at all. I play Sky to relax and recharge; socializing is scary to me. But I’m a completionist and quests like this don’t help me at all. This is why I hate the nesting season and the Season of Assembly.

Hi! This is the first time I’m posting here. So please forgive me if this breaks any rules. I would like a write a Jacob X MC (female) fanficition but I don’t know where exactly people get their fanficition from anymore. It used to be AO3 or Wattpad (I think?) but I don’t know anymore. Please lend me your guidance on where you publish or get your fanficition from… and please do tell me if anyone would actually be interested in reading a Jacob Fanfic??