am i the best cat advice resource for you i'll let you decide hey friends it's jess and jericho from
caticles.com i'd like to share my story of how i got into cat care and nutrition from my personal
journey through my professional journey so that you can decide if i'm the right person for you
cats came into my life around 1993 when i was about four years old my family's had 12 cats
since then and i have jericho warning i'm about to show you really cute cat pics top left corner is
my first cat ever whiskas we adopted her sister chelsea shortly after she's in the next photo
our first siamese cat was lucky and our next three siamese cats cuddling together are milo cocoa and
silky milo and cocoa were half brothers and they always cuddled like that they also loved sleeping
in bed with me second row left is milo and silky cuddling with our orange tabby shitty kitty i
wanted to name him walter the four cats on the table are milo cocoa shitty and our tuxedo griffin
griffin loves to sleep with me and there's milo stealing my warmth and again milo and griffin
laying on me with our baby boy hemi next to us and there's hemi grooming gracie our polydactyl cat
with griffin all cuddled all cute next is griffin and ash playing with me and the wand toy and our
next fluffers is charlie on the bottom row milo hemi and griffin are smushed together in one bed
next is my gorgeous guy jericho griffin laying on my chest again and jericho laying on me give
me a polydactyl thumbs up if you just can't resist cat pics that's 12 cats that i've had
in my personal life i don't count charlie cat because unfortunately i haven't met him yet
haven't been able to visit my parents because of the pandemic my passion for nutrition stems
from my personal cats health issues whiskas lived to about 16 she died from a heart stroke
chelsea had diabetes and she died around the age of 10. lucky had cancer and the vet told
us that we had no option but to put her down this was around the age of seven or eight
cocoa died suddenly due to dehydration he was only 10. silky lived to about 20 and
milo lived to about 17 but it wasn't old age that got them in the end it was kidney disease
shitty kitty had a urinary blockage which is a life-threatening situation but it was actually
a simple surgery that went wrong that killed him our most recent cat that passed away was hemi
and he was only three and a half and it was kidney failure that ultimately took him
griffin gracie ash and charlie are still living with my parents and i have jericho here with me
in my apartment my professional experience with cats didn't start until about 2017.
i was working in marketing and advertising for about six years and i was absolutely miserable
so after i quit my last job i decided that i was going to pursue my dreams pursue my passion and
work with animals i started cat sitting in 2017 and i absolutely loved it over the three years
i've worked with over 400 cats all ages breeds and health conditions i've administered liquid meds
pills insulin fluids i've come across all types of cat food cat litter cat products cat furniture
anything that you can think of in every type of living space that you can think of from
tiny shoebox apartment to three-story house from one cat households up to 10 cat households i've
seen it all so now as you know i've had many cats my whole life but working with cats professionally
taught me so much more i mean working with over 400 cats i'm bound to learn a thing or two right
i started to realize that it wasn't only my personal cats that had all these serious health
issues so my personal cats they had health issues they all ate kibble the cats that i worked with
professionally the ones that i medicated they all ate kibble all of the ones with obesity and
serious health related issues they all ate kibble according to the association for pet obesity
prevention more than half the cats in the u.s are overweight and 82% of cat parents feed kibble
this is not a coincidence so i started studying cat food in 2017 cat food aafco pet food label
rules and then later in 2017 i adopted jericho after he was adjusted to his new environment i
started transitioning him to better and better quality food ultimately all the way through to a
100 percent complete and balanced raw cat food in the end of 2019 i launched my website caticles.com
so that i could help cat parents like you outside my local area want to share my experience and
my knowledge about cat food and cat products because our cats deserve the best in 2020 when
hemi was diagnosed with kidney failure that's when i decided all right that's it i need to do
something about this we absolutely need to change the way that we feed our cats so i enrolled in
a 500 hour clinical pet nutritionist program so that i can become certified in feline and canine
nutrition and overall clinical pet nutrition i'm on a mission to eliminate these nasty stats
no more obesity no more cancer no more diabetes or urinary tract disease or kidney issues i'm here to
give you the best possible cat advice on nutrition and happiness because again that's what our cats
deserve i'll teach you all about cat food label rules how to transition cat food properly and
how to safely feed a proper raw diet additionally i'll have product reviews and step-by-step
tutorials on how to get your cats to play let me know about your cats in the comments below
what's your experience with cat food do your cats love to play tell me about your cats then consider
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