These little squares are what I have been using instead of cotton balls. I have not used a single cotton ball in over a month. It is a small way to reduce the amount of stuff I throw away, but really if you think about it, using two cotton balls per day really adds up. I was actually using four cotton balls every day, one in the morning, one at night and one for each eye to remove makeup. So I made some of my squares into rectangles to use for makeup removal. I love them and I can't believe I did not think of this earlier. I still catch myself going toward the trash can out of habit, but that should decrease over time. Unfortunately the yarn is just that cheap Peaches & Creme stuff you can find at Wal-Mart and just about everywhere else and the colors fade very quickly. Although, with mine, it is not a big deal partly because I just don't care and partly because the green stripes fade to yellow, which still makes them yellow and white.
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I don't know how I heard about this or how I found it online, but there is apparently a raw food diet for cats and dogs. Now to me, feeding your animals raw makes perfect sense. Depending on the food you might buy at pet stores there are different amounts of nasty stuff in them. Whether it is meat by-products or grain or corn or even ash(I have seen that on a cat food ingredient list) even if those things aren't doing anything bad to your animal, at the very least that is the stuff you are picking out of the yard or cleaning out of the litter box. Cats and dogs have no use for corn or ash, that stuff is just filler. Now, that being said, if I had the money and the places to buy quality organic meat for my animals (granted I don't even eat that well) I would do it. But I don't have a lot of resources, plus I am not an animal nutrition expert so I would not feel comfortable feeding my cats random kinds of meat and nothing else. I would imagine that feeding cats and dogs whole animals like rabbits or small chickens with fur and everything else still attached would be ideal, and you probably would not have to add vitamins or vegetables. But, that assumes the whole animals you buy were able to run around and eat flowers and grass and were not pumped full of hormones and other bad things. Also, raw bones are supposed to be good for keeping teeth clean (apparently chicken or turkey necks, as gross as that sounds, have softer bones so there is less worry of the animal choking). If I can do something to make my cats' teeth and breath better without spending hundreds of dollars at the vet for teeth cleaning, I am willing to do that. So basically, I have decided I am going to try to add raw food to my cats' normal kibble/canned food diet whenever I can get it. I have a feeling it will take some time to get them used to the idea of eating bones, but I think they will like it eventually. It might even make them feel like big wild cats, and what house cat wouldn't like that?
