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From: bron@iastate.edu (bronwyn)
Subject: Re: Excessive water drinking - and possible constipation
Originator: bron@aviator.cc.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:54:46 GMT

In article <H.eg.qDY3X_aZnjA@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca writes:
>My cat seems to be drinking an awful lot of water lately, and going to the
>litterbox a lot more often.  Sometimes it seems he is not doing anything in
>there.  He goes in, waits ten seconds or so, and then leaves.
>
>Is this an indicator that something is seriously wrong or is he just not
>feeling well?

This could be an indicator of an infection (which could be serious).  Call
your vet.  Can you tell if your cat is trying to urinate?  If so, it mirrors
the symptoms of an infection (commonly called a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
in humans) which is irritating to the cat, and hard to fight off.

--
Bronwyn J Scrutton                                          bron@iastate.edu
Project Vincent                                               (515) 294-4994
                    If it's not one thing, it's Bronwyn.
From: 00cmmiller@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Squirrel Hunting Cat (mine fetches, too)
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:59:52 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <28338@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara) writes:
> 
> Perhaps this has been discussed before (I'm new to the group) but I figured
> I had to bring this up:
> Our cat Hobbes (a red tabby) has taken to hunting squirrels and bringing
> us their bodies...not the heads, mind you, just the bodies. What he does
> with their heads we don't know (we think he's working on pile of 
> squirrel skulls somewhere in the backyard). He usually leaves these "gifts"
> on our dining room floor. Nice, huh?
> Anyway, has anyone else had an experience like this?  Maybe he doesn't like
> his Science Diet? :^)


my boyfriend's family has a cat named roxy who decapitates her victims...
usually chipmunks.  we were wondering about the heads ourselves.  maybe
it's some strange cat cult.....something to think about.

also, my cat (abby) watches tv, *but* only if there are cats on.  big
cats, little cats, any cats.  she turns away if a dog comes on.  no
kidding.  she also fetches.  seriously.  does anyone else have a cat
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
Subject: Re: Change in diet
Organization: Titan Linkabit Corporation
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:33:43 GMT

I'm wondering many of the same things.  I've been feeding my monster
Iams and Nutri/Max and he has the stinkiest poop you can imagine.  Minutes
after a poop the entire apartment smells incredibly bad.  As you can 
imagine, I'm very good about cleaning his cat box.

I tried Science Diet once, but my cat hated it.  He acted like he would
rather starve than eat it.

--
Nancy P. Milligan 				npm@dale.cts.com
Titan Linkabit		San Diego, CA		cts!dale!npm
		  Gravity is no laughing matter.
From: barryf@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Barry Fowler)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:27:30 GMT
Subject: Re: cat in heat?
Organization: HP Colorado Computer Mfg. Operation
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats

I delayed spaying my indoor female for about 2 years.  A secondary problem
I ran in to is that my neutered male started marking in the home
(never mated, spayed at about 6 months, never was outside).  I finally
got tired of the yowling and got her spayed.

The marking stopped and the cat is a bit more mellow (although not a lot).

There is also a higher probability of breast cancer in unspayed female cats.

She survived the operation well.  I was supposed to "keep her quiet" for 
a week.  I think that lasted about 4 hours.
From: ambar@cygnus.com (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cat static!
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:50:17 GMT
	<C0FC8y.CqD@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Redheads Anonymous
In-reply-to: bron@iastate.edu's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:43:45 GMT

In article <C0FC8y.CqD@news.iastate.edu> bron@iastate.edu (bronwyn) writes:

   Please note that cats *do* wash themselves, and there *are* some 
   fabric softener sheets out there that would harm the little loveys if
   some of the nasty stuff got into their innards.  Might want to consult
   a vet about the active/inactive ingredients.

Good point.  I use an anti-static spray/coat gloss on my li'l monsters
when prepping for show.  While it lists no ingredients, my guess is that
it's a silicone preparation, much like Absorbine's Showsheen, sold to
the equine fraternity.  My spray is 'Ring 5 Coat Gloss'.  A well-stocked
pet store might have a similar product.

(This is why I don't use a squirt bottle for discipline--I want them to
stand still when they hear the hiss of a sprayer, not flee for the
hills. :-)
				AMBAR
From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cat static!
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:13:53 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

> In article <C0FE6G.EBt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>>Bronwyn J. Scrutton writes:
>>> but a humidifier took care of the problem (AND my dry skin!).
>>I agree that a humidifier is the best solution to problems brought on by a 
>>dry room, but if you do get one, be sure to try an evaporative humidifier 
>>before you get an ultrasonic one.  

Hm, my cure for statick-y cats is a quick rubdown with a used fabric softener
sheet, or a little sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate dissolved in water and
dried onto a washrag.  (DOS is just a mild detergent, commonly used as
a stool softener.)

Kay Klier  Biology Dept  UNI
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Amputation
From: <FHSKRS@BYUVM.BITNET>
Date: Friday, 8 Jan 1993 13:24:36 MST
Organization: Brigham Young University

As some of you may remember, one of my cats was hit by a car last fall.
She survived without broken bones or internal injuries, but her right
front paw was nerve-damaged.  Well, its been about 4 months now and
there is no improvement.  She either hops around on three legs or
walks on her "elbow" (low-slung in front, hind-end elevated!).  Her
paw has no movement or feeling and the joint ("wrist") is starting
to stiffen.  The vet thinks we need to take off the paw.  I find this
quite distressing!  I know it's probably for the best, and since the
crippled paw hasn't slowed her down, I doubt that losing it altogether
probably won't either.  But I guess I'm just an emotional human!  Any
words of advice or consolation or encouragement would be greatly
appreciated!
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From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
Subject: Re: new black kitty
Organization: Titan Linkabit Corporation
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Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:44:58 GMT

I came up with bunches of names for black cats when I was trying
to name Taboo.  Here's the ones I remember:

Inky
Rorschach (like the ink blot)
Lucifur
Beelzebub
Prints (Play on the word Prince)
(I can't recall it, but the name of the black panther in the Jungle Book).

Congrats on the new kitty!

--
Nancy P. Milligan 				npm@dale.cts.com
San Diego, CA
		  Gravity is no laughing matter.
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: is it too cold?
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:10:06 GMT
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Distribution: na
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In <1ifmunINNqch@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> amys@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Amy Schlotthauer) writes:

>SO, don't you all agree that it is cruel and unusual punishment for my
>cats to have to spend the night in 63 degrees?

Hell, we keep our *house* at around 65F. Our two girls sleep with us, but the 
two cats that came with the house we're renting are used to being able to go 
outside at night. So every evening we put them out in the rec room (where the
cat flap is), which is unheated and probably around 50F. They don't seem to 
mind it at all. They have rugs to sleep on, and being outdoor cats their fur 
got thicker as the weather got colder.

If you have multiple cats, they'll sleep together for warmth if they're cold.
That and some sort of rug/towel to curl up on will be just fine.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: SUMMARY: Help needed with stinky tools
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:25:06 GMT

The situation was that after my cat had a bowel movement, the poop
would be incredibly stinky.  The recommended solutions agree on
changing the cat's food.  The majority of the posts recommended Iams
for relatively stinkless poop.  The other recommended brands are dry
Meow Mix, wet Friskies and dry Science Diet, and one reply recommended
any flavor of yogurt containing "live cultures".  In tests, it seems
dry Science Diet not only helps with other aspects of the cat's
health, it reduces the stinkiness of their poop.

In addition to the new diet, I will try changing to a different brand
of cat litter for the litter box.  If anyone is interest in my
findings, I'll post what happened.

-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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From: LJ01066@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: dry food,distilled water
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:41:37 PST

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: kkv@inel.gov (Jamie J Ferguson)
Subject: Re: dry food,distilled water
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:48:44 GMT


One of my cats throws up alot but I think his problem is mostly
because he gets constipated and then throws up because he doesn't
feel good.  We have him on Metamucil for the constipation because
the high-fiber cat food didn't work for some reason (it was a
while ago and I can't remember why), and he gets sick less than
he used to.  Its still pretty irritating, though.  The dogs love
to help clean it up (YUCK!).  This may not be the same problem,
but I'd be interested in anything which might keep him from
throwing up (especially since our house is brand new -- we did
get stain resistant carpet, but who knows how long it will last!).

Jamie

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Any cat that keeps throwing up despite measures you take could very
well be a viral or bacterial infection.  A vet visit would certainly
be in order if it persists.
From: ac999257@umbc3.umbc.edu (ac999257)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Cats and TV
Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:38:41 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
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I'd like to know if anyone else's cat does this. Carmen watches
TV. Seriously! She sits on the end of my lazyboy recliner in the
meatloaf position and watches TV for about 15 minutes at a time
before curling up against my leg. The other night, a special
on cats was on and she noticed it from her curled up position.
She sat up and watched. The camera zoomed in on a cat face and
she growled! Then they showed kittens. She got up, walked to the
TV and stretched up and pawed the screen. This is NOT an isolated
incident! And I'm totally serious!

By the way, she's siamese. Do you think that has
anything to do with it? Agnes, the DSH, could care less about
the TV. Kitty, my deceased siamese, used to sit on top of the
TV and hang her head down to watch football. She pawed at the
football and obviously was a Steeler fan.

Mary :)
From: kleiman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Aileen Kelmartin)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Caring for cat after surgery
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:23:04 GMT
Reply-To: kleiman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Aileen Kelmartin)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


Let me start off by saying please no flames for having my cat declawed.

Anyway, today my cat is being spayed and declawed.  I decided to do
them both at the same time so that she is only under anesthesia once
instead of twice.  My vet requires that she stay two nights due to the
declaw.  Does anyone have any good advice on how to treat/care for her
when I take her home?  I have been told to act like she still has claws
for a while by ouching when playing... etc.

Thanks in advance.

Aileen
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
Subject: Re: HELP! Kitten poops in bathtub.
Organization: Titan Linkabit Corporation
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:27:10 GMT

I've read in various animal behavior books that you should put kitty's 
bedding and food where they've been pooping, if you want to break them
of the habit.  They won't poops where they eats.

(But you're lucky it's the tub and not the middle of your bed, eh?)

Nancy M.

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Nancy P. Milligan 				npm@dale.cts.com
Titan Linkabit					cts!dale!npm
		  Gravity is no laughing matter.
From: dan@msen.com (Dan Sugalski)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cats and TV
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:08:49 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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ac999257 (ac999257@umbc3.umbc.edu) wrote:
: I'd like to know if anyone else's cat does this. Carmen watches
: TV. Seriously! She sits on the end of my lazyboy recliner in the
: meatloaf position and watches TV for about 15 minutes at a time
: before curling up against my leg. The other night, a special
: on cats was on and she noticed it from her curled up position.
: She sat up and watched. The camera zoomed in on a cat face and
: she growled! Then they showed kittens. She got up, walked to the
: TV and stretched up and pawed the screen. This is NOT an isolated
: incident! And I'm totally serious!

: By the way, she's siamese. Do you think that has
: anything to do with it? Agnes, the DSH, could care less about
: the TV. Kitty, my deceased siamese, used to sit on top of the
: TV and hang her head down to watch football. She pawed at the
: football and obviously was a Steeler fan.

: Mary :)
 
My cats watch tv too.  Spike will tell you to pick him up so that he has a
comfortable spot.  Durin and Wills sit on top of or in front of the set.
Durin has always wondered where the people go when they walk out of a
scene and will check out the back and sides of the tv.

Star Trek is a favorite show.  Wills is named for Will Riker, as Wills
likes to strike dramatic poses. :)  Dr. Who doesn't do too much for the
gang.

My German Shepherd will watch shows about horses.  She also gets upset
when the sounds used for a cat or horse came from a distressed or angry
animal. 

Karen
From: am2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anna Matyas)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: cats' eye sight
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:01:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.UfHMYk_00WBK01NXsc
Organization: H&SS Dean's Office, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Can someone explain what kind of eye sight cats have?  Do they see
colors?  Does their day/night vision differ?  Gracie stares at my hands
a lot (she knows where the petting comes from!) and I'd love to know
just what she's seeing.  She also likes to get nose-to-nose with me and
we have stare-offs (she always wins).  I'd love to know what she sees
when she looks into my eyes at close range like that.  Thanks.

Anna

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and, little by little, they
become its visible soul."  -Jean Cocteau, French poet and filmmaker
From: zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cats and whistling
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:09:38 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Mine just looked up and me and seemed annoyed when I tried it, so I stopped.

John
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From: hui@apaturia.trl.OZ.AU (Alvaro Hui)
Subject: Preparing cat pregnancy..How??
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:39:55 GMT

Hi,

	My cat went away from home before I got her fixed...
	After much discussion with my other family members,
we decided to let her has her kittens....

	So, how does one prepare a cat for her pregnancy??
What are the sign(s) of "this is now the time for the new
kittens to be born"?

Thanks a lot for any information provided!!

Alvaro,
a.hui@trl.oz.au
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: fahn@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Paul Fahn)
Subject: getting kittens -- advice sought
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:07:54 GMT

My wife and I are planning to get two kittens soon, and we were wondering:
should we get littermates (siblings) or not? What are the advantages
and disadvantages?

Thanks,

Paul
From: dan@msen.com (Dan Sugalski)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Indoor/Outdoor, another perspective
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:00:44 GMT
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ac999257 (ac999257@umbc3.umbc.edu) wrote:
...
: And what about other things like feline leukemia. Those of you who
: let your cats outside -- have you had your cats properly vaccinated
: and do you keep those vaccinations current? And there are lots
: of other contageous diseases. There are a lot more reasons to keep a
: cat inside than there are to let it outside.

Also remember that no vaccine is 100% effective.

Karen

Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: noe@cs.uiuc.edu (Roger Noe)
Subject: Re: choose him or your cats??????
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Comp Sci, Urbana, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:47:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.023601.5939@math.ucla.edu> ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez) writes:
>I tried sending this message, but it bounced back. It is in response to the
>23 year old woman whose boyfriend was trying to force her to choose between
>him and her cats.  
>
>To: dante@nmsw.edu
>Subject: your boyfriend and cats
...
>There are plenty of other men out there.  Can you REALLY be happy with
>someone so anal-retentive, so over-controlling?  Are you cats demanding
>that you choose between them or him?  If he is making this demand, he 
>obviously cares more for his own comfort than your happiness....
...
>Right now he wants you go give up your cats.  As time goes by, what else is
>he going to demand you give up or lose him?  Ditch the bastard, you can do
>better.

I agree, and would recommend to all women in similar positions to dump
the boyfriend rather than the cat(s).  Men like this are really just
hulking, smelly, noisy, stupid dog-people.  Men who are more cat-like
(and who like cats) are better groomed, quieter, smarter, more
affectionate, and cuter.  You can keep them inside all the time so you
know they don't have other girlfriends, something you can't do with
dog-boys.  Instead of slobbering all over your ear they'll purr
sweetly and tell you how important you are to them.  And after
cuddling next to you all night, sharing body heat, they'll wake you up
at 4:30 a.m. saying, "I want breakfast!  Now!"

Hey, nobody's perfect.

:-)
--
Roger Noe                            noe@cs.uiuc.edu
Department of Computer Science       40:06:39 N.  88:13:41 W.
University of Illinois               (217) 244-6173
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: kkv@inel.gov (Jamie J Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Change in diet
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 22:16:28 GMT


Zak, my problem cat, gets blood in his stool on occasion.   It only
seems to occur when his poop is really large, so I don't worry.  He
goes to the vet so often I'm sure I'd soon find out if it was
something major.  (His last trip was the night before Thanksgiving,
when he managed to develop FUS and I got to pay $60 because no
one was open.)


Jamie

*********************************************************************
     canines:  Kenzie -- 1 yr old black Lab X
               Meggin -- 8 month old Australian Shepherd X
               Harry  -- 4 month old Border Collie X

     felines:  Kieri  -- 5 1/2 yr old lilac point Siamese
               Zak    -- 5 1/2 yr old blue point Siamese
               Duke   -- 1 yr old seal point Siamese
*********************************************************************
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Subject: Re: Low Magnesium Cat Foot?
From: kristen@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Kristen McQuillin)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:22:21 GMT
Organization: Telerama
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

ELISE MARIE MEYER (emm@voodoo.physics.ucsb.edu) wrote:

: Does anyone know of any low Magnesium cat foods?

My vet recommended Alpo in cans as the only off-the-shelf tinned cat
food with an acceptable Mg level for post-FUS cats. Purina Special
Care is the low Mg dry that I feed my cats, and they not only seem to
be FUS-free, but they LIKE it!

Science Diet and Iams both got the cold shoulder from Clothilde and Eliot.
From: nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Homemade Cat Food
Date: 7 Jan 93 08:15:25 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <1993Jan6.233439.18224@capalo.ingr.com>, joann@capalo.ingr.com (Joann Miller) writes:
> Does anyone out there make their catfood?  I found some recipes
> in a Cat Care Book which includes mashed vegetables, brewers
> yeast, etc.  I followed the recipe for fish and my little dearies
> stuck up their noses!  I also have a recipe for using liver, 
> poultry and beef products, such as heart but haven't tried them
> yet.  I would be happy to share if anyone is interested.

I cook for mine - and it's a decision I don't regret.  Some of my kitties
seemed to be having a problem with food allergies (I suspected the color added
to commercial cat food - and canned food is just too expensive for 7 cats).  So
I started cooking for them.  The basic recipe is ground meat (I use turkey -
you can use beef, chicken, NOT PORK), liver, rice, water, salt, cooking oil
(just a little) and I add vitamins and a can of tuna (with the oil).  I also
chose to add greens (kale, collards, turnip).  

Nancy
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