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From: bob.hines%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Bob Hines)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Naming cat behaviors
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: bob.hines%travel@wugate.wustl.edu (Bob Hines)
Organization: Travel Online, St. Louis, MO


EJ>Our cat does a "Meeeeeeooooooow" kind of thing where the pitch drops
EJ>quite a bit in the middle (usually translates as "why the &^%&^ haven't
EJ>you fed me yet!")

EJ>Anyway, I call this "doppler cat"...

Low doppler at that!

Bob

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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: krissie@locus.com (Krissie Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Cathandle Position was Naming cat behaviors
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 21:27:55 GMT

>>floor in order to clean its back end, with one back leg pointing
>>skywards (a la radio aerial - hence "tuning in").
>
>A friend calls it "playing the fiddle." :-)
>
my someone special and i call it "transmitting."  i think they are transmitting
state secrets to the russians :-)  and of course there is long range and 
short range transmission, depending on the height of the leg.  

kg


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anything i eat or wear and i try to use products that have not involved 
animal testing.
From: bette@wc.novell.com (Elizabeth Brennan)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Please Help... I think my cat is ill
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:57:52 GMT
Reply-To: bette@wc.novell.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In <59955@mimsy.umd.edu> dawn@umiacs.umd.edu (Dawn Vance) writes:

>Mimi has problems with tartar and had her teeth cleaned last week for the 2nd 
>time since I've owned her (2.6 years). The vet that did the cleaning told me
>that it took a long time to put her down because she is overweight, and
>it would also take a long time for the anesthesia to wear off. I was
>prepared for her to be groggy for 6 hours or so, but it took approx.
>30 hours!! I called the vet after approx. 20 hours and was told *again*
>that because she is overweight, the medicine takes longer to leave her
>system. I was advised to call back the next day if Mimi wasn't better.

>Anyway, it's been 1 week since the cleaning and she is eating and drinking 
>next to nothing. It appears that she has lost weight but I won't know 
>conclusively until they weigh her tomorrow. She won't eat more than a morsel
>of the soft food I gave her (she normally eats dry SD light) and she will
>only taste a tiny bit of the tuna fish I offer. She looks at the food 
>almost as if she is frightened by it. A couple of times this week, I've seen
>her go to her bowl, begin to slowly eat a little, then let out a painful noise
>and run like hell to her sanctuary (under my bed). I've also seen her gag
>on the food and drop it. Yesterday, I found a chunk of the food in the middle
>of the hallway as if she'd dropped it mid-run.

I don't know about the howling after eating but other than that, the
symptoms are almost identical to those suffered by my cat several years
ago after being sedated for a plane trip.  After many false leads the
vet(s) narrowed it down to some sort of liver disease. MaiTai recovered
just fine, but the condition is still present and she really can't
take any sedation for things like cleanings anymore.

Make sure the vet runs blood tests to look for liver trouble. If (s)he
won't, find another vet asap.

Just my 0.02.

Good Luck
Bette   (bette@novell.com)
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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Bobcats
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 17:44:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.223430.3509@pixel.kodak.com> young@serum.kodak.com writes:
>In article <1992Aug22.004006.17100@plx.com> ann@plx.com (Ann Lindstrom) writes:
>>For antone out there that thinks a wild animal makes a good pet - forget it. I
>
>	else recently asked about keeping a snow leopard and was told
>	by my local zoo that it would have to be four-foot declawed and
>	totally de-fanged before it would be safe as a pet.  

I'm not sure even that would be enough. I read somewhere years ago that, just
like small cats, Big Cats' tongues are rough - rough enough to seriously abrade
human skin. Not pleasant. 

I suspect any cat bigger than a bobcat would have to be drastically mutilated
to make it "safe" as a pet. Cruel to the animal, and then it's no longer the
beautiful creature it was meant to be.
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From: cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu (cindy davies)
Subject: Re: Naming Hurricane Kittens 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 01:34:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.184154.28220@cs.tulane.edu> coimay@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu writes:
>
>Anyway, I want to name the kittens after hurricanes.  There are two boys
>and two girls for sure and the remaining two are still uncertain.  One
>will definitely get Andrew, another will be Hugo.  Then there's Camille
>and Betsy, two hurricanes that have hit Louisiana.  I also want to use
>Hazel since it hit Toronto where I used to live, though before I was
>born.  Any other suggestions?  Particularly boys names since they've
>only been using them recently.
>
Omar
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From: heather@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Heather Taylor)
Subject: Re: Naming cat behaviors
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:19:06 GMT

gt1167b@prism.gatech.EDU (Christie Shackelford) writes:


>Almost all cats like to go to the highest surface they can reach
>and look down, while leaning way out from their perch with their
>head stuck out and down from the neck.  I call this vulturing.
>Fermi does it all the time to keep an eye on Dixie.

This sounds familiar!  Caramel (year-old HUGE tabby) jumps from
the kitchen table to the fridge to the top of the door to the top
of the kitchen cupboards, and either vultures (if we're doing
something interesting below) or just relaxes and surveys her
domain.  She doesn't like the cupboard doors left open, either
(but that's another story...)

Heather, mom to the sweetest puss ever

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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: help! piggy kitty
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:43:18 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Aug21.202433.7419@auto-trol.com> katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
>fstruwe@unlinfo.unl.edu (franklin struwe) writes:

>I have had MUCH MUCH better luck with the opposite approach. By the time
>Christopher was 1 year old, he weighed 23 1/2 lbs.  I put him on Hills
>R/D to take the weight off. He's now down to a lithe (really) 18 3/4 lbs.
>and he gets low calorie canned and dry food.  However, I leave dry food
>out all the time, so he is never hungry.  I feed him Whiskas Expert low
>calorie canned food once a day, when I get home from work. He does tend
>to start asking for canned food a couple of hours early when I'm home,
>but it is just *asking*, not begging and howling, and it's kind of cute.

>Kathy

I have to second the suggestion.  You have ruled out worms?  Is the cat 
overweight?
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From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Food for FUS cats
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:34:45 GMT

amd@ghost.mit.edu (Ann M. Davis) writes:
] My sister has a cat (female) with FUS.  Currently she is buying this
] really expensive perscription cat food from the Vet.  I was wondering
] what other people feed their cats with FUS. What brand? is it wet
] or dry? Other supplements?

Well - for a while the group was doing just fine with 
Whiskas Expert.  Then the kitten (she's just now a bit
over a year) got FUS also.  Only difference was she
was drinking out of the toilet tank (NOT the bowl).  I
have gritty, chunky, chewable water, so I have concluded
that hard water is a PRIME culprit in FUS problems.

I put her on the prescription diet that I had for my 
male, and closed the tank and made sure that they ONLY
had distilled water.  I also gave her the antibiotics
and urisept from the vet.

I then got a LARGE bag of Hills low-cal from a pet store.
So far feeding all of them that and the distilled water
has kept any further problems at bay.  I may try going
back to the Expert when this bag is gone, since it is
less expensive (somewhat - if found on sale).

Anyway - point being - be sure you get the GOOD variety
of food from a distributor.  Look for the ingredient 
dl-methionine HIGH on the list of ingredients (Be sure
it IS there).  And ONLY give the cat distilled water -
purified if that's all that's available - but distilled
seems to be the best.

Diana
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From: jmwojtal@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Wojo)
Subject: Re: Cat Antlers
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:58:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.192755.14187@a.cs.okstate.edu> hamon@a.cs.okstate.edu (HAMON SHARON ANN) writes:
>Has anyone seen these?  They are soft reindeer antlers attached to a
>piece of cloth with a strap that goes under the cat's chin.  Saw them
>in a McCrory's the other day.  Cute, but what cat would actually put
>up with wearing them?  And in what circumstances would an owner actually
>want their cat to wear them?  Comments, anyone?
>
>Sharon

I remember I would put barrets in my cats fur, but she would just pull then
out.   Another time while my brother was having a birthday party, my sister
took some streamers and put them around her neck.  It looked cute, but our
cat would give me this "Why must I put up with this" look when I took her
picture.  In fact, I think she was avoiding me when I got the camera. :-).


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From: C11815@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Josette Giacobbi)
Subject: Re: Cats sitting on paper
Organization: Motorola
Date: 4 Sep 1992 10:36:18 CDT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: tastewar@athena.mit.edu (Tom Stewart)
Subject: Re: Why Do Cats Sit on Paper?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:40:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.011552.16719@panix.com> kgs@panix.com (Karen Schneider) wri
>
>This has probably been addressed before, but why is it that
>cats will zero in on the teensiest piece of paper and plop themselves
>down on top of it?  Not that I'm complaining--it's just that after
>twelves years with His Royal Highness I'd like an answer, and he's
>not forthcoming...

Sorry, I don't have the answer to your question, but our two are
the same way, one more than the other.  I think that they don't
like to be associated with the background (floor, table, bed), but
prefer to be on some"thing" (piece of paper, 5"x5" wedding album,
piece of clothing) in the foreground (can't think of better terms).

Marion seems to like the challenge of fitting her butt on the
smallest scrap of paper (or whatever) and fitting herself in the
smallest boxes.  She's a cutie!

Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: ssieling@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sarah A Sieling)
Subject: cat and stove
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:44:42 GMT


One on my cats, Lola - about 5 years old, has suddenly started getting up on 
the stove when no one is around and urinating on the burner.  This is a 
electric stove so it is easy for her to sit on the cold burner.  Any one have 
any ideas about what is going on?  Nothing smells worse than hot cat pee.  
Everytime we use the stove we have to check the burner drip pans to make sure 
they are dry.  This is not a joke, it is really happening and we are just about
at the end of our patience.
From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: The real reason for that flat tire...
Date: 3 Sep 92 04:34:10 GMT
Organization: Yet Another Graphics Project, Bellevue, WA

Seen in my headlights as I was driving home tonight:  a small orange
and white cat very earnestly sharpening its claws on the tire of a
parked car.

Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.boeing.com  // or uunet!bcstec!voodoo!das
From: smp@aquarius1.Berkeley.EDU (Susan M Painter)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: New kitties (WAS Re: kitties have to be siblings?)
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:11:33 GMT
Reply-To: smp@aquarius1.Berkeley.EDU (Susan M Painter)

In article <1992Sep1.171444.26962@rsg1.er.usgs.gov>, ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder) writes:
|> One question - Has anyone tried mixing several different brands of
|> dry kitten foods together and feeding them that way? So far I've
|> fed them Iams, Purina Kitten chow, and 2 other brands whose names
|> escape me right now. I was wondering if it would be OK to mix them 
|> all together. 
|> 

I mix Iams and Hills cat food for the cats and Iams and Hills dog food for
the dog.  A friend once suggested this because of buying food in bulk.  When
I buy a bag of animal food, the animal eats this food for the next month or so.
If for some strange reason that particular bag did not contain all of it's X
nutrient then the animal would be without that particular nutrient until I
bought the next bag (a month or so later) by mixing two brands chances are
that all the necessary nutrients are covered.  This process doesn't seem to
hurt any of the animals and it may just help them.  They don't care, I seem to
attract chow hounds for animals.  They probably would eat anything I gave them.

Sue Painter
Minnesota
From: young@serum.kodak.com
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Food for FUS cats
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:33:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Aug28.183347.6336
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Originator: young@sasquatch

In article <cchapman.131.715021858@matd.gatech.edu> cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman) writes:

[...]

>There's also Special Care that is made buy one of the regular
>pet food companies (Purina, maybe?).  It's available in the
>grocery store and it's designed to lower the pH of your cat's
>urine, presumeably to dissolve the offending crystals.  It's
>a dry food and I use it in combination with canned Science
>Diet and Iams.  It's worked so far -- Buzz hasn't had any
>recurrence of FUS for over a year now.

	Dad's Gourmet Blend is another "grocery store" brand that's in the
	same mold as Special Care, but with an even lower ash content.


-Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
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From: carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett)
Subject: Re: Fake peeing
Summary: Be SURE this isn't a medical problem...
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:47:00 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1274@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
>You know how a male cat looks when it sprays?  How it backs up to something,
>raises its tail and then the tail quivers as it sprays?
>
>Well, my neutered male cat does that but nothing comes out!  He does
>it quite often.  Understand, I'm glad nothing comes out but I'm
>wondering why he performs this pantomime.

Yes, it's possible that this is just behavioral, but your description is
just vague enough to set off warning claxons in my head.

Make absolutely sure that yuor cat is not having problems urinating, which
can be a sign of blocked/infected kidneys.  Unfortunately, this is more common
in cats than we'd like to imagine.  It can lead to blood poisoning in a matter
of hours - all too often fatal.

As we've discussed, this is PROBABLY behavioral, but keep an eye to the
litter box and make sure that your cat is emptying regularly.  If not, your
vet should be visited ASAP (not tomorrow, today!).

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From: 00mnkuhnke@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Unknown cat behavior
Date: 31 Aug 92 02:10:32 GMT

I have a white Hymilain Persian, Campbell, and his tan brother Franklin, 
both of which do some pretty strange things in the cat box. I have tried this
new litter that turns all of there "stuff" into cement. Well, Both enjoy
this new litter but Campbell can not get enough of it.  He will dig for 
about ten minutes before, then do his thing, and then bury it for another
ten minutes.  Just when it looks like he is done he puts one front paw on the
side of the box and wipes his other paw against the platic side of the box
 not the litter.  It looks like he is getting the little stones out of his
toes, but he does it for another ten minutes.  After he is done "Pawing" every
side of the cat box, bath tub, toilet and door he finally goes to lie down.
what is he doing!
From: mlinda@ca.novell.com (M'Linda Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Goodbye Thomasina-the-cute
Keywords: I'm in shock.
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:27:04 GMT
Reply-To: mlinda@ca.novell.com (M'Linda Taylor)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Novell, Inc., Austin, Texas

I guess I'm mostly a lurker....but there are those of you who
have seen me sign off with "Mom-cat to Rio-the-LOUD and 
Thomasina-the-cute".

Last night at 11:00 Thomasina began having moderate problems
breath so I called the Emergency Clinic who said to bring 
her in if she got any worse or was running a fever.  As soon
as I tried to take her temp. she collapsed and began choking.

I rushed her to the vets who said it was major bad news.
A undetected cardiac problem, he didn't know if she would
make it through the night.  He put her on oxygen and a 
VERY slow i.v. (her lungs were *full* of fluid).  She perked
up enough to purr when I gave her a good cuddle prior to 
going home to try and get some rest....and to wait.... They
had me sign a authorization to put her down if it got too 
bad.  An hour later I got the call.  My little girl had had
a rapid decline and was not going to make it.  She was
suffering too much to wait for me to drive across town to
be there for her so I told the vet to give her a hug and
tell her what a GOOD girl she always was and then I said
a prayer and asked that two of my other cats (Cindy and
Kiran) meet her at the gate.

She was only two and gave me sooooo much.  She'll never
follow me into the bathroom to protect me from the bath
tub again or save me from the man eating rubber snake.

I have to go now....it's time to stop crying before 
some one at work freaks out.  There was just no
warning.  From the time she started having problems
to the end was only 2.5 hours.

Time for a net *hug* folks, I just moved here and don't
have any friends yet.

M'Linda


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From: jmcburn@iat.holonet.net (Joye P. McBurnett)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: kitties have to be siblings?
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:52:14 GMT
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)

KAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu () writes:
: Hi it's my first post......
: My husband and I are looking to get two kitties.  They'll be our firsts.  My qu
: estion is this...we want two kitties to keep each other company and I've read
: that they should be the same gender, but do they also have to be siblings?
: 
: The animal shelters in our area don't have any siblings, and circumstances
: dictate that we get them soon so I don't know as I want to wait until a pair of
: kitties become available.  Help?  Anyone have any experience with this?
: 
: Thanks, Karen.

Either way has worked fine for me.  I've had Buster and Smudge (both
neutered males) since they were tiny kittens (they're 2 years old now), but
they didn't know each other til I got them.  They're best buds now,
sleeping on each other, grooming each other and so on.  I just recently got
two kittens from the same litter, a male and a female.  It could be that
they're bonding because of dealing with Buster and Smudge (who resent them
at the moment), or because they were born together, but they're great
friends too.  But then, Buster and Smudge had to deal with Jello, our older
female cat (who's not with us anymore :( ), and that may have had
something to do with their bonding so easily.  I guess it depends on the
individual cats.

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From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: kitties have to be siblings?
Summary: No!
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:22:35 GMT
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston VA

In article <92240.112210KAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu> <KAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Hi it's my first post......
>My husband and I are looking to get two kitties.  They'll be our firsts.  My qu
>estion is this...we want two kitties to keep each other company and I've read
>that they should be the same gender, but do they also have to be siblings?
>
I was just adopted by two kittens that I got from the Shelter, and they
are not siblings. But they get along *wonderfully*. They sleep together,
groom each other and play with each other. Now if I can only come up
with names for them. Let me introduce them to the net. One is a 10 week
calico (female of course) polydactyl, the other is an 8 week female brown
tabby terror. I was also looking for 2 kittens from the same litter and
found it hard to find the ones I wanted, but I was really attracted to
these two. Kittens are soooo cute! I already have a few stories about
them, but I'll save them for later.

Steve