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From: nvrswt@nul.orst.edu (Never Sweat)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Cat names
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:44:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: nul.nvrswt.4
Organization: The Opinion Factory

This might be a place to satisfy my curiosity about a cat name.

One of my former wives got me a kitten and named him Anqua.  She said that 
it was Greek for "life's lover", or "lover of life".  I have always thought 
it a 'purfect' name for a cat, especialy him, but I've always wondered if 
she was right.

Does anyone know what 'anqua' really means?
From: moe@rainier.lib.washington.edu (Joe Shippert)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Normal behavior for kittens?
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:40:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct16.194053.17411
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Washington Libraries, Seattle


Once again in my house the is the pitter-patter of little kitten feet. This
time, though, we have two kittens, both strays, not from the same litter.

Not being used to having to young ones, what should I expect from them? What 
is normal kitten behavior with each other?

-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
moe@u.washington.edu

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace - in peace sons bury 
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From: afdenis@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison)
Subject: Re: How to remove cat urine from bedding?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Ancient Souls Inc.
Date: 13 Oct 1992 16:11 EST  

Well, I have a hypersensitive sense of smell, but the following method is 
one I have found to be virtually foolproof for removing cat urine (and its 
associated odor) from bedding ...

	1)	Peel back the bedding to expose the affected area.

	2) 	Apply lighter fluid to all stained fabric.

	3) 	Apply lighter fluid to all areas surrounding the affected 
		area.

	4) 	Light the bed.

	5) 	Bury the ashes of the bed at least 12 feet deep.

	6)	Sprinkle Brut 33 and holy water on the burial site.

	7)	Move to another state.

.. and sometimes, you can *still* smell it. :-)

-- Stephen

     Though *believing* in things often wounds the spirit, *not* believing 
     in anything will eventually kill it. Therefore, *dream* ... and accept 
     the costs as reasonable.
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From: hyler@jaana.ast.saic.com (Buffy Hyler)
Subject: Re: Farting Kitten
Reply-To: hyler@jaana.ast.saic.com
Organization: SAIC
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:22:31 GMT

One thing that also may help is just time.  Our family was adopted
by two 3 months old kittens last November at the Humane Society.  Both
these kittens, but especially one, were very flatulent.  Diet made
no difference.  They did have worms during a one month period which
was mostly evident by the diarehha from one of the kittens.  But the
flatulence went on until they were just about 11-12 months old.  And
now neither of my kittens/cats has any problems whatsoever.  So you
might just want to give your 7 month old a little more time to just
outgrow it.

Good luck!
---
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Buffy Hyler (hyler@jaana.ast.saic.com)
SAIC, Campus Point
San Diego, California
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From: jmcburn@iat.holonet.net (Joye P. McBurnett)
Subject: Re: Farting Kitten
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:39:53 GMT

dgordon@gssec.bt.co.uk (David Gordon) write
: Trouble is she has a problem that not even her best friends will
: tell her about - she has *THE* most disgusting gas/wind (depending on
: what side of the Atlantic you are) problem. When she farts it is as
: though she has had a serious accident and the smell usually clings to
: her fur for 10 - 15 minutes giving the impression of a dose of the 
: runs that she's forgotten to clean up properly.  :-(
: 
: She has been fed on both dry and tinned food - to no avail. Can
: anyone suggest a cure before I throw up on my nice new lounge carpet ?

Try putting a dollop of plain yogurt on her food every day.  The bacteria
in the yogurt often counter-act the wind problem.  This is the only way my
friend's dog Shane is able to come in the house.  Without the yogurt, he
is a smelly terror, but is fine while he's getting his daily yogurt. 
She'll probably even think it's a treat.

Joye
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From: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
Subject: Re: Need help - traumatic flea removal situation
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Reply-To: tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle Moore)
Organization: ICS Dept., UC Irvine
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:34:12 GMT

In <1992Oct14.172653.1959@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:

>In article <1992Oct14.151228.21338@odin.corp.sgi.com> lruben@persian.csd.sgi.com (Lara Ruben) writes:
>>
>>If you notice tiny rice shaped
>>particles on Morsel's behind or poop in litter box, you'll need to
>>go back to the vet!

>What exactly are the rice-shaped particles? (I mean, what part of the tape-
>worm?) When I asked about the "albino planarian" I found a few weeks ago, the
>answer was "tapeworm", but I haven't seen anything resembling rice at all,
>and this thing was considerably larger than a grain of rice.

Tapeworms are segmented and shed the segments.  The head attaches
itself to the intestinal wall.  I suspect that what you found was the
head minus any segments.  That would fit your description.

--Cindy

--
   Cindy Tittle Moore & Noisy Underfoot (bird watcher extraordinaire)

I post the rec.pets.cats FAQ (in two parts) every 25 days.  To get the FAQ:
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From: LIPSCOJA@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Andy Lipscomb)
Subject: Re: cat shows in the usa
Organization: Vanderbilt University 
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:15:12 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21

In <3942@unisql.UUCP> collene@unisql.UUCP writes:

> (Obviously I'm not a breeder, or I would know what the proper abbreviations
> for the cat organizations are.  ;-) )

Here they are:
CFA    Cat Fanciers' Association
       (the USA's largest; considers Himalayans to be Persians)
TICA   The International Cat Association
       (USA+Canada; second-largest, widest variety of breeds)
CFF    Cat Fanciers' Federation
ACA    American Cat Association
ACFA   American Cat Fanciers' Association
 (TICA, CFF, ACA, and ACFA jointly sponsor the All-American awards.)
CCA    Canadian Cat Association
GCCF   Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (UK)
FIFE   Fdration Internationale Feline de l'Europe


Andy Lipscomb
lipscoja@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Bitnet: lipscoja@vuctrvax)
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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Introducing a new cat
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:01:02 GMT

Laura0003 (ljz57640@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:

: We currently have one neutered male domestic (American) shorthair, and we
: are planning on bringing home a new kitten in a few days.  The question is,
: is it possible for these two cats to get along? (Our other cat is 5 years
: old)  Is there anything that we can do to ensure that they get along, or
: do we really just have to wait and see what happens?  We would very much
: like to keep this new kitten, but we don't want our other cat to feel     
: neglected.  Any suggestions?

Introduce them *very* carefully, and watch them constantly for several days.
I did this recently with a kitten that was about 6 months old.  No mishaps,
but a lot of growling and hissing for a while...

Don't try and push them together - they will (usually) eventually learn to
get along by themselves.  When it comes to dealing with animals, there are
no quick fixes - time will tell.

You said "we" - how about one person play with one cat, then after a while,
switch off?  That will prevent bonding of the kitten to just one of you
(well, OK, it'll stave it off for a while), and your other feline buddy
won't feel neglected.

I've had all three of mine less than 6 months - now they all sleep with me! :)
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                  erc@apple.com                     801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Phone hating cat
From: Jean Andrews <ja23+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:18:39 -0400 
Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administr., Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

My cat Mac hates when the phone rings.  Luckily our one phone is on the
wall.  The upstairs phone has to be hidden in a drawer when we leave or
it is ALWAYS off the hook.  I even turned the ringer off but when the
downstairs phone rings I suppose he thinks that the other phone will ring
so he still knocks it off the hook.  I guess I could close the bedroom
door (which I did once) and he ripped my roll of paper towels to shreds.
I guess he was a bit mad that I stopped him from sleeping on HIS warm
waterbed.  Does anyone else have a cat that does this to phones?

Jean, two daughters, Strawberry (horse), Mac (cat), Fred (fish)
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From: vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer)
Subject: Re: Kitten with foot fetish
Organization: Atmospheric Technology Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 19:34:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.175428.5478@netcom.com> wd6cmu@netcom.com (Eric Williams) writes:
>Thank you all for the responses.  It seems clear that this behavior is
>pretty common.  Murphy would climb my legs, too, but a couple of
>encounters with a squirt gun has convinced him that this is not a good
>idea.

There you go.  Just keep a fully loaded water pistol in a belt
holster, and you should be able to curb your cat's foot fetish in no
time flat!  :-)






--
Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado / / / /  vicki@ncar.ucar.edu
From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Has my cat gone mad?
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:27:18 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

[ thread about grown-up cats chasing their tails like kittens... ]

Muriel is very selective about where she does this.  She has decided that
the bath is her Kitten Regression Room.  Once in it, she will roll around
doing somersaults trying to catch her tail and swipe at her distorted
reflection in the glaze; the positions she gets into while chasing the
Giant Green Stretchy Funhouse Cat are completely unbecoming the elegant
young lady she evidently regards herself as for most of the time.  She
never takes any interest in her tail anywhere else.  Anyone else's cat have
places that set them off like this?

-- 
--  Jack Campin    room G092, Computing Science Department, Glasgow University,
17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Scotland   TEL: 041 339 8855 x6854 (work)
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From: farland@outland.b24a.ingr.com (Theresa McFarland)
Subject: Re: not quite cruel-Really Cruel
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:57:42 GMT

I used to work with a guy who hated cats. 

He gloried in telling me about the time, when he was 10, he stuck a neighbors
kitten in the hole in a cement block and put another cement
block on top of it.

He forgot about the kitten and the neighbors couldn't find it. 

Rather they didn't find it until it was too late - the poor
thing starved to death.

You really have to teach kids early.  

What really bugs me is the guy didn't feel bad about it!
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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: 'bye Tess
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:22:39 GMT

Susan McIntosh (SUSANMC@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu) wrote:

: My Tess did this just about every night we left the bedroom door open ...
: I called her my lover kitty, 'cause she was soooo affectionate in the
: middle of the night.  She died this weekend during a spay operation and
: I miss her so!  I'd leave my door open every night and let her chew
: on my hair all night if I could only have her back.  Love ya, Tess.

Isis insisted I answer this one (a year-old all black female with big yellow
eyes).  My eyes teared up when I read your post.  I am saddened to hear of
your loss... :(
-- 
Ed Carp, N7EKG                  erc@apple.com                     801/538-0177
"This is the final task I will ever give you, and it  goes  on  forever.   Act
happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
and do what you will."           -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: ashelton@encore.com (Amy Roberts Shelton)
Subject: Re: Has my cat gone mad?
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:09:36 GMT

In article <Bvr6pI.EDD@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>[ thread about grown-up cats chasing their tails like kittens... ]
>
>Muriel is very selective about where she does this.  She has decided that
>the bath is her Kitten Regression Room.  Once in it, she will roll around
>doing somersaults trying to catch her tail and swipe at her distorted
>reflection in the glaze; the positions she gets into while chasing the
>Giant Green Stretchy Funhouse Cat are completely unbecoming the elegant
>young lady she evidently regards herself as for most of the time.  She
>never takes any interest in her tail anywhere else.  Anyone else's cat have
>places that set them off like this?
>
My cat Pinky, a female 5 yr old calico, loves to chase her tail, but only
when she is on top of the clothes hamper in the bathroom.  One time the
hamper was scooted a little further awa from the wall than usual.  She
was really getting into chasing her tail, and wasn't paying attention
to what she was doing.  All of a sudden she tips over between the wall
and the hamper, upside down on her back.  The hamper wasw full of clothes,
so she slid slowly down to the floor.  She didn't have enough room to
maneuver, so I had to slide the hamper out and retrieve her.  She
tried to pretend she had meant to fall like that, but we all know better!

Amy

From: adw@otter.hpl.hp.com (Dave Wells)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:12:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Declawing older cats - long, of course ;-)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats

(Collene Pearce) writes:
>(Nancy Pilsch) writes:
>>
>>Declawing a cat is like amputating.... 
>
>You will always have your opinion about the practice of declawing and I
>will always have mine.  Neither of us will ever change the other's opinion.

It is, of course, your right and privilege to hold an opinion and never
consider changing it. But it seems rude to accuse Nancy Pilsch of being
similarly closed-minded. Perhaps an apology is in order?

Meanwhile, my own mind is certainly open. I'm quite willing to be convinced
that declawing is acceptable, and should be legalised in the UK. At the
least I'd like to understand why others think it acceptable. At the moment,
it seems to me like a mutilating operation detrimental to the cat and only
of benefit to the owner. I guess pro-declawers must believe either

i) It isn't actually mutilation or
ii) That mutilating a cat for one's own convenience is OK or
iii) That declawing benefits the cat in some way or
iv) Something else...?

I await enlightenment.

Dave
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From: lruben@persian.csd.sgi.com (Lara Ruben)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Need help - traumatic flea removal situation
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:37:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: odin.1992Oct14.213734.9763
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Oct14.151228.21338@odin.corp.sgi.com>
lruben@persian.csd.sgi.com (Lara Ruben) writes:
>
>If you notice tiny rice shaped
>particles on Morsel's behind or poop in litter box, you'll need to
>go back to the vet!

]What exactly are the rice-shaped particles? (I mean, what part of the
tape-
]worm?) When I asked about the "albino planarian" I found a few weeks ago,
the
]answer was "tapeworm", but I haven't seen anything resembling rice at
all,
]and this thing was considerably larger than a grain of rice.
]-- 
]Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
]Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu


I don't really know what part of the tapeworm they are - I think it can
be the head or the tail that just breaks off during the kitty's bowel
movement.  You'll recognize them if you see them, although it's not
very pleasant getting that close to the litterbox!  In your case, maybe
a bigger than normal segment broke off?  I just don't  know!
-- 

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Lara Ruben                      Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: people who deliberately run over cats
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:47:52 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College

Joe, aka <oberland@vax.sonoma.edu>  writes:
|
|As for people who purposely hit cats/enjoy it, I have some ideas on how
|to get even....(evil grin).  

What? Exploding land-mine stuffed cats, placed out of the traffic lane? A good  
idea, but I think the FBI might object. (Call the Fur-Bearing Investigators  
instead)
Do share your ideas. 
--

* Dave Blackburn  dblackbu@alleg.edu  flames to self@home.dev.null *          
* Chemistry, Macs, Hypercard, cats,  <>< religion, & the Dead      *
* (Anyone else who held these opinions would be as crazy as I am.) *
*   "Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own"   *
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From: jdiamond@netcom.com (Joan M. Diamond)
Subject: Re: Re: Declawing older cats - long, of course ;-)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:39:15 GMT

>In article <91980004@otter.hpl.hp.com> adw@otter.hpl.hp.com (Dave Wells) writes:
>> I guess pro-declawers must believe either
>>
>>i) It isn't actually mutilation or
>>ii) That mutilating a cat for one's own convenience is OK or
>>iii) That declawing benefits the cat in some way or
>>iv) Something else...?
>>I await enlightenment.
>

I have a problem with a clawed cat.  I have a five-year-old (almost 6)
mean-as-the-dickens cat with claws.  I am living with a man and his 13-year-old
declawed cat.  Everytime my cat sees his cat, she attacks.  My Spaz outweighs
his Moonglow by about 5 pounds, plus Spaz is armed.  He got his cat from
the pound and his X insisted that the furniture was more important, hence
the declawing.

The problem is, Spaz is truely attempting to kill Moonglow.  I'm talking
10 months after we moved in together, Spaz is still causing MAJOR damage
(I mean huge scratches and much blood) every time she sees Moonglow.

Right now, we keep them in separate rooms, letting Moonglow out for
part of the day, with Spaz locked in her room, then reversing them.  Spaz
spends a portion of her out time sitting at Moonglows door, watching as
a cat does a mousehole.  She often rattles the door.

This method works, unless one of them accidently escapes during the
other's out time, then all hell breaks loose.

Since the last time, when Moonglow was bleeding profusely from the
nose and chin and had several other severe scratches, all from about
30 seconds to one minute of contact before we pulled Spaz off her, I am
seriously considering declawing Spaz.  I certainly can't have her
killing Moonglow.

So, what do you all suggest as a solution?  I use a squirtbottle to
get Spaz away, but it only works for a few minutes, and then she's
back.  I've been trying for 10 months.

Joan

>
>Well, I had never even heard of declawing when I had Abigail done 16
>years ago.  I was going to have her spayed, and my vet strongly
>encouraged me to have her declawed at the same time.  I was living in
>Omaha at the time, on my way west, and he said that "everyone did it."
>Now that I look back and remember all of those incredibly large and
>obviously high-priced homes in West Omaha, I'm not surprised.  No
>doubt they all wanted to save their rugs and furniture.  Anyway, he
>kept pushing the operation until I finally agreed.  It has worked out
>well (Abigail was a housecat until age 13 and is still too much of a
>fraidy-cat to even venture off the landing, which has more to do with
>her temperament than her lack of claws), but I wouldn't do it again.
>My young cat (Zarabeth) has claws, and they get along well together.
>
>
>
>--
>Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
>Boulder, Colorado / / / /  vicki@ncar.ucar.edu


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From: mirsky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David Joshua Mirsky)
Subject: Stray Cat Found/Needs Home
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distribution: ma
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:44:16 GMT

Hello. My sister found a stray cat in the parking lot of BJ's Wholesale
in Stoughton, Massachusetts.  The cat had been hanging around the parking lot for 
three days without signs of an owner.

The cat seems to be in good health.  It looks like someone has taken
good care of it in the past, though it has no collar. It is definitely
not a wild cat. It doesnt look like its been stray for very long.

It looks to be less than a year old.
	It has a tortoise colored coat (mixed brown, black and gold) with
 large white
paws and a white chest.  It has a very gentle nature and is very responsive
to people. It purrs very easily.  Right now, it is living on my sister's
porch in Randolph because she is not allowed to have cats.

If anyone is interested in meeting and possibly adopting this cat, 
please send me email ASAP. I will relay the message to my sister.

Also if anyone has any ideas about humane societies that do not
destroy the animal, please leave me email as well. 

I am also curious if there are any local listings or databases of
lost pets.

We think the cat is great and want to do as much as we can to help it.
We are afraid that if we dont find a place for it soon, it may not
survive.

David Mirsky
email address: mirsky@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Thanks in advance!
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