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From: lswan@ucsd.edu (Swan, Lyn)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Great cat toy (was Re: What IS it with Q-tips?)
Date: 21 Jul 1992 19:28:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Distribution: world
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In article <l6lrk1INNob3@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> avi@rix.Corp.Sun.COM (Ann Adamcik) writes:
>From: avi@rix.Corp.Sun.COM (Ann Adamcik)
>Subject: Great cat toy (was Re: What IS it with Q-tips?)
>Date: 20 Jul 92 16:49:05 GMT

>The worlds greatest cat toy (according to my gang) is a toy called Cat-
Aerobics.>It is basically about 2-3 feet of wire with a wooden handle at one 
end and a>multicolored rubber squiggly thing (sort of like a koosh ball?) at 
the other>end.  Two of my cats LOVE the toy end, and the third cat chases 
the handle...

My kitties love this toy.  I just wish they would quit bringing to bed every 
night!  And I wish the wooden handle had managed to stay on for more than 13 
days.  But the toy still works without the handle.  We call it the "dangle 
toy".

Lyn & Kate & Allie  
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: eehrhard@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth J Ehrhardt)
Subject: cat gone mad
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:48:06 GMT

Hi.  I 've been reading the cat net. for awhile now, but, of course have never 
posted.  I really enjoy hearing all of the stories about of your cats.  Anyway,
the event that inspired me to finally write is that my mother (who is also a 
cat owner) was telling me about her cat who has freaked out.  She mentioned 
that she might have to put it to sleep.  So I told her to wait and I would ask 
you all if you had ever heard of this problem in cats before.  Boodle is about 
11 years old, and she got this cat disease about a year and a half ago which 
makes her tilt her head and have bad balance.  She was on medication for awhile
which didn't help.  So she still has a tilted head but she has gotten on to the
balance problem.  Anyway, about a year ago she started having these "fits" 
where she would with no provication attack my mother.  These attacks are quite 
vicious--she clearly is not trying to play.  She bites and scratches her, and 
if my mom tries to get away, she follows and continues the attack.  When these 
"fits" come on, you can tell by her eyes, she suddenly has a crazed look.  
Anyway, sometimes she attacks when my mother is sitting and reading, and 
sometimes they occur when she is walking around--there is no warning.  At one 
point the cat got so vicious that my mother had to lock herself in the bathroom
until the cat settled down in order to avoid major defacement.  Have any of you
ever heard of this problem?  Is there any solution to this other than putting 
her to sleep? (when she is not having a fit, she is a very sweet and loving 
cat).  The vet doesn't seem to have many answers.  Thanks in advance for any 
help.

Libby
eehrhard@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Help with Breakfast
Keywords: little beggars...
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:28:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncar.1992Jul23.222823.26293
Organization: Atmospheric Technology Division/NCAR Boulder, CO

In article <19506@optima.cs.arizona.edu> margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman) writes:
>
>Do you ever talk to your pets over the phone?  My neice had me saying
>"hello Mia, meow meow" over the phone today.

Last week, a friend of mine talked me into calling my cats to tell
them I would be home soon and leaving a message on my answering
machine.  Feeling a bit foolish, I did it.  When I got home, I played
back the message and they both came running in.  I'll have to try it
more often.  I would have loved to see the looks on their faces when
they heard my call ... :-)




--
Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado / / / /  vicki@ncar.ucar.edu
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From: isc40041@nusunix3.nus.sg (LOO KOK HOE)
Subject: Re: Squirming cats.... 
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:32:14 GMT

edr@gtech.com (Eric D. Remington) writes:
: >they are _much_ easier to put into the eyes of a squirming cat. ;-)
: 
: 
: 	 I have been reading this group for a while, and have seen a few 
: references like this. Whenever I need to do anything to my cats that they 
: do not like, clipping nails, cleaning ears etc, In roll them up in a towel.
: Of course the down side of this is that they do not like to see a towel 
: comming, but it makes them much easier to control, and lessens the chance
: of either of us getting hurt.

1.  I always clip their nails while they are asleep ...

2.  Clean their ears straight after their bath ... they will
be busy drying themselves ... they will just ignore u !


george from Singapore

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From: machanicm@gtephx.UUCP (Mindy Machanic)
Subject: Re: Are all tricolor cats female?
Summary: No they're not
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:06:49 GMT

In article <l68m8qINNfa1@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, clinard@cs.utk.edu (Michelle Clinard) writes:
> 
> My grandmother once told me that all three-color cats (in particular
> calicos, but supposedly this also includes tortoises, etc.) are
> female.  In all my days I have yet to see a tricolor male cat.  Is
> this random chance, or was my grandmother telling me the truth?
> 
> 

As my vet told me when I took Huggy Bear for his first checkup: Are you SURE
this is a boy? Only about one in a million males is tricolor, so your
grandmother was essentially correct. Huggy bear is primarily white with black
and some red - his coloring, I'm told, makes him a "van" because he has a
white body with one black spot, white feet with one black spot, a black
tail (that's getting striped with light tan as he grows up), and a white
head with black and red triangles in front of his ears. Longhair.
-- 
Mindy
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From: lbrown@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Latonya Brown)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: What kind of kitten do I have?
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:23:21 GMT
Expires: 31 Aug 92 04:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: lbrown@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Latonya Brown)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Description:  She is Black and Brown Striped.  She also has a Greyish
White Splotch under her neck and on her breast area.  Her hair has
two layers the black and brown stripes are about half anx inch long
then theres this other layer(of sorts) that is black and slick and about
one inch long.  It looks like she has static cling.  The shorter layer
is very fluffy and soft.

Please help I dont know what Kind she is it would be nice to know.

TONYA BROWN
From: jodi@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jodi Peterson)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:31:11 GMT
Subject: Adopting a Cat
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats


Last night as I was walking to a friend's, a beautiful black
cat followed me. He hung around my friend's until I left,
then followed me home. I put him outside last night and fed him
(he was hungry enough to eat my dog's food), and this morning he 
was still here (he came back into the house through the 
doggie door).

So, I'm wondering--

-- what the chances are that he's somebody's pet (he's kinda
thin and has no collar, but is super-friendly and doesn't really
look like a stray). I'm planning to put some signs up in the 
neighborhood and place a newspaper ad. 

-- if his owners show up to claim him, I think I'd like to
adopt a pound kitty instead. However, I'm interested only in a very mellow,
affectionate, non-aloof, non-skitzy cat--but how can I tell this
at the pound, where an animal would probably be nervous and
not acting like itself? 

-- if we are able to keep this cat, how long will it take for
him to adjust to my dog? She's a small dog (cocker) who was raised around
cats and doesn't chase them, just sniffs a bit and tries
to play. So far he's cuffed her twice but with his claws retracted. 
Will he eventually learn to like her (or at least tolerate her)?

Thanks for your help!


--Jodi Peterson 
jodi@fc.hp.com
From: margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: sleepmates
Keywords: at my brother's...
Date: 30 Jul 92 19:05:39 GMT


I already went on about my adventures with pets sleeping with me...  Then
I remembered my brother and his Rottweiler.  For several years my brother
and his wife couldn't have any pets (apartment living I guess).  Now that
they have a house, they have a Rottweiler (his), a Chow (hers), one cat
and one rabbit.  His wife was saying how one morning she woke up to this
terribly loud snoring.  She turned over, and there was Whiskey (Rottweiler)
on her back snoring.  My brother was on the other side, on his back,
snoring.  I rarely see their cat, I think she wisely hides out in the
girls bedrooms.


My late great cat Mouser used to get my attention (for petting, scratching,
and whispering -he really liked that) by walking on my ribs.  This is in
bed, naturally, and he KNEW how ticklish I am.  As for vantage points,
my puppy likes sitting up on my shoulder when I'm in bed at night!

Don't you hate it when they lick your toes??!  My sister won't let any
cat or dog near her feet.

margaret@cs.arizona.edu
From: km3v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kathleen M. Saxon)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: what do you think?
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:51:37 GMT
	<mk8ooB1w164w@ailanth.UUCP>
Organization: Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

> You know that cute little thing that kitty's do with their paws -n-
> claws when they are content? Well, I was just curoius as to what 
> everyone else called it. I have refered to it (since a little girl)
> as "makin' muffin's", and I have heard it called, "kneading bread"
> and "that-happy-cat-thing". Any others?

We have always refered to is as "woobying" after woobie. (Remember in
the movie "Mr. Mom" and one of the little kids called his security
blanket a woobie?) Well, I guess that's where we got it from. I just love
when she does this, she always does it on her special blanket.  Kathy
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:41:11 EDT
From: <SXC3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Cats travel abroad?

Hello everyone,
    I have a question regarding cat quarantines in Europe.  Does anyone
have a source for the various country's requirements for cats entering the
country?  I may be spending a few years in Europe and I want to take my
cat along, but not if it means three months in a shelter.
e-mail address      sxc3@psuvm.psu.edu
           Sabrina Chase
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From: ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: Are all tricolor cats female?
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston VA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:08:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.135125.3826@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ehp@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ("Didi Pancake") writes:
>No, it just means that the calico male is probably triploid...i.e. wound
>up with 1.5 the normal number of chromosomes getting two from its mother
>which allowed the calico recessive to show. It also explains why such
>males are generally sterile. 
>
Which reminds me of an interesting question. Do male calicos need to
be neutered/spayed (or whatever you do to an XXY cat)? In otherwords,
would an unneutered male spray? Also, is there such a thing as an XYY 
cat?
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From: margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: What IS it with Q-tips?
Summary: cat toys
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:18:25 GMT

(stuff deleted)

> Have you tried little bells - like the kind found on baby shoes?  How about
> aluminum balls?  A toy on an elastic string dangling from a doorway?  
> Laurel


How about shredded newspapers?  I have a couple of boxes and a bag of this
from ceramics.  Mia, my Siamese cat, absolutely loves it!  She acts all
crazy with her head close to the floor and her butt up in the air, and
she runs around the kitchen floor, her tail having spaz attacks.  My
kitchen table pulls apart to add or take out a leaf, so sometimes I use
this for hanging scraps of material, old scarfs or ribbons.  This keeps
her busy for hours.  Her favorite toy is: me, especially when I am
attempting to do homework or bills.  She sneaks up beside my chair near
the wall, and whaps at whatever she can reach -arm, leg, elbow, ribs.

Aluminum balls didn't interest her because I didn't keep tossing them
around.  When I quit trying to show her what to do, she lost interest.
(My guess is that my silly efforts were the most amusing part.)

As I keep telling my sister:  who needs children when you have a cat
and two dogs?

margaret@cs.arizona.edu
From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Feigned cat fatality
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:03:05 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

Once my mother went to the basement and saw a cat tail and foot 
hanging (in an unnatural-looking position) off the top of the furnace. 
She called the cat; no response. Banged on the furnace; no response.
Got really scared, pulled a chair over and climbed up on it to 
retrieve the corpse. Pulled the inert body from the top of the furnace.
Then the cat finally woke up. (Midnight is now 17 and still in excellent
health!)
-- 
lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.
Organization: Office of the President, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:27:39 -0400 
From: "Kathleen P. Kowalski" <kk00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Help-Kitten chews wire 
	<150uimINNmih@early-bird.think.com>

Can anyone tell me how to stop my little Taz from chewing on electrical
wires, the phone cord and the tv cable?  He's only 16 weeks old, so he
might be teething (don't cats get their permanent teeth around this
age?)  Any ideas would be appreciated.  The squirt gun works fine while
I'm there to supervise, but I want to eventually be able to let him roam
the house while I'm gone.  Will he outgrow this?

Kay
From: jodi@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jodi Peterson)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:12:48 GMT
Subject: Update (re: Adopting a Cat)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats

Hi,

About a week ago I posted a note about a black cat who
had followed me home and seemed to be a stray (thanks
to all of you who wrote with advice!)

I checked with the local Humane Society, who had a report
of a lost black cat on my street. When the lost cat's owner
came to see this cat, she said it wasn't hers but one that
had been hanging around her place the previous week. She
ran a newspaper ad but had no responses. So I guess this
kitty really is a stray.

We named him Tiko. He has very unusual markings--he looks
pure black, but in direct sun you can see that he has
very dark tiger stripes along his sides and tail. He's very sweet 
and affectionate, and if you happen to be lying down, he'll 
come wrap himself around your head and knead your hair and purr
and drool ("Hair by Tiko" is now a household joke :-) ). He comes 
and goes through the dog door, and never
leaves for more than an hour at a time.

We took him to the vet yesterday for shots and a leukemia test. 
The test was negative, thank goodness, and he's been castrated. 
He had some sores on his tail (fighting?). The vet
shaved the areas and gave him some antibiotic pills. 

And now comes the worrisome part . . . When Tiko
got home he was exhausted--slept for 6 hours. When he finally
got up, he ran outside and was returned 10 minutes later by
a neighbor who said he was trying to cross a busy street. When
we set Tiko down he again bolted toward the street. We caught him,
brought him back, set him down, and he again bolted. This time
we locked him in for the night (it was 10:30), figuring that
we'd let him complete his quest in the morning when we could
better follow him.

This morning he was still lethargic and not very friendly.
He didn't try to run off when we let him out, though.
I'm wondering if his odd behavior is a result of the vet visit
(which he seemed to take fairly well) or the shots, or the
antibiotics, or something else.

Anybody seen behavior like this after shots?

Also, what do you think about free-feeding vs. regular meals?
I have free-fed my dog for years without problems, but the
"New Natural Cat" book I'm reading is adamant about not
free-feeding.

Thanks for your help!

--Jodi Peterson (feeling like a nervous new mother :-)

 

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From: machanicm@gtephx.UUCP (Mindy Machanic)
Subject: Re: cat toys ideas
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:02:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.222502.1349@iWarp.intel.com>, pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit,,,) writes:

I just thought of Huggy Bear's other favorite toy: unexpanded peat-pots, the
kind you plant seeds in. He bats them around the floor, tosses them in the
air, carries them around. When they get wet from saliva, they expand a little,
and then they break in half.

-- 
Mindy
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From: jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins)
Subject: Re: Sleeping with Cats
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:07:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.163921.22878@den.mmc.com> snoopy@spacemanspiff.den.mmc.co
m (Cindy Newell) writes:
>>>I couldn't sleep without them - I go through withdrawl on vacations!
>>
>>I rarely stay over at others' houses.  I say it's because I like to go
>>home and sleep in my own bed, but it's really because I don't sleep
>>well unless Abigail and Zarabeth are somewhere near by.
>
>I am the same exact way.  I will tell people that I just like
>to sleep in my own bed and would just rather go home, but the
>truth of the matter is that I miss my cats, and want to go home
>to make sure that they are ok.
>
>Any advise as a solution to this problem as I am going to Hawaii
>for 10 days in a week or so.  This is the longest separation I
>will have ever had from my cats.  I don't know if I can make it!  :-)

Take me with you, and bring the cats.  I'll look after the cats while you're 
out during the day; and then sleep on the beach.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Sleeping with Cats
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:16:09 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

Until I posted about Rip&Andy earlier today I'd forgotten that when I used 
to crash out on the sofa, they'd lie one on each shoulder so I got stereo 
purring!  This was only when they were small though.

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From: machanicm@gtephx.UUCP (Mindy Machanic)
Subject: Re: Catkin, RIP
Summary: sympathies
Organization: gte
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:54:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.112652.5814@iscsvax.uni.edu>, klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> I had to euthanize Catkin this morning, my wonderful old domestic longhair
> who was a real wimp about everything but snakes.  He's the only cat I
> know that managed to find a snake on the endangered species list (a
> green snake) and bring it home in triumph!.  Since he never injured any
> of the snakes,  it was always fairly simple to get him to release them.
> 
> Of the litter of kittens that was born in my closet 9 years ago, I still 
> have DumDum and Bear.  But Catkin will be sorely missed -- he had the 
> best and loudest purr, and a real knack for being silly.
> 
> 'bye old friend.
> 
> Kay Klier

We all are with you in your sorrow and loss. Kitties are our children, and
we don't let go lightly.

-- 
Mindy
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From: anne@cs.UAlberta.CA (Anne J.R. Nield)
Subject: Re: New Cat Book (humorous)
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:31:51 GMT

crb@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ruth) writes:



>My mother gave me a really good "cat" book last year - it's called
>"The Cat Who Came for Christmas" by Cleveland Amory.  
> He's got another one out now about the same
>cat, with a similar title, although I can't quite remember what it is.

The second one is called "The Cat and the Curmudgeon"  (he had
originally thought of calling the cat "Purrmudgeon -- but the cat
didn't approve!).  It's also very enjoyable.  I keep getting these
books for Christmas too -- which is fine with me!!

Anne

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From: jlc5f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jean L. Cooper)
Subject: Re: SCOOPABLE KITTY LITTER ?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:50:14 GMT

Even though the packaging on the scoopable litter
says you can go a year without changing the whole
box, I personally have to change it every month
or the smell drives me crazy.  I still like it better
than regular clay litter.  So do the cats.  Rascal 
hovers beside me while I'm scooping, waiting to
get first dibs on the "clean" spot!
--
Jean L. Cooper    (BITNET: JLC5F@virginia.edu   CIS: 70253,1114)
"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." 
                                           --Carlyle                        
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From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: Re: Sylvia & dating the allergic
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:07:33 GMT

Ooh--and a sequel!

The Problem:
	Dear Syl, 
	My fiance is allergic to cats.  What should I do?

Dear Foolish in Fresno,
	Give the ring back at once.  There are plenty of nice men out
	there, men who carry photographs of their cats in their
	wallet... Next time you go out with a guy, ask to see his
	wallet.  And another thing:  if he's allergic to cats he'll be
	allergic to something else, like all your old friends.

Well, I think we know where Sylvia stands on this issue...

-- 
--------------->Elisabeth Anne Riba * lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu<---------------
"I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman."  Dan Quayle
Quick!  Notify DC.  I think it's time for another 900 number poll.
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