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From: brianm@sco.com (Brian Moffet)
Subject: Re: Brave Missy and the Sock Monsters
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:05:48 GMT

jsmt@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Julia Smith) writes:

>In article <1992Nov10.210532.21491@oracle.us.oracle.com> schiles@us.oracle.com writes:
>>I should have known better.  I should have known to keep my sock drawer
>>tightly closed.  After all, all the socks together create so much energy
>>that Sock Monsters can come out and take over the house.
>Bravo!  But watch that monster - Socrates has started hearing it
>scratching on the sock drawer even when closed.  He sits on top of
>the bureau and tugs at the drawer until just a claw can get through.
>Then carefully, one by one (I presume they are easier to kill that
>way) he pulls them out.

Diablo (the 16 pound tabby who must be in the other room now!), will actually
open the drawer under the bed, take out just enough of the socks, crawl in
the drawer, trun around, crawlk back out and then go someplace else.

The problem is he does this at 12:00 at night, when I am trying to sleep.
I hear this low rumbling as he opens the drawer, and in the morning
step in a pile of socks.

At least he only pulls out my socks.  He tries to pull out my wifes jeans.

brian moffet
--
"Face it, Chuck.  Taken as an aggregate, the human race is a stupid, sorry lot."
                           -- Jonathan Quist

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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: thuyan@ravel.udel.edu (Thuy-An Hartman)
Subject: Re: Humane Society Blues
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:36:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.190032.16098@ohsu.edu> davispa@OHSU.edu writes:
>I am very worn out for thinking about this - Pamela
(long article deleted)

I would do what I do in any instance where I feel I am treated unfairly,
find out the name of the supervisor of the Humane Society (and if one of
the ladies there was the supervisor then her boss) and the President or
chairperson on the national level and write them letters.  I think it is
ashame that the poor little kittens you might have taken home may be
killed because these two women were too busy on their soapbox to listen
to what you had actually said.

Thuy-An
From: steveg@teal.csn.org (Steve Genoff)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: New Pounce Tartar Control stuff
Date: 9 Nov 92 02:05:20 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.

In article <1992Nov6.142954.103@janus.arc.ab.ca> erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA writes:
>In article <lfiot4INN63k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, andrewr@ultrix.EBay.Sun.COM (Andy Roach) writes:
>>Has anyone out there tried this new Pounce tartar control snack ?, well your
>>cats that is :-)
>>
>>I just bought a small box last night and the cats just went crazy for it. They
>>liked it more than the ordinary Pounce.
>>
>>The label claims it will reduce tartar by uptp 50% !
>>
>>Andy
>
>I haven't heard of this but I would be curious to know more about it after 
>shelling  out close to $100CDN to have my cats teeth cleaned.
>
>Bob


  My cats simply LOVE the stuff.  All I have to do is shout out "Kitty
TREAT" and they come running.  My oldest, Toska, doesn't like Bonkers, but
she loves these Pounce thingees.  

I've also had a couple of my cats teeth cleaned, and I'm under the
impression that any amount of dried food will help to control tartar, so
if these help, more power to them.  Mostly I'm just pleased to see them
get excited when I yell "Treats" !


   STeve

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From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: What to name a male BLACK kitten...
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:18:01 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.1.32

>Well, I've loved reading what you've all thought about male
> white kittens, how about male Black kittens. :)

Well, we just named ours Lucifer.  

But in his case, it fits.  He's blacker than black (you literally can't 
see him if he's hiding under the edge of the bed), and he has enormous
*gold* eyes that seem to glow in the slightest light.

He's also still mostly-feral (his mother had her kittens in a friend's
woodshed, so the friend trapped the mother and kittens so they wouldn't
freeze with winter coming on), and he's not at all happy about being around
people.  Coming anywhere near him is likely to earn you a sharp hiss and
a look of pure malice.

Yup, he's definitely a Lucifer.

But we'll persevere, and one of these days maybe he'll actually deign
to be present in the same room with us...
--
 Matt Landau			Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
 matt@centerline.com			  in all this blood and thunder
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From: toftner@icd.teradyne.com (Liv Toftner)
Subject: Re: WHAT TO NAME A WHITE MALE KITTEN
Reply-To: toftner@icd.teradyne.com
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:22:03 GMT


In case I missed it, does the anonymous white male kitten 
now have a name?
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Spooky things
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:28:24 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Nov5.184712.8445@emr1.emr.ca> thiessen@emr1.emr.ca (Tracy Thiessen) writes:
>In article <Bx7s0B.Iq9@encore.com> dmillard@encore.com (Debbie Millard) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov4.214515.13848@worldbank.org> aki <aki@akidamme-233324.worldbank.org> writes:
>>>In article <1992Nov4.163605.25774@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
>>>24641-kemmerling, gck@hector.uucp writes:
>>>>My cat turns into a blob of fur.  Lays down and will not move with a
>>>leash and collar on.  
>>>
>>>Never had much luck taking tigger for a walk.  Ended up more like

>After witnessing the charming scene of a lovely young girl walking
>her lovely young cat - on a leash -- on the wharf in front of

When my friend Eileen and her 2 daughters go for a walk, they generally 
take at least 2 dogs with them (they have 4 at the moment); and Mongen the 
cat likes to go along as well.  He takes up the rear, partly to cover 
everybody's backs, and partly to keep everyone moving and together.  The 
thing is, for about 2 miles in any direction from their house, it's all his 
territory.  this is the glory of rural Ireland!

  You don't have to work to be mad here      email: d.budd@mcc.ac.uk
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
Organization: University Libraries - Technical Service, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:55:53 -0500 
From: "Denise D. Novak" <dn22+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Kitty's First Christmas

When Spooky & Orpheus saw a real Christmas tree coming into the house,
their little eyes lit up.  We had to put a small eye bolt into the wall
and anchor the tree with strong fishing cord.  This way, the cats could
still get into the tree but the tree itself stayed upright.(sort of)  I
put all the ornaments I had on the tree but I put special plastic ones
for the kitties aroung the bottom.  They couldn't resist batting at them
and It was hilarious to watch them.

I have an artificial tree now and Spooky tries to chew the fake needles.
 He has never come to harm over this but I try to discourage chewing. I
have never put icicles on the tree because I know they are very
dangerous to kitty intestines.
Spooky is constantly around the tree and he just waits for me to leave
the room so he can mess around with the ornaments and garlands.  He
drags them all over.
I always find something new in the morning and am very careful walking
barefoot in the living room.  


Denise Novak  CMU Libraries
From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re:  Welcome to the First Cat (Socks)
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:13:32 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College

This weeks Newsweek mentions Socks (that spelling, not Sox, but how should  
they know) and says he is Male, and the press secretary refused to try to find  
out if he's neutered and/or de-clawed.
I guess those reporters are really desperate to find out who'll be in the  
White House. Nothing about who's going to be in the next Cabinet, so let's  
look at who might be on top of it. :-)
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: mary@zmax.com (Mary Papp)
Subject: Re: Spaying cat? HELP!
Organization: Z/Max Computer Solutions, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:18:17 GMT


When a female cat goes into heat, all male cats find her.  I had a female
cat whom I tried to keep as an indoor cat.  When she went into heat for the
first time, she started crying and trying to get out.  Then the male cats from
the apartment building showed up at my door crying and trying to get in.
I had to have her spayed.  The operation was painful, but she was much 
happier.  I gave her to my parents so that she could go outside and catch 
mice.  
When I had Slash neutered, this did not calm him down at all.  He just got
a floppy belly :). 

I think you should have your cat spayed.  This way she will not have to
experience heat and also if she gets out (by accident), she won't come back
pregnant. 

Just my .02 cents,
Mary (and Slash)
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From: collene@unisql.UUCP (Collene Pearce)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: New Pounce Tartar Control stuff
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:07:45 GMT
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

>In article <lfiot4INN63k@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, andrewr@ultrix.EBay.Sun.COM (Andy Roach) writes:
>Has anyone out there tried this new Pounce tartar control snack ?, well your
>cats that is :-)
>I just bought a small box last night and the cats just went crazy for it. They
>liked it more than the ordinary Pounce.
>The label claims it will reduce tartar by uptp 50% !

I've tried it and my Tamora likes it too!  Now wait, let me rephrase
that....

Well I bought some, expecting to have to give it to the neighbor cat
and surprize, she actually ate it and then looked at me, asking for more.
(Tamora is the pickiest cat I have ever seen or even heard of.)

I hope it really does what it says for the tartar, but I have no idea how
I'm going to be able to tell.  If it does work, this could mean I can put
off Tamora's teeth cleaning visit (tothe vet) for another year!


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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: fosterak@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Anita K Foster)
Subject: The Tale of Sam Crookedtail
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:37:40 GMT


Sam is a stray that showed up at my mom's house
this summer.  She said he was in bad shape
when he first came around - broken tail and
maybe leg (he limps), caused either by being
hit by a car or caught in a trap (they live in a
fairly rural area).  They put food out for him but
not much else.  My mom didn't want to encourage him.
Sam kept his eye out and when the opportunity came to
go inside (my stepfather felt sorry for him), he took
it.  Now he comes inside all the time.

They didn't want a second cat so I told them if I
did by the house I was looking at, I would take him or
find a good home for him. I am buying the house so Sam
is going with me and my other two cats, Griffin and Percy.

Sam is one of the prettiest cats I've seen.  He's grey
with cream circles and stripes and a cream underbelly.
He's also very friendly to people.  Since I figured
that such a nice cat was propably someone's pet (despite
the fact that he had adopted my family), I put a note on
a collar asking if he belonged to anyone.  I didn't want
to go off with someone's animal.  I'm moving soon and
wanted to get him and my kitten, Griffin, neutured before
introducing them to a new home (hopefully it will cut
down on some dominance fights).

I didn't expect to hear from anyone since he'd been hanging
around for 3-4 months.  Yesterday, the first day he had the
note on, I received a call about him.  It seems that a 
neighbor of my mom's had also been feeding him but couldn't
take him either.  The woman was glad that he was getting a
good home.

What makes all this so weird is that she had also been 
calling the cat Sam.  I had always felt that cats will
tell you their names but now I have proof.

I just had to tell everyone about this really neat
cat :-)

Anita
  & Percy, Griffin and, now, Sam Crookedtail

  
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez)
Subject: more weird cat treats
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 18:27:31 GMT

Let's face it.  The sweet angels often decide for themselves what they 
like and, even though their choices sometimes seem strange to us, we 
should recognize that we are dealing with a superior being and not question
them.

For instance, I may wonder why Bubbles the Magnificent relishes medjool dates.
(ok ok, she will, if necessary, accept a Deglet Noor or Barhi, but her strong
preference is for Medjools.  De-pitted of course.)  She will eat these with 
equal relish whether plain or with a little dollop of cream cheese thoughtfully
applied to the center.  

I may also wonder why she loves pistachios and dried figs and persimmons.

I find myself speculating that perhaps in a recent previous lifetime 
she had been a powerful middle eastern potentate who has somehow retained 
a taste for those foods he had grown fond of in the earlier life.  Certainly 
the arrogance of Bubbles, her domineering command over the other cat and
human in the house, would support such a theory. 

But of course I will never know where this food preference really comes from.
I don't question, I simply obey.  Up to a point. After the second date, or
the 4th or 5th nut, I cut her off. I find it necessary to 
remind her that she is, after all, a cat and that cats don't really 
like dates and figs and pistachios.  Her response is to give me that cold,
fixed stare that seems to say, pointedly, "You are an idiot. You don't know
anything."  While her paw slaps down, claws out, into my hand holding the
date or fig, and yanks that hand with its fruit, toward her own open mouth.

Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Re: That new clumping litter ...
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 07:35:53 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

MISAXM1@kentvm.kent.edu writes:

>>  In Austin, TX:
>>  Lasting Pride - $5.98 (22lbs) at Sam's Wholesale Club.
>>  Scoop Fresh   - $6.98 (16lbs) at the grocery store.
>>  Scoop Away    - $2.99 (7lbs) at the grocery store.
>>
>In Fairlawn, Ohio (A suburb of Akron which is 50 miles or so south of
>Cleveland)  I pay $ 3.99 for a milk jug size (not sure how many lbs.)
>of Scoop Away, and other store brands are comparable varying no more than
>a dollar.

From Cheshire Pet Supply here in Atlanta, we pay $6.25 for 25 lbs
of their house brand.  Works as good as or better than the "milk jug"
brands.  Cheshire is a chain so check your phone book.

John
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From: mas5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHELLE A. M. SZENA)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re:Kitty's 1st Christmas!
Date: 13 Nov 92 13:37:43 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I guess I'm lucky.  My little(?) Pookie weighs 16 pounds.  Well the first
Christmas I put the tree up, a real one, and put all the decorations on.  Some
of them are really expensive so I was a bit apprehensive but Pookie never
touched them.  Well, I'm watching tv and all of sudden I see some of the
branches swaying near the middle of the tree.  I looked under the tree to see
a little bit of tail hanging out the bottom of the middle of the tree.  Now
she does this every year and the tree has never fallen over.  She still never
touched any of the ornaments.

This year though we have Merlin.  The 8 month old terror.  He'll be playing
with the ornaments while I'm trying to put them on the tree.  Our tree may
never get completed decorated.

Michelle
and Pookie and Merlin
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: rusty@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Hall)
Subject: Re: WHAT TO NAME A WHITE MALE KITTEN
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:09:00 GMT

In article <BxGHtB.66J@cmptrc.lonestar.org>, brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Brad Barton) writes...
>In article <5666@sumax.seattleu.edu> sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (Maven o'Mirth) writes:
>>In article <wall-051192173511@elvis.swarthmore.edu> wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall) writes:
>tell anyone that one. (or something to that effect).
> 
>-- 
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>|            Brad Barton -- brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org          |
>|  "No matter how hard you throw a dead fish into the water,  |
>|   it still won't swim."    -- Marian Stevens                |
>---------------------------------------------------------------

The exact quote that you are referring to is know in the musical 
"Cats" based on the poems of T.S. Elliot in "Old Possums Book of 
Practical Cats."

"The Naming of Cats"

The naming of cats is a difficult matter.
It isn't just one of your holiday games.
At first you may think I'm as mad as a Hatter 
  when I tell you a cat must have THREE different names:

(Break from the poem, memory core failure...)

Name 1:  Everyday name

Name 2:  The Name given to the breed

Name 3: The name that the cat gives to himself that he keeps to him 
        self and will never reveal.

R

Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: lhuffman@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Spooky things
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:42:54 GMT

> Some kind person with a sensible cat on this list recommended that
> I harnass Doug up and let him go about his business in the house and
> PRESTO! leash training will be a breeze come the spring. Inspired, I
> located the harnass is question (still tied to clothes line, in a snarl
> where I had flung it in despair) and buckled Doug in.
> 
> I set him down on the floor and he immediately froze and tipped over,
> writhing as if in great pain. (I checked, harnass was not too tight.)
> I crossed my arms, sat back.  He continued to writhe. Checked the harnass
> again.  Writhing continues.  Grab his favorite toy (foil ball on string)
> and begin to fool around with it.  Writhing stops.  He gets to his feet
> and proceeds to moonwalk -- crash! into the coffee table, crash! into
> the couch!, crash! into the wall.  Freezes, tips over.  Writhes.

Thanks for the muffing and chuckling I've been doing over this post this 
afternoon. I especially liked the image you recalled for me by describing it
as 'tipping' over and the 'crashing'. That's exactly what mine do when they're 
in harness. All sense seems to fly right out of their heads, like where the 
ground isaand where exactly they are on it. Maybe we can split the fee on the
football field next time I want to pester, excuse me, harness my cats.
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: gck@hector.uucp (24641-kemmerling)
Subject: Original 'monster' story
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: us
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 18:09:36 GMT

PLEEEEEEZE - would someone post the original 'monster' story??

Thanx!!
gayle

E-mail address: gck@hector.cc.bellcore.com 
Morristown, N.J.
(201) 829-3950
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: lhuffman@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Kitty's 1st christmas!
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:58:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.121834.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, janet@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
> Hi cat lovers!
> 
> our cat (9 months in December) will be experiencing his first
> Christmas this year. Any suggestions how we can keep our Christmas
> tree and our sanity in tact?
> 

I though I had them fooled by stringing garlands on the walls near the 
ceilings... HAH!

They just put springs in their feet...
Organization: Temporary Employment Service, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:12:21 -0500 
From: Deborah Nina Cherry <dc30+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Fwd: kittens !

For those in the Pittsburgh area, I don't know if this has been posted here
yet (Haven't been able to keep up with the board lately...)
	Debbie Cherry

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Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:20:43 -0500 
From: "Cindy L. Bryce" <cb2c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: kittens !

Last night, two solid black kittens were hanging out on the porch of my
apartment building, desperately trying to make their way inside.  Well,
they made it, thanks to the fact that I couldn't resist.

But, I already have two cats and cannot keep these.

They're probably a couple of months old, only about eight inches long
(not counting their tails).  They like to play, though official "cat
toys" are a new experience for them.

If you're interested, plese respond to this account.  I know that
there's Animal Friends, but it would be nice to find homes for them
directly.

Thanks.
-Cindy