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From: 6845400@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Urgent, my cat stopped eating
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:18:05 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.

Have you called the vet! If the vet seems to think you whould wait awhile
longer, find another vet NOW!  TRy to find one in your area that handles
Cats only.  Some problems cats have are peculiar to cats alone.
Years ago one of my cats had a similar problem and it turned out to be
an intestinal blockage that the vet (cats only type) was able to cure
without surgery.  Let us know what happens!!
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: maji@max.u.washington.edu
Subject: URGENT! my cat stoped eating for 4 days now!
Organization:
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:44:37 GMT

My cat kitty lost interest in food for four days now.

It started Saturday morning, he vomited the dry food he had before. since
he sometimes did that and resumed eating in few hours. I didn't worry
too much. Then that night I gave him some cat treats. he seems like it.
But few hours later he vomited again.(you can see it is the cat treats.)
He didn't want to eat anything. if you put the canned food under his nose.
he will just walk away. Sunday night I forced a little bit raw eff yolk
into his mouth.

On monday morning, before we took him to the vet, he vomitted again, this
time no food, only white foam(his stomache fluid?). After the check up,
the vet gave him several shots(vitamin, antibiotics and nutrient fluid.)
She gave me two kind of pills: Reglan and Amoxi. also she gave us several
cans of A/D and Science Diet. But kitty refused to eat anything. we forced
a little bit of A/D into his mouth. But this process is really a pain. He
struggled violently.

I fed him at 9:15pm last night and he throw out at 12:00pm. Now he didn't
vomit any white foamy stuff. so I force  feed a little bit. hope it stays
there.

I read some cat care book suggesting give cat some pepto-Bismol when
vomitting. But kitty throw all those liquid out.

What should I do? kitty still played with his toys on Saturday and Sunday.
but now he really weakened and lost interest in anything.
(he is a neutered boy, orange tabby, long-hair. his normal food is dry
scinece diet maintenance , and canned Friskies.)

It really kills me to watch him vomiting in such a pain. and he just
lies on the sofa. his eye doesn't shine. He looks so weak.

Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks for bearing with this long text.

Li

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From: loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore)
Subject: update: cat food fights
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
Distribution: rec
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:31:24 GMT

Thanks to everybody who offered advice on how to handle Nerfball and
Slinky's feeding problems.  I've put them both on a "diet": Nerfball
gets two meals a day, and Slinky gets to eat all she wants but only
after I've put Nerfball to bed for the night.  Nerfy's diarrhea has
cleared up now that he's not stuffing his face 24 hours a day any
more, but he's sure not very happy!  He's spent the last couple of
days following me around meowing pitifully for more handouts, and
trying to give me hints that it's dinner time by knocking the cat food
box off the counter top and dragging his empty food dish around.
I've never seen a cat that's such a vaccuum cleaner where food is
concerned -- I hope this is just a phase he'll grow out of....

-Sandra
From: adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op))
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Colorblindness in cats
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:31:06 GMT
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY

In article <1992Jul16.190237.21322@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
>I was leafing through some new, more-photos-than-text book on cats at
>the library recently.  It mentioned that cats are red-green colorblind;
>they see shades of green when they look at objects we see as red.
>The book included two pictures of the same objects (colored bowls)
>from "human" and "cat" viewpoint.  (It also said, and showed in the picture,
>that cats have a smaller region of clear binocular vision than humans;
>they have more degrees of peripheral vision but it's not as clear.)
>
>Does anyone know:
>
>1) Are ALL cats colorblind in this fashion?  Do they see orange cats as
>a pleasing pale turquoise? :-)
>
>2) How did researchers determine this?

 I can't answer the first question, but the second is a matter of biology and
optics.

 By dissecting a cat eyeball (note to the squemish, I'm sure that the cat
died of natural causes. You can sleep easy tonight) and observing the 
arrangement of light senstive rods and cones on the inside surface, a
biologist can determine what colors a cat can see, and how well the cat can
see in low levels of light.

 If I remember correctly, the cones determine the colors one sees, and the
rods are more sensitive to dim light and details. That is why you can see
things in a dim room but can't make out the color.

 Peripheral vision is determined by the arrangement of cones and rods in the
eye. In humans, the cones and rods are concentrated in the retina on the plane
parallel to the iris. Because of this arrangement, the sharpest image we see
are objects we are looking at directly. This means that although we can see
a newspaper in the corner of our eye, it is difficult to read it in this manner.
 Eagles, on the other hand, have these things all over the inside of their eye,
and if they could read, they would read a newspaper while looking directly
at something else.

 The focus of a cat can be determined by the shape of the lens, and the
shape of the eyeball itself also determines how cats look at things.

 I am not familiar with cat eyeballs, so I can't give any specifics about
how a cat sees, other than the general information I gave above. However,
I attribute the reason cats can only see a limited number of colors to their
fabled ability to see in very dim light. Their reflective eyes and (probably)
higher proportion of rods vs. cones would leave less room for cones as
cats evolved from whatever furry mammal it sprang from.


 Biology is an interest of mine, not a profession, so I may have got some
facts wrong. It is not my intention to spread falsehoods across the net,
but I have read accounts of similar dissections of eyeballs of other species
and thought to share that here. At any rate, you don't need to do a mind-meld
with your cat to see how it perceives the world.


                                                        Derrick 
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: davids@eng.auburn.edu (David Schreibman)
Subject: Indoor cat wants out
Reply-To: davids@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:23:07 GMT

	My two cats are five years old, neutered, and have always lived indoors. Recently, Logic has decided that he REALLY wants to go outside.  I think he wants
to visit with other cats that wander by.  He cries, scratches at the door and carpet,
and worst of all has been urinating on the door.  I don't know how to deal with this.
I worry that he may catch a disease if I let him out.  I also worry about him getting
hit by a car; he's never had to dodge one.  My indoor cat Missy got sent to cat heaven
shortly after I started letting her out.

	How do I get him to stop messing up my apartment?
	How can I get him to calm down?
	Should he stay in, or be let out?
	Is there a safe compromise?
	What do you do?

	Thanks for any advice.

---
David Schreibman           ^ ^    
CSE Dept., Auburn Univ.    o o     
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From: rivkin@watson.bms.com (Teresa Rivkin)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Cat Toy Ideas
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:29:00 GMT
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

Our female cat, Fluffkins (not so fluffy anymore since she was shaved last 
week!), loves to play with hair things.  I don't mean things that are hairy, 
but things you put in your hair.  Her favorites are pony tail holders and 
ribbons.  She's a cleptomaniac for these things too.  When I was dating my 
husband and stayed overnight at his place (yes, we occasionally "lived in sin" 
before we were married!), she would go into my overnight bag looking for my 
pony tail holders.  She knew they were in there, because she saw me put them 
in there.  She'd wait until no one was in the room, or when we were asleep
and then she'd root through the bag to find them.  The strangest part is that
she loves putting these things in her water dish (her brother doesn't
appreciate this much, though).  I remember someone else posting something
about their cat depositing things in the water dish.  My husband thinks it's 
her way of showing off her "catch".  Like, "look what I did mom and dad.  
Aren't you proud of me?"

We play this game with her when we catch her red-handed stealing a hair thing. 
 My husband grabs her, throws her (very gently) up against the pillows on the 
couch or bed, busts her, and reads her her rights.  She thinks he's nuts when 
he does this and just gives him this look like "what the hell?"  As much as 
we've tried to rehabilitate her, I think she'll be a repeat offender for life!

Terri Rivkin
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Rivkin@bms.com 
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From: sallyg@oregon.uoregon.edu (George, Sally)
Subject: Re: Indoor cat wants out
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:18:41 GMT

In article <92210.200128PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu> PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

RE:

> . . .Also, those outdoor cats
>carry diseases.  We adopted a small kitten last year and it had feline
>calcivirus.  After a two-week battle that included twice-a-day trips to the
>vet for IVs, she died.  I believe she caught the disease from a stray at the
>humane society.  They had run out of room in the kitten room and had put her
>in the room with the big cats, including strays.

>Everyone who loves a cat should keep it indoors, or on a leash when
>outdoors.
>Paula

Paula,

Everyone has different ideas of whether to let their cats outdoors or not.  
My vet says that's why we give them shots . . . yes, I know it's still 
possible to get diseases but the risk is very low (by the way, she even lets 
her cats go outdoors).  In my opinion, it depends on the circumstances and 
what kind of cat you have!

Sal
From: MCCMAINT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: In Search of Giant Cats
Date: 31 Jul 92 06:36:38 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

I hope to soon move my family to LaHonda Ca. Away from the city out to the coun
try! This should take place in near the end of september. At that time I would
like to find some cats like my uncle had on his farm. His Cats had heads has
big  as large canalopes. About two feet high and 20 pounds! Good for all kinds
of vermits and small loud dogs. If you know of anyone who owns type of cat and
may soon have a litter please let me know. Yes they will have to earn their
keep, but so does kids. thanks...................
John k. 415-926-4051
From: ehp@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ("Didi Pancake")
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Eating paper (was Re: What IS it with Q-tips?)
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:48:53 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1992Jul29.003246.15540@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  (pauline muggli) writes:
>
>i have a box with the edges of computer paper (the "holey" part)
>and midnite nests in it.  when i first gave it to her, she would
>
>pauline

I have to carefully hide the torn-off edges because Correy will EAT them!
He starts at one end, just like spaghetti. He also likes to "steal"
pieces of paper and carry them away from where I am...then he just leaves
them on the floor for me to pick up. We often read the mail together
so that I can let him have the begging letters or sometimes junk catalogs.
Fortunately, he has the idea (so far) that paper he takes from my hand
and/or paper already on the floor are fair game, but he generally doesn't
fang papers sitting in piles on other surfaces above floor level.
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: bob@anasazi.com (Bob Carroll)
Subject: Re: Bald spots from disease or injuries?
Reply-To: bob@misty.UUCP (Bob Carroll)
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:55:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.193857.1708@ncsu.edu> echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT) writes:
>About two weeks ago, we noticed he had a large wound on his chest.  His
>chest fur is white;  this was a pink (bare) spot with a slightly oozy
>center.  It seemed like he was keeping it clean, and he wasn't acting
>any different, so we figured he'd heal.  It's started to (slowly) heal 

My little one has several such small pink spots across her lower abdomen.
They do slowly heal but are hampered by her constant cleaning. I am almost
positive they are the results of scorpion stings.

-- 
Robert Carroll           		         bob@anasazi.com
Anasazi, Inc.                                    bob%anasaz.UUCP@asuvax
7500 North Dreamy Draw Drive, Suite 120  
Phoenix, Az 85020 
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo)
Subject: Re:Sudd. Lazy Cat---HES OK (WE THINK)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:03:33 GMT

	I'd like to thank you all for your responses.  We took him to the
vet.  $124.  $30 of which went to a call to the toxicology lab.
he licked some lysol off of his paw that was spilled on the floor.
but after the vet suggested a hospital stay, we couldnt afford it and
brought him home.  She gave him an antibody and liquids since he wasnt
eating or drinking.  He had some severe irritaions from the chemicals.
BUT, as soon as we got home and opened a can of cat food, he chomped it all
down.  The first sign of recovery.    Just keep your cats away from any 
Alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chlorides.  They are very bad news for cats.
All he did was lick a little off his paw and thats it.  
Thanks again for the info.  He and his sis are my first cats, so I didnt 
know what to do.

Even though the vet was a rip off and it seems we didnt need it 
(the antibody couldnt have taken effect in 20 min)
I feel glad that we took him and know forsure what to watch for and
that he isnt seriously sick.

Derek & Lisa

(george & gracie)

Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: thesman@natinst.com (Josephine Kwan)
Subject: Re: bald spot
Keywords: Male hormones
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:36:13 GMT

My cat (Kiddo) had a big bald spot on his right flank. It didn't seem 
to irritate him at all, not itchy or red. The hair became very very short 
and smooth, like velvet. 
The vet did culture test, found out it was not ringworm. The vet said
it is pretty common for neutered males because of their lack of male hormones!!
He recommended no treatment unless the hair-loss became worse. The hair
eventually grew back, but very slowly.   

Other than the weird bald spot, Kiddo was as normal and playful as usual,
eating just as much as before.   =>


Jo, Kiddo (just turned 10) and Michael (just turned 3)
From: kay@helios.ucsc.edu (Laura Kay?)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: chemotherapy for cats
Date: 30 Jul 1992 21:37:29 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu
Summary: looking for info on cat chemotherapy
Keywords: tumors, chemotherapy

Has anyone had experience with chemotherapy for their cat? I 
found a small (2mm) tumor on my cat which turned out to be 
cancerous. The chest x-rays and blood tests looked OK, so 
they did a second surgery, removed the region around the lump,
and think they got it all. But since cancer spreads so fast in 
cats the vets strongly recommended chemotherapy. Do cats get
very sick from this treatment (and has it really helped to
extend their lives much?).

I just found out about this group, sorry if this all was discussed
just recently!



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From: mariem@sco.COM (marie megna)
Subject: Re: More Cat Toys
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:10:42 GMT
Followup-To: More Cat Toys

Ah yes, those sweet reminders are a nice way to get thru the day.,
however...Lets not forget that if they put their toys in the shoe, they also
put the animal toys in shoes too and take it from me, there's nothing, and I
mean nothing that can compare to putting on a slipper/Ugg boot or plain old
shoe and finding something "squishy" in there and come to find out it's a
mole, dead mouse, bird, lizard, gopher, I could go on, but  you get the hint!
You gotta love em tho, (after you've washed out the shoe of course, and your
foot)!!!!!! Marie & Little Sister and Bun
In article <1992Jul27.190837.2706@ncar.ucar.edu> vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer) writes:
>In article <GIBSON.92Jul27074258@dl5000.bc.edu> gibson@dl5000.bc.edu (Rene Gibson) writes:
>>
>>If the cat has a small toy she likes that will fit in a shoe, try giving
>>her an old shoe and putting the toy in it.
>
>Ah, the old toy-in-the-shoe routine!  In all the 16 years I've had
>Abigail, I can't count the number of times I have gone to put on shoes
>and found a cat toy shoved down in there.  She seems to forget about
>them if they're not easily removed from the shoe, and she just leaves
>them there.  I have often gotten to work and gone into my backpack to
>get something and found a cat toy in there too.  It's a sweet reminder
>of a sweet cat during a busy day at work ... :-)
>
>
>
>--
>Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
>Boulder, Colorado / / / /  vicki@ncar.ucar.edu


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From: ai257@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda L. McConnell)
Subject: Fun With Fleas!
Reply-To: ai257@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Linda L. McConnell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 04:05:28 GMT


Yes, you CAN have fun with fleas - 

The Panther is flea-free, and very happy about it.  He's
like a new kitty.  The house has been bombed, and the problem
is much less severe.  But there are still a few of the pesky
critters about.  I have been having fun vacuuming them up with
my Cleartrak vacuum, which has a transparent plastic dirt
bin.  I put a flea killing powder in it.  I vacuum the carpet,
picking up two or three little varmints.  Then I watch them
DIE!!  :-)

Well, I don't get out much, what can I say???  :-)

-- 
"I don't know much about being a millionaire,
 but I'll bet I'd be _darling_ at it."
                                      Dorothy Parker
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: cat excrement in "interesting" places Re: More Cat Toys
Summary: another "Fat Freddy's Cat"
Keywords: cat excrement faeces boots shoes pillow stereo headphones
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:48:25 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Jul30.003013.2484@chpc.utexas.edu> jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg) writes:

>In article <zlsiida.1074@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
>writes:
>>I knew this guy who found the cat left something else [cat faeces]
>>in his shoe.....
>>He deserved it, actually, he was that kind of guy.

>The comic book series "The Freak Brothers" (Ripoff Press, San Francisco)
>features the exploits of a bunch of 40ish hippies living at "1342D Trashview
>Court" in San Francisco.  One of them, "Fat Freddy", has a cat, in fact a
>very feisty tomcat, named (naturally enough) "F. Frederick Skitty".  He
>has left cat faeces on Fat Freddy's pillow, in FF's boots, and once even
>in his stereo headphones!

Well.....it happened to the guy I mentioned back when The Fabulous Furry 
Freak Brothers {let's get the name right!} were still in their early 20s...
as was he.

Around the same period, I shared a house with a bunch of students.  We had 
two pure black cats, Eurypides (Rip) and Andromeda (Andy).  One of them did 
the headphones trick.  Bleach isn't the best stuff for speaker diaphragms.

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From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Adopting a Cat
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:29:29 GMT
Organization: Boeing Graphics project, Bellevue WA

jodi@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Jodi Peterson) writes:
>
>> -- 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. 
>> 
Be sure to also check the lost pets newspaper ads.  My sister's huge-black-
fiend-from-hell, Nuper, wandered off when he was about 8 months old.  After
a heartbreaking week of going door-to-door, putting up posters all around
the neighborhood, and running newpaper ads (which said she was missing her
8 month old kitten), she finally got a call.   The caller, who lived about
five miles away, said that there had been a black cat hanging out in their
yard for the last few days, and she'd been feeding it, but, it wasn't exactly
a kitten.  I was visiting at the time, so I went with her over to these
people's house.  I hadn't seen Nuper for about 5 months.  The lady answered
the door holding this *huge* black cat.  There was silence for a minute, 
then my sister exclaimed 'WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!".   A very happy ending -
the lady refused the reward, and Nuper never went outside again without an
id tag and collar.

Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.boeing.com  // or uunet!bcstec!voodoo!das
From: kaz@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Karen Fegley)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Some more FUN cat toys
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:10:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.184838.24504@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> gck@hector.uucp  
(24641-kemmerling) writes:
> 
> I'm new too, but two more toys are those small elastic ponytail things and
> crumpled up cigarette wrappers (with the cellphane still on it
> for the noise). 
> 
>    
> Gayle

Ping pong balls!  Because they are lightweight, they roll easily
when swatted.  They also make a terrific clattering noise.
 
We have to put these away at night.  Being woken up by the sound of
a cat racketing around the house at 3 AM in pursuit of a ping pong
ball is a bit much.

Punkin (3 years deceased, R.I.P.), who was a pretty big guy, used
to carry ping pong balls around in his mouth.  He'd make muffled
'wow'-ing noises like he was having acute gastric distress, spit
the ball -- poinggg! -- out onto the floor, pick it up, and start
all over.  I never figured out what game he was playing.  He was
not the brightest cat I ever met, so maybe he didn't know either...

Karen
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