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From: lyndap@Novell.COM (Lynda Peterson)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday!
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:34:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.174627.9552@tellab5.tellabs.com> pauls@tellabs.com  
(Paul Silver) writes:
> In article <1992Sep4.133744.26813@athena.mit.edu>  
tastewar@athena.mit.edu (Tom Stewart) writes:
> >Just wanted to proclaim a public Happy Birthday to our two cats,
> >Robin and Marion.  We adopted them 4 December 1991 and were told
> >that they were "about 3 months old."  So, while we do not have an
> >exact date, we are celebrating today.  Happy Birthday, Robin and
> >Marion!!!
> >
> >I hope they read this newsgroup, but I think they hang out more
> >in rec.pets.humans.
> >
> >Tom Stewart
> 
> *----------------*
> 
> On a similar note, Happy Birthday to Fugazi and Chan, my two cats.
> They were both stray kittens (Fugazi was only a few days old when she
> was found), so no exact date is known.  But Fugazi's bday is 
> celebrated on September 1st, and Chan's on the 14th.  Fugazi just
> turned 2 and Chan will be 3 next week.
> 

OK, me too. I got my cat aroung the middle of October 4 years ago. The  
store owner said she was ten weeks. So, me the neglectant owned, didn't  
even celebrate the fourth birthday of my Boo. Unless you count getting her  
shots celebrating. So...

Happy Birthday, Boo. I'll make it up to you.
From: joanm@moe.coe.uga.edu (Joan Maxfield UCNS)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Why Do Cats Sit on Paper?
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:18:48 GMT
	<GIBSON.92Sep8080732@dl5000.bc.edu>
	<1992Sep8.223318.7200@cs.tulane.edu>
Organization: College of Education, University of Georgia

Amos has a different habit with paper I think it goes something like
this:
"Hey, theres a piece of paper on the floor"
"I think the paper is sitting where I want to sit" (this works for
	chairs and people too!)
"I guess I'll just have to sit on it"
"Hey,if this paper got to sit where I wanted to sit it must think
	it's pretty special!"
"Oh, God, I hope MOM doesn't think it's special too!! She LET it sit
	there!"
"Mom is too busy with me to have anything else special, I guess I'll
	have to kill it.  She would approve, she knows she can't love
	us ALL!"
(Cat proceeds to shred the paper, be it news or term, into minute
pieces!  Note that the last cat thought also works on fragile
collectables, food, and love intrests)

Joan  (who is beginning ot understand her cat, just a little)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: lyndap@Novell.COM (Lynda Peterson)
Subject: Re: Conversations with cats
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:40:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.211516.27414@linus.mitre.org> pdsmith.mitre.org (Pat  
Smith) writes:
> In article <Bu2Fxv.66K@cmptrc.lonestar.org>, carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org 
> (Carter Bennett) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep3.060214.1720@walter.cray.com> bonni@snoid.cray.com 
> (Bonni Ensminger) writes:
> Winston has an inverted version of this, more of an OW? as if he's 
> asking a question.  In this mode, if I meow back, he'll answer,  over 
> and over.:-)
> 
> Kepler and Einstein and I will have these conversations, too.  After 
> doing it regularly, we seem to have an elementary form of communications  
> going.

> 
> Has anyone else done this?  Has my potato been bakin' too long?

My kitty definitely say yes, "Meeahh" and no, "Meoooo," especially when  
deciding on if she needs to eat NOW and what kind of Fancy Feast she  
wants.
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: dmillard@encore.com (Debbie Millard)
Subject: Re: Water Bowl Fetish (was Re: Ice cubes in water bowl)
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:08:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.163249.20584@sura.net> nunn@sura.net (Deborah Nunn) writes:
>
>Any one else have a cat with a water bowl fetish?
>

Yup - Timmy often stores his latest 'kill' in the water or
food dish.  The 'kill' is usually a wad of paper.

I can no longer leave toilet seats up because he loves to
watch things float in the water.  Before I wised up, I'd
often come home and find 3 or 4 toys in the toilet - yuk.

Debbie Millard
Calli, Cissy, and Timmy-terror-the-cat-from-hell
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: ege@cbnews.cb.att.com (Ernie Englehart)
Subject: Re: Should I get a second kitten?
Organization: AT&T Network Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:11:07 GMT
Summary: two cats ARE better than one!

In article <lis.715821943@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) writes:
> The thought of getting a kitten has become stronger lately, but before
> I do anything, I thought I'd ask you guys.  Here's my story.

...story about Boopsie...

I had one cat, an all black female, for a long time.  Like 7 years.
She seemed happy, but people had always told me to get a second cat,
because they make good playmates, and two cats are no more difficult
to care for than one.  A little more food, maybe, but they use the
same litter box.

When I bought my home and was just moving in, there was this adorable
little kitten around...the kids who live next door were playing with her.
She saw my cat outside in my yard and hung around.  She had a collar,
so I posted signs on street corners and put an ad in the paper, but
nobody claimed her...so I kept her.  My older cat took to the kitten
partially because of the motherly instincts which you referred to.
Now the little one is 5 yrs old and they are both happy; they get along
just great.  When they play together they sometimes get rough and it's
fun to watch...it looks like the WWF for cats!  Anything goes!

To summarize...get a kitten!  Both Boopsie and you will be happy.
I'm no expert, but I think you should get the same sex...if Boopsie is
a female get a little female kitten.  In 6-7 months get her spayed
and if you want, declawed.

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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: mmilicevic@spike.psc.scarolina.edu
Subject: Re: Another cat?
Reply-To: mmilicevic@spike.psc.scarolina.edu
Organization: Univ of S Carolina College of Sci and Math
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 04:46:25 GMT

MAKE SURE ONE THING WHEN YOU BRING IN YOUR NEW CAT. DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION
TO THE NEW ONE. ALL YOUR LOVE AND PETTING SHOULD GO TO THE OLD CATS, DO NOT 
EVEN NOTICE THE NEWCOMER. I KNOW IT IS HARD BUT THEY WILL GET ALONG THIS WAY
AFTER ONE WEEK. IF YOU PAY GREAT ATTENTION TO THE NEW CAT THE OTHER TWO WILL
BE JELOUS AND YOU'LL HAVE A PROBLEM.

GOOD LUCK, MLADEN
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: Should I get a second kitten?
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 23:25:43 GMT

The thought of getting a kitten has become stronger lately, but before
I do anything, I thought I'd ask you guys.  Here's my story.

I've had Boopsie for a little over a year, when she followed me home.
I currently live alone in a small one-bedroom apartment.  Two rooms, a
kitchen and a bathroom (not much room to separate two cats should they
not get along)  I'm also not the neatest of people (understatement!)
so the room is even scarcer, but everything is cat toy material.
Unfortunately, my job has moved farther away, and I don't have much
time to spend with Boopsie.  She has begun licking spots on her feet
raw, and I suspect it may by psychological.  Boopsie has always been
an only cat, however, when I vacationed in NYC she stayed in an
apartment with a kitten.  The kitten was sick, however, and stayed
locked in a room.  However, whenever the kitten cried, Boopsie ran to
the door like a concerned mother.  
Anyway, I've been thinking of getting Boopsie of getting Boopsie a
kitten so she won't be alone so much of the time.  But I'm not sure
I'm a good mother for the cat I have, much less whether I can handle a 
second kitten.  But the more I look at kittens, the more I want one.
I really do think it would be good for Boopsie to have a friend/surrogate 
daughter.  But you guys seem to be authorities, what do you think?
-- 
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: rkn3u@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (R. Keith Norwood)
Subject: Re: Crippled kitty
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:38:42 GMT

>In article <lexier.716059103@sfu.ca> lexier@fraser.sfu.ca (Lyle Lexier) writes:
>
>Quite frankly, if there is essentially no progress at all over the next several
>months, it is probably best to amputate. It is hardly being done "for no reason
>at all". I don't believe that potential future guilty feelings of the owner
>are a good reason to saddle the cat with a useless limb for the indefinite 
>future. The cat will get over the loss sooner than the human(s) will.

About 6 months ago, our male cat broke his right hind leg at the hip joint.  
We decided to leave the leg alone as long as it wasn't painful and he seems 
to get around fine.  However, the leg has definitely atrophied.  Are we
delaying the inevitable that the leg will have to be amputated? Or will 
the degeneration level off at some point?  Is their a risk of arthritis or
infection if it is left alone? 


Keith
From: coimay@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu ( LAURA CARRIERE)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Why Do Cats Sit on Paper?
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:35:43 GMT

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Distribution:  world
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:24:51 GMT

In article <GIBSON.92Sep8080732@dl5000.bc.edu>, gibson@dl5000.bc.edu (Rene Gibson) writes...
>In article <1992Sep6.153454.4128@auto-trol.com> katbea@auto-trol.com (Kathy Beatty) writes:
>>
>> coimay@sn01.sncc.lsu.edu ( LAURA CARRIERE) writes:
>> : Okay, here's my theory.  I call it the Special Theory.
>> : 
>> : Cat walks into a room and wants to sit on the floor.  My, what a lot of
>> : floor to chose from, thinks Cat.  Where shall I sit?  Hmmm, there's a
>> : spot over there that's different, it has newspaper on it.  Now, if that
>> : spot's different, it must be special and since I'm the most Special
>> : Creature on the planet, it must be meant for me.
>>
>> If anyone is taking bets, I will bet this theory is correct.
>>
> 
>There must be a corollary that explains why my cat would crawl under the
>paper to sit.

Hmm, okay, about this.  

Corollary to the Special Theory.
If the topside of the paper is Special and deserving of Cat, then the
underside must be equally Special and, hence, equally deserving of Cat.
Since Cat lacks opposable thumbs, it's necessary for Cat to crawl under
the paper.

:-)

Laura Carriere
From: mmilicevic@spike.psc.scarolina.edu
Subject: Re: Another cat?
Reply-To: mmilicevic@spike.psc.scarolina.edu
Organization: Univ of S Carolina College of Sci and Math
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 02:41:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.223803.17283@rigel.econ.uga.edu>, hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
>In article <1992Sep13.044625.21746@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu> mmilicevic@spike.psc.scarolina.edu writes:
>>MAKE SURE ONE THING WHEN YOU BRING IN YOUR NEW CAT. DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION
>>TO THE NEW ONE. ALL YOUR LOVE AND PETTING SHOULD GO TO THE OLD CATS, DO NOT 
>>EVEN NOTICE THE NEWCOMER. I KNOW IT IS HARD BUT THEY WILL GET ALONG THIS WAY
>>AFTER ONE WEEK. IF YOU PAY GREAT ATTENTION TO THE NEW CAT THE OTHER TWO WILL
>>BE JELOUS AND YOU'LL HAVE A PROBLEM.
>>
>>GOOD LUCK, MLADEN
>
>  I don't agree with this, and please take your caps lock off, it's the
>  rude equivalent of shouting.
>
>  A new cat is in a  (to it) bad and insecure position.  It doesn't
>  know where it is or what's going to happen to it.  It needs attention
>  just as much as the old ones, but for different reasons.  There's lots
>  of ways to work it so that all cats get the attention they need.  One
>  way is to separate the new cat from the old ones by closing a
>  door between them (it's also good to keep the new one temporarily
>  in a smaller space while it gets used to things: a single room, rather
>  than a whole house).  They'll all know the other(s) are there across
>  the door, they'll smell each other, and they'll gradually get used
>  to the new cat presences over a few days.  And you can give each
>  cat the attention it needs without making the others jealous, during
>  this time.
>
>  Wayne

The problem is when you touch the new cat you leave your scent on her then the
old cats smell it and become jelous. They have to smell the new cat before you
touch her. The best way is to have someone not from your household come and
bring in the new cat. The most important thing is that cats become friends, if
this business goes wrong from the beginning they would never become friends and
that is real pity. Remember cats have to benefit from each other.

MLADEN
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon)
Subject: Stinky kitten
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Distribution: rec.pets.cats
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:44:50 GMT

I posted a couple of weeks ago about having allergies and wanting a kitten.
Well, I took all of the wonderful advice I was given, and eventually, we did
indeed get a kitten.  She has been with us for two weeks, and eveything is
going ok--she's had about 10 baths in the last two weeks, and today, she finallyaccepted her fate to be washed without doing me any major arterial damage!!

Anyway, the problem is this:  She smells!!!!!!  She really stinks from farting
and going to the bathroom.  Luckily, my sense of smell is pretty bad, but
even I can smell her on occasion, and I know that if I can smell her, she must
be fragrant!

Someone posted a few weeks ago about stinky kitten feces, but I don't remember
what the outsome was.  She's eating a combination of two dry foods:Kitten Chow
and Veternary Health Science Kitten diet.  I haven't really seen any other
products for kittens, and I am wondering if changing her food will even help
reduce offensive odors.  She's about 10 weeks old now, so changing to any kind
of adult food is really not an option.

If you have any advice regarding this situation, please do not post, but email
me so we do not waste any net space, seeing as how this topic was discussed
quite recently.  If anyone needs to know the same information, feel free to
email me, and I will be happy to send you a summary.

--Karen
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs)
Subject: Any help for a drooler?
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 21:44:48 GMT

I don't think there is any particular help for this problem, but I thought
I'd toss it out on the net and see if anyone had any good ideas.  I've a
lovely young male 'coon, who is quite sweet, and about medium on the human
cuddler scale.  (That is, I've had more cuddly cats, but he does enjoy a
good scritch and cuddle.)  The only problem is, he's a drooler par
excellence.  His face is well formed, though his muzzle is on the short
side.  But unlike some cats I've seen who had an obvious reason for
drooling, there's nothing I can see.  He just plain drools when he is
happy.  Which means that precisely when he's the most cuddly, he is the
least savory.  Under normal circumstances, I just put something on my lap
when we go for a cuddle-scritch.  But it is *really* annoying in the middle
of the night.  I was away for the weekend, and he really wanted to be
friendly last night.  Three in the morning, and you're rudely awakened by a
drippy drooly muzzle being stuck in your ear.  Yuck!  Or your face, or
whatever else sticks out of the covers.  Normally I just retreat beneath
the covers, when he does this, but it makes me feel bad.  He's just trying
to be friendly, and I'm turning away from him.  I'd like to encourage the
friendly behavior on his part, but this is really unpleasant.  Any ideas?

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From: greg@korg3.columbiasc.ncr.com (Greg Porr)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Should I get a second kitten?
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:54:43 GMT
Organization: NCR Corp, MCPD-Columbia, Columbia, SC

My wife and I had Cooper (spayed female) for about 2.5 years before we got
Bailey (neutered male).  We both work, and Cooper had started to just lay
around and we convinced ourselves that she'd be happier with someone to
play with.

Overall, I think it was a good decision.  She's more active now, but Bailey's
pretty agressive and gets on her nerves a few times each day, so there
will be times of hissing and mild fighting.  However, they're reasonably
friendly to each other about 90% of the time.

We probably could have done a better job at introducing them.  However, in
any multi-cat environment, there will always be a hierarchy where one cat
is more dominant than the others.  So we're learning to put up with
the negative aspects.  And I think that Cooper would probably admit to
liking Bailey at least a little bit, even though she'd prefer it if he
were a little bit more of a gentleman!

-- Greg Porr
   (Greg.Porr@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM)
From: brown@dgaust.dg.oz (Fred Brown)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cats who sleep on humans, was Re: Any help for a drooler?
Date: 16 Sep 92 04:26:35 GMT
Organization: Data General Australia, Melbourne

Not exactly the same  *but* Faye sleeps on my chest with just her head
poking out from under the blankets. She either rests her head on my neck 
or shoulder...
Rgds
Fred
* Faye & Muffin*
From: sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (Maven o'Mirth)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: How about kitty noises?
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:55:13 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <1992Sep4.184641.7188@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> colette@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Colette Goodyear) writes:
>>
>>My sister calls this the "purrmeow."
>>
>>
>I call it a "merp".  Both Fluff (RIP-19 years old) and Willow make that
>noise.  Speaking of silly names for cats, I used to call Fluff "Merps".
>It was the only noise she would make.  Never purred, never meowed.
>The name has been passed on to Willow.
>
>Colette Goodyear
>MUN
>Colette@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

My friend Melissa has a cat that was the runt of a Maine Coon litter (and,
to feed the flames of the thread :) therefore was not all that expensive)
who had an original name (which I have forgotten) but came to be know only
as "Meep."  She does not meow either, but only meeps and occasionally, if
purring at the same time, will "merp."  Probably the most entertaining cat
I know, next to my own Hemingway (who does not meow but only growl/meows
when extremely excited: mrrrrrrrau!).

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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cat always MEOWS !!!!
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:21:52 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <X4uyqB1w164w@jjruu.UUCP> mike@jjruu.UUCP (Mike Riederer) writes:
>From: mike@jjruu.UUCP (Mike Riederer)
>Subject: Cat always MEOWS !!!!
>Date: 12 Sep 92 02:22:20 GMT

>Hi All,
>I have a domestic shorthair that is about 1 year old.  She seems
>to be in perfect health, but constantly MEOWS!  She runs around
>like crazy, eats well, and uses her litter box.  What could be 
>the problem, or is it a problem?  Any help/advice would be 
>appreciated.  Please Post, because I can not receive E-mail.
>Thank You
>Mike

I have one like this.  He slobbers, too.  But he's not a shorthair.  I 
suppose he's just a "talker".
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From: loosemore-sandra@CS.YALE.EDU (Sandra Loosemore)
Subject: Re: Should I get a second kitten?
Organization: staff hacker @ Yale Haskell project
	<1992Sep8.155754.17096@gateway.novell.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:17:00 GMT

lyndap@Novell.COM (Lynda Peterson) writes:

   Is it everyone's opinion that two cats are better than one? Is it every  
   cats opinion that two are better than one?

No and no.  My cat Slinky was also an "only cat" before I took in an
abandoned half-grown cat over the summer.  I seem to be stuck with him
now, but to tell the truth Slinky and I were both happier before he
showed up.  Even after a couple of months, she's still nervous when
he's around and only acts like her "normal" self after I've put him to
bed at night.  And the continual bickering and fighting makes me a
nervous wreck, too.  Of course, the trouble could be just the
particular cats involved, but I wouldn't choose to go through this if
I could do it all again....

-Sandra
From: peggys@orca.wv.tek.com
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: OH NO!!!
Keywords: suicide  :)
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:47:32 GMT
Reply-To: peggys@orca.wv.tek.com
Organization: Network Displays Manufacturing, Tektronix,Inc

> From: puter@no1home.nashvil.ingr.com (PuterDude)

> Sunday morning. 10 AM. Wife looks out window.
> 	Announcin' a brand-new addition. 6wks old, orange-and-white striped
> DLH male. Came with ~40 fleas, an indeterminate number of ear mites, U-G-L-Y
> face, motor as loud as a jackhammer, and a hunger that will send us to the
> poorhouse. Condolences may be sent to....
> 	Save Puter Before He Kills Himself Because of ANOTHER Kitten
> 	P.O Box WhyDoesSheDoSuchThings
> 	HelpMeOut, Tn.
> 
> P.S. If anyone finds my marbles, keep them. The kitten's name is Data.
> 
> P.P.S. Yes, that is Data's favorite pasttime...  PP's   :)
> 
> Levi, Spock, Data, Vincent, Oscar, Larry, and Tigger
>  ^      ^     ^       ^                         ^
> dawg  kat   kittin   phish ---------------------|
> 
> -- 
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> (Put irritating title here)		(Put phone # here.)
> (Put obnoxious quote here. Please make it as long as possible.)


Thanks PuterDude...I enjoyed this IMMENSELY...giggle,giggle...;}

					Peggy

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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:46:28 EDT
From: <JDB6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Ice cubes in water bowl

Clyde will also "ask" for ice cubes to be placed in a bowl or on
the floor, but he wants to LICK them, not play with them.
Both our cats love to jump in the shower (after the water stops)
and lick up the puddles and bat at drips, but last winter we
took Clyde out to "sample" some snow, and he loved it!
Anyway, we decided that since we don't have a freezer that generates
"snow", that an ICE CUBE would probably suffice. Rightto!
He will lick the cube till it is just a chip, and then come back
when it is a dribble, and finish that off too.
Clyde will also lick the condensation from the outside of a glass,
but is rarely interested in what is inside. (Smart cat I guess.)
He does not like warm water. (Picture of upside-down bowl ...)

Clyde, Bonnie ... cared for by John, Jean Balogh