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From: cwilliams@guvax.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: UPDATE: Kitty chin spots
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:01:42 GMT
Organization: Georgetown University

Thanks to all who responded to my question about the spots on
my kitty's chin.  I've changed her bowls from plastic to
glass and if it doesn't clear up soon she'll be off to the vet.


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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: More Cat Toys
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:41:59 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

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 ... :-)


I knew this guy who found the cat left something else in his shoe.....
He deserved it, actually, he was that kind of guy.

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From: deannab@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Deanna Bergstrom)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:11:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Sunburn and Skin Cancer on cats
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats

Many years ago I had a white kitty, Throckmorton ("Tweak" for short).
He also had problems with sunburn, and I generally tried to keep him
in during the worst part of the day.  They didn't have sunscreens
with numbered "SPF" then, but I occasionally used some sunscreen on
him and it didn't seem to bother him at all.

Unfortunately he died at age 3 of luekemia...not related to the sun
exposure tho.

--Deanna
From: bicker@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Evening crazies  WAS re: Sophie/Sparky...:)
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:26:13 GMT
Reply-To: Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Followup-To: rec.pets.cats
Organization: The Internet

In article <1992Jul20.125503.16497@rsg1.er.usgs.gov> ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder) writes:
>In article <18JUL199213453253@vax.sonoma.edu> esaia@vax.sonoma.edu (MICHELLE ESAIA) writes:
>>  I have a coffee table that has glass panes in it, and Sophie ran under it,
>>Sparky jumped on top, and they started batting at each other through the
>>glass... I wish I had a video camera! 
>Try this: With cat underneath glass table, try waving something like a
>piece of string *above* the table and watch the cat try to bat the
>string. Can be quite entertaining. Especially when they try biting.

Even better...when you polish the table, leave the panes out for a few
hours...and watch kitty wonder why he falls through when he never did
before.  :>

-- 
Brian Charles Kohn               using !bicker's account
Poet-Magician of "Quality"       E-MAIL: att!hoqax!bicker  (bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM)
    'Hope, not fear, is the most positive advocate of action.' - S.R. Lawhead
                   Stamp Out "SO": "RP" = "Romantic Partner"
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: jpotter@stsci.edu (Jeffrey J. Potter)
Subject: UPDATE: pregnant abused manx
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:38:00 GMT


I have decided to post an update on the female manx because I have received
so many messages showing concern for the little lady.  I also wish to thank
everyone for their advice.

I have decided to let her have the kittens.  She is eating pretty good and is
picking up weight.  The vet said that it would probably not hurt to let her
have the kittens.  Plus I do not have the heart to take any life.  So an
abortion is out of the question.  I do have a few people interested in the
kittens anyway.  It is a shame that a person could mistreat an animal in
anyway.  She is so afraid of people.  She doesn't scratch and claw but she
instantly balls up as though she expects to be hurt when I approach her.
after I convince her that I am not going to hurt her, she will start purring.
I refer to her as 'she' because I have not come up with an appropriate name
for her at this time.  She is such a pretty blue color, and I am trying to
figure out a name that fits with that color.  I have also figured out that she
is deaf.  She will not come when called and I can sneak up on her very easy.
She doesn't know that I am there unless she looks at me or I touch her.  She
is starting to get along with the other cat.  They run and play alot but she
is at the disadvantage.  She has a hard time keeping her balance.  I imagine it
is related to her past injury.  But she doesn't give up.  She dishes out as much
punishment as she receives from the other cat.

Any ideas on a name for her?

Thank again,
jeff
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From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Why do I do this to myself????
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:56:32 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

AARGH!  I posted a few weeks back that I was having a hard time from
pocketing one of the kittens at the vet's office -- but I resisted...

So what do I do?  Coming back from visiting friends in Wisconsin, we
stopped at a roadside park, and there, underneath the sign rambling
on about POW's, was a sleek, solid grey shorthair, who of course
immediately walked up to me and greeted me....

Not another soul at the rest area, and she was obviously a pet.  No
houses within a mile.  Sat there for a good 20 minutes with the
cat on my lap, trying to talk myself out of the inevitable... Finally
posted a note on the latrine doors, put her in the car, and took off.
Charlotte (for Charlotte King, a turn-of-the-century botanical artist)
wandered around a bit, then sat down and allowed me to trim her claws
which were like daggers.  No fleas, no earmites, but just a little
pudgy...

Yep.  About 3-4 weeks from now the vet thinks.  I guessed her age
at about 6 months (more from size than anything else), but by
her teeth she's closer to a year.  Except for the tapeworms (thank
heavens for Droncit!), she's in good health.

Anybody need a well-mannered, healthy female cat?  I'll toss in 
shots and spaying...  Kittens?  

I gotta have "cat sucker" written all over me in letters 2 ft high...

Kay Klier   Biology Dept  UNI     (319) 273-2218


Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: ah881@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joyce Brabner)
Subject: 2 Smart 2 Swallow Marbles-- I THINK!
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 03:19:43 GMT


The most popular cat toy in our house right now is a small
bowl filled with marbles.  This is a substitute for the
nice little brass bowl filled with earrings, etc. that Zoe
used to get into.  She-- and sometimes Phoebe-- love to dig
out little sparkly things with one paw, then carry them
carefully down several flights of stairs to the one room
without a rug.  Then we hear all kinds of kitty hockey noises
in the kitchen, as the they roll  the marbles around.
 
One of these days, some dumb two-legger is going to slip and
fall, but right now, marbles are IT!  They outclass milk
jug rings and ponytail holders.
*************************************************
 
Someone just warned me against "little" marbles-- advising
that I keep just the big "shooter" kinds around.  Having
watched Phoebe and Zoe zip up and down several flights of
stairs with stolen pennies, nickels, paperclips, etc. I THINK
they know what they're doing.  Any other opinions?  I'm
not sure if I should start teaching them the Heinlich maneuver,
or if reasonable skills and decent precautiouns are somewhere
imprinted on their DNA, next to "carry baby by the scruff of
her neck" info, etc.
 
 
 
 
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From: isc40041@nusunix2.nus.sg (LOO KOK HOE)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Neutered cat's hair dropping
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:45:35 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

My 1 year old tomcat is neutered about 1 month ago,
recently I notice his body hair is dropping out
I am wondering whether the neutering process has 
anything to do with the hair drop ?

Anyway one out there have such an experience ?


George from Singapore
From: young@serum.kodak.com [Rich Young] (x37176)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Tapeworms (yuck!)...
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:08:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Jul29.160817.21656
Reply-To: young@serum.kodak.com
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Originator: young@sasquatch

In article <1992Jul29.135120.12774@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:
>
>I have heard that a deworming pill can be purchased at the grocery store
>for relatively little. Has anyone else heard of this?

	I haven't had to do any de-worming for quite a while, since Bigfoot
	the Polydactyl is an indoor cat, but I do remember that there used
	to be some de-worming medicine available for ascarids [round worms].
	I don't remember whether it was good for hook worms (I don't think
	so), and I KNOW it wasn't intended for tape worms.  I think the active
	ingredient was piperazine (or something like that).  As I recall,
	this particular medication isn't used much by vets any more because
	there are other, more effective medications available which don't
	result in the same gastrointestinal distress.

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Don't get angry, get accurate information.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Tapeworms (yuck!)...
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:27:54 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

In article <1992Jul29.135120.12774@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> reid@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Robert Reid) writes:


>I have heard that a deworming pill can be purchased at the grocery store
>for relatively little. Has anyone else heard of this?

>robert

Just about every shop that sells catfood in the UK also has deworming pills.
Roundworm only, tapeworm only, roundworm&hookworm combined, roundworm & 
tapeworm pills in one pack.....you name it, just about.

The REAL problem is getting the cat to take them: a few scars are quite 
macho though, so I don't really mind....


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From: ltao@netcom.com (Lilly Tao)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Address for Cat Aerobics Company
Date: 22 Jul 92 06:31:35 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online

A couple of people (including myself) have recommended the Cat Aerobics
toy.  Here's the name of the company that makes it.  They have what they
call a "Cat'alog" and also a Hall of Fame your cat can join (you receive
a newsletter "The CAT-Aerobics Exercise Mews."  Cute.

		Dad's "Cat Action" Toy Shop
		c/o SunRae Products
		P.O. Box 84
		Redwood City, CA 94064

Usual disclaimer -- I have no association with this company other than
being a satisfied customer.

Lilly Tao (and Oreo who is sitting in the closet waiting for me to go
	   to sleep so she can come sit on my head)
ltao@netcom.com
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Plastic bags and furry rabbits
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:29:54 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk

Re worry over cats playing with plastic bags - most bags in the UK have 
holes punched in them in case a child plays with them and suffocates, so 
they should be safe for cats as well.  Any I get without holes I put aside 
for when I have takeaway curry - I don't trust the curryhouse's bags to keep 
the car clean.

My wife thought the story about the cat who takes a rabbit toy to bed was 
the sweetest thing she'd heard for years.  Truffle sometimes rounds us up at 
bedtime; more often though we're just going up and she asks to go out just 
one more time.....

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|  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44)061-275-6033  |
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From: rene@ee.up.ac.za (Rene van Zyl)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: What does he DO in there???
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:01:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: ee.rene.399
Organization: Centre for Computing Expertize, University of Pretoria

In article <1992Jul29.105354.6105@doc.ic.ac.uk> crb@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ruth) writes:

>What IS he doing? What IS he after? And WHERE is he jumping from - this
>happens EVERY night now - and I still can't work it out!!!!!

Probably sittin on to of the cupboard, watching the world go by. My Tuple 
loves doing that.
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: edr@gtech.com (Eric D. Remington)
Subject: Re: cat toys ideas
Organization: GTECH Corporation, West Greenwich, RI
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:25:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.005131.9115@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> ccd@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Carol C Denehy) writes:
> ..... 
>in favour of her all time favorite: a crushed ball of aluminum
>foil. She will play alone with them, fetch when you throw them.
>Ignores fur mice, and all sorts of other supposedly irrestistible
>cat toys. At least they are cheap!
>

   I have never tried the crushed ball of aluminum, but once I did drop
   one of those rings that secure the top on plastic milk bottles on the
   floor, my cats love to play with them. they are light, and have that 
   handy little tab that the cats can pick them up by !
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins)
Subject: Re: What is she thinking? (was Re: What does he DO in there???
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:36:05 GMT

In article <p2nm!2@lynx.unm.edu> pjohnso@triton.unm.edu (Paddy Johnson CIRT) wr
ites:
>My cat Hilda Marie Mae Mupovitch, loves to get outside.  She has been known
>to run headfirst into the hose turned on full blast to get loose, so she
>manages to get outside frequently.  When I get home from work, she is
>almost always sitting in the same position in the same place on the
>shed roof.  The position is somewhat sphinx-like, with the ears erect,
>but the eyes are half-closed.  Her tail is either curled around her feet
>or straight out in back depending on the temperature.  She can sit this
>way for hours.  My question is: What is she thinking about when she is
>doing this?  The shed roof overlooks a small enclosed patio where nothing
>much ever seems to happen.  We live some distance from the street so
>she can't see it either.
>ZoeJ
>
I can't shed much light on what your cat is thinking--if I could I'd be on the
way to solving my own cat riddle.  I did read once that cats love to soak up
sunshine; you might observe if your cat--especially her eyes--is oriented
toward the sun.

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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: UPDATE: pregnant abused manx
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:16:24 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.083800.11334@stsci.edu> jpotter@stsci.edu (Jeffrey J. Potter) writes:
>
>I refer to her as 'she' because I have not come up with an appropriate name
>for her at this time.  She is such a pretty blue color, and I am trying to
>figure out a name that fits with that color.  

Blue cream or blue-grey?

How about Skye? Or Smoke(y) (wood smoke is sort of pale blue-grey)? Blueberry?
Anything goes when it comes to pet names.

>I have also figured out that she is deaf ...  She has a hard time keeping her 
>balance.  I imagine it is related to her past injury.  

A previous head injury could explain both the deafness and the balance problem.
I don't know that much about the Manx breed, but her physical description 
doesn't sound like one where deafness goes with the color (like blue-eyed 
all-white males). So she may not be totally deaf.
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: pjl2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Paul J Landsberg)
Subject: Sharing my dinner with the cats.
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:18:07 GMT

Last night was one of those late nights at work so dinner  consisted
of me foraging around in the refridgerator until I could come up
with two things remotely related.  (doncha hate mustard on olives??)
I ended up with some fresh ground peanut butter, a slice of pita
bread and some apricot preserves. All right, so it isn't peanut butter
and jelly but............  I already know that both of our cats,
Octavia and Augustus like pita bread so I'm down some quantity
already but VIOLA!, Augustus, the male cat snarfs down two globs
of fresh ground peanut butter.  BANG! Octavia laps an envelope 
clean of two small servings of apricot preserves.  

Peanut butter?  Apricot preserves?  I give up........

Paul Landsberg



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From: nunn@sura.net (Deborah Nunn)
Subject: Re: Female versus Male
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:00:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.152834.2082@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins) writes:
>
>Is there a distinguishable difference in character and temperament between 
>female and male cats?  This question assumes cats that are spayed or neutered
>and live with people.

I've had both, and I would recommend a male.  Both of my sisters would
also recommend males (my older sister had no choice about the one female
she has -- she came with the two male kittens!  :-) ).

This is, of course, IMHO, but *in my experience* males tend to be a
little less hyper and more affectionate.  (Oh, boy, I know that's going
to stir up a beehive!)


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From: ailsa%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Ailsa N.T. Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Adopting a Cat
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 19:05:51 EST
Organization: Ailanthus Project

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. 
> 
> -- 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? 
> 
do PLEASE try to find the owner!  i just wentr through a week of 
trauma...
 
my exhusband's girlfriend has let it be known, now that the divorce is 
safely final, that she hates me, never wants anything to do with me, and 
never wants HIM to haev anything to do with me either.  exhusband has 
just gotten a new apartment, and has finally gotten Melissa (the blue 
cream longhaired space case) to come live with him.  i'd been looking 
forward to seeing the new place, as i had helped contribute a few things 
to it, and he wanted to be able to see Katy as well...

so we arranged that katy and i were coming over to visit after church 
last sunday, and heidi woudl absent herself.  the visit was lovely.  
melissa was overjoyed to finally have a place to herself, and spencer had 
outdone himself making the place nice for her, even to the point of 
having a basket full of little rubber balls on an out of the way corner 
of the kitchen floor.  lunch was nice, the apartment was nice, BUT...  on 
our way out, katy let melissa out.  we searched and searched and couldn't 
find her anywhere.  she seemingly dissappeared into thin air.

we thought she woudl come back that night, when she got hungry.  she 
didn't.  spencer and heidi tore the building apart looking for her, and 
got all the other tenants in on the search as well.  no melissa.  katy is 
in deep hot water.

tuiesday jim (my husemate), katy and i made posters with a picture of 
melissa on them and papered a three-street area with them, as well as 
stopping all passersby we saw and showing them her picture.  a few peopel 
thought they MIGHT have seen her, but weren't sure.

wednesday night, melissa came home by herself.  spencer and heidi went 
around and took most of the posters down.  katy and i are personae evn 
less gratae after all that mess, as you can imagine, but at least melissa 
is back...

if she had gone further than a few streets down, though, we might have 
missed asking someone who might have found her.  the whole search was 
wildly traumatic for all of us...

                                        -ailsa

ailsa%ailanth.uucp@wang.com   or   io81409@maine.maine.edu
 
"If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it."
                            _Ohio state Senator Linda Furney
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