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From: dan@msen.com (Dan and Karen Sugalski)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Help me find a kitty.
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:23:42 GMT
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Ruth Milner (rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu) wrote:

: About the hissing method that everyone has been advocating: do you hiss
: through your teeth like a long-drawn-out "sssss", or in the back of your
: throat like the cats themselves do? I have tried both ways on my cats,
: and they just look at me like I'm weird :-). So I figure I must be doing
: it wrong somehow.

I wasn't the poster about the hissing technique, sorry.  I've raised all
of my gang from kittens and they do respond to a hiss or a growl, and to no.
Hissing generally means knock it off, a growl is roughly don't you dare,
and no is reserved for things that they absolutely should not do.
The hiss is usually through the teeth, unless someone hisses at me, such as 
while getting medical treatment or a bath.  Then I reply in kind.  

Maybe your cats are puzzled because they don't understand what you mean,
since you've just started.

Karen

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From: tonyp@convex.com (honey bunny)
Subject: Gestation period
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:03:37 GMT
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              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

I bought a house, and it came with a cat.

I guestimate the age of the cat at 6 months.

I found out this morning what sex the cat is.  :-)
(and why 2 BIG cats have been hanging around
 here lately).

Questions:

1. How long, since this morning, does it take before I can
   expect her to have a litter of kittens?

2. APPROXIMATELY how many kittens will I wind up with?


I was thinking about getting her spayed, but also had planned
to get her a playmate or two. I live in the mountains in San Diego,
and cats have a life expectancy of less than a year (This one's name
is Bobcat Chow. Her brother Coyote Chow, was)*.


*If you think this is gross, it isn't - it's life. Sometimes you do
the eating, sometimes you are the eating. These cats have a wonderful
life, though short. They live off the land. They have fresh meat, by
their own skill. They are very playful, and friendly. They lie around
in the sun all day, and hunt at night. They are very content. But one
day their "turn" is over - and quickly. Alot like Klingon Warriors.


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From: jclannom@mathlab.mtu.edu (Joe Lannom)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: DECLAWING?
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:06:32 GMT
Reply-To: jclannom@mathlab.mtu.edu (Joe Lannom)
Organization: Michigan Technological University

Keith Norwood writes
> 
> What exactly are the positive aspects of the indoor cat?
> 

Less exposure to disease carried by other cats.  
 
Less chance to eat bad garbage ("But if you feed it well at home, they won't 
eat out of garbage cans!"  "Ya,  right...") (Whats GOOD garbage?  8-)
 
No poisoned mice.
No flat cats.
No well fed Dogs.
 
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From: lhuffmanp@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Twitching kitty?
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:17:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.193449.12819@viewlogic.com>, greg@mobius.viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin) writes:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I was wondering about something that our cat (Morsel) 
> does after he has been asleep for a while.  He will
> be laying in my lap sleeping for a bit, then he will
> begin to twitch.  His feet will start moving a little,
> then maybe his whiskers and ears.  Every now and
> then, he'll jerk his whole body violently enough to
> wake himself up!
> 
> After he wakes up, he looks at me as if to say "Why
> did you do that??"!  Is this something to be concerned
> about?  Anyone else seen this behavior?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Your kitty is in dreamland.  (I hope one day he catches that mouse he's so
furiously chasing...)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: searls@hal.uvm.edu (Paul M Searls)
Subject: Persistent Kitten Colds
Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:53:24 GMT


Hi!

I have a pair of 10 week old kitties that both have persistent
colds. I took them to the vet last week, and he prescribed 
antibiotics for them. The antibiotics do not seem to be working,
however.

So I have two questions. Are there things that I can feed them
that will improve their health? I would prefer to control their
diets rather than fill them with antibiotics, anyway.

And also, I like to sleep with my room relatively cold at night.
Does anyone think that this might be preventing them from getting
well?

Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks!!!


Paul Searls
University of Vermont
searls@hal.uvm.edu
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From: Lesa von Munkwitz-Smith <lesa@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Why breed cats? (was: choose him or your cats?)
Organization: University of Minnesota
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:53:35 GMT

I attended a cat show in Minnesota a few years ago and I noticed a lot of
the sweet-faced Persians, not piggy-faced (all pushed in with the nose on
the same plane as the eyes) were being shown.  I was somewhat surprised,
mainly because the piggy faces were so prevalent at other shows!  One of
the Persian owners told me that several judges at this particular show
are known to prefer sweet faces, so the breeders who were sticking to the
older standard were showing so that their cats could get some points. 
Unfortunately, many breeders are stuck following the characteristics that
judges award points for and during the 80s the extremes were being
rewarded.  A vicious circle.  Breeders want cats that win!  Judges pick
the extremes.  Breeders breed for extremes.  And then you get ugly cats!

But, lately, the Traditional Siamese are coming back (yeah!) and I hope
that the Fancy will concentrate on breeding healthy cats rather than
concentrate on extreme characteristics.

lesa
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From: malwen@granta.demon.co.uk (Sheila Thomas)
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat 
Distribution: world
Organization: moderate-to-good
Reply-To: malwen@granta.demon.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:31:42 +0000

When selecting a name for my cat I considered not only what 
suited her but imagined myself standing in the garden yelling for her 
to come in for the night. That ruled out quite a few options!
I settled on Josephine - elegant enough for a beautiful,
fluffy black and white darling with Jo short enough to shout
without feeling daft.

-- 
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..even snails get there in the end.
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From: julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas)
Subject: Re: Cat on Counters, HELP
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:42:39 GMT

In article <C19Gov.C4I@cck.coventry.ac.uk> api053@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Garion) writes:
>In article <1993Jan18.215023.120@ast.saic.com> hirschon@ast.saic.com writes:
>>
>>I disagree totally.  No way would I allow a cat on my counter where food
>>is prepared. - My cat knows she can't go up there, and she doesn't.  Once
>>in a while we catch her on the dining room table (that's bad, too) - all
>>we have to do is say her name in a threatening voice, and she immediately
>>gets down.  My grandmother used to feed her cats on the kitchen sink, but
>>no paw that touches a litter box is going to touch _my_ kitchen sink!
>>Sorry!
>
>That's a very unfeeling attitude!  After all, your cat is a living creature
>with feelings etc. whereas your kitchen sink and food surfaces aren't! Think
>how you would feel about being told that you can't do this and you can't do
>that.  Besides it ought to be common practice to wash down food surfaces
>immediately before use. 
>

I'd suggest, if you really want to gross out someone or be grossed out,
the book "The Secret House" which looks at the minute, unhearable,
and invisible *things* in your house, like coat hangers which groan
at night (in frequencies we can't hear).  The book spends a great
deal of time describing the assorted bugs, bacteria, and "ikky things"
all around us in our "clean" homes.  It even makes you think 
about the supposed benefits of wiping down your table or countertop.
(The bits about the dust mites are fabulous!)

Basically, if you live with another creature, human, cat, whatever,
you're going to have its bugs/bacteria/whatever *all* *over*
your house.  'Course, yours are going to be there too.  "Clean"
houses have an amazing population of micro-flora and -fauna.

Don't worry about it.  Your immune system can cope :)

Julie
DISCLAIMER:  All opinions here belong to my cat and no one else
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: choose him or your cats??????
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Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:58:13 GMT

Steve Pope (spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: > I'm new to this group, so I don't know if this is a Never-
: > ending Topic, but I'd like to take issue with the dog-people/
: > cat-people dichotomy.  In my experience it's rare to begin
: > with and people with such strong species-preferences are 
: > usually narrowminded and intolerant.
: 
: I agree.  I am not narrowminded or intolerant, and therefore
: despite my preference for cats I also like dogs.  Up to
: a point.  I don't like stupid, neurotic dogs that bark
: nonstop.  I also don't like snivelling little rug-rats.
: And I despise spindly, overbred show-dogs as well as the types
: that breed them.
: 
: But give me a good dog, a real dog, and I like it just
: fine.  See?  I'm not intolerant.

I agree!  Give me a golden retriever any day for the Gang of Four to play
with!  ;)
-- 
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"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering."   -- Buddha
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: cdmcke@musctn.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: Giving pills...
Organization: Monsanto Company
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:21:45 GMT

When I got my new kitten about 6 months ago she had a bad case of tapeworms. 
When I took her to the vet he gave me the pills for the worms and a pill
dispenser for the cat.  The pill dispenser looks like a syringe with an opening
at the end just large enough for the small pill to come through when you press 
the dispenser down.   It worked really well for me, but Cassi still didn't
appreciate it being given the pill.  Maybe you should check with your vet and
see if he has them.  
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From: wd6cmu@netcom.com (Eric Williams)
Subject: Re: DECLAWING?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14:17 GMT

nlp@pacvax.pacersoft.com (Nancy Pilsch) writes:
> BTW, the british vets WILL NOT declaw a cat.  They even consider having a
> strictly indoor cat cruel.  

I thought declawing a cat was illegal in Britain.  (At least, one of my
cat books says so.)
-- 
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WD6CMU@WD6CMU.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NA       |  is adequately explained by stupidity.
From: nancy@hayduke (Nancy Feagans)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Cats need New Home
Keywords: adoption allergy help
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:25:25 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)

In article <C1Iusz.GKz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
>vboynton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Virginia R Boynton) writes:
>
>>It's clear from the length and detail of your posting about Max and Rita that 
>>you love them very much.  I find it hard to believe that you would sacrifice a 
>>life with these beloved family members to live with your fiance, the 
>>"cold-hearted bitch."  Are you really sure you want to do this?  Is she really 
>>worth it?  If she expects you to give up your cats, what next?
>
>>Ginny, Salem, Emma, Whiskers, and Woody
>
>Another point: Do you trust this woman to stay with your *children*,
>when they become a problem?

A valid point here.  Please reconsider your decision.  Ask yourself
what someone who professes to care for you, yet demands you give
up two living things you love is *REALLY* like underneath.  Life is 
far too short to allow someone else to put such traumatic - and
unreasonable - restrictions on how you choose to live and the
animals you'd chosen to share your home and your life.  Sounds
like this woman has a lot of maturing to do, notwithstanding learning
how to be comapassionate and understanding.

-- 

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Jet Propulsion Lab   nancy@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: isc40041@nusunix1.nus.sg (LOO KOK HOE)
Subject: Re: Looking for James Herriot [Followup #1]  8)
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:15:23 GMT

LOO KOK HOE (isc40041@nusunix1.nus.sg) wrote:
: 
: 2.  Darrowby is actually in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, UK
:     ( about 20 miles northnorthwest of York )
: 
: George from Singapore  ( Thu Jan 28 05:00:00 GMT 1993 )
: 
: internet:  isc40041@nusunix1.nus.sg 
: bitnet:    lookokho@nusdiscs
:

Sorry!  What I mean is Darrowby is Thirsk!
Thanks to Linda who remind me ...  8)


george

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From: vboynton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Virginia R Boynton)
Subject: Re: Cats need New Home
Keywords: adoption allergy help
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:28:12 GMT

It's clear from the length and detail of your posting about Max and Rita that 
you love them very much.  I find it hard to believe that you would sacrifice a 
life with these beloved family members to live with your fiance, the 
"cold-hearted bitch."  Are you really sure you want to do this?  Is she really 
worth it?  If she expects you to give up your cats, what next?

Ginny, Salem, Emma, Whiskers, and Woody
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: sherrill@ruhroh.viewlogic.com (Sherrill St. Germain)
Subject: Cat Serum
Originator: sherrill@ruhroh
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:15:40 GMT



Apologies ahead of time for posting instead of emailing but
I lost the address so....

To the guy who wanted to know the name of the cat serum which
I'm injected with for allergy shots:  It's called "AlCat", 
creatively enough (NOT).  

Sherrill
From: ballt@ucs.orst.edu (Teresa Ball)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Strange Cat
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:47:57 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Distribution: world
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For the last couple of nights, one of the neighbor's cat has been
coming around our house.  She is obviously in heat.  Now the strange
part.  All my cats are spayed females.

Any reason why this cat would come to our house?  There is any
way my cats could help her.

Terry
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From: wd6cmu@netcom.com (Eric Williams)
Subject: Re: Terrible incident with my mom...
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:40:59 GMT

bblank@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Bryan S. Blank(FIRN)) writes:
> I found him on the floor in the kitchen eating a nice sized
> piece of chicken.  I asked my mom who game it to him.  She didn't say
> anything and ran to the kitchen, slapped him, and let him out the door. 

Consider it an emotional response patterned after human ancestors who
regularly had to contend with their dinner being carried off by furry
beasts.  Doesn't mean she is a bad person.  I felt like doing the same
thing when my two pulled a chicken breast out of the steamer where it
was cooling and made a meal of it.

By the way, I hope the chicken was cooked.  Raw chicken is not good for cats.
-- 
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From: rob@apache.dtcc.edu (Rob Jarman)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: litter box problem getting out of hand.
Date: 23 Jan 1993 10:55:01 -0500
Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College
Distribution: world
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I've been having alot of problems getting our 1 year old cat to use the
litter box regularly. Sometimes he'll use it and other times he uses the
tub. I've tried keeping scooped out and change it as often as possible (It
gets too expensive to change it every few days). The other day I scooped
out the litter box and put tin foil in the tub, this kept him out of the
tub in the spare bathroom (which is where the litter box is), but he went
and used the other tub. After cleaning that mess up and closing that
bathroom door to keep him out, he went into one of the bedrroms and made
use of the carpet. I love cats, but if I can't get him under control we'll
have to get rid of him. I'd really like to aviod that if possible. Does
anyone have any suggestions?
-- 
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POOR PEOPLE WITH GUNS!

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From: Anneliese Kropf <akropf@mariner.amc.edu.au>
Subject: Re: flat cat
Organization: Australian Maritime College
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 05:43:49 GMT

>Shoot... I thought I was the only person with a FLAT CAT. Jake tends to
do
>it when the weather gets hot and he wants to cool down. You'll find him
spread
>out on the linoleum in the kitchen, with his back legs to the side and
back,
>his front legs straight out front and as close to the ground as he can 
>possible get.


We call this 'doing a dead cat impression' in my house.  Happens
frequently during summer.

Anneliese Kropf
Australian Maritime College, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
akropf@mariner.amc.edu.au

**Some people are owned by cats and still manage to lead normal lives**
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From: n1mpq@anomaly.sbs.com (Tony Pelliccio)
Subject: Re: spazz attack
Organization: Small Business Systems, Incorporated, Smithfield, RI 02917
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:07:31 GMT

lydia@tarsal.dsg.ti.com (lydia middendorf ) writes:


>Hi!

>I've wriiten about by cat before, Ophelia. I mentioned I got her when
>she was about 2 years old, 2 1/2 years ago at the local shelter. I
>also mentioned I thought she had been abused.

>Saturday something bizarre happened. I walked out into my living room,
>and my normally docile pussy cat attacked my foot. I don't mean the usual
>"feed me" attack. I mean a hollering, screaming, cat yowling, hissing,
>fur flying attack!!!! She beat my foot to a bloody stump. I was so
shocked
>I didn't know what to do, she was obviously scared sh*tless. Finally
>I leaned down and said "kitty, it just me", upon hearing my voice she
>immediatly stopped and ran to one of her favorite sitting places. She
>was visibly shaken. I went and cleaned up my stump, (thank goodnes I had
>on heavy socks). About an hour later she was back to her old self.

>My question is, what happened? Did she not like my purple socks?
>Could she have been given LSD once & was having a flash back? Was
>she hallucinating (sp?). Has this ever happened to anyone else?

>Do I need a tetnis shot?


>thanks!!
>--
>Recycle yourself...be an organ donor  |  visualize whirrled peas....
> :-o       Internet: lydia@tarsal.dsg.ti.com

My cat does that too and with him it's more or less ritual than it is
anything else. We make it sort of a game, he tries to see if he can sneak
up on me and of course he usually looses. :) Sometimes we ARE smarter than
the cat. 

On another note, I also have an 11AM alarm clock, should I decide to sleep
in. He comes up and starts swatting me in the face with his paw. 

Tony
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From: amd@space.mit.edu (Ann M. Davis)
Subject: Re: Cat begging
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:00:17 GMT

>, magarret@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (CAT LOVER) writes:
|> My kitten, Zach, begs horribly for food everytime I try to sit down and eat!
|> He'll meow constantly and try to jump up on the table, which he knows he's not 
|> 
|> I can't eat in peace anymore...I have to gulp down my food!  Help!
|> 
|> Marti

When my kitten was little, she couldn't stand it if I didn't give her my
full attention 100% of the time.  This made eating quite a nuisance.  I 
solved the problem by giving her a treat (usualy chicken) just as I was
sitting down to dinner.

	Ann
-- 

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From: klf@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (karen.l.fenton)
Subject: Re: Burying Food
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:11:25 GMT
Summary: And burying some fun for mom
Keywords: cats, food

In article <C1F1EG.AG6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, m2choi@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Margaret Haag) writes:
> My cat, Sasha, occasionally "buries" her food.  It will only 
> happen when she has been eating some canned food and can't
> finish it all.  Then she makes these ground-scratching motions.
> Anyway, I asked my father-in-law about it, and he told me that
> she is burying the food to save it for later : he thinks it is
> something that all cats do by instinct, kind of like dogs
> making little circles before they lie down.  
> This sounds like a reasonable explanation but who knows the
> REAL reason cats do what they do?
> 
When our Lolly (Lollipop) had a litter of kittens (in the early 70s -
she was too quick for us: save the flames - we spayed her asap),
she used to hunt cicadas in the back yard.
For those who aren't familiar, these are LARGE insects which make
a tremendous ratcheting sound with their wings, not unlike locusts.
She sneak in with one when no one was around, and bury it in the kibble
dish. Then she'd take up a perch on the kitchen counter, and "call"
to her kittens. They'd come running, hit the food dish, and
by disturbing the top layer, enbale the cicada to set off its ratchet.
VERY LOUD.
The kittens would go ass_over_tin_cups all over the floor and RUN.
Anyone who thinks a cat can't smile should have seen mom's face,
quietly smirking there on the counter.

Lolly has run our house for 20 years now. She's ancient, she stinks,
she's sick with a million problems, and her little scrawny bones are
all mis-shapen with arthritis. She insists on sitting on your
neck and purrs like mad. Don't even *think* about pushing her
off. She's queen of the house and knows it. She still smacks the
dogs around, eats like a pig, and gets her choice of seating
in the family room. The vet says she's the oldest living Am.shorthair
he's ever seen. Two years ago, he told us she wouldn't last the
month. She's been snotty and cranky since she was a kitten, and
we'll never find another one like her.

To answer the question in the previous posting, cats do what they
do to keep us guessing and to amuse themselves at our expense.
Why else!!???!

Karen
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