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From: berthiau@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Andre Berthiaume)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Catsitting
Date: 23 Jul 92 04:24:04 GMT
Reply-To: spacey@buengf.bu.edu
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Well folks! We'll be catsitting for a friend of ours this weekend.
She's a 3 yr old spayed and declawed tabby (i think).  

Basically I need suggestions on how to make her stay here pleasant
with Finster and Kinski around (not sure how these two kids will
react to Pistache).  Any advice or past experiences with catsitting
will be appreciated.

We'll more than likely have a separate litter box set up for her
and if we have to will have her confined to our bedroom for the 
duration of the weekend if Finster and Kinski become too hostile
towards her.

Thanks again!


Eva
spacey@buengf.bu.edu


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	Andre Berthiaume 	 |  "Sometimes you're the windshield,
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Organization: Office of the President, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:59:10 -0400 
From: "Kathleen P. Kowalski" <kk00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Why do I do this to myself????

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

Nah, they just know a soft heart when they see one!  I think my little
Taz had me pegged when I walked into the shelter, too!  You probably
saved that kitty's life!  

Kay
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: adwright@iastate.edu ()
Subject: Re: microencapsulated pyrethrins
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 10:48:02 GMT

In <1992Jul23.050107.24946@athena.cs.uga.edu> maxfield@athena.cs.uga.edu (Joan C. Maxfield) writes:

>Well, I just wanted to add my bit about fleas.  We got infested again
>this year.  I assume Spot, Dan, and I are bringing them in from
>outside with us.  I didn't think too much about it untill I started
>getting bit.  Now it's WAR!  I started with Borax.  I know it's not
>the greatest but it seemed better than most of the nasties I could be
>spraying.  That didn't help too much, so it was on to step 2, the BIG
>GUNS.  Dan vaccumed while I gave the cats baths.  Then I sprayed the
>carpets with "Raid Flea Killer Plus".  The can was about $5.  It has
>Precor and will kill newly hatched eggs for 4 months.  And the best
>part was that it smelled GOOD!  Dan hates when I spray the kitty condo
>with Blockade because it reeks so bad.  He didn't complain about this
>at all.  (he also won't let me bomb because of his fish but thats
>another story)  I think this did it.  I am also going to sprinkle a
>little borax just for good measure and hope for the best.  I haven't
>been bitten since!  btw I also spray my kitties with Blockade (eep
>NO!) and have never had a problem with toxicity (except to fleas!)
>it's the stuff the vet keeps selling me that makes them sick!

>Joan

>-- 
>J. C. Maxfield				maxfield@athena.cs.uga.edu
>DISCLAIMER:  I don't speak for the University, but they often speak for me!

Is this the stuff that has Juvinile Hormone in it? I tried that and was 
pleased. I guess it prevents the larvae from growing up. That was when
we had carpet.

Our experience 
was to get rid of the carpet and replace with linoleum :) no fleas after
that! No chemicals either.

Allen



Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
Subject: Re: When is a stray really a stray?
Reply-To: jonb@ingres.com
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:34:39 GMT

In article <15bslhINNj4i@early-bird.think.com>, fuhry@think.com (Debbie Fuhry) writes:
>Does anyone have any ideas on how I can find out if this cat has a home?
>I'd adopt it in a minute if it doesn't (What am I saying--I already have
>two!!), since it's so sweet and friendly and has already made friends with
>our two.  

Buy a cheap cat collar, attach it to the cat, and attach a note to the
collar saying "I think this cat might be a stray but I'm not sure so if
it's your cat give me a call."  If you haven't heard from anyone in two
or three days, contratulations, you've got another cat.

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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
Subject: Re: What does he DO in there???
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:07:20 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

1. If the weather's been cool, he might be on top of the fridge, for
the warmth.
2. If there's a window over a countertop, maybe he's discovered some
attraction outside the window.
3. Maybe he's just adopted a countertop as his place, for no reason
(or for cat reasons, which appear to the average observer just like no
reasons). 
-- 
lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.
From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Why do I buy cat toys?????
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:23:48 GMT
Organization: Boeing Graphics project, Bellevue WA

[Will someone outside the pnw distribution area let me know if this shows
up?  Our newsfeed seems to have become extremely random.]

Oreo's favorite toy has traditionally been a dry hard kitchen sponge.
Recently, however, he seems to have started his second kittenhood (he's 10),
and anything that slides nicely when whacked with a paw gets a lot of
attention, too.  KC still favors twist ties.

Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.boeing.com  // or uunet!bcstec!voodoo!das
From: moe@rainier.lib.washington.edu (Joe Shippert)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Baker and Taylor books
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:34:04 GMT
Organization: University of Washington Libraries, Seattle

I've recently discovered some organization that has two Scottish Folds as
their mascots named Baker and Taylor. One of the Librarians referred to this
company as a "book jobber" which apparently is a supplier for libraries. 

Anyway, has anyone heard of Baker and Taylor? Which one is which? Is there
and address I can write to and get Baker and Taylor posters and such?

These folds are really adorable. I've been wanting one myself but there aren't
too many around here.

Thanks,
joe
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moe@u.washington.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: draper@gnd1.wtp.contel.com (PAM DRAPER)
Subject: urine odor in concrete
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: draper@gnd1.wtp.contel.com
Organization: GTE Government Systems, Federal Systems Division, Chantilly, VA
Distribution:  usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:36:48 GMT

The place I rent previous had a rottweiller that peed everywhere.  I made
them replace most of the carpet.  One spot the floorboard needed removing
but they wouldn't do it; consequently, when it's warm and humid the odor
is noticeable there.  But, the basement is unfinished and the odor
in the concrete just never seems to go away.  Actually it's been at least
a year and half since this dog lived there.  Any suggestions how to
get the odor out of the concrete?
From: syearick@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sid Yearick)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Great Cat Toys
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:55:23 GMT
Reply-To: syearick@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sid Yearick)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Kepurr Lee/Muffin Marie/Tigger-by-Digger/Lady Teal Mocha and O' Yogi Bear
took a vote and decided that Mom (me) is the best toy they have.  I just
don't fit very well into their toy box.

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From: gibson@dl5000.bc.edu (Rene Gibson)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Kitty Rituals
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:56:54 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College

Kinda likes to "help" my husband and I put our socks on in the morning.  She
waits patiently until someone sits down and drapes a sock over her back.
Then the "helping" begins.  Bulldozing our arms, sitting on our laps, and
wandering off with the socks doesn't seem very helpful to me, but it makes
her very happy.

Rene
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From: dg0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Diane Gibson)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Help! Need advice on adopting a cat
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:45:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Business Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

agc@cci632.cci.com (Anupama Chathampally - co-op) writes:

>I love cats and want to adopt one from the humane society.  I am
>interested in getting an older cat.  My main concern is for the lonliness
>of the cat.  I live in an apt and the cat would be alone all day while I am
>at work.  I don't have room for two cats in the apt.  I thought an older cat
>could maybe adjust better to being alone all day but I'm not sure.  Should I
>just forget it?  I need advice!!!! Thanks.

I say go for it.  I adopted a 1 year old cat from Friends of Animals and
she stays alone all day.  She may be lonely at times -- and someday, I
will get her a friend -- but I don't have room now, and the lease says
"1 cat".  However, she has windows to look out, and she sleeps alot
during the day, even when I am there.  AND, most important, we greatly
enjoy each other's company when I am there AND she isn't stuck in a cage
(or worse, dead).  Think of the alternatives if you don't adopt the
cat.............

Diane and Suki
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: syearick@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sid Yearick)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Feigned cat fatality
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:54:29 GMT
Reply-To: syearick@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Sid Yearick)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In rec.pets.cats, lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
>Once my mother went to the basement and saw a cat tail and foot
>hanging (in an unnatural-looking position) off the top of the furnace.
>She called the cat; no response. Banged on the furnace; no response.
>Got really scared, pulled a chair over and climbed up on it to
>retrieve the corpse. Pulled the inert body from the top of the furnace.
>Then the cat finally woke up. (Midnight is now 17 and still in excellent
>health!)
>--
>lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
>Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.

They scare the heck out of you when they do that don't they.  Muffin
Marie was tossed out as a kitten, and found us.  She always had a funny
sounding meow and I felt that she might have been hurt when she was little.
Well, one night she was laying on the TV sleeping and I sneaked up on her
to touch her ear.  She will always catch you before you get that far.  I
touched her ear, nothing, I tapped her no response, and shook her and she
woke up.  My daughter (pre/pre vet) talked to her boss and we took Muffin
in for a check-up.  Found out that when she was little someone had yanked
on her while she had a rope or collar and broke her throat!  It healed
but she has a crooked neck (--\__) something like that, the xray is
scary.  She was laying in such a position that she cut off her air supply.
Needless to say we watch her like a hawk now.  Muffin is still a baby, only
8 years old.


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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Subject: Re: Sleeping with cats...NEVER AGAIN
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Date: 31 Jul 92 07:05:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: gators 'r us
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In article <tertium.712539192@milton> tertium@milton.u.washington.edu
(l boyd) writes:

> When I am traveling, I find I can't sleep because my nose isn't plugged up, and
> there is no [hungry] 11lb lug with his pokey paws in strategic places on my
> chest (a particularly effective strategy pre-menstrally, but I digress].
when i am travelling, no bdetime is complete without me whining to my 
husband "i want a kitty!".  and everything is too clean, no hairs anywhere.

our usual positons: me and eric side by side in typical human sleep poses, 
sara(hound) and reka mao(cat) choose to not sleep on the bed, molly(hound)
curled up between my legs and eric's, leela(cat) snuggling my side under the
covers, kimmy(cat) planted on top of me, buster(cat) snuggling eric's feet,
little kitty(cat) on a pillow trying to creep under either human's head.
--
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: bicker@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Subject: Commuter Cat
Reply-To: Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:50:15 GMT
Followup-To: rec.pets.cats


!bicker is on medication that he is required to take once every 12
hours (for the rest of his life).  Consequently, I now need to bring
him with me wherever I go.  He doesn't like travelling by car much,
meowing like there's not tomorrow.  I do let him run around the car a
bit, showing him the way to the carrier whenever we're getting close to
a tollbooth.  (I live in New Jersey, so that's rather often.)

I'd appreciate any advice on making his trip more enjoyable.

-- 
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: tertium@milton.u.washington.edu (l boyd)
Subject: Re: Sleeping with cats...NEVER AGAIN
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:33:12 GMT

amys@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Amy Schlotthauer) writes:

>Well, I have been reading all the positive stories about sleeping with cats,
>feeling like I have a mean husband (he forbids having my 2 5-month-olds in
>our room at night). So, during his recent business trip, I let them in for
>the night. NEVER AGAIN. How do you people actually SLEEP with cats on the 
>bed??!! Mine plopped themselves down in the middle of the bed, and looked at
>me with great offense when I tried to make them move. They also pinned my legs
>down by lounging on top of the sheet on either side of my knees. Finally, they
>stood on me. Just stood there on me, like I was some sort of vantage point.

>Really, it was all pretty funny. And, now I know what I have been missing. (-: 


What????  This bothers you?  Geez, some people.

When I am traveling, I find I can't sleep because my nose isn't plugged up, and
there is no [hungry] 11lb lug with his pokey paws in strategic places on my
chest (a particularly effective strategy pre-menstrally, but I digress].

Some folks are *so* boring.

Lauren

(-;


Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu (EDWARD CRAIG HYATT)
Subject: Re: Bald spots from disease or injuries?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:38:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.174429.13089@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
>Elvis seems to get in a lot of fights with neighbor cats (they were here
>first, and regard our yard as their territory, I think, and he's still
>under a year old and much smaller than they are) and often sports various
>injuries.  When we got him he had a fresh cut across his nose;  often
>he has scabs and cuts on his legs.
>
>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 
>
>Well, last week, he got another, similar injury just below the first.
>And then yesterday, another, again in more or less the same place.
>
>Is it possible that what I'm taking for a wound from a catfight is 
>actually a symptom of a disease?  I was assuming that another cat bit
>or clawed a patch of fur out.  The spots aren't bleeding, but the centers
>are a little darker and moister pink.  They are healing slowly.
>
>If you do think these are indeed catfight injuries, how can I keep
>Elvis from fighting or getting injured?  I don't want to keep him 
>indoors, especially since that would allow the neighbor cats free rein
>to mark and keep our yard as their territory.  I have actually seen
>Elvis start a fight with a cat that was twice as large as he!  (Elvie
>is neutered, so it's not tom-fighting.)  Anyone know of a place I can
>get kitty-armor?
>
>-- 
>/\        Ilana Stern DoD#009 | Whoever first said, "Things are seldom as they 
>  \_][    ilana@ncar.ucar.edu | seem," was wrong.  Things are usually as they
>      \_______________________| seem.  Otherwise, they wouldn't seem that way.

I've seen insect bites on animals that
have this appearance.  It sounds gross,
but the wounds can be entry points for
egg-laying insects, and can contain
maggots.  I would definitely see a vet
about this one (or at least call and
describe it the way you did to the net)!

-Craig
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NCSU@Raleigh, NC USA
echyatt@eos.ncsu.edu
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From: SUSANMC@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Susan McIntosh)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Great Cat Toys
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:56:07 GMT
Organization: University of Florida, NERDC

We have one of the cat toys several folx have mentioned ... long piece
of stiff wire with dangles at each end ... and our cats all love it.  Even
funnier than a cat at each end (egging each other on) is Tess's trick:
she carries one end in her mouth while she tries to catch the other end.
She's so puzzled when it stays just one wire length ahead of her ;-)
 
susan
From: berthiau@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Andre Berthiaume)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: cat toys ideas
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:42:19 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Kinski is a strange one but she seems to like stick-like items to play with.
Perhaps it's semblance to snakes?  And we have a pair of bendable plastic
coated wire thingies (the kind used in some binders) that she goes nuts over.
Of course we have to make the darn thing move.  She'd chase after it all over
the place.  And sometimes when we just toss it up she'll swat at it and grab
it and chew on the end of it.  She also likes to play with the little balls
we have for them (ie. aluminum balls, and those small wiffle-like balls with
a bell inside it).

Finster, on the other hand, has gotten a bit more lazy as he got bigger.  But
he likes his aluminum balls and the ball with the bell on it.  And before he 
ate the elastic on it, a cat teaser (it has a yarn-knit covered ball with a 
bell attached to it)  He would make great leaps to try and catch it.  He also 
likes to attack the occasional empty paper towel tube as well =)  

And of course the all time favorite for either of them is... Shoelaces. =)



Eva
spacey@buengf.bu.edu






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				 |   Sometimes you're the bug"
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				 |	       Dire Straits, The Bug
From: hannah@pomponio.ai.sri.com (Marsha Jo Hannah)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
Subject: Re: Female versus Male
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:56:23 GMT
	<1992Jul22.200007.4348@sura.net>
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
In-reply-to: nunn@sura.net's message of 22 Jul 92 20:00:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.200007.4348@sura.net> nunn@sura.net (Deborah Nunn) writes:

   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?  ... assumes cats that are spayed or neutered

   I've had both, and I would recommend a male.

   Deborah J. Nunn

We have had 2 pairs of male/female siblings, raised from kittens, all
neutered in kittenhood.  Of the first pair, the male, Pigpen (RIP) was
my favorite---very affectionate, and a real snuggle-puss; his sister,
Squeaky (RIP) was skittish and somewhat aloof.  In the current pair,
my favorite is the calico female, Squirrel, who is quite a character,
and very people-oriented; her brother, Fats, is a demanding loudmouth
who picks on her a lot, and who swats when petted.  I suspect that the
difference in character between individual cats is far greater than
any generalities one could make about differences between sexes, or
even amongst breeds.

Marsha Jo Hannah
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: machanicm@gtephx.UUCP (Mindy Machanic)
Subject: Re: Wierd Cat?
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:15:51 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.173328.5316@rock.concert.net>, jim@sun0.elon.edu (Jim Murphy CS Faculty) writes:
> Our adopted cat has a real love of getting under a piece of newspaper.
> We can cover him with a single sheet of newspaper and he can lie there
> and behave himself for quite a long time. He sometimes plays "chase"
> and runs back under his sheet of paper. Is this normal? He now expects
> his newspaper each night!
> 
> 
All 3 of my kitties love to hide under newspaper tents. The kitten just
discovered this wonderful thing in the last couple weeks, and now whenever
he sees newspaper where he can get at it, he's under it. The older 2 don't
hang out so much because of the kitten, but they used to do this when they
were younger and not so terrorized.
-- 
Mindy
*****************************************************************************************
Mindy Machanic  (AG Communication Systems/Quality Engineering, Phoenix, AZ)               
(This space available for interesting messages and the usual disclaimers...)
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: amd@ghost.mit.edu (Ann M. Davis)
Subject: That *SMELL*
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:11:24 GMT

You know how some houses have that cat smell?  It's more of a reek
actually.  It seems to come most often in places that have multiple cats.

What causes this?  Is it spraying? If so, how is this different from
urine?  Is is just houses where people aren't particularly good housekeepers?

I caught a whiff of this in my apartment last night. It was in the same room
as the litterbox, and the room wasn't well ventilated.  I changed the box
right away and aired the room.  This may have solved the problem, but
I wanted to check to see if there was more to the cause than that.

Anyone have more info?

	Ann
--
Ann M. Davis
amd@space.mit.edu			 "Choose your battles wisely"
MIT Center for Space Research		
Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
From: lcornell@milton.u.washington.edu (Linda Cornell)
Subject: Re: Pounce: Result of Cat Survey
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:39:20 GMT

>Results: Every single cat ate it, very hungrily. The more greedy
>cats screamed for it, and licked my fingers to get every last
>bit of the taste!

One of my cats scarfs it up like no tomorrow....but my other one will only
eat it on a very rare occasion, and only from her food dish (but then she
won't eat anything unless you put it in her dish first)...strange behavior
considering that she was a 5 year old stray when I adopted her.....!!

Linda