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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions: 2004 Aug - Oct: Cats (ARCHIVES): Archive through September 11, 2004 users admin

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Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 4:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love this repellant. Kind of pricey, but doesn't hurt them, and kept my cat from destroying my furniture.

It has a motion detector, when the cat sets it off, first it gives a long warning beep, then emits a spray of supercold air.

http://www.healthypetonline2.com/product7.html

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 7:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL - Great ideas all. I'm just concerned that if he gets scared when he jumps up, he may just "jump down" on the wrong side of the railing.

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My little one Leo has decided that the plant I have by my stereo is his teether. He climbs up to the stereo and chews away. I pull him off and scold him quite a few times during the day. I pull him off and he purrs! Little brat!

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 7:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Mamie - I remember years ago bringing a new kitten to live with me in my mom's house. She had the most beautiful spider plant. She hung it way up high and it had to have had 30 plus babies hanging from it. Within a month my new kitty had removed every last baby. My mom was sweet though - she loves cats and just said "cats will be cats". I felt SOOOO guilty.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gina, how about this: Wrap towels, sheets or whatever in order to give him something to grip whilst he's up there. At least he'll be a lot safer and sooner or later perhaps he'll stop jumping on the rail. Maybe you could do a fabric that would enhance your decor.

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, we've finally named our rescue kitties. The little girl is Mocha Chocolatte, and the little boy is Chai Yen. We call them Mocha and Chai for short.

Mocha Chocolatte got her name because she is sweet like chocolate, yet strong and bold like coffee. And she just looks like a mocha chocolatte with her varying shades of brown, cream, and white.

Chai Yen was named for the Siamese part of their breed (Snowshoe cats). "Chai Yen" is a Thai expression for a way of being that is cool and calm, and it describes this little guy well. He's very cuddly and affectionate, and nothing seems to bother him at all. He's very centered and confident, and already owns the house.

In another use of the word, Chai is also the Hindi word for tea, and his since his colors look like a Chai Latte, that makes brother and sister coffee and tea (with milk!).

They both tested negative for feline leukemia and FIV, and received a clean bill of health from the vet. They're adjusting really well to their new home, beating each other up one minute and washing each other the next. Both are very cuddly and people-friendly. Kylie is letting them drink from her water bowl and curl up next to her on the couch, and no doubt hopes they'll get bigger soon so she can really chase them all over the house.

We can't believe someone would drop these two adorable kitties off at the rescue place! We feel very lucky to have these two new kitties as part of the family.

Mocha and Chai

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 9:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, they are adorable, Babyruth. What sweet names you have chosen for them, too.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww - keepers for sure!

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Vee and Rosie. :-)


Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awwwwww so sweet Br!!

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They are both so adorable!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i love how the names fit them so perfectly. such sweet kitties.

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tose faces are tooo cute. Way to go for rescuing them--they look like sweethearts!

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 5:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thanks everyone for your kind thoughts on my sweet roo..funny yesterday i got a sympathy call from my vet and today i got voice mail from the neurologist's receptionist(not even the neuro!) asking how roo was doing--umm ok you;ve not called in over 3 weeks with any results i've had to call and figure it out on my own--and now you want to know how she is?

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, that's awful! That's all you needed, huh Nancy? I'm sure they felt like crap when they found out whar happened. So sorry you had to go through that.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 10:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
MochaJuju is a VERY snappy name! As is JujuChai.

Vacanick
Member

07-12-2004

Friday, September 10, 2004 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
BabyRuth- your new cats are adorable and their names are so sweet! What a nice addition to your family - enjoy!

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Friday, September 10, 2004 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you everyone! :-) They are so sweet, and fun to watch playing together, (except of course when they are performing high wire acts from the curtains).

Juju, I meant to say awhile back here that you totally cracked me up with your second use of the Kylie Meow pic!! LOL. And yep, you're right, she does look a bit like Mocha and Chai. What an astute dawg you are. I actually DID bring up Juju as a name possibility, but by the time I got done explaining why I wanted to name them after an axe murdering dawg-figment of my imagination, I was receiving a look like I was crazy, sooooo...I will just refer to them as lil' Jujus in my mind.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HELP! Ever since we moved my boy cat has been peeing in the basement instead of the litter box. Is there anything I can spray or mop down there to get him to stop? I thought of vinegar or ammonia but I don't know if that would be harmful to him. I need some advice!

Jbean
Member

01-05-2002

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
awwwww, babyruth, your babies are so sweet! lucky you!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
i came here to tell about a site i found the other night about hartz flea and tick items. upthread i mentioned that my baby had fleas, and i couldn't get her the good product from the vet til yesterday, but it was unbearable to watch her scratch and be so irritated by them for all that time. my cat is my kid, so i'm sure you guys understand.

to shorten a fairly long story, i bought the advanced care stuff and put it on her. but then i got worried because i thought i had remember hearing something bad about the product. so i got online and did some research. (THANK GOD!) and there is a whole site dedicated to victims of this product!!!! this stuff can be fatal to cats, and i'm sure dogs too, but most of the stories are about cats, getting very sick and having seizures and getting brain damage all the way to them dying or near! needless to say, that scared me to death and i washed the product off with dish soap 2 hours after applying it. (the site recommends dawn dishsoap, but i didn't have that, so i just used my own dish soap). it seemed to not affect her, probably because i got it off of her pretty quick after finding all this out!

i just wanted to post this info, because i know we all love our kitties very much, and this product is very dangerous. people buy it thinking they are doing a good thing for their babies (that was what i did). i for one will never buy another product from hartz. it makes me sick to think that this company knows this prouduct is potentially deadly, and still continue to keep it on the market. (and they know, because there is story after story about this on the site i was referring to, one of the people whose cat died, hartz wanted them to send the dead cat's body to them, so they could be SURE that it was their product that caused the cat's death....over a $10 refund!!!) in case anyone is interested in the site, it is: www.hartzvictims.org

there is also an online petition to sign trying to get the product off the market. here is the address for it: www.petitiononline.com/hartz/petition.html

i wanted to post this, because i think the more people who know about it, the better. if just one kitties' life is saved, then it was worth it!


Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hartz? Really? Are you sure it is not just one of those hoaxes, like the swiffer hoax?

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I for one just don't believe it.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've used Hartz for years on all of my animals before they had Advantage and Frontline and none of them ever got sick.

Don't we have a board member that is a vet? I have to stop my boy from peeing in the basement because it is starting to smell thru the rest of the house. Please someone give me a cure for this!

And Baby, your cats are absolutely gorgeous! Are they a breed?

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Please check out this EPA site for more information.

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/hartzq_a.htm

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The EPA info was Nov, 2002, so I would imagine whatever problems there were are long gone by now.