Author |
Message |
Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 10:58 am
Lucky you Happymom....mine I have to fight with her to eat it. Usually ends up more on her fur, carpet, everywhere but her tummy! lol
|
Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 11:40 am
She is somewhat of a fighter too, so I am glad she likes it. Yesterday I checked and it is salmon flavored and she voluntarily licked it off my finger again! My mistake over the past couple of mos. was giving it to her at the same time she gets her med. She fights the pills so much and I always found them lying around or in her chest fur. (Pretty bad because it is thyroid med and she is 18 and would be dead if we hadn't discovered her problem.) So now I have to grind them up and dump them down her throat off of a tiny measuring spoon. I am good at doing it really quickly now. This trick would never work with above mentioned cat, but our other cat has to have potassium gel every 12 hr. I hold her like a baby face up in my right arm. She settles quickly and prefers to be carried this way anyway. She is only 7 lb so she's light. Then i put my left arm under her and support her head with my left hand keeping her body against my chest. With my right hand and arm now free, I squeeze the gel onto my right index finger and smear it on the upper left teeth under her lip. I know with some cats you can just smear it on their paws or around their mouths. She is too geriatric to care about hygiene much anymore. So at least this way most ends up in her mouth. Miz and Pamy, maybe this would work with the hairball med.? Good luck.
|
Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 4:30 pm
There's never enough kitty pictures!!! (BTW - I love K.C.!!! He looks like a sweetie!) For Variety - my sister's kitty's. The little one is a 'fraidy cat but super lovey. She's only about 8 pounds. She's an indoor/outdoor cat but afraid to go out during the day:
Believe or not - her tail isn't poofed in this shot - that's its regular size. She's a stout little kitty:
My sister's other cat who will hiss and growl at you if you look at her the wrong way. Quite a handful but incredibly beautiful with her perfect long grey coat:
Then of course, I can't ignore my kitties. They are thinking "Why can't we be outdoor cats like our cousin kitties?":
Question - if you TWACK catnip hard enough, can you kill it?
Max in his normal sleeping position. He is NOT growing out of this. LOL!!!

|
Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 6:20 pm
Great pics! The scared look on your scaredy niece is so cute!
|
Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 7:10 pm
meeeeeeeeeeeeeowwwwwwwwwww 
|
Pannie
Member
08-04-2003
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 8:37 pm
Lov the pics! Just waking up each morning with my cat snuggling close by starts my day off happily: kitty's safe, happy, and healthy.
|
Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 11:37 pm
My kitty gets hairball goo called Kittymalt and she loves it so much she races across the counter and starts trying to get it before I can get the cap off and splorp it onto my finger!! I have a good-ending story. I've never thought Critter would be happy with another cat here and I've had her 14 years.. but recently she seemed interested in a neighbor cat she saw outside and I was in Petco where there are rescue cats and there were a couple who were declawed (Critter is declawed so that would be compatible.. Anyway there was a mostly white cat with some orange markings and coppeer eyes named Cody and a mostly black cat with white markings and white whiskers named Johnie. Both declawed, short haired males. Now my ideal cat probably has medium hair and is solid color or I do like those cool stripes and swirls.. so I was making friends and Johnie was right there, paw out of the cage.. couldn't detect a purr.. I like purring.. but he was happy and licking my hand.. I kept coming back to the idea and finally put in an application, but really had some doubts.. what if he is territorial and sprays, etc. or Critter hates him. So then I found out I could look them up onlie and I found Cody first but the bottom line was that ONLINE on each cat's profile it told us they were BROTHERS and should stay together. I knew that was a deal breaker because I dont' think it would be fair to bring in two cats with my beloved cat.. but no way did I want to split up the brothers.. that made me crazy all weekend but whew! yesterday the rescue woman called and I told her what I'd found out and she said yes they need to be together but guess what? Someone finally wanted both boys! I'm so happy for them!! I went over yesterday to see if I could catch them before they left (was planning to send a toy home with them) but the cage was empty.. and I just smiled, imagining them walking around their new home. Such a good end to the story for me.. So Critter remains the queen of all she surveys.
|
Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 11:38 pm
Gina that pic of Max from the top reveals yet another gorgeous view of him!! He is one spectacular cat!
|
Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:12 am
anybody see that story on CNN about how they are trying to get a law passed in Wisconsin where people can hunt and shoot stray cats? Very bizarre.
|
Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:17 am
Good lord, no..>I didn't hear of it. Well I hope the ASPCA is fighting it...
|
Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:23 am
Those Wisconsin people--a buncha cheeseheads I tell ya!
|
Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:26 am
The vote passed for it- only because it was a vote at the annual fish and game rules hearing nd the people who go to those would be more likely to vote for it. What it is, they want to make feral cats unprotected- like skunks and squirrels. They wouldn't have a cat hunting season or anything. The paper today says that before anyone could shoot a cat, they would need to have a bill passed and the governor would have to sign it. Won't likely happen. Do I think it's a good idea? No. I think the guy who started it was probably mad about his neighbors cat being in his yard and then things took off. The story is in today's paper: Article
|
Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 8:51 am
Sea, that is a nice story! Re: shooting feral cats, I am so glad that won't likely happen. How would one necessarily know if a cat was feral or not?
|
Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 10:25 am
Precisly! Of course if people kept their cats inside, then they could tell, but I still wouldn't want the feral kitties to be shot.. best scenario is that they are captured and neutered, but the problem IS a really bad one. Loose, unneutered cats and dogs.. just a huge problem. Thanks, Happymom. Last night I was just sitting here smiling and told my kitty that those two boys, Toby and Johnie, must be so happy, with room to prowl. She would understand since she was a rescue from the pound herself. Also the boy kitties were at least a year old, actually maybe older, and would have a harder time competing with the crop of kittens soon to become available.. The rescue lady will keep me on file for a possible great mellow declawed male, which she opines would be the best to introduce to Critter. But I'm not in any rush; we are quite happy as we are.
|
Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 3:00 pm
(The governer of Wisconsin has officially killed that idea. Thank Goodness! (I know it's a real problem, but there are other ways of dealing with it!!!!!)) I had a heart attack moment last night. My kitty Cutie jumped up on the hand rail for the stairs and nearly fell down two stories (four half flights). I've already put up tin foil on all the flat parts of the hand rails, but I can't cover the slanted hand rails because I need to hold on to them sometimes (and so does my elderly mother when she uses them). Cutie is going to be the death of me (and herself at this rate!!). She slid down from the top to the landing, hit the landing's horizontal rail hard and some how scrambled over to the safe side, even though I saw at least 75 percent of her body on the wrong side. After I adopted her last year I read that Calicos are psycho. I'm starting to agree. She is an incredibly sweet and affectionate cat but her "crazies" are crazier than any cat I've ever known!!!! (The house I'm living in has had 7 cats (at different times) live here. Not ONE has ever jumped up on the slanted hand rail before. Cutie's done it a few times, but previously it's always been a half-hearted attempt and she quickly falls back to the "safe side". She is a NUT!!!)
|
Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:36 pm
Click 
|
Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 9:27 pm
I love that video. 
|
Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 4:25 am
Happy Birthday to the evil black Pyewacket, now aged 18! She was a feral cluster Kodiak Alaska kitten born in 1987, my sons forced us to adopt her, we had her spayed at age 8 months, and kept looking for a "good home".. As if.. Sons grew up and who got stuck with her? I did take her to my new vet in IL and he said, what, this cat is age 3 or 4? I said no, she's actually 9 now. He was impressed with her health. Maybe it's all the inbreeding? She's developed a new trick, she likes going outside and instead of mewing like a normal cat, she screams like she's caught in a bear trap if nobody jumps when she speaks. She eats only fishy catfoods. She only weighs about 7 lbs but she's tough. Pyewacket has lately taken to lying on our large dog mattresses just to show who is in charge. We suspect she'll never die.. Pyewacket has made a lifelong cat lover like me rethink my stance. I reckon fellow cat lovers here would like to know a critter like this can attain age 18 with zero shots, vitamins, seeming to get all she needs by her wicked demands and a stubborn nature!
|
Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:27 am
Thanks Halfunit! What a great video! It brought a smile to my morning! Happy Birthday to your 18 year old cat Riviere! I have two of those myself! One of them screams too, but the vet says it's because she's deaf. (She also does a lot of meowing). Geez Gina! What a scare! My vet says the same thing about Calicos! I have one, she is very restless. I'm so afraid she's going to fall behind the washer or dryer because she insists on jumping up there and doing the balancing walk on the back. (She is 18 and has bad arthritis in her back. Sometimes her back legs go out from under when she jumps down. She just won't stop climbing though!) She has fallen into the washer a few times, always only with me there, I won't leave it open ever unattended.
|
Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:36 am
That video was hilarious. We all watched it here at work . Happy 18th Birthday Pyewacket! Riviere: Love your cat's name - always liked Bell, Book, and Candle, mostly thanks to Jack Lemmon. And your Pyewacket's personality reminds me of the black-as-midnight rabbit I had when I was a kid. She was quite mad!
|
Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 11:48 am
My other kitty jumped in the washer once too! He was still a kitten and had gotten used to jumping up onto the lid to poke around while I folded clothes or whatever - then one time the lid was open and in he went. Lucky it was empty. That was more of a kitten mistake - he's much more cautious now. I guess calicos really are psycho. Love her, but she is NUTS!!! Happy B-Day to Pyewacket! So, is she gonna register to vote? LOL!
|
Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 4:17 pm
I had a rut roh moment this afternoon. Samantha was not happy that Holly was snoozing on her chair in the kitchen. Holly, who is my DH's kitty, figured since he is out of state and she didn't have his desk to lay on, she'd take dibs on the chair. Well, as you can see, after a few hisses, they are both happy. lol
|
Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Monday, April 18, 2005 - 10:20 am
well - the girls finally did it. They (not sure which one but i'm suspecting it was a team effort) caught a mouse last night. They left their present for me in the toilet of all places. I'm counting this as a smart kitties moment because it meant easy disposal of the corpse. Now of course I'm wondering how many more mice I have in my kitchen (or if they are packing bags to move elsewhere)
|
Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, April 18, 2005 - 11:38 am
Need some help with the PussPuss - this is our little adopt-a-shop-kitty who showed up last year. We've been keeping steady company with him since the fall, although he's never agreed to stay indoors even on the worst winter days. Up til now we haven't been sure whether he belonged to someone else. But lately he's been at Colossus' shop more often than not, and always gets his meals there. This morning he showed up with what appeared to be a broken foot - very swollen and bleeding. Got him to the pet hospital ok, he has an abscess - antibiotics and foot soak were prescribed. We've got him back at the shop now, but here's the problem - he neeeds to stay inside with us for a week, but he's never been housebroken. I went out and get a litter box, litter and liners all that. Bring it back and Pusspuss is all interested, nosing around and scratched in it for a little bit - right before he rolled around in the litter and curled up in it to take a nap. Is he going to get the litterbox thing on his own or do I need to do something else for him to get him to recognize what the box is for? I've owned all my cats since they were babies, and litter training was not a problem. I have no clue what to do in this situation. PS and I thought getting a ten-pound, fully-clawed, claustrophobic outdoor cat into a pet taxi was going to be the problem here. LOL.
|
Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Monday, April 18, 2005 - 11:43 am
LOL Goddess... All I can think is if street guy makes a mistake somewhere, put it in the box...if he urinates on the floor, put the paper towel or whatever you clean it up with in the box too... He should get the hint... I rescued a grown street kitty, and it took awhile to train her to go in the box and to stay indoors...for years she would be alert to a door opening and then if she was successful in running out, she would pause and have this look on her face like...What the heck did I do that for??? Good luck with your PussPuss... He sounds like a real keeper...
|