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Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actually if you have a loose animal (or child) in the car and you have to stop fast.. the cars stops, the poor little creature doesn't stop.. can be fatal. Or could knock out the driver.

Critter is a self feeder, dry food only, so I literally could leave her with lots of water and food for quite some time, but I have the cat sitter come to give her some lovin' and brush her and scoop the litter and bring in my paper and mail so it doesn't look like I'm gone. Most cats really prefer to be home, not boarded.

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
With my last kitty I used to have to take the carrier completely apart to get him out at the vets office (That is unscrew all the connectors and pull the top off). If I tried to get him out the door, I would have pulled his legs out of their sockets.

After I put the carrier back together at the vets office, I had to keep the door closed until the exam was over, or he would crawl back in.

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 3:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Marm, any luck finding an automatic feeder?

Schoolmarm
Member

02-18-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nope, but I found a grad student who will be in town for Easter! WHEW!

Just found out that said grad student didn't get the key to my house from my grad assistant before I left, so he went out and bought cat food and fed the cat outside, took my mail to his house and also raked leaves and picked up branches. He also paid my overdue water bill so I wouldn't get shut off. What a guy!

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Marm! Would a grad student be considered "an automatic feeder"? lol

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow! That guy deserves a huge tip. I think an airplane trip to Colorado would be just perfect for him (there's a lot of yardwork to be done here! LOL). Can you set that up when you get back 'Marm?

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG Marm! Did he paint the house too? LOL

Alwayzmovin
Member

11-06-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Our youngest furbaby just returned home from getting neutered this morning. Poor baby, he's not "tracking" real straight when he walks, still a bit groggy, wanna make him feel better, but will just have to wait it out.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 4:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HELP

I think Frank pee'd in the playroom and I can't pinpoint just where, but I can surely smell it. It is a smell that I loathe. How do I get the smell out. It makes me physically ill. AND I have family coming this weekend.

Mizinvanccouver
Member

02-22-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 4:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There's a product at most pet stores that is Enzyme based, all natural. It's a red & white bottle. It is unscented but gets rid of all the smells.

Ask at your pet store, I'm sure if they don't have that one they'll have something else that does the same thing. I'm in Canada so not sure if they carry the same products.

Good luck EscaPEE. hee hee couldn't resist! lol

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 5:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Escapee, Nature's Miracle is what I think Mizin is talking about and it ROCKS!!!

Since you are not sure where the pee is, you can get a special light thing from the pet store and the pee will "glow in the dark". It costs about 19.99.

Mizinvanccouver
Member

02-22-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 5:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yup, that's the name Julieboo! Thanks, I couldn't remember for the life of me but it is a great product!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is it pee or cat spray? Cat spray is the thing I find makes me gag.

Mizinvanccouver
Member

02-22-2003

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 5:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's not a spray, its a liquid you pour directly on and has no scent.

It'll work on any kind of poo or pee spots; cat, dog, bird, mouse, rat, child ect...


Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eeyore, I am fairly certain that cat spray (marking his territory) is pee. There is no smell worse (imo) than cat pee. I would take, skunk, poop, vomit, body odor, or any other pee (human, dog) over cat pee.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 7:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A worse smell is a rotten potato, bar none.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rotten brocoli left in your kids backpack for a couple days is the worst smell!

I've got a cat problem, which is pretty funny since I don't have a cat and I really tend to avoid them because I like to breathe and don't do that well around them. Anyways, we've got a few neighbors who let their cats run loose all the time. For the past couple weeks I've been having someones cat hanging out in my backyard at night. I wouldn't really mind too much, except that this cat has got to be in heat. It yowls (or is that crying? screaming?) all night long. It's been waking the kids up and keeping me awake. If I'm up and go out there I can hear the cat scramble away, but I'm not going out there in the middle of the night, lol. Is there anyway I can get this cat to not hang out in my backyard without hurting it? (Did I mention our bedrooms face the backyard? so it's literally right outside our windows.)

Would something like a security light out there that turns on with movement scare it away? We've never worried about having one back there before because we have a street light right outside the fence that keeps it lit up pretty well, but maybe having a bright light turn on would startle a cat? LOL I need some kind of help cuz my kids are starting to get grumpy being woken up in the middle of the night. First couple nights it scared them, last night Dakota was flat out mad about it. Since I haven't seen the cat I'm not even sure who's it is so I can't go talk to them.

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can almost guarantee that a little more time will take complete care of the problem. Now, if she has the outcome underneath your deck, I'm fresh out of suggestions.

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Escapee - make sure to get Nature's Miracle too. When I had a cat pee problem I tried several of the enzyme treatment's available. The brand Nature's miracle worked much better than the other. The others had a lot of perfumes in them, which just made another stink and never removed the pee smell as well.

BTW - be GENEROUS with the stuff. I bought the small bottle (like 16 or 32oz) and it wasn't enough. Get the bigger bottle and soak the carpet where the smell is (if you can find it). If they peed a lot, you need to use enough to soak the carpet padding too - but not so much as to damage the floor underneath.

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL @ a cat pee light. We are renting this house, and I would be amazed to see where there is pee. They said the previous tenants had a "house" dog.

I'd like to show DH just how much he does miss the toilet, and swears he doesn't. I'd like to see where dd has pittle on the floor when she jumps out of the tub and runs naked through the house before I can catch her (why do kids like to do this)

I'd also like to see where else this kitten has peed. I don't think he "sprays" yet, which is peeing because he is still little.

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gina, I just had to let you know that I was going back through the archives and stumbled on your post with Maximus and the 17 straws and I howled with laughter, all over again! :-)

Puppylov3
Member

01-26-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wendy and Spooky are back from the vet they went Tuesday to be spayed. Both are doing just fine.

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL - Thanks Halfunit - he is a funny kitty. He's hanging out in my shower stall right now "chirping" up a storm - god knows what he's up to!?!

(He rarely meows - but often "chirps" when he's contemplating breaking the rules)

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

she jumps out of the tub and runs naked through the house before I can catch her (why do kids like to do this)




Who says only kids like to do that? :-)

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL

I know I like to.....DH likes it when I do that too....