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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 9:55 am
Ok - my kittens are officially HUGE!! They are approximately 10 1/2 months old. Maximus weighs 12.3 lbs:
Cutie (whom I thought would be a tiny cat - yeah right!!) weighs 10.3 lbs:
I grew up in a house with a cat that weighed only 7 lbs. My first cat as an adult - who I always thought of as big - weighed about 11 at his heaviest, then settled in around 10 1/2. LOL - these new kittens are MONSTERS in comparison. Especially when I think of my last boy kitty, who didn't stop growing until around 14 months or so. These aren't Maine C.oons or anything, they are just regular old humane society short hair indoor cats. LOL!!!
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 12:36 pm
Aww, very cute Gina. I love cats. Mine is only 7 pounds. I met someone last week who said her cat was 22 pounds. Never heard of a cat that big; that's like having a small dog. LOL!
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 2:08 pm
Gina-Cutie & Maximus are so cute! Wow, they are big for their age!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 10:24 pm
Critter has been as high as 10lb but is 9.2 lb now. She was 6 lb when I got her at one year old. They are looking very GOOD, Gina!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:28 pm
Gina, what cuties!!!
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Crzndeb
Member
07-26-2004
| Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 1:25 pm
You guys are lucky...I have a 20 pounder...she looks like a pot bellied pig. I started feeding her Royal Canin Slim a couple of months ago, and I feed her a little less than what it says...poor chubby girl....I just use her for weight training....LOL! J/K! I was hoping my 5mo German Shep mix would get her running, but, no, she just seems happy to be pulled across the floor by her ears. I yell at him to stop, but she keeps coming back for more. And Gina, I LOOOOOVE tiger strip kitties....they are adorable.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 7:54 pm
This is a picture of my cat K.C. he is 17 years old and weighs 12 pounds. He's always been a large cat. I love him dearly!
Maximus and Cutie are adorable!
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 11:06 am
Ahhhhh what a sweet looking cat Vacanick! Is your cat orangy colour or white? Pic a little grainy so can't tell but cute either way regardless.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 12:39 pm
Thanks Miz! K.C. is white all over with a little orange around his face and on his tail. And he has the most beautiful blue eye's. He's always been an indoor cat and is very healthy right now at 17 years old.
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Graceunderfyre
Member
01-21-2004
| Friday, April 01, 2005 - 9:26 pm
I know this isn't the spot to talk about dogs, but I have to just tell you about this dog we watched a few weeks back. She was SOOOO fat, that she could only go about a third of the way when we would say roll over. And she would try to do it every time we asked her. . . I've never seen an animal with so much fat!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 1:43 am
K.C. is quite handsome and he poses so well, too!
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 02, 2005 - 7:19 pm
man i wish i had my camera at the ready tonight==marble was playing in a box which had come in the mail(that contained shoes) and the box was not that much bigger than her entire body--but she could fit in and get herself turned around in it--anyway at one point she was butt first and it was just soooo cute 
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 3:35 pm
I saved a cat Saturday. It's an amusing story that I thought I would share. Wednesday my In-laws arrived late, so they stayed with my daughters while my wife and I went to work. When we got home from work, my FIL was telling us about the cat up in the tree. The girls were all excited and thought it was funny that the cat was up in the tree. I didn't think much of it, other than the fact that they way my FIL described it, it sounded like my neighbors cat "Mickey". Now this was on Thursday. Saturday, my neighbor comes over and we're standing out in the yard talking and he looks up and says, "What the blank is my cat doing up in that tree!?!?!?!" The cat was a good 25-30 feet in the air sitting on a limb. We decided that Mickey couldn't get down and my neighbor was like, "Well, if he isn't down by tomorrow, we'll figure something out." Then his wife came home. She came over to see whats up and determined Mickey had to come down out of the tree. Now, the tree is next to my house...so I climbed up on my roof and Mickey was just out of my reach. I tried shaking the limb he was onm hoping he would fall onto the roof and I could get him down safely. That didn't work...then we tried cat treats and ham to entice him out of the tree. That did not work. Finally, my FIL threw a shovel up to me, hoping that I could just scoop the cat out of the limb. Again, Mickey would cooperate...then I had a brain-storm. I hollered at my wife to get a blanket or sheet out of the house and they could all grabe the sheet and make a safety net for the cat to fall into...so, about 4 people grabbed each side of the sheet and I began pushing the cat off the limb. He wasn't to thrilled with that and let me know continously as I was pushing him. Finally, I got enough leverage on him to push him off the limb and he fell about 30 feet into the makeshift safety net and took off running like a bat out of hell. We figured he had been up in the tree for several days. We're still curious how he had climbed the tree as he is declawed. Something big and scary must have chased it up the tree. My neighbors report that Mickey is doing ok. He went home and ate then laid around for about a day, but seems to be in good health.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 3:54 pm
Nice story Nick...thanks for sharing!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 4:44 pm
Nick, that's a great story but you left out a small detail. LOL...what were the girl's reaction when Mickey "fell" out of the tree onto the makeshift safety net???
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:31 pm
Great story Nick! Especially the fact that Mickey is declawed!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 11:48 pm
Is he just front declawed? That is the usual thing and those cats can still climb, amazingly well.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 5:03 pm
Hey Eggie....The girls were playing and I don't think they even seen what happened. If they did, they didn't say much about it. I think he is just front declawed. He somehow got himself up in that tree but couldn't get himself down. My neighbor said that Mickey had been missing for several days, and they could not have found him in a stranger spot. Another amusing little aside is that right after Mickey fell from the tree into the blanket, he took of running and stopped abruptly in the middle of my neighbors yard and took a dump. He must have been holding it the whole time he was up in the tree. He had been up there from at least Thursday till Saturday. Don't know how long he was in the tree before we found him. He never cried once that I know.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 7:33 pm
Nick, although that wasn't the little detail I was looking for, I laughed out loud nonetheless!! Poor Mickey....LOL!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 12:40 pm
Dopey has lost his voice!!! It was raspy 2 days ago and starting last nite it is gone, still gone today. He is acting normal except for the voice. He has been coughing fur ball coughs more than normal this week (nothing comes up) I will prolly go to vet but thought I would ask if anyone has had this happen to one of their cats plus....it's DOPEY!!! my fav cat of all time!!!
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 2:37 pm
Pamy-Maybe Dopey's having trouble passing a hairball? There's a tube of this stuff you can buy that's tuna flavoured (my cat doesn't like it with any of the flavours..lol)just have to give a couple of centimetres 1-2x a day.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 2:43 pm
Maybe there is a cat flu going around. My cat is squeaking in a high pitched voice, very unusual.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 2:53 pm
thx Miz, would that make him lose his voice? WOW Maris, weird we are on 2 different coasts and have the same cat problem!! We decided to wait til tomarrow to go to vet, they didnt seem to think anything serious and it will costs 100's to run tests...we are going to monitor Dopey and pray he is ok.
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 4:47 pm
pamy not to scare you but don't let it go too long. I had a cat who lost his voice and i just thought poor boots he can't cry--but ended up he had throat cancer 
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 10:24 am
One of our cats has to have that hairball gel (I think ours is liver flavored) a few times a week or she'll have the hairballs. She always thought of it as a treat, loved the stuff. She stopped voluntarily eating it a couple of mos. ago. I think maybe I switched flavors or brands. Anyway, the stuff really works well for her.
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