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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 9:57 pm
Thanks, Lance - we always agonize over it but the kitties generally let us know what works for them. For example: "Seven" seemed like a transient and dismissive name, but he attached himself to "Kevin", who wound up adopting him and keeping that name because he liked the rhyme. On the other hand, "Linus" will never be "Cookie" to us - he is "The Linus," and that's that LOL. But what a Pigpen he was! Little "Foofus" became "Rufus" - a great name - when he was adopted, we just didn't know what to call him besides "Foofoo" - which is what he was, a tiny, rolling ball of orange fur. And then there's PussPuss. Poor guy, the vet says he of course has a complex, listen to his name. But even Colossus agrees, he's a PussPuss - a very loving, snuggly, one-person cat who brings home the dinner and cooks it in your lap. 100% tom, 100% daddy's boy. Can't argue with that.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:26 pm
Your orange boys are looking healthy and happy, even while wigging out in bags... Love all the pictures!
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 10:05 am
Awww, thanks, Gal! The boys are the biggest sweethearts I've ever had. In fact, I am typing one handed right now as the baby (? he's 15 pounds @ 10 months of age) is sleeping on my chest. Odin knows a good pillow when he sees one. Here is a pic from yesterday.
I also have a few short videos, if you're interested. LINK I think you can click on my name to see more. I just love all the pictures of the cats here, especially PussPuss. 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 12:12 pm
Loved the video, what beautiful babies.
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Trixsy
Member
08-24-2006
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 2:27 pm
I checked the Littermaid site and these are the dimensions. It sounds strange that the Elite is smaller in dimensions than the basic. But if you go to littermaid.com you can confirm this. Littermaid Elite - Interior dimensions: 12" x 13.5" Littermaid Basic - Interior dimensions 14.25" x 13.5"
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 5:15 pm
I've read that people do not like the newer model (Elite) as much as they liked the older one (Plus). Apparently they liked the plastic rake things better than the metal ones. I also see a round petmate one that looks good. Anyone here see or have that one? I think it is called "one touch litter round up." (which makes me think it is not all that automatic. Like you need to push the button...
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 2:34 am
Love the pictures!!!! They're all so cute!!! My Siamese, Misha, is always trying to wash my face, my neck, my arms.... I can only stand a lick or two on the face - it's just too.. you know!! ... LOL I've never had a cat who licks you like she does. Whenever I go to bed, she starts her ritual. I really have to push her off because I swear, she'd clean me all over if I let her! Better she moves on to cleaning herself. She likes to get over my left shoulder so she can do her kneading, purring routine and often, she hooks her chin over my shoulder. I really wish I could get someone to take a picture of her doing it sometime. I imagine it must be funny. What's really funny is her maneuvering around, sometimes going around my head, over my chest, wherever, until she can get to the right spot. I usually end up giving her a hand since having her smack dab on my chest, isn't exactly comfortable!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 11:41 am
i just uploaded a YouTube of my kitty Ariel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGcfOJmVJk
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 12:25 pm
That is so cute. Is that a wash cloth she has? Beautiful cat!!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 12:34 pm
yes, she is in love with a washcloth. she has a fit if we move it off the floor. she is a dark ranch mink tonkinese.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 4:37 pm
She is lovely!
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Sheilaree
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 6:13 pm
Oh, how cute Landi it look like she was washing her face. 
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 02, 2007 - 9:27 pm
landi - she's gorgeous and so adorable with the washcloth!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 12:40 am
Gorgeous cat, landi!!! I wish Misha would fall in love with a wash cloth. I'd be glad to part with one of those for her if she's just leave socks, sweaters, robes, you name it, alone!!!! Heck, I'd buy her a whole package!!! LOL
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Whrlwnd
Member
10-13-2006
| Sunday, March 04, 2007 - 6:54 am
Love seeing pictures of everyone's babies (both kits & dogs)! They are all wonderful! Thank you for sharing! Wish there were more pictures posted.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 2:41 am
hi folks, I was just looking up some scientific stuff and ran across this article. Since it is about Kitties I decided to put the link up. http://tinyurl.com/2gfflj Strange but True: Cats Cannot Taste Sweets snip* There is a reason cats prefer meaty wet food to dry kibble, and disdain sugar entirely Despite this, most major pet food manufacturers use corn or other grains in their meals. "This may be why cats are getting diabetes," Brand offers. "Cat food today has around 20 percent carbohydrates. (( the article is quite interesting. It sure accents why we should be reading ingredients for our pet food. OR considering a raw natural food diet))
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 2:54 am
I just went back and read the last two pages. Cute pics! Well, thought i'd add my two cents as per real Tuna for cat food AND that FISH dinner cat food. The last few months I'd been feeding my cats the real flaked tuna (supplemented for cats according to the label) Both cats seemed to love the Fish Dinner type tinned foods I relented and started feeding them part of their daily dry food meal With wet food. Within two months both cats didnt seem their usual. Booboo started losing her voice and didnt have the same energy as usual. Whiskers started peeing in the house for no reason (in the past he'd do it if he was angry about something) Anyways, Booboo really didnt seem right and I didnt like her voice so in to the vet she went. Full blood work and Pee tests were done. Alas, First Stage Kidney disease! The vet kinda rolled her eyes when she found out that I had almost exclusively been feeding the cats Fish. FIsh Wrecks kitty kidneys. it is too full of concentrated proteins etc. Some fish also has a certain amount of Natural SALT which wreaks havoc. Of course, Cats think it tastes great and will gork it down. I feel really bad that I had a part in the kidney disease. Now I think that there should be warning s on the Fish Dinners/ PURE fish cat food. "for young cats only" or " do not feed more than once a week" oh well, Booboo is 18 yrs old and now is on special food. Whiskers also gets the food and miraculously pees less! Usually he goes a large goose egg sized Pee in the clumping cat litter LOL Now it is more like regular size.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 3:00 am
Booboo when she was young and thin...on her favourite sleeping place
Whisker's camoflage works well in the chair LOL not the best pics but still cute.

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 8:51 am
We must remember that all wild cats when eating their prey eat everything. That includes the contents of the digestive track which contains a lot of vegetable matter. If they only ate the haunches of what they'd killed, the cat would probably soon die of malnutrition.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 9:23 am
Sunshyne, your kitties are adorable! This whole feeding thing for cats just drives me crazy. All my cats are overweight, but they get only 1/2 cup of dry food per day. Feeding them less just makes them cranky. And four cranky cats is no fun. They won't eat canned food, which the vet says is better because it has more meat. So I've switched to a natural dry food which does have more meat. Most dry foods are almost all vegetable, plus some "chicken parts". Have only been on it a few months, but I have noticed that they are more satisified on less food. I'm hoping it works!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 11:19 am
Kar, do your kitties go outside? If they do, they may find a neighbor like me. Any cat that shows on my patio gets food along with a feral I take care of. Ergo, no matter how few calories you are putting in them, a neighbor may be adding to their daily intake of food.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 10:12 pm
four cranky cats is no fun. I cannot imagine it LOL Sounds like a migraine waiting to happen! Karuuna, my Booboo hasnt lost weight on any of the super good quality foods I've tried. Good luck with that. In a matter of fact, my cats turn up their noses at most dry foods. The Vet said it was okay to stay on Science Diet Senior 7plus . since Booboo now has kidney probs I also am using Medi-cal Mature Cat formula kibble. Wet Food my cats prefer...anything!! except Skeena. They wont touch it. even Booboo the chowhound. (can a cat be a hound? ) I think Ophilia might be right. Booboo got her fattest back in the days when she'd come home smelling of Old Lady Perfume! My cat had been peddling her affections!! the cheater LOL}
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 7:20 am
Sunshyne, your striped kitties are adorable - love the camoflage picture LOL!! I swear by Iam's Indoor Kitty/Weight and Hairball control dry food. It's turned Max from a relentless overeater to a self-regulating, healthy-weight cat. He likes the dry food but for some reason does not overeat, so I can leave a full bowl down and he can snibble at will. If Max doesn't have food available he actually gets frantic, even if he just ate 1/2 hour ago. And with his weight under control with the regular Iams diet he can have canned treats with Puss on the weekend without us worrying that he's going to look like he swallowed a football. It's weird, because I couldn't give Julio Iams, he would overeat to the point of making himself sick from both ends. Otherwise, he was totally self-regulating with his food.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 3:09 pm
Pretty cats, Sun! I love the markings. The last time my cat had canned food was when she was a kitten. Ever since I got married, all the cats I've owned have been dry food eaters, but then again, all have been females. My cats have been so used to their dry food, they don't even like the moist treats. Now Misha LOVES cucumber as does the dog, so I always cut them some and recently, Misha has started begging for ham. WEIRD. She's 4 yrs old and now she starts liking ham? I swear she tries to take the food out of the sandwich. LOL I've had her on Nutro Natural Choice Weight Management since she's been about one. She stays the same weight within a few ounces or so, so I just leave her food out and she eats at will. I think I've mentioned here that she's what the vet calls a "wool eater" although it doesn't necessarily have to be wool, just some kind of fabric. Now that may be where she gets some of extra weight! My DH always asks what she may have been chewing on when diff. colors show up in her litter! I posted this in another place on the board, but just in case people don't go there, I'll post it here. She goes in "fits" where she acts like she needs a "fix" to chew on something. Then she'll leave things alone for a while. Last Saturday we came home and I found one of my new socks with the heal chewed out of it. Then I went to get my Barefoot Dreams robe, which I've been hiding under the covers from her and GAH!! She went under the covers and chewed the collar at the neck. The pictures below show why I didn't stay angry at her too long. I was laughing too hard. This is Misha in her "getting ready to hit a bank" self-created ski mask! LOL

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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 3:14 pm
That's funny!
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