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Archive through April 01, 2003
Kady | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 08:54 am     Sia...doesn't DH understand that if he didn't act like he hated it so much the cat may quit doing it? Nightcrawler...cute story. I see your family is growing animal wise and human wise. SBG...I'm not an expert on cats(I think maybe Moon is, though). If your cat is happy and healthy then he is getting enough food. I give my baby one can of Fancy Feast every evening and all the dry food he wants. Pamy...my baby likes for me to put fresh dry food on top of the other is the bowl too or he will 'yell' at me also.
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Sia | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 10:27 am     Nightcrawler, I think that cats can just sense "good cat-people" when they meet them, and Subway is lucky to have found you guys! Yay for your new family member; congratulations! We have one house-cat, one indoor/outdoor tom, and two full-time outdoor toms and two full-time outdoor females. All are spayed/neutered. I would love to have more, but I take on new cats when they find us, just as you found Subway--or he found you. I don't go out looking for cats, or I'd have a hundred! Sweetbabygirl, if your kitty is pretty heavy, I'd limit the canned food that he gets; it's pretty high-calorie/high fat, compared to the dry food. Try giving him 1/4 can in the morning, then another quarter-can at noon (if you're home then) and let him have 3-4 meals per day of the canned food for a couple of weeks. Then I would try to get him to eat the canned food just twice per day--if he doesn't protest too much! Tell him the dry food is good for keeping his teeth clean and that he needs to trim down his belly! Give your kitties an extra squeeze from me! I love cats. Can you post any pics? Kady, my DH isn't a people-person, and he's not much better at dealing with animals, so he doesn't understand how to win friends and influence people--or cats.  |
Sweetbabygirl | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 10:44 am     Sia, I wish I had a scanner, I'd be able to post pics of my babies. As for Harpo, my boyfried bought a can of Iams Chicken and Rice and whoooooooo, did he hate it....it took all night (as opposed to his usual 5 minutes of scarfing) but he ate it anyway, lol!! They love their Meow Mix...I've tried other brands and they won't budge, it is MM Original or Seafood or it's a no go. Kady and Pamy, thanks to you both for your suggestions. |
Squaredsc | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 01:09 pm     ms kitti loves fancy feast and can tell when i switch to something else thats on sale. she will sniff it and turn her tail up if its not fancy feast. i give her 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening, its mixed with a lil bit of dry. but then again she will also eat the dog food and my angel will eat some of the cat food. and neither animal likes the cheap giant brand food, they are spoiled. sia, kool story, lol. nc, when dh wants to give away ms kitti i will know who to call, lol. |
Webkitty | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 02:01 pm     Oooh, I like that color Square! I love all the kitty stories! I started my two cats out on Hills Science Diet dry cat food, they love it but I made the mistake of buying some Fancy Feast and they loved that too So now they want both. They are not overweight, so I cater to their spoiled furry little behinds, lol. My husband and I compete for the cats affections at night, we both want the kitty snuggles. Sometimes he will brag in the morning that they BOTH slept RIGHT next to him all night, lol. Boy, are we suckers in this house! (or very well trained humans) (my mother says if there is such a thing as re-incarnation, she wants to come back as one of my cats, lol) |
Hippyt | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 02:23 pm     OK,sitting here reading the cat thread,feel a cat rubbing against look down,it isn't MY cat! The neighbor's kitten has wandered in through the back door,scared the heebies out of me! |
Heyltslori | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 02:37 pm     lol hippy! |
Heyltslori | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 03:42 pm     http://commonhome.tripod.com/catdance.htm |
Sia | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 05:57 pm     I have a fridge magnet that states: This home is maintained for the comfort and convenience of THE CAT!! |
Sia | Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 09:37 pm     Here's one of my very favorite photos of my dear cat Liz, who is turning 18 years old next month:
This photo was probably taken in 1992 or '93. |
Ddr1135 | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 03:53 am     I have to tell you guys the story of Odyssey. I work for a non profit group that produces a three day festival. In 2001, the festival's theme was 2001: A Crawfish Odyssey. On Friday at 5:00 pm, one of the beer booth volunteers walked into my office and said "We just found a kitten in the beer booth, you want it or you want us to chunk it?" Well....you know the answer to that. The rest of Friday night was spent trying to get some liquids into a three to five day old kitten whose eyes were still closed! That night at 2:00 am, two of my good friends took the kitten home and cared for it until Monday when I could take over Mom duty. They brought it to the vet on Saturday and were told it had a 50/50 chance. We fed it with a bottle every two hours, kept it warm, etc. She thrived and became part of my family. I only had a dog at the time, so she grew up thinking she was a dog. Odyssey is black with green eyes and one is cross eyed! Later on, I rescued another kittie who showed up at my house and would hide in my car engine. Needless to say, she ended up in my house too! |
Moondance | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 09:47 am     Love that story Ddr! And love her name |
Squaredsc | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 10:55 am     great story ddr. |
Webkitty | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 12:13 pm     Ddr, your a girl after my own heart I'm a sucker for a kitten with no home. Last night we had a scare with our little one, China. She's so tiny, only 7 lbs, fully grown. She usually runs to get on the bed with our other one at bedtime, but she was mia last night. My husband and I looked, everywhere, and I mean everywhere, for an hour, at least. We started thinking she may have gotten out somehow. This thought brought us to panic, neither one of our cats has ever been out. I started to get visions of her getting tangled up with a big tomcat or getting hit, lost, taken by a snake, well, you guys know. My husband took the flashlight and walked up and down the street calling her, no luck. Then I took the flashlight and seached and called for a good half hour. My heart was up in my throat. Then I opened the door, and there she was, sitting right in the livingroom. She looked very sleepy, and kind of stunned, actually. We still have no idea where she was. She still seems kind of lethargic today, and just had some diarreah, so I'm thinking she crawled off somewhere because she wasn't feeling well. (but, WHERE?) I'm going to keep a close eye on her and if she hasn't snapped out of it by tomorrow, its off to the vet. |
Moondance | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 12:20 pm     {{{China}}} You tell her Sundance said to feel better ... boy do they know how to find places where we can't find them! |
Pamy | Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 12:55 pm     I agree!! I hope China is better tomarrow!! |
Bandit | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 09:37 am     ((((((Webkitty and China)))))) How is China doing? |
Webkitty | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 11:51 am     China is fine! I called the vet and they said it sounded like a furball, so I gave her some treatment, and she "passed" it out the other end last night, whew. She's back to racing around the house with her big brother "P". Thanks for caring eveyone!  |
Moondance | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 11:59 am     Yeah!!!!!!!!!! Sundance is pleased |
Kady | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:24 pm     Cat question...This has been bugging me for a few days. A customer of mine has a Persian that she takes every few months to get groomed. She was telling me that she called to make an appointment and the lady said that her cat would have to have an aids test before she would groom it anymore. Does this make sense to anyone? |
Conejo | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:34 pm     Kady, never heard of that before. I didn't think that cats carried aids (except maybe some that are being experimented on). Maybe the goomer is just paranoid? |
Moondance | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:39 pm     FELINE AIDS - FIV AIDS is a infectious disease. It lasts a life time once it enters the cells in the body. There was no cure for it. After a variable latency period subsequent to being infected the patient's immunological bulwark against infectious disease with time normally crumbles. The body falls prey to assault by opportunistic organisms. Until recently the patient died from this assault on the body. But with modern science we now have hope of survival. This is true with humans and I want to make clear that this is now true with felines, but this fact is little known. The immune system has the capacity to harm as well as to heal. Strengthening the immune system without regard to the consequences may increase the replication of the virus. This is the problem of many enhancing herbs such as Echinacea and Astragulus. Cats with AIDS require supportive therapies as well as virus-specific therapies. Many veterinarians will not use drugs for AIDS on cats because of their side effects. I think that with the new drugs it is now possible to make use of them. It can be passed through sneezing, licking etc. Groomers are starting to ask for a lot of tests due to liabilties. |
Moondance | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:49 pm     I just took this pix... Sundance & Sabastian say Hi!
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Moondance | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:50 pm      |
Babyruth | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 12:58 pm     I LOVE THOSE PICS!!!! What happy-looking kitties. |
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