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Twinkie

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 05:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moon, those kittens are adorable!!! I want one!!

but hubby would have a fit!


I love seeing pics of everyone's babies!

Pamy

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gina, I am so sorry, it is so hard to lose one of our babies. Good thoughts are with you.
Ms. Moon..I am mad at you! You didn't tell me you had baby kitties!!!!! I want them all!!!
Tiger looks just like our Tiger that we lost 2 yrs ago.
Twinkie and Sia thanks for the pics, I could look at kitties all day!!
We are fostering 11 puppies right now, 3 are very little and we are nursing them to health. We don't foster cats because I would have to keep them all!!!
Hey Half, where's the pic of my Dopey that you highjacked??

Moondance

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 06:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Scrobb, Hippy, Twinks and Pamy!... are they sooo cute?!! I am so crazy about them! I wish I could keep them!

Kady

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 07:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This has got to be my favorite thread. I love seeing all the pictures of your children. I show my son this thread with all the pictures...he loves it too!!

{{{Gina}}}...I'm so sorry to hear about Mr. Kitty. It just breaks my heart when one of us loses a loved one.

Srobb22

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here are a couple more pics of my sweety Tiger
my picture
my picture
How can you tell I take way too many pictures of him!! my picture Enjoy!!Hi Twinkie! Squirt looks just like my last kitty Candy - it could be her twin! What a beautiful kitty my picture

Sia

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 09:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've never posted photos of ALL my cats at once, so I think I'll attempt to do that:
Liz <==Liz, age 18 years
catparty <==Fury, age 7 years; Derail and Chiffy (sisters/litter-mates), age 10 years; Tommy, age 6 years
Milo <==Milo, age 7 1/2 years
ToriPaige <== Tori (Victoria) and Paige, sisters/litter-mates), age 4 months

Srobb22

Friday, August 01, 2003 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aww! Your cats are so beautiful! my picture. Fury and Milo look like they are related to my kitty - especially Fury my picture and the same age too - Tiger is also 7 yrs old! I never get tired of looking at cat pictures - they always brighten my day just like the real thing

Sia

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 12:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you, Srobb. Easy to tell which ones are the "outside-kitties" and which ones are the lap-warmers, huh? Milo is actually an indoor/outdoor kitty when it's not the height of flea-season. I MUST stop at the vet's office and get some flea-control oil. I bought the generic stuff at Wal-mart, and it doesn't work all that well.
cat

Tagurit

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 06:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think I have actually figured out how to post a picture! :) Here is a picture of my Abby whom I think could pass for Tiger's sister. I have another cat, Cleo, but can't find a good picture of him. I am so excited that I can share my animal pictures now! :)

Abby

Pamy

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia I love how you did that pic!!!
Tag your baby is soooo cute!!

Srobb22

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 03:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Really cute pic Sia my picture

You were right Tagurit - Abby and Tiger could be twins - what a beautiful kitty she is!

Sia

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 10:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tagurit, I LOVE fluffy long-haired kitties. What a beautiful girl Abby is. Pamy, if you mean the little picture of the grey kitty with the funny eyes, I didn't make that graphic; I found it on a graphics web-site.

I did do something really ridiculous to a photo of my kitty Liz, however. Her eyes were really glowing totally yellow in a picture I took of her, so I took a permanent marker to the centers of her eyes (in the photo) and made pupils. Dumb me, I made circular pupils like people have instead of the long, narrow ones that cats have. The photo looks crrraaazy!! I will have to scan that one. It's in one of my cat's baby-books.

(Yes, I'm serious; I have several albums that are nothing but pictures of Lizzie! You have to understand that I thought I'd never have human children and that my fur-babies were all I could spoil and love and raise. Now I have eight fur-babies, two children and two dogs and a disobedient, unruly husband. Who knew!!)
cat <==another cat graphic I found on the web

Sia

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 11:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is a portrait (taken in my home by a professional photographer) of my beloved Katie, who died several years ago. She was 13 or 14 when she passed away suddenly of unknown cause.
Katie

Sia

Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 11:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aha! I found the picture of Liz that I doctored really badly! Hope it makes you laugh!
LizCartoonEyes

Sweetbabygirl

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 06:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I'm freaking out here!

Harpo has a noticable bald spot on the back of his neck....it also has a sore on it. I thought he got it from D.P., as sometimes they fight like cat gladiators.

Could he have mites, or could he have gone overboard in biting himself?

Curiouscat

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 07:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sweet, do you allow your kitties outdoors at all? What does the bald spot and sore look like...any redness, swelling or discharge? Does he seem to have discomfort, like trying to scratch or lick/bite at it? If you're worried about it, I'd suggest you bring Harpo to the vet's tomorrow or early this week if it doesn't look any better or is getting worse.

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
SBG, sounds like a catfight to me.

Moondance

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 08:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sounds like a fight to me SBG... then again if it is where he can get to it to lick, it could be a hot spot... caused by fleas and constent chewing.

Clean it with warm water and just keep an eye on it:)

Grooch

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Is Harpo fixed?

Srobb22

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 11:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Sia! I love that picture of Liz - really cool eyes my picture
I don't think it's weird to have albums of just your cat, if I put all my pictures of my cat Tiger together I would easily have an album or two
He's so much more photogenic than the rest of my family my picture Every time I am taking picture of some special occasion I always start and end my roll of film with picture of my baby Tiger my picture
my picture

Sia

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 01:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
cat Srobb, I LOVE that cat graphic with the cat unspooling the toilet paper. My Liz and Katie used to do that when they were young and mischievious!!

Sweetbabygirl, when I've had a cat with a bald spot that has a red mark/wound in it, it's generally been from a cat-bite, and they get really badly infected. There's almost always a second hidden mark (from the other sharp top front tooth) that you sometimes don't find right away. Clean the would with peroxide (but don't use so much that the peroxide damages the tissue) and keep it clean. The other hole will open up, but if the place abcesses you'll have to take your kitty to the vet.

Surgical powder/alum is something I've used on cats' wounds in the past. It's just important to keep the wound clean and doctor it twice a day at least. Hope your kitty gets better soon!!

My cat Milo always has a bald patch on his back from overgrooming. No wounds; he just licks all the hair off when he's bored and/or itchy, apparently. Look for a second hole to confirm my suspicion that your kitty got bitten--or to rule out that possibility. Good luck.

Moondance

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 01:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just FYI Hydrogen Peroxide will induce vomiting in cats. They use it to induce when poisons are ingested. That is why it safer to use warm water and/or iodine:)

Cat fights and wounds

Pamy

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 02:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moonie you are the best with cat advice!!!

Sia

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
True, Moondance, if you simply soak the cat's fur to the skin with peroxide, yes, it will make the cat puke. I suggest dropping drops of peroxide onto the wound from the end of a Q-tip that has been dipped into the peroxide. I'm not advocating dipping the entire cat into a vat of peroxide. I don't let my cat lick the peroxide as I'm working on him/her. I'm sure you have your favorite ways of treating wounds; I just think peroxide kills germs really well. The bubbling shows me that it's working.

I haven't killed a cat yet with peroxide. I use it on kids, husbands, and my own wounds, as well. And we don't lick our wounds after the doctoring, either.

Sweetbabygirl

Monday, August 04, 2003 - 07:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks guys for all the suggestions....I will apply (very gingerly!) the peroxide when I get home today. I put warm water on the wound yesterday...I didn't feel warmth but there was red crust, like it had bled; the area is definitely bald, the size of a dime. Harpy's appetite is normal and he has lots of energy, so loss of appetite/lethargic is out.

Damn D.P.'s gonna get it with the water gun if I catch him trying to attack Harpy again.