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Tntitanfan

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia - You can purchase a "cat piller" very cheaply from your vet or pet supply store. It helps -

Gail

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, I had to pill cats and dogs - I found putting a pill inside of a tiny piece of cheese or cream cheese or deviled ham works pretty good. Last year when I had to give a pill to one of my dogs, I ended up having to make up pretend pills for the others who wanted some too.

Urgrace

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 12:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Urgrace

Saturday, June 01, 2002 - 12:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Grooch, thanks for that link. I went over there just to see what it had to say, and found out that my new kitties can be spayed at a younger age than six months, and that it may be better for the cats. Very helpful since I didn't know. Now to get their appointments made... Luckily since there is a couple weeks difference in their age, I won't have to take them both at the same time. Buddy was neutered during his shelter days.

Sia, I'm sorry about your cats fighting. Great to know there's something for them to calm them down.

Seamonkey

Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 12:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moon, I'm sorry to hear you have been having such a hard time.. I've not been keeping up, but I have noticed a lack of posts from you and you ARE missed.

I second everything you said about people and how some treat animals.. or don't..

Spaying/neutering, keeping pets out of danger, even if that means keeping them inside.. seems just obvious to me.

I get angry when litters are bred "for the kids" or "we want one of his/her children".. or just out of neglect..

grrr.. just go to an animal shelter and look in all those eyes.. and wonder why another batch should be brought into the world without deep deep thought.

Sorry bout the soapbox..

Webkitty

Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 01:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From a book of cat quotations:

"If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but it would deterioate the cat"
~Mark Twain~

"One day a cat will opt to join you while you are utterly relaxed in muscle and brain, and with a delicate miaow and a velvet paw will show you transcendental meditation by an expert" ~V. Martin~

"Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man" ~Paul Gray~

"They come to sit on the table by the writer, keeping his thoughts company, and gazing at him with intelligent tenderness and magical penetration. It seems as though cats divine the thought that is passing from the brain to the pen, and that as they stretch out a paw, they are trying to seize it on its way" ~Theophile Gautier~ in his memoirs of Beaudelaire

"To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique" ~Jenn De Vries~

"There are no ordinary cats" ~Colette~

Meow!

Julieboo

Monday, June 10, 2002 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkey-you are so right. I hate it that people breed dogs and cats. Have people looked on petfinder.org or petshelter.org? (Not to mention the thousands of other shelters).

There are so many unwanted cats and dogs. And yet people will goto a breeder or petstore to buy a pet. They will shell out hundreds of dollars for a pet. And if these people really want a purebred pet, just look around at the specific rescue shelters for that breed or even talk to their local shleter, they would be able to find the breed they want. They just need to be patient.

I am not going to apologize for being on a soapbox, because I am so passionate about this subject. Go ahead, check out some of those shelters (online or in person) and see what you think.

(Oh, and it really irks me that so many many many kitties are turned into shelters just because a new baby is coming and people are afraid of the cat either jumping in the crib or "stealing the baby's breath." That is such an old wives tale.

Sillyb

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite cat quote
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats" ~Albert Schweitzer~ I couldn't agree more

Theowl

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 - 08:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and dogs

Webkitty

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 11:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
MsOwl, I agree, dogs are nice too

Sillyb

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 12:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK...and dogs

Theowl

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 02:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and owls

Bob2112

Thursday, June 13, 2002 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and sponges bob

Webkitty

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 04:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Owls and spongebobs!

Does anyone have a cat that likes to lick plastic?

One of mine is crazy about it. He'll get on a piece of plastic and lick and lick..........any kind of plastic, very strange!

Lobster

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 04:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty, one of mine and two of my brother's cats like to lick plastic. Mostly the plastic bags from stores. I read somewhere that they are treated with some kind of oil that contains beef lard so that they won't stick together. I suppose other types of plastic could be treated with the same stuff. Apparently, it's not good for the cat.

Bob2112

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 04:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a dog that loves to lick yogart containers and peanut butter plastic jars. The peanut butter jar is hillarious because you can see his long tongue streaching for the bottom of the jar. Then he chews them into little pieces and we make the kids pick it up.

I just realized this is the cat thread. No more dog stuff from me. I promise. Here a quick cat story to help me save face.

Last week, my brother and sister-in-law were missing their cat for most of the day. Their cat is very scared of strangers and it's not unusal for the cat to hide for much of the day. When they finally realized he was missing then began searching and found him inside the newly drywalled bathroom wall. Apparantly the cat was in the bathroom when the worker came in the morning and decided to hide in the hole in the wall. It didn't make a sound until they started calling his name.
The cat is OK, but the wall needs a little more work. bob

Urgrace

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We decided on a name for the little buff tortoise shell tabby kitten finally. Her name is Kalli and she likes it too. Jujukitty, the all black feline, has already become accustomed to her name and comes running when we call.

Buddy is the only cat I've ever had that didn't have a 'K' in his name, but he's also the only male!

Seamonkey

Friday, June 14, 2002 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My cat would eat the plastic bags if I let her.
I don't.

Sometimes she'll start chomping on newspaper, and of course pens and pencils.

As far as licking.. it is ME.. and she is so raspy and she doesn't stop. I move my arm and she reaches out with one paw, amazingly strong for such a small creature, and recaptures my arm..

Julieboo

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 11:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Another Frosty & Pocahontas update...

It is unreal how well they are getting along. Rarely even any more hisses from Frosty and for sure none from Poc. They both follow each other around and will sleep on the same bed. Not next to each other though. They eat together -- even out of the same bowl -- no problem.

It makes me want to go out and get another kitty from a shelter. But I am afraid to rock the boat this soon.

I know we will be getting more animals, do you guys think kittens would be better or an older cat? (Frosty is a three year old male and Poc is a 10 year old female.)

I just know Frosty woulld have been labeled as "needs to be an only cat" if he reached a real shelter. (I found him just before he was put in a shelter.)

He hissed BIG TIME at first any time he saw Pocahontas. He was terribly afraid of even us humans for like the first week. But to see him now, well it's like he's a whole new cat. (Except he is still terribly freaked out by my husband-runs from and hisses at him all the time.)

Seamonkey

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 11:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
A kitten would probably be easier.. would more likely move into third place, but an adult would need you more, Julie :)

However, my cat, channeling from Frosty and Poc, tells me that THEY would like to have a pet hamster.

yeah, right.

Julieboo

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 11:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, I was thinking about 2 kittens, so they could mess with each other and leave the "elders" alone. But I am going to wait til my son is a little older (a few months to a year) because he is so rough with animals. If he were "nicer" I'm sure we'd have at least one dog by now. (The cats can escape his "hugs" much easier than a dog.)

Seamonkey

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 01:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Very wise, Julie.. way too many people don't think enough about how hard kids can be on animals.. of course we think about how animals can bite and scratch kids but kids can be so rough, hug way too hard and even just overly disturb a little pup or kitten.

Maybe there would be a mellow adult lab? Labs adore kids and are tolerant and they also work well with cats, usually.

But it sounds like you have plenty on your plate for now with what you have :)

Julieboo

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 01:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You must be a mind-reader, because a lab is EXACTLY what we have in mind.

Webkitty

Friday, July 05, 2002 - 05:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The (younger) teenage boys are (still) running around the neighborhood setting off firecrackers, my cats are freaking out!

(this thread was almost at the bottom! tisk)

Halfunit

Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 05:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh goody goody!! A friendly feline place!!

One of my cats likes to lick plastic bags too. Then again, she likes to lick the hair spray out of my hair while I'm sleeping. She's picky though, it's only when I wear Rave #4, lol.