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Brenda Clough
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I am sorry to report that my cat Tobey will cross the street and use the mulch under my neighbor's bushes for his personal toilet needs. (It is on the side away from their windows so I don't believe they know about it.) I have watched him cross the street to do this. He looks to the right, to the left, and then to the right again before crossing. The street is a dead end and not very busy, but he is one smart cat.
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Taliesin
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I would like to report, boogie, that I read the book you recommended but my dogs are still naughty ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
I considered making a photocopy for them because of the opposable thumbs and page turning issue...
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St. Gwladys
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We are collecting our new Aby kitten tomorrow! We haven't had a kitten for about 20+ years, most of our cats have, for various reasons, been adults needing to be rehomed and so the youngest we've had over the last fifteen years was Jasper, who was about 6 months old when we had him - he wsa the last of the litter and whilst his breeder wanted to keep him there weren't enough laps in the family for her cats! I'bve been trying to Gwenny-roof ourliving room, so all the chair and table legs are covered with packing tape so that they're not inviting being cartched, all soft fornishings are covered with fleece throws - ditto, and there is a kitten sized cat tree/scratch post and a new cat bed. Thank goodness most of our friends know about Gwenny's arrival!
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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St. Gwladys
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Miss Highlight Gwenllian arrived yesterday, appears to feel the accomodation, cuisine, furnishings are up to her high standards and is rapidly training the resident staff to obey her every whim.
Many thanks to all who've sent good wishes!
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"I say - are you a matelot?"
"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Nicolemr
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Congrats on the new family member!
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Piglet
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Happy new cat, St. G. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
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Fredegund
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All good wishes to Her Highness. The last Aby I met ate my briefcase. Hope it's not catching.
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Sioni Sais
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A consequence of not having a household pet is that we get would-be pets from time to time.
Our latest wannabe house guest, a small, dark mouse, was caught last night and released a couple of miles away (we have a "humane" mouse trap). Sometimes I think a cat would be in order, but Mrs Sioni is allergic to them.
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Boogie
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quote:
Originally posted by Taliesin:
I would like to report, boogie, that I read the book you recommended but my dogs are still naughty
I considered making a photocopy for them because of the opposable thumbs and page turning issue...
You could read it to them ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Marvin the Martian
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It was my wife's birthday at the weekend, so she gave the gerbils a small bit of cake each to celebrate.
They went absolutely nuts ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) .
Apparently, cake is like cocaine to gerbils. Who knew?
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Meg the Red
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No surprise, Marvin; the late lamented Elderkitty used to go nuts for Timbits , especially the ones covered with powdered sugar (she was black, so it looked like she'd been snorting the Timbits rather than eating them). Mr. Red and I were awakened once by her chasing a box of them down the from hall in a futile attempt to get to the goodies inside.
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Piglet
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A cat with Taste.
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Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
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The5thMary
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Yesterday I had to put my beloved ten year old tabby cat, "Fireball" to sleep. He had congestive heart failure and it came as a complete shock to my wife and I. My sweet cat was semi-feral but he let me tame him--he was pretty prickly and timid of most everyone but he loved my wife, my wife's daughter, one of my sisters (who was allergic to him but loved him!), and of course, me. I miss him so much that it's an ache in my chest. I cry, I laugh about his remembered antics and I pray that he is with God, playing and wrestling with all the other pets I have known...
Anyway, rest in peace, my beautiful baby, "Fireball". ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Nicolemr
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So sorry for your loss, 5th Mary.
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Kittyville
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How sad, 5th Mary. Sorry for your loss.
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Piglet
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Sorry to hear about your cat, 5th Mary.
RIP Fireball.
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Fredegund
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Just had it confirmed that our elderly Burmese is starting the downward path. Kidneys are going. Will move her onto the special food to see if it helps, maybe tablets. Not the injections at her age. Hoping for some sunny days for her to lie around in the garden. She's happy, that's the main thing.
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Kittyville
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So sorry, Fredegund. My cat with kidney damage seems to find the Royal Canin renal food much more palatable than the Hills version, and I'm told that's not uncommon, if that helps.
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Graven Image
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Each morning our cat is given a very tiny piece of toast and butter. Think the size of a pinky finger nail. Not sure how all of this started, as it is the only people food she is given. Yesterday I had to buy a different brand of whole wheat bread as they were sold out of our regular brand. While Mr Image and I noticed no big difference, Miss Kitty took one sniff of her toast and walked away. So now of course we feel a bit funny about eating this brand of bread.
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Not
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My lovely little cat, Anta, was put down this morning. She was only four but started vomiting Friday and turned out to be in acute kidney failure - probably antifreeze poisoning. I brought her home from the vet's yesterday evening so she could have a last night cuddled up on the bed with me. She lay all night watching me and dozing with her chin on my wrist. The vet came out this morning and injected her while she was still cuddled in my arms. Her brother is bereft - they've never been separated and one cat feels all wrong. I'm cried out and exhausted and still can't quite believe it's happened. She was such a feisty, determined, independent little cat but so affectionate with it. Somehow the perspective of dealing with dying people every day doesn't help. It doesnt make this less sad, less of a loss.
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Piglet
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Sorry for your loss, Not. RIP Anta.
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Meg the Red
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I'm so sorry, Not. And don't minimize your loss - it's incredible how thoroughly those fuzzy little beasties worm their way into your heart. Case in point: Elderkitty left us over a year ago, but when I saw her doppelgänger during my bike ride yesterday, I screeched to a halt and started calling the cat by my late kitty's name. (Which did not impress said cat, who hissed and jumped into the bushes.)
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Nicolemr
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So sorry for your loss, Not. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Kittyville
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So sorry, Not - that's awful. Too young, too needless.
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Not
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Thanks for all your kind thoughts. The other cat and I are both a bit lost - the house just feels wrong with only one cat. It's going to take a while to stop expecting her to stroll in.
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The5thMary
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quote:
Originally posted by Not:
My lovely little cat, Anta, was put down this morning. She was only four but started vomiting Friday and turned out to be in acute kidney failure - probably antifreeze poisoning. I brought her home from the vet's yesterday evening so she could have a last night cuddled up on the bed with me. She lay all night watching me and dozing with her chin on my wrist. The vet came out this morning and injected her while she was still cuddled in my arms. Her brother is bereft - they've never been separated and one cat feels all wrong. I'm cried out and exhausted and still can't quite believe it's happened. She was such a feisty, determined, independent little cat but so affectionate with it. Somehow the perspective of dealing with dying people every day doesn't help. It doesnt make this less sad, less of a loss.
I am so very sorry for your loss, Not. God, I love my little cats and can completely sympathize with you, having lost my beloved kitty on April 15th.
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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The5thMary
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By the way, thanks everyone for your kind words when my beloved, "Fireball" died last week. Even typing the words makes me tear up all over again! I couldn't get back right away to post anything as I was in a pretty bad way... to all who have lost animals, I send you hugs. Thank God for those of us who love animals! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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God gave me my face but She let me pick my nose.
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Mili
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This is a tragic story so don't read on if you find it hard to read stories about tragic pet deaths. I'm feeling so sad today after the loss of an extended furry family member. My sister and her family have been away camping for the week and I house sat to care for her two older cats and goldfish while my mum looked after her 6 month old puppy Misty. She was a maltese x miniature poodle, ridiculously small and cute and beloved by almost everyone who set eyes on her.
This morning I got a phone call from my dad to let me know the puppy had died - I didn't want to hear how at first as I knew it must be tragic and my mum would feel absolutely terrible if she had had any accidental part in its death.
It sounds like it was very sad natural causes but Mum is blaming herself anyway. She has a jack russel x mini fox terrier, Jack and was also looking after my brother's border collie x kelpie, Oscar, who is at least 10 times Misty's size. Mum was feeding them all breakfast and as she fed Oscar she didn't see Misty make a dart for his bowl. Oscar barked loudly to warn her away, and Misty fell over and didn't get up. Mum picked her up and felt her heart flutter and stop and she was bleeding from the mouth, eyes and nose so my parents suspect it must have been a brain haemorrage.
Mum was home alone and distraught so she sent my dad and brother who owns Oscar a garbled text message saying Oscar had killed Misty. My brother was horrified and angry at his own dog, so came over and yelled at Oscar and took him to his parents in law's place - I think he knows now it wasn't poor Oscar's fault though.
My parents had to ring my sister who is coming back today and she is devastated and I know her husband and kids will be too. Misty must have had some sort of health issue that the vet hadn't picked up or a weak spot in her brain. Nobody expects a happy and apparently healthy puppy to die so suddenly and shockingly The only positive is my nephews and niece didn't witness her death as I think that would be even more upsetting for them.
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Boogie
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So sorry Mili - how sad and distressing for you all.
Sounds like the puppy didn't suffer at all - a crumb of comfort maybe?
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Nicolemr
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So sorry Mili.
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Piglet
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Oh, Mili, I'm so sorry - what can I say except poor wee dog?
RIP Misty.
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The5thMary
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Mili
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Thanks for the kind words and prayers.
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Fredegund
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Poor dog.
On the slightly brighter side, Lottie is still with us, and likes the special food. Very thin, so we're making nests with hot water bottles everywhere. Feeling hideously guilty though - claws were terribly long and we hadn't noticed. No wonder she didn't want to walk.
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BessLane
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Two mornings ago, we had a Kitty Jail Break. Tore through the screen window in the front of the house (bad idea, it's about a 6 foot drop to the ground). I saw girl cat outside as I was going to get my morning coffee. Poop!!! Tried to get them in before I left for work. Came home that afternoon, opened both doors and shook the food bag. Boy cat came running back, but girl cat is still missing. For far too long now...
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Fredegund
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Hope Girl cat has now turned up, BessHiggs. Lottie was put to sleep last night. Purred up til the last few hours. Doesn't make it any easier though. I hope I can get a brindle coloured plant with serious thorns for her grave. The other cats can't quite believe that the piano stool isn't going to box their ears any longer.
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ElaineC
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Kittyville
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So sorry, Fredegund.
BessHiggs - hope she's back now.
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Piglet
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Fredegund. RIP Lottie.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
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Graven Image
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Kitty has been very sick. In pain throwing up. Liver is swollen. Vet has her on pain pills and steroids. She is clearing feeling much better. Cause unknown. I have been reading about dry cat food and I think that may be the problem. Switching to canned and thinking of making my own. Anyone on board doing the raw food and vitamin diet for their cat?
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balaam
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As well as our own cat we have two more to look after. Daughter 2 and her husband are in Wales a friends wedding and we are making two trips a day to feed their moggies. We left one stalking shoes, she's daft as a brush.
Technicaly our cat is the daughter's too, but when she moved out the cat chose us. Very territorial.
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Originally posted by Graven Image:
Kitty has been very sick. In pain throwing up. Liver is swollen. Vet has her on pain pills and steroids. She is clearing feeling much better. Cause unknown. I have been reading about dry cat food and I think that may be the problem. Switching to canned and thinking of making my own. Anyone on board doing the raw food and vitamin diet for their cat?
yes.
sort of. a lady here makes raw pet food and we buy it from her. fantastic. no added vitamins, though. they've all lost weight and have sleek fur, and the long haired dude doesn't get matts anymore at all. The dog's arthritis is much eased as well.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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RevMotherRaphael
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I have three supposedly elegant Siamese cats but one in particular likes to make a show by going head first into the rubbish. Any one else have a kitty who doesn't think the food one offers is good enough?
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Kittyville
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I have a cat with kidney trouble,who is supposed to be on a low-protein diet. I found he went and sourced his own protein (mostly in the form of rats) if I didn't supply it.
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RevMotherRaphael
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Mine are not on diets but they also like to source meals from neighbours bins and even stalking into their kitchens to steal unguarded food. I can't blame it on other cats because everyone knows to whom the Siamese belong. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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Has anyone read Paul Gallico's THE SILENT MIAOW? In which, among other secrets, we learn of Two Timing, the feline practice of setting up another family nearby. My orange cat is Two Timing us. If he doesn't approve of the menu on offer he will go over to the other family and dine. As you can imagine he is a big fat fellow, and dieting him is impossible.
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Boogie
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Our cat did that! When we were out at work she went down the road to another family.
We only found out when she disappeared for two weeks - turned out she'd been put in kennels while they went on holiday!
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Garden. Room. Walk
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Brenda Clough
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I was on the back deck one day when my cat was off to his other family. I called to him, "I see you!" and he positively cringed. But his guilt didn't slow him down! He is not above sauntering back, silently informing me that over at the Fergusons they are having salmon...
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RevMotherRaphael
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A lady friend invites my 'babies' to tea and I really mean invites them! I'll be given tea and cake and they will be given pate, salmon and free run of the house and garden. They climb up the library curtains, jump on the pianos, terrorise the housekeeper all while my friend just coos at them telling them they are 'such clever pussies.' I fear they might actually give the butler a heart attack one of these days!
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