--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGR00003 Date: 12/21/97 From: ROBERT RICHARDS Time: 08:45pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Cat Doorgame - Christmas Version 1.5 * Finish! 10,000 points! HOW YOUR CAT SEES YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE: 鰰 2,000 point bonus if you knock tree over on it's side! Pull string of lights 鰰 off tree- 500 points Candy canes- 200 points if eaten; 400 points 鰰 if thrown up 鰰鰰鰰 Glass balls- 200 points Knock off and if knocked off; break these- 鰰鰰 300 points if broken 150 points Shred paper Ŀ 300 points Start Here Merry Xmas to all the Players out there! (Meow) --- Robert Richards - Sysop Alpha's Attic Robert.Richards@f258.n138.z1.fidonet.org --- CNet/3 * Origin: Alpha's Attic - Tacoma WA - (253)272-8083 (1:138/258) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGR00004 Date: 12/20/97 From: JEFF WEINER Time: 11:04am \/To: CAROL SHENKENBERGER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Kitty *** Quoting Carol Shenkenberger from a message to Steve Croft *** JW>Oh, I know something worse. My sister-in-law's late, lamented Kitty. She JW>would wake Conni up with an eyelid licking! JW>Ow! SC> Yes but when your kitty licks your ear you get the sandpapery feel AND SC> the loud raspish sound. CS> Yeah, but you gotta wonder how the SIL's cat became 'late, lamented'? Sadly, Kitty developed cancer, and had to be put down. Still, she had a pretty good life, for a foundling that just sauntered into Conni's apartment building one rainy night. --- Telegard v3.02/mL * Origin: The Aircrash Bureau Chicago 773-278-1195 33.6 (1:115/327) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00000 Date: 12/21/97 From: ALAN HESS Time: 09:12pm \/To: JO PESHEK (Read 0 times) Subj: bears, oh my! Whilst masticating on , Jo Peshek (1:2604/104) wrote to Ruth Hanschka: JP> I'm very happy that she didn't stop traffic...with JP> her body. Did you hear about the bear that wandered JP> through here from Florida on his way to only-he-knew JP> where? They caught him just up the road from me. We had a bear up here (Baltimore) a few years back that apparently wandered all the way down along I-70 from Western Maryland to just outside the Baltimore Beltway. Being that Baltimore isn't exactly wild enough for Bears (just Orioles and Ravens), he was captured and taken back to a Western MD. state park and released. On a cat note, there are continually reports of cougars in the parks along the Patapsco and Gunpowder Rivers (sources of Baltimore's water), but none have been confirmed. If there actually are a few cougars left, they obviously have learned to stay well out of sight of humans. I hope the reports are true. *adh* --- Msged/2 4.10 * Origin: Nerve Center - Source of the SPINAL_INJURY echo! (1:261/1000) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00001 Date: 12/21/97 From: GLENN SPENCER Time: 11:20pm \/To: JOAN KELLY (Read 0 times) Subj: Cats in the barn GS> cats. Fortunately for GS> the cats, Rottweilers do not fit under stall GS> doors so they easily GS> avoid her. Besides most of the time the kittens are safe inside GS> the tack room. JK> Oh, I hate to hear that. :-( One of my friends JK> lost two cats and a rabbit when their dog killed JK> them--apparently just as a matter of course, not JK> being mean. Some dog and cat combinations just JK> don't work. Kimba has done little more than growl at the cats so far. She doesn't like them, but I think she is far too fat to d anything about it. So worry thou not. The kitties are growing steadily and in need of worming. Fortunately we have tamed them enough that they are quite easily caught. A quick trip to the vet is in order now. Maybe I can talk the owners into some shots and spaying as well, we'll see. Today they got a new bed. The destroyed the old feed sack so I just moved the stuffing into a new one. There always seems to be a spare feed sack around the barn. I was away for three days and they are a little wilder than when I left, but still quite nice to me. They are getting faster at wrecking a freshly cleaned stall. Today they wasted Bailey's stall in under five minutes. It was five-cat family effort. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00002 Date: 12/21/97 From: GLENN SPENCER Time: 11:39pm \/To: JO PESHEK (Read 0 times) Subj: The Swarm JP> I didn't mention that he was a drooler. And although JP> he was cut as soon as the vet would, he sprayed to his JP> dying day. He created a high "water" mark, again, on JP> every square inch of vertical surface in this house JP> (including inside my Apple Duodisk drives). And if he He sprayed, too? YOW. At that point, I start looking for the softest-marshmallow-cat-owner I can find and start telling them about this wonderful cat I have to find a home for. But then, I have had a nearly unbroken record of accident-free cats all my life. The only exceptions have been very young kittens, cats trapped away from the litter box, and sick ats. Maybe I should take your name down for the future, just in case. Wanna tell me your address? :) --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00003 Date: 12/21/97 From: JO PESHEK Time: 11:06am \/To: MISS KITTY (Read 0 times) Subj: Strange smells MK> On the Discovery channel, they claim that cats MK> greet each other by offering a sniff of their MK> behind, or by taking a sniff of the other cat's MK> "tail light" as you call it! We saw that. :) As I said, we got Jenny when she was teeny-tiny and we hand raised her. To try to relate to her on a cat-level and prepare her to meet other cats someday (who knew about the Swarm then?) even though she was destined to be an indoor cat, we instituted "butt-checks". When she would come to us, we pat her lightly in the area where other cats (Charlie in particular) would stuff their nose. No skin contact, mind you, just a light ruffle of the fur. This made her purr and although the Swarm has arrived and she gets kitty-sniffs, Lonnie still has to give her a "butt-check" when he comes home from work and I do so before she settles in my lap for a petting session. In fact, she won't lie down without one. Head bumping is another greeting. None of these do it, but Sarah (our little ex-diabetic) was a great one for the head-bump greeting. I miss that. ... . 0-m ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: The Funny Papers * Lodi, NJ * (973)478-8476 (1:2604/104) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00004 Date: 12/21/97 From: JO PESHEK Time: 11:44am \/To: STEVE CROFT (Read 0 times) Subj: Sandpaper! MK>> Does she make that weird noise that goes with MK>> that activity? SC> Yeah all animals make that noise. When Jetta SC> starts going after imaginary fleas I use your SC> wet wash cloth method to busy her with licking SC> instead of chewing. What noise? And what defleaing? The only chewing my bunch do (on themselves) is when they're removing the excess plate on their claws. What are we missing? ... . 0-m ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: The Funny Papers * Lodi, NJ * (973)478-8476 (1:2604/104) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00005 Date: 12/22/97 From: ROSS SAUER Time: 04:48am \/To: JO PESHEK (Read 0 times) Subj: Death to Rolls of Paper! -=> Quoting Jo Peshek to Ruth Hanschka <=- RH> To me a deer is an oversized squirrel. I wouldn't RH> rate them as high as racoons. JP> JP> Ah, tree rats. Now we've GOT squirrels. Can't walk JP> out to the car without tripping over them and then JP> they'll run up MY tree and threaten me. arg Reminds me of a funny incident from a few years ago, I heard my cat Patches chattering and hissing, she was on the window ledge looking at a squirrel who was on the opposite side of the glass, stamping it's back feet and twitching it's tail. Then the squirrel saw me and took off. I guess I looked too big to bluff. Ross Sauer patch@bbs.sts.net Green & Gold RULE! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- TriToss (tm) 1.03 - (Unregistered) * Origin: Ivy's WALL BBS - Sheboygan, WI 920-457-9255 (1:154/170) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00006 Date: 12/22/97 From: ROSS SAUER Time: 04:52am \/To: DON DELLMANN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: DECLAWING -=> Quoting Don Dellmann to Miss Kitty <=- MK> I have a declawed cat and a fully armed one. The declawed MK> cat, Neko, plays, runs, jumps, climbs, leaps and cavorts MK> as playfully as a kitten now, but it took a while to get MK> back to that point from his surgery. I will never have MK> a cat declawed again - I will find it a new home before MK> I do..... Ironically, Sebi - the fully armed cat - is MK> the one who lays around and doesn't do much.... DD> DD> And I have had three cats declawed, (front claws only) and right from DD> the very first day they have shown NO distress whatever, and in fact DD> don't even seem to realize anything has happened (until the first time DD> they take a flying leap at the drapes and wonder why they slid back DD> down to the floor.) With a VERY surprized look on their face, no doubt! Ross Sauer patch@bbs.sts.net Green & Gold RULE! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- TriToss (tm) 1.03 - (Unregistered) * Origin: Ivy's WALL BBS - Sheboygan, WI 920-457-9255 (1:154/170) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: EGS00007 Date: 12/22/97 From: ROSS SAUER Time: 04:53am \/To: BUD JAMISON (Read 0 times) Subj: Nutritious Nutrias -=> Quoting Bud Jamison to Joan Kelly <=- -> UUUUUGGGGHHHHHH! It sure is! In fact, it sounds an awful lot like t -> "things" I saw at Southwick which I can't remember the name of. They -> called "giant rats" and were as big as large dogs. BJ> BJ> Capabarra, as I recall. Had one running loose here in San Diego some BJ> years back, scared the beans out of a few people. 80 pound rats BJ> aren't exactly what you expect to find digging in your trash at 2am. Capybara. Native to South America. From the resident walking encyclopedia, Ross Sauer patch@bbs.sts.net Green & Gold RULE! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR] --- TriToss (tm) 1.03 - (Unregistered) * Origin: Ivy's WALL BBS - Sheboygan, WI 920-457-9255 (1:154/170)