--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300048 Date: 03/01/98 From: DENNIS LANCASTER Time: 09:21am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Kids are cats The Cat Years I just realized that while children are dogs -- loyal and affectionate-- teenagers are cats. It's so easy to be a dog owner. You feed it, train it, boss it around. It puts its head on your knee and gazes at you as if you were a Rembrandt painting. It bounds indoors with enthusiasm when you call it. Then around age 13, your adoring little puppy turns into a big old cat. When you tell it to come inside, it looks amazed, as if wondering who died and made you emperor. Instead of dogging your doorsteps, it disappears. You won't see it again until it gets hungry -- then it pauses on its sprint through the kitchen long enough to turn its nose up at whatever you're serving. When you reach out to ruffle its head, in that old affectionate gesture, it twists away from you,then gives you a blank stare, as if trying to remember where it has seen you before. You, not realizing that the dog is now a cat, think something must be desperately wrong with it. It seems so antisocial, so distant, sort of depressed. It won't go on family outings. Since you're the one who raised it, taught it to fetch and stay and sit on command, you assume that you did something wrong. Flooded with guilt and fear, you redouble your efforts to make your pet behave. Only now you're dealing with a cat, so everything that worked before now produces the opposite of the desired result. Call it, and it runs away. Tell it to sit, and it jumps on the counter. The more you go toward it, wringing your hands, the more it moves away. Instead of continuing to act like a dog owner, you can learn to behave like a cat owner. Put a dish of food near the door, and let it come to you. But remember that a cat needs your help and your affection too. Sit still, and it will come, seeking that warm, comforting lap it has not entirely forgotten. Be there to open the door for it. One day your grown-up child will walk into the kitchen, give you a big kiss and say, "You've been on your feet all day. Let me get those dishes for you."Then you'll realize your cat is a dog again. Author Unknown... ... One VERY nice thing about Cats - They DON'T BARK! ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Sound Doctrine BBS (303) 680-7209 - Aurora, CO, USA (1:104/514) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300049 Date: 03/01/98 From: DIANNE ROBBINS Time: 11:34pm \/To: JAN DEBOER (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: CAT FLATULENCE DR>> My new kitten has this terrible problem with flatulence DR>> . I took her to the vet and they said she was healthy, DR>> but it bugs me. I want to cuddle with her, but she DR>> smells terrible. Any ideas on how to treat this? It DR>> doesn't matter what food I give her, it still happens. DR>> She's eating only cat food, no human stuff, and is not DR>> drinking milk, only water. I am preferring natural DR>> remedies for her tummy, but whatever you know that can DR>> help would be appreciated. Thanks JD> Check for worms? Yep, that was done at the vet and they gave her a dewormer just in case. --- via Silver Xpress V3.02 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Encounters Louisville, KY (502) 897-2153 (1:2320/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300050 Date: 03/01/98 From: DIANNE ROBBINS Time: 11:34pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: DOUBLE NAMES I get this base through two different local BBSs. One of them allows handles, the other uses only real names. So if you see either Kitten Kate or Dianne Robbins, that's me. I've been having a problem connecting with the one that uses real names, so more than often I will be here as Kitten Kate. The odd thing is that the handle Kitten Kate relates in no way to cats. It was a character in a book by Whitley Strieber, called Cat Magick. Actually, the woman's name was Kate. Her husband, who was a mad scientist type, hated cats and had a room called the Kitten Kate Club or Kitten Kate Room. Kate was a very spiritual woman full of love and peace for everything and had a very pure heart. I try to be like her in my daily life, and can only hope to achieve a little of her greatness. --- via Silver Xpress V3.02 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Encounters Louisville, KY (502) 897-2153 (1:2320/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300051 Date: 03/01/98 From: DIANNE ROBBINS Time: 11:34pm \/To: JOAN KELLY (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: CONSENSUS NEEDED.... JK> One of my friends at work is *adamant* that yogurt is not good JK> for cats. When I told her of Soosie's affinity, she was aghast JK> and told me I should NEVER give her any yogurt. JK> So! What do you think?? I have a great book called Cat Love: Understanding the Needs and Nature of Your Cat by Pam Johnson. In her section on nutrition, she gives a list of treats that are good for cats. Among them are cucumbers, garlic, alfalfa sprouts, carrots, vitamin c, tomato juice, cod liver oil, vitamin e, broccoli, green beans, lima beans, peas, celery, brewer's yeast tablets, asparagus, wheat grass, cantaloupe, and yogurt! Good luck getting your critters to eat some of the stuff on this list. I know that mine are picky eaters and only like fried chicken and bacon and would laugh at me if I tried to feed them green beans. As far as the yogurt, she says that a tablespoon of it is a wonderful and healthy snack. It says to buy plain, unflavored yogurt, that your cat won't miss the fruit flavors, but I don't see any harm in a lick or two of yours. She also recommends that you give your cat yogurt if she or he is taking an antibiotic as the medication may disturb the natural intestinal balance and cause an intestinal yeast infection. --- via Silver Xpress V3.02 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Encounters Louisville, KY (502) 897-2153 (1:2320/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300052 Date: 03/01/98 From: DIANNE ROBBINS Time: 11:34pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: PARVO VIRUS I have a friend who insists that all cats have parvo as a natural defense to protecting themselves against other animals, such as dogs. This doesn't sound right to me. She may have heard the information incorrectly or she may be totally insane. If you have any information in regards to cats and parvo virus, would you send it my way so we can get all this straightened out? Her cat just delivered a litter of kitties and I am assuming that anything the mother has has been passed on to them. Her dogs have allegedly caught parvo from the mother cat and died due to the virus. --- via Silver Xpress V3.02 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Encounters Louisville, KY (502) 897-2153 (1:2320/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300053 Date: 03/01/98 From: DIANNE ROBBINS Time: 11:34pm \/To: JAY P. HAILEY (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH JP> Every so often I wind up with that angst filled scream pose JP> gritting my teeth and screaming "KILL THE CAAAAAATTTT!" Really? Is that how you cope? I just keep insisting to people that I do not have cats, even as they are jumping all over my living room furniture and knocking things over and meowing up a storm. The cats, not the people. Most people do not believe me, but my loved ones do. Or maybe they are just trying to humor me. JP> But I know that my house would not be nearly so much a home JP> with out my cats. I love 'em. Of course. A home is not a home until there are cats. --- via Silver Xpress V3.02 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Encounters Louisville, KY (502) 897-2153 (1:2320/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300054 Date: 03/02/98 From: LARRY POST Time: 12:36am \/To: DIANNE ROBBINS (Read 0 times) Subj: RE: LAP CATS -=> Quoting Dianne Robbins to Larry Post <=- LP> I've been there & done that. Patches, my black & white LP> kitty picks the darnest times to jump in my lap and insist LP> that I pet him, while I'm in the middle of something on the LP> computer. All of a sudden I get an armload of purring kitty. DR> And you wouldn't trade it for the world, admit it. That's how I feel DR> when Honey jumps up on me and snuggles my neck and pats my hair. DR> Heaven on earth... Actually I'm enjoying it. My wife wants to pet him but he will only tolerate it for a while but he runs away, and jumps in my lap. ... ** Desk: A very large wastebasket with drawers. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: http://members.xoom.com/StreamlineBBS ** 860-446-923 (1:320/601) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300055 Date: 03/02/98 From: LARRY POST Time: 12:36am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: FUS Hi, I've read something about FUS, feline urininary syndrome. I have Patches who is a neutered male 10 months old. What signs do we need to be watching for and what steps can we take for prevention, if any?? I read that males are prone to it and neutered males more so. On the lighter side, I had to type this with Patch-patch in my lap purring away, he got kitty hair all over my keyboard, wah wah!! ... WARNING! This computer protected by attack cats! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: http://members.xoom.com/StreamlineBBS ** 860-446-923 (1:320/601) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300056 Date: 03/01/98 From: JOAN KELLY Time: 10:24am \/To: DIANNE ROBBINS (Read 0 times) Subj: CLUMPING LITTER Dianne Robbins wrote in a message to Lyle Gardiner: DR> My new kitten does something like that near her food. After she DR> finishes eating she will scrape around the edge of the outside of DR> the plate or bowl for several minutes...several minutes...several DR> minutes... and this continues until I yell her name a few hundred DR> times and ask her if she has lost her freakin' mind. Then she One of my cats used to do that if he thought the food was...umm....doo-doo. :-) Joan --- timEd/386 1.10 * Origin: TNC - (860) 963-1187 - 2.4kbps-33.6kbps! (1:320/2112) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 277 CATS Ref: F3300057 Date: 03/01/98 From: JOAN KELLY Time: 10:25am \/To: DIANNE ROBBINS (Read 0 times) Subj: CAT FLATULENCE Dianne Robbins wrote in a message to All: DR> My new kitten has this terrible problem with flatulence. I took DR> her to the vet and they said she was healthy, but it bugs me. I DR> want to cuddle with her, but she smells terrible. Any ideas on how DR> to treat this? It doesn't matter what food I give her, it still DR> happens. She's eating only cat food, no human stuff, and is not The vet didn't offer any suggestions? There is a product known as "Beano" which you put on food which causes gas, but it was developed for humans. I would ask the vet about it before administering it to a cat--check the ingredients. And best wishes with your kitty's "problem". Joan --- timEd/386 1.10 * Origin: TNC - (860) 963-1187 - 2.4kbps-33.6kbps! (1:320/2112)