Cat problems

ATT Debs

I have posted a couple of pics of mogs under my profile which i notice you can enlarge slightly.

The black & White cat is Pushy a stray that wanted us to take him in,but Mogs had other ideas.

When i eventually found a place at a cat rescue centre(not easy) the girl that took him in said that most strays they get are all skin & bones and wanted to make sure that pushy was in fact a stray as he weighed a ton. I told her he was a stray but that kate fed him better than me.

Oh and Mogs drew blood on another vet yesterday,thats 2 vets down and 1 to go.

Mista h

Clyde, the Above-Average Cat and I had a heart-to-heart a while back about end-of-life issues. I told him that the meter stops at $999, and he seemed okay with it. I figure he's worth at least as much as a second-hand Hi-Cap.

My vet recommeded Revolution for fleas, worms, etc., because it seems to cover the broadest spectrum of woud-be parasites. It's called Stronghold in the UK, where it costs half as much, so I mail-order mine from there. It's a prescription product, but that doesn't seem to slow down the people I order from.

True story debs

A very close friend of mine has a house nearby and his house backs onto Corporation of London common land.

Last week he had loaded his car to drive down to Lytton Chenny in dorset where he has another gaff. He gets a phone call from the common Ranger,wanting  him to take in an Alsation pup who the owners are going to put down the next day if they carn`t find it a home. he says no,but gets talked into going to have a look at it. To cut a long story short he takes pity on this 4 month old Alsation pup who is being left outside in the cold at nite,sticks it in the car with him and off to Dorset they go. When he gets to Dorset his wife who is already down their goes balistic as they already have a fully grown Alsation bitch. The mutts start playing in the house table lamps etc go flying and get smashed + new pup is not yet fully house trained.

Would you like an addition to your flock debs ?

Mista h

I like dogs but my cats don't and they have guns!

I'm sure your friends will soom have the lucky young pup house trained and part of their family

Debs

Hello Debs

As you are the Naim Audio cat expert i was wondering if you can maybe advise us on a problem we have with the LUMP known as Cooper. He has turned into a great cat and is slowly taking over the running of our house.

The problem is he has taken to using his litter tray all the time,instead of doing his jobs out in the garden. This morning for example he went out for over an hour,comes in and strait away uses his litter tray. Any ideas how to stop this???

Hope you can advise

Mista H

mista h,

i can't see what the problem is...

Cooper is just being a clean and thoughtful cat,

and choosing to dump in the home privy instead of the next door neighbours garden.

You should congradulate him!

Debs

Hello Debs

thanks for the quick reply,i would much rather he went in the garden(any garden),that way i dont have to keep cleaning out his tray.

Mista h

Put the tray outside...= fertiliser

Cooper won't be very happy if you put his food and water bowl next to his litter tray. It may discourage him from using the litter tray.

Good evening Fat Cat

Litter tray is in the hallway......food and water is at one end of the kitchen.

Mista h

Unless one of my mogs is unwell, there is no litter tray in the house.  They have collar tags which open the cat flaps and when nature calls, off they go.  Doesn't seem to be a problem - I'm sure they would let their servant know if there was!  They do have unfettered access to the great outdoors 24/7.

Peter

Mista H

I was suggesting putting his litter tray next to his food bowl.

Just asked my wife, she recons we had the same problem with one of our cats. She buried the cat dodoo and a bit of litter under a fir tree in the garden, then took the cat to the fir tree to get a good sniff of what she'd buried. It didn't work first time but eventually the fir tree became his toilet.

Hello Peter

We had a break in a few years back,so i changed both the kitchen and dining room doors to double glazed higher security ones,making a cat flap a no no. Dont know if Debs still has the picture but i dont think our FAT LUMP would get thru a cat flap.

Mista h

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...on-animals-year.html

I'll just leave this here.

Warning: opening the dailymail link posted by Winky above just crashed my computor,

it may have a virus! Open at your own risk!

"It must be true cos i read about it in the Daily Mail..."

The virus warning is true though!

Works fine on my home Mac and on my PC. It might be you with the virus. And yes, I see the irony in using the DM as a source of "fact".

Firstly, I felt duty bound to warn other naim forum folk of your very dodgy link that buggered up my computer, pre-warned they can make up their own minds whether to risk opening it.

Secondly, if the Daily Smell wants to advertise their ridiculous jihad of cat hatred with misinformed statistics and manipulated disinformation for all the cat-haters out there, then it’s only another daft yarn in one of the worlds daftest papers, for daft people to buy, read and believe.

Debs

Debs,

I'm afraid there is no dodging the reality of the situation just because it was reported in the Daily Mail. Here is a more bone fide link. I think the last sentence of the report is important. 

https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...lion-birds-each-year

Steve

My mogs have bells on their collars.  They probably eat better than me which may explain why they don't seem to bother birds - I haven't been presented with a feathered present for several years.

Peter

Count me firmly in that camp.

The feeling is mutual,

my cats hate you too... hiss hiss spit spit =^.^=

Steve,

This thread has been ambiguously entitled ‘Cat Problems’ and as a result has invited the cat-haters into flaming about cats being some kind of problem, however I’m sure this thread is intentionally about mista h’s cat, Cooper who ironically is far too fat to even catch cat flu let alone a mouse.

Serving up links from the United States of gun totting America, of mad white coated scientists claiming this, suggesting that, and more very dodgy statistics, is pretty meaningless in the reality of the UK… [unless you really want this thread to be primary about a grudge against cats.]

Here in Little Britain, i read a just a few years ago in a RSPB magazine that far far more small birds are killed by birds of prey, than cats. It’s the law of their jungle and the way things have always been. The RSPB has also pointed out that bird populations are greatly affected by over development of their natural habitats, modern farming practices of removing hedgerows, and use or overuse of insecticides, and the weather.

Also, cats kill rodents that would otherwise over-breed and run many farmers out of business.

These paranoid stories of it’s all the cats fault are full of very limp statistics, speculation,

and assumptions from very commercialised scientists, and probably the same scientists who have a vested interest in vivisection. Lots of money to be made there, and as we all know money talks and bullshit walks…

Debs

Nothing wrong with white coated scientist doing a bit of research, although in this article I doubt a lot of science or research was involved.

They should research this subject in more depth. I'd like to know which are the top performing breeds. When I was a lad we had a half Abyssinian, it was so fast and agile, caught birds for fun.

Debs,

There is no need to be so cynical about it. You're approach is just as blinkered if you don't accept there is a problem. Northpole has a responsible attitude by putting a bell on his cat. It's surely worth making an effort at least. 

ATB

Steve

Putting a bell on a cat seems a good idea, but it's not as simple as that. A tomcat with bell is at a great disadvantage when he comes up against another tomcat.

A stealthy cat is a scratch free cat.