To recap if you haven't read my earlier posts... A stray had been frequenting our house for over a month. He was flea-bitten, mite-infested and hungry, but obviously socialized to humans because he was so friendly. We were at the time owned by two cats; Tiger, 10 yr old, farm cat mutt/maine coon...

Because she's such a tenacious troll, I thought Mary deserved some research on my part while I'm waiting for my project to compile. Mary has posted around 1,590 posts since January 1st, 2005. I've been through around 590 posts (with my extremely clever program to cull Google newsgroup results)...

I know aspirin is quite toxic for cats, but what about Tylenol? As I've mentioned before, Louis fancies himself an alley-cat and likes to eat inedible things (I almost want to get a stomach x-ray to make sure there's no bolts or gobs of aluminum foil in there). Tonight my wife was cleaning and...

Our Bengal Louis seems happy enough. He's friendly, is eating, and plays lustfully. He's had marking problems, but they seem to be under control for the moment. Tonight, however, I noticed that his underbelly, from about the last rib to his hip, is not nicely spotted but only under-fur. Is this...

We had Louis happily using all our cat boxes, and not peeing on doors. My son's girlfriend has come to live with us, and he made one spray on the original site (front closet door), but otherwise calmed down. Then my mother-in-law came to visit, and we went from a 3-person household (me, my wife...

When we tried adopting Henry, he was an aggressive stray tom whose hormones were still kicking after being recently neutered. The introduction went well for a few weeks, but after going too quickly with the intro, and a major knock-down dragout with Louis (where Henry was the aggressor) the...

Backstory: Chloe is a six year old spayed, declawed female. She's been living with a fat, older neutered male and a Jack-Russel terrier hybrid in an uneasy truce. She's relocated to Minnesota with her owner, my son's girlfriend. The girlfriend will take the cat with her when she goes to college...

I've been visiting Chloe, a six year old, spayed female moggie - recently transplanted to our house. She is very friendly, coming immediately to my lap and purring. When I pet her, she squirms happily, but will suddenly hiss or lash out. After a few seconds, she lets me pet her again. At first I...

Louis has been corralled - he no longer pees inappropriately. This has gone on about five+ weeks now. The main problem has been a rogue cat in our neighborhood, regular outside walks so Louis can familiarize himself with this cat's scent, and a ton of stimulation for Louis to keep him occupied. As...

Tiger was pretty dang ****ed - he ran around downstairs, while we were in bed, and knocked down everthing heavy that he could push. We lost two glasses and a bottle of beer. He rattled the recycling bag, and pounded the door like a prizefighter. Louis, on the other hand, was totally indifferent to...

Tiger's a farm-cat. He lived in a feral colony in rural Indiana, and one summer my son, visiting his relatives, aged 5, picked him out as a cat we should get to know. We made the trip to collect my son and his new cat after a long vacation. We took the scenic route up above the Great Lakes, and...

Been reading a lot here lately, and one thing I thought I'd pass along. My brother brought a beautiful siamese home from Italy. The poor kitty vanished when his plane landed, and for a week we thought it was gone. He was very sad. I got a call from a gal with a thick Texas accent who asked "Did...

We adopted Tom and Abbey as littermates of an unplanned kitty pregnancy. Tom was a strapping big kitty. He and Abbey were both black cats, with that touch of purple in their coats that hinted at a genetic beauty. He loved to chase a ball and retrieve it for us to throw again. He was a massive,...

This is a simple story. Roy couldn't live wih his new owners because of allergies. As friends of his owners, we agreed to adopt him. His integration was simple, though he wound up low-cat on the totem pole, there was absolutely no violence blending him into our multi-cat household.

I can't write Abbey's Story. We adopted her along with Tom, but she was the first cat I was with when she died. The vet ****ed up her IV, and on the fist blast she stumbled but didn't die. When she died, she just fell like a ton of bricks, with her tongue out.

I took these tonight for my Friday cat-blogging, and thought I'd just post em here as well. Here's Tiger, our Maine-Coonish farmcat http://www.discant.com/Cat/tiger_2.jpg And here's Louis, the precocious Bengal, in a somewhat inelegant pose http://www.discant.com/Cat/louis_2.jpg Great little...

I had to surrender Henry because I did not have the time to properly integrate him into our two-cat household. Given the wildness of our resident Bengal, it may in fact have been impossible to do so. With Megan's help we found a permanent home for him, and I had a chance to visit tonight, with my...

On Sun, 08 May 2005 21:35:35 GMT, "Diane L. Schirf" wrote: I just came in from a few hours outside, and since it's close to dinnertime (defined as 5:00 p.m. on weekends, according to Hodge), Hodge was underfoot from the moment I got in the door. Literally...

My son called me to say he was worried about his girfriend's cat. Again. After what seemed like a pattern of poisoning incidents, the identification of several cat-toxic plants in the house, and the refusal to remove them, Max the cat hasn't eaten for three days and is curled in a ball in the...

Megan used to go on about finding a decent vet, and surprised me with how many vets are actually clueless and even dangerous. As a simple consumer, I hadn't realized this was an issue. I mean, these folks go to college, they get accredited, you would think there would be uniformity in their...