Actors: Tiger: 11 yr old, friendly farm cat, outliving several cats. Louis: 2 yr old Bengal purebreed, Tiger's best friend Henry: 1+ yr old stray, loves people, hates Tiger & Louis Background: Henry adopted 4 months ago. Sequestered. Tonight: Henry in kennel for 2+ hours without...

Found out the Henry tested positive for Bartonella. Did some googling and discovered that's the cause of "cat-scratch fever", pretty damn serious for humans. NOW it makes sense that when he mauled me while I (stupidly) was separating him from killing the other cats, that I got the worst infection...

I was walking Tiger around the neighborhood a couple nights ago. He loves this - and until a year or so ago we couldn't find a leash he would endure. He would spit and fight and finally hide any time we tried to get a collar on him. So I found a simple string harness, and he has no problem with...

Louis the Bengal will attempt to eat anything that remotely resembles food. So far, this hasn't been an issue. Our own theory is that he fancies himself still wild, and scavenging, just to be contrary. The other night, I found him chewing on a capsule of 5-HTP that had fallen out of the bottle...

I think I had the station on "FX", and ignored the "mature audiences" warning. The first clip was a guy strangling, and then killing a cat. Man - it's so weird how we're inured against simulated murders and mutilations of humans in the media (anyone watch Annikan on fire in "Revenge of the...

So far so good. We have two diffusers on the first floor. Louis has sprayed (or squatted and peed) in four locations that we're aware of, three downstairs, one upstairs. He has stopped peeing upstairs for reasons unknown (actually, he only did it twice). . Downstairs, we have a barricade in...

Frankly, the reason I'm going on about this is cuz some people on this newsgroup ACTUALLY LIKE cats, and don't come here to steal other folks' lunch money. Also, since most people nowadays look at Usenet through Google, I enjoy giving the trolls a chance to stand out in the sunlight so folks can...

I posted a comment to the recent "urine removal" thread, but wanted to make an independant post, for googlers, on the topic. We purchased a product called "Anti-Ickypoo" which, in addition to removing urine odors, advertises itself as capable of removing the smell of dead bodies. Good god. After...

I listen frequently to a local affiliate of Air America Radio - 950 AM in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (republicans should hold their noses). They have a weekly show on Sundays called "Animalwise Radio", hosted by a fellow named Mike Fry, who is also director of the Animal Ark no-kill shelter....

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/11543501.htm These are truly the end times... BLink

Sorry - this is kind of a weird post, but I'm compelled.. How odd these Internets are. I've recently taken to reading the blog of the actor Wil Wheaton - best known as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek the Next Generation. It's really fascinating, he's a celebrity, but not a bazillionaire, creative,...

It occurred to me, while surfing various cat sites, that if you bred cats (only experience with breeders I've had is acquiring our wonderful Bengal, Louis), you'd have to either have the males outdoors or in cages, or else they'd spray everything in site! Is that what happens? What a pity! I was...

In a previous post I read that a poster's vet "knocked out" a kitty before delivering the fatal injection. This is a new idea to me. After many cats put down behind closed doors, I stayed with Abbey for her euthanasia (due to quickly spreading malignant mammarian tumors). She was a very special...

I'm done. I'm so demoralized about Henry. He's one of 20,000+ strays in my area that I decided to take an interest in.. who would otherwise end up euthanized in CO2 chambers at the local Humane Society. But I ****ed up. He won't mix with our resident cats. I'm ready to surrender him to a shelter...

I still feel badly about going off last night. I know you folks who take the time to read a lot of these posts love cats, and I'm sure anyone who knows my story must have been shocked. It was just a vent, almost and though I'm just a cyber-denizen to most of you, I appreciate your concern. There...

On Thursday, I'll be bringing Henry to his "foster parents". We cuddled for a half hour on the couch tonight, and he got an extra-long session in our bedroom/quarantine with my wife and myself. As if to **** me off, as I was bringing Henry downstairs to do his time in our basement with a treat, I...

When Abbey died, we knew that Tiger would be lonely. He was a farm-cat with a lot of energy, who always tried to play with our other cats, but was rebuffed. So we made the decision to buy a purebreed cat whose reputed characteristics would best match Tiger's high spirits. We bought a Bengal,...

Freaked out this afternoon when I came home from church and saw Tiger squinting in one eye. He does this occasionally.. but this seemed a little more urgent. After we got back from Easter dinner at my folks', he was pawing at the eye, obviously uncomfortable. I called the Emergency Clinic (this...

Growing up, we had several cats. In college, I lived with landlords' cats (taking better care of them than their owners, iirc). Since getting married and returning home 15 years ago, I've had seven cats. Wide variety.. unexpected litters, strays, purebreeds, humane society adoptees, etc. One thing...

Louis has had some pretty unpleasant bowel movements lately. The only change to his routine has been a diet of Wellness dry food for about three days while we scrambled our schedules to get out to the one store in the vicinity which carries the wet Wellness that he's used to. Why would an indoor,...