Another urban myth, possibly. Our new cat has reached equilibrium with the other feline residents. However, she does tend to flip out with no provocation. I've recently been hearing from friends that "yeah, calicos are often like that". Any truth to this?

Horrible night last night. I was trying to sleep after pulling four 16 hour shifts. I heard a horrible "thump-meow" out my window. When I looked out the window, the neighbor's cat was in his death-throes. Some asshole was speeding down the street and freaked out the cat, who made an attempt across...

Just thought I'd let y'all know that. BLink "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Hyaluronic acid is being routinely used for human knee problems. It's basically WD-40 for joints. It's used for arthritis and other joint trauma. Since our little Bengal Louis was diagnosed with "Hip Dysplasia", but only on one side, I've thought about arthritis in cats. The vets I've dealt with...

I can't believe any of you would've missed this phenomenon, but in case some of you have, here are a few great cat links. http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ Cats listening to music: http://www.cs.tlu.ee/~meelis/catmusic/ And googling...

Temple Grandin got me thinking in her latest book "Animals in Translation". She talks about the concept that animals are like autistic savants - in that they can learn some human social behavior, but retain incredible talents linked to their heightened senses and different concoiousnesses. I think...

This continues my irritating posts about Feline Hip Dysplasia. Again, nobody asked me, but someday someone will be googling FHD and might find this info useful. There's a school of thought as relates to human musculo-skeletal disorders which posits that manipulation of soft tissue,...

I finally found the right keywords to use to search for info on Feline Hip Dysplasia, and spoken to my vet a few times. Since searching this newsgroup has found me precious little info on the condition, I thought I'd toss off a few info bits in case anyone comes back here to search. 1. websites...

Usually I hate these viral funnies things - but this is great: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2913/invisiblebiketw9hw0.jpg BLink -------------------------- "The worst thing about censorship is "

Chloe is more or less integrated into our household now, but she has some psychological issues that mean occasional spats with the long-term residents, Tiger and Louis (as well as us). It's been months since an eruption, but just a bit ago she and Louis the Bengal mixed it up. Louis is very high...

Centenarian tortoise adopts baby hippo... http://www.digyourowngrave.com/tortoise-adopts-baby-hippo/ BLink

Louis the Bengal came stumbling into our kitchen around 1AM, while we were on the phone with the clinic regarding our resident teen girl's acute illness. He crept in, lowing, with his tail between his legs. Any touch made him growl with that frightening sub-sonic Bengal growl. We took him to the...

Our 5 year old Bengal has resumed his affection for peeing on our front door. We'd almost broken him of the habit, but in the last few weeks he's back at it. The vet gave him an "all-clear" for urinary or bladder issues. When he started this behavior, it was classic marking: back legs...

For a while I was buying a can of "fish flakes" from our pet food store. Louis the Bengal goes ape-**** over them, and Tiger likes em too. Chloe the devil-cat is indifferent, but then that's her temperament. The cans were costing around 10 bucks apiece, and though we love spoiling Louis, it...

My son's girlfriend lost a cat today. She moved here from California, and her mom kept one kitty. That cat was 15, and just stopped eating. All blood tests and physicals turned up nothing, and poor old Max just died at the Vet's. She's broken up, and I can't find the words to reassure her. I've...

Our 12-year old, maine-coonish moggie has a small wound on his chin again this Fall. In the past, we'd removed his plastic food-dish, since we'd heard that plastic can cause allergic reactions. This seemed to work for a few years, but over the last couple years he seems to get this wound back. It...

Well, I'm back on Usenet after several years. Sad to see it's mostly been usurped by the web. Still some discussions going on in my old groups, though. We've got a 9-year old Bengal that developed inappropriate urination problems a few years ago, and he's also pretty neurotic. We've figured out...

I met a fascinating woman in this Usenet group years ago who kept a ton of cats in her small apartment. She graciously adopted a stray that couldn't integrate in our household that included a neurotic F7 Bengal. If she hadn't adopted him, I expect he'd have to have been shifted out to the...

I'll explain what we're trying in a bit, but first some background. Apologies for the long post. Tiger's a 17-year old Maine-Coonish moggie (long hair, ear-tufts, tabby markings). My son picked him from a litter of farm cats. He's always been very healthy. I thought it was time for a physical,...

fwiw, I'm posting updates on Twitter right now. I realized that my Facebook friends really don't want to see depressing updates, or give a ****, and this group is pretty much empty (though thanks, old friend who saw my posts and who's been sending me advice, for your input). @blink_alto. New to...