Purrs for Jet, please
 

At the start of December , my parents noticed a new cat wandering about
their back yard. My parents have a large back yard, and Dad has turned all
of it bar one small strip of lawn into a minature botanicl garden, with a
desert area, a jungle area, a native area, a swampy area etc etc. It
attracts all the local cats.

Around christmas , my parents noticed this one particular "new" cat was
starting to look rather thin, and it had started to approach them, meowing
and wrapping around their legs.

They took pity on it, and started to leave food and water out. My parents,
only on a pension, and not willing to truly adopt a cat, only left out cheap
generic food, but at least this new cat was no longer starving.

The new cat clearly adopted my parents, even if my parents didn't want to
adopt the new cat.

Eventually the new cat got friendly enough to be picked up, and there on the
collar was his name, Jet, and a phone number.

My parents rang it every day starting on the 27th of December. On the 6th of
January it finally answered.

Apprantly Jet was the cat of the lady on the phone, but he cost her $500 at
the vet to have a tick removed, and she wasn't prepared to pay that sort of
cost again. The vet said her area was prone to ticks, so she gave the cat to
her daughter, who apparantly lives somehwhre in my parent's area. Except
that her daughter has gone on holidays and she doesn't know who is supposed
to be caring for the cat.

As of the 13th of January, no-one has come forward to claim Jet.

The tragic thing, in my view, is that Jet is clearly a pure bred cat used to
the good life. He is a persian cat, with great big round orange eyes, the
"pug' persian face, and a gloriously thick pure black coat. I can tell he's
used to being fed by hand because when i offered him my fingers to smell he
started licking then trying to eat them as if they had tid-bits on them (he
definatley wasn't biting aggressively or in an over-stimualted sort of way)n
and apprantly didn't really know what to do with cheap kibble placed in a a
bowl for quite some time (and has problems eating it anyway with the pushe
din face). He also has some really large matts in his otherwise glorious
coat.

But he's the most friendly and affectionate creature, clearly used to be
being spoiled rotten, and now he's forced to live under my parents house
(they won't let it in, Mum is terrified of having a cat around lest she fall
and break her hip as he's twisting aroun dher legs), eat cheap kibble and
contend with the other neighbourhood stray cats.

I've never met a friendlier cat. He even let Cary play with him after
meetign Cary for he first time, which says something about his trust in
humans, even little ones (despite the crappy way they've treated him), and
tried to get into my car when I left my parent's place.

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so already, and
whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming there is a somebody)
is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents don't want to keep Jet, knowing
that he ought to find a better home than they can offer, and I can't add a
third cat to my household (besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would eat him alive).

He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can well
imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can people spare a
few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to relieve a long haired
persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Purrs for Jet, please
 

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
At the start of December , my parents noticed a new cat wandering about
their back yard. My parents have a large back yard, and Dad has turned all
of it bar one small strip of lawn into a minature botanicl garden, with a
desert area, a jungle area, a native area, a swampy area etc etc. It
attracts all the local cats.

Around christmas , my parents noticed this one particular "new" cat was
starting to look rather thin, and it had started to approach them, meowing
and wrapping around their legs.

They took pity on it, and started to leave food and water out. My parents,
only on a pension, and not willing to truly adopt a cat, only left out
cheap generic food, but at least this new cat was no longer starving.

The new cat clearly adopted my parents, even if my parents didn't want to
adopt the new cat.

Eventually the new cat got friendly enough to be picked up, and there on
the collar was his name, Jet, and a phone number.

My parents rang it every day starting on the 27th of December. On the 6th
of January it finally answered.

Apprantly Jet was the cat of the lady on the phone, but he cost her $500
at the vet to have a tick removed, and she wasn't prepared to pay that
sort of cost again. The vet said her area was prone to ticks, so she gave
the cat to her daughter, who apparantly lives somehwhre in my parent's
area. Except that her daughter has gone on holidays and she doesn't know
who is supposed to be caring for the cat.

As of the 13th of January, no-one has come forward to claim Jet.

The tragic thing, in my view, is that Jet is clearly a pure bred cat used
to the good life. He is a persian cat, with great big round orange eyes,
the "pug' persian face, and a gloriously thick pure black coat. I can tell
he's used to being fed by hand because when i offered him my fingers to
smell he started licking then trying to eat them as if they had tid-bits
on them (he definatley wasn't biting aggressively or in an over-stimualted
sort of way)n and apprantly didn't really know what to do with cheap
kibble placed in a a bowl for quite some time (and has problems eating it
anyway with the pushe din face). He also has some really large matts in
his otherwise glorious coat.

But he's the most friendly and affectionate creature, clearly used to be
being spoiled rotten, and now he's forced to live under my parents house
(they won't let it in, Mum is terrified of having a cat around lest she
fall and break her hip as he's twisting aroun dher legs), eat cheap kibble
and contend with the other neighbourhood stray cats.

I've never met a friendlier cat. He even let Cary play with him after
meetign Cary for he first time, which says something about his trust in
humans, even little ones (despite the crappy way they've treated him), and
tried to get into my car when I left my parent's place.

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so already,
and whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming there is a
somebody) is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents don't want to keep
Jet, knowing that he ought to find a better home than they can offer, and
I can't add a third cat to my household (besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would
eat him alive).

He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can well
imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can people spare
a few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to relieve a long
haired persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Is there a no-kill shelter they can bring him to immediately? I think that
would be better than trying to survive outside when he's not used to it.
I'd be really hesitant to give him back to an owner who let him roam like
this unless there were a *VERY* good reason why.

Purrs coming for Jet to find a good onetruehome.

--

Hugs,

CatNipped

See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/

Purrs for Jet, please
 

Big purrs for Jet. Boy, whisk him off to the groomers and place an add. He
WILL be adopted quickly. I hope they screen so he gets a one true home. Poor
kitty.

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
At the start of December , my parents noticed a new cat wandering about
their back yard. My parents have a large back yard, and Dad has turned all
of it bar one small strip of lawn into a minature botanicl garden, with a
desert area, a jungle area, a native area, a swampy area etc etc. It
attracts all the local cats.

Around christmas , my parents noticed this one particular "new" cat was
starting to look rather thin, and it had started to approach them, meowing
and wrapping around their legs.

They took pity on it, and started to leave food and water out. My parents,
only on a pension, and not willing to truly adopt a cat, only left out
cheap
generic food, but at least this new cat was no longer starving.

The new cat clearly adopted my parents, even if my parents didn't want to
adopt the new cat.

Eventually the new cat got friendly enough to be picked up, and there on
the
collar was his name, Jet, and a phone number.

My parents rang it every day starting on the 27th of December. On the 6th
of
January it finally answered.

Apprantly Jet was the cat of the lady on the phone, but he cost her $500
at
the vet to have a tick removed, and she wasn't prepared to pay that sort
of
cost again. The vet said her area was prone to ticks, so she gave the cat
to
her daughter, who apparantly lives somehwhre in my parent's area. Except
that her daughter has gone on holidays and she doesn't know who is
supposed
to be caring for the cat.

As of the 13th of January, no-one has come forward to claim Jet.

The tragic thing, in my view, is that Jet is clearly a pure bred cat used
to
the good life. He is a persian cat, with great big round orange eyes, the
"pug' persian face, and a gloriously thick pure black coat. I can tell
he's
used to being fed by hand because when i offered him my fingers to smell
he
started licking then trying to eat them as if they had tid-bits on them
(he
definatley wasn't biting aggressively or in an over-stimualted sort of
way)n
and apprantly didn't really know what to do with cheap kibble placed in a
a
bowl for quite some time (and has problems eating it anyway with the pushe
din face). He also has some really large matts in his otherwise glorious
coat.

But he's the most friendly and affectionate creature, clearly used to be
being spoiled rotten, and now he's forced to live under my parents house
(they won't let it in, Mum is terrified of having a cat around lest she
fall
and break her hip as he's twisting aroun dher legs), eat cheap kibble and
contend with the other neighbourhood stray cats.

I've never met a friendlier cat. He even let Cary play with him after
meetign Cary for he first time, which says something about his trust in
humans, even little ones (despite the crappy way they've treated him), and
tried to get into my car when I left my parent's place.

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so already,
and
whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming there is a
somebody)
is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents don't want to keep Jet,
knowing
that he ought to find a better home than they can offer, and I can't add a
third cat to my household (besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would eat him
alive).

He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can well
imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can people spare
a
few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to relieve a long
haired
persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Purrs for Jet, please
 

Congratulations on your third cat. He sounds beautiful. Flippy talks
about shaving long-haired Tiffy at the vet for summer.

Tish

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:06:15 +1100, "Yowie"
wrote:

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so already, and
whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming there is a somebody)
is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents don't want to keep Jet, knowing
that he ought to find a better home than they can offer, and I can't add a
third cat to my household (besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would eat him alive).

He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can well
imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can people spare a
few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to relieve a long haired
persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Purrs for Jet, please
 

Yowie wrote:
At the start of December , my parents noticed a new cat wandering
about their back yard. My parents have a large back yard, and Dad has
turned all of it bar one small strip of lawn into a minature botanicl
garden, with a desert area, a jungle area, a native area, a swampy
area etc etc. It attracts all the local cats.

Around christmas , my parents noticed this one particular "new" cat
was starting to look rather thin, and it had started to approach
them, meowing and wrapping around their legs.

They took pity on it, and started to leave food and water out. My
parents, only on a pension, and not willing to truly adopt a cat,
only left out cheap generic food, but at least this new cat was no
longer starving.

The new cat clearly adopted my parents, even if my parents didn't
want to adopt the new cat.

Eventually the new cat got friendly enough to be picked up, and there
on the collar was his name, Jet, and a phone number.

My parents rang it every day starting on the 27th of December. On the
6th of January it finally answered.

Apprantly Jet was the cat of the lady on the phone, but he cost her
$500 at the vet to have a tick removed, and she wasn't prepared to
pay that sort of cost again. The vet said her area was prone to
ticks, so she gave the cat to her daughter, who apparantly lives
somehwhre in my parent's area. Except that her daughter has gone on
holidays and she doesn't know who is supposed to be caring for the
cat.

As of the 13th of January, no-one has come forward to claim Jet.

The tragic thing, in my view, is that Jet is clearly a pure bred cat
used to the good life. He is a persian cat, with great big round
orange eyes, the "pug' persian face, and a gloriously thick pure
black coat. I can tell he's used to being fed by hand because when i
offered him my fingers to smell he started licking then trying to eat
them as if they had tid-bits on them (he definatley wasn't biting
aggressively or in an over-stimualted sort of way)n and apprantly
didn't really know what to do with cheap kibble placed in a a bowl
for quite some time (and has problems eating it anyway with the pushe
din face). He also has some really large matts in his otherwise
glorious coat.

But he's the most friendly and affectionate creature, clearly used to
be being spoiled rotten, and now he's forced to live under my parents
house (they won't let it in, Mum is terrified of having a cat around
lest she fall and break her hip as he's twisting aroun dher legs),
eat cheap kibble and contend with the other neighbourhood stray cats.

I've never met a friendlier cat. He even let Cary play with him after
meetign Cary for he first time, which says something about his trust
in humans, even little ones (despite the crappy way they've treated
him), and tried to get into my car when I left my parent's place.

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so
already, and whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming
there is a somebody) is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents
don't want to keep Jet, knowing that he ought to find a better home
than they can offer, and I can't add a third cat to my household
(besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would eat him alive).

He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can
well imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can
people spare a few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to
relieve a long haired persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Poor Jet, purrs that he finds a forever home ASAP. He may need a
proffesional groomer for his matts, they can get worse very quickley, he may
end up having to be shaved. At least it's warm there at the moment.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
A House is not a home, without a cat.
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

Purrs for Jet, please
 

Purrs that the poor dear finds a forever home.
Lily & her mama

--

Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time
"Yowie" wrote in message
...
At the start of December , my parents noticed a new cat wandering about
their back yard. My parents have a large back yard, and Dad has turned all
of it bar one small strip of lawn into a minature botanicl garden, with a
desert area, a jungle area, a native area, a swampy area etc etc. It
attracts all the local cats.

Around christmas , my parents noticed this one particular "new" cat was
starting to look rather thin, and it had started to approach them, meowing
and wrapping around their legs.

They took pity on it, and started to leave food and water out. My parents,
only on a pension, and not willing to truly adopt a cat, only left out
cheap generic food, but at least this new cat was no longer starving.

The new cat clearly adopted my parents, even if my parents didn't want to
adopt the new cat.

Eventually the new cat got friendly enough to be picked up, and there on
the collar was his name, Jet, and a phone number.

My parents rang it every day starting on the 27th of December. On the 6th
of January it finally answered.

Apprantly Jet was the cat of the lady on the phone, but he cost her $500
at the vet to have a tick removed, and she wasn't prepared to pay that
sort of cost again. The vet said her area was prone to ticks, so she gave
the cat to her daughter, who apparantly lives somehwhre in my parent's
area. Except that her daughter has gone on holidays and she doesn't know
who is supposed to be caring for the cat.

As of the 13th of January, no-one has come forward to claim Jet.

The tragic thing, in my view, is that Jet is clearly a pure bred cat used
to the good life. He is a persian cat, with great big round orange eyes,
the "pug' persian face, and a gloriously thick pure black coat. I can tell
he's used to being fed by hand because when i offered him my fingers to
smell he started licking then trying to eat them as if they had tid-bits
on them (he definatley wasn't biting aggressively or in an over-stimualted
sort of way)n and apprantly didn't really know what to do with cheap
kibble placed in a a bowl for quite some time (and has problems eating it
anyway with the pushe din face). He also has some really large matts in
his otherwise glorious coat.

But he's the most friendly and affectionate creature, clearly used to be
being spoiled rotten, and now he's forced to live under my parents house
(they won't let it in, Mum is terrified of having a cat around lest she
fall and break her hip as he's twisting aroun dher legs), eat cheap kibble
and contend with the other neighbourhood stray cats.

I've never met a friendlier cat. He even let Cary play with him after
meetign Cary for he first time, which says something about his trust in
humans, even little ones (despite the crappy way they've treated him), and
tried to get into my car when I left my parent's place.

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so already,
and whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming there is a
somebody) is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents don't want to keep
Jet, knowing that he ought to find a better home than they can offer, and
I can't add a third cat to my household (besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would
eat him alive).

He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can well
imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can people spare
a few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to relieve a long
haired persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Purrs for Jet, please
 

"Yowie" wrote in message


He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can well
imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can people spare a
few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to relieve a long haired
persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

Purrs that he finds his forever home soon, with slaves that treat him
like the prince he deserves to be.

Helen M




--
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Purrs for Jet, please
 

"Yowie" wrote in message
...

snipped

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not
be coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so
already, and whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming
there is a somebody) is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents
don't want to keep Jet, knowing that he ought to find a better home
than they can offer, and I can't add a third cat to my household
(besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would eat him alive).

I think the owners or their family have had plenty of time to arrange
to collect Jet if they were going to. I would re-home him and if they
did eventually decide they wanted him back I'd tell them he
disappeared a few day earlier.


He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I
can well imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time,
can people spare a few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me
how to relieve a long haired persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be
grateful)

Does he like being groomed/brushed ?

If he does then you could try teasing out the matts with a comb or
cutting them out bit by bit with a pair of scissors (don't be tempted
to cut close to his skin). It takes time and patience and a steady
hand.

Purrs for a new foreverhome to be found for him asap, and for him to
stay safe until then.


--
Shirley
http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk

Purrs for Jet, please
 

(And if someone can tell me
how to relieve a long haired persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be
grateful)

Does he like being groomed/brushed ?

If he does then you could try teasing out the matts with a comb or cutting
them out bit by bit with a pair of scissors (don't be tempted to cut close
to his skin). It takes time and patience and a steady hand.

If he's really that good-natured (most Persians I've known LOVE
being groomed) and don't want to get him shaved, try cutting out
the mats, being careful near the skin connection. Persians are the
only cats I know who love handling/grooming/combing/brushing/etc
so that might be easier than you'd think.

Purrs for Jet, please
 

Yowie wrote:
At the start of December , my parents noticed a new cat wandering
about their back yard. My parents have a large back yard, and Dad has
turned all of it bar one small strip of lawn into a miniature botanical
garden, with a desert area, a jungle area, a native area, a swampy
area etc etc. It attracts all the local cats.

Around Christmas , my parents noticed this one particular "new" cat
was starting to look rather thin, and it had started to approach
them, meowing and wrapping around their legs.

They took pity on it, and started to leave food and water out. My
parents, only on a pension, and not willing to truly adopt a cat,
only left out cheap generic food, but at least this new cat was no
longer starving.
The new cat clearly adopted my parents, even if my parents didn't
want to adopt the new cat.

Eventually the new cat got friendly enough to be picked up, and there
on the collar was his name, Jet, and a phone number.

My parents rang it every day starting on the 27th of December. On the
6th of January it finally answered.

Apparently Jet was the cat of the lady on the phone, but he cost her
$500 at the vet to have a tick removed, and she wasn't prepared to
pay that sort of cost again. The vet said her area was prone to
ticks, so she gave the cat to her daughter, who apparently lives
somewhere in my parent's area. Except that her daughter has gone on
holidays and she doesn't know who is supposed to be caring for the
cat.
As of the 13th of January, no-one has come forward to claim Jet.

The tragic thing, in my view, is that Jet is clearly a pure bred cat
used to the good life. He is a Persian cat, with great big round
orange eyes, the "pug' Persian face, and a gloriously thick pure
black coat. I can tell he's used to being fed by hand because when i
offered him my fingers to smell he started licking then trying to eat
them as if they had tid-bits on them (he definitely wasn't biting
aggressively or in an over-stimulated sort of way)n and apparently
didn't really know what to do with cheap kibble placed in a bowl
for quite some time (and has problems eating it anyway with the pushe
din face). He also has some really large matts in his otherwise
glorious coat.
But he's the most friendly and affectionate creature, clearly used to
be being spoiled rotten, and now he's forced to live under my parents
house (they won't let it in, Mum is terrified of having a cat around
lest she fall and break her hip as he's twisting aroun dher legs),
eat cheap kibble and contend with the other neighbourhood stray cats.

I've never met a friendlier cat. He even let Cary play with him after
meetign Cary for he first time, which says something about his trust
in humans, even little ones (despite the crappy way they've treated
him), and tried to get into my car when I left my parent's place.

I strongly suspect that the daughter of the previous owner will not be
coming to reclaim Jet, otherwise surely she would have done so
already, and whoever is *supposed* to be looking after him (assuming
there is a somebody) is clearly doing a very bad job. My parents
don't want to keep Jet, knowing that he ought to find a better home
than they can offer, and I can't add a third cat to my household
(besides Shmogg & IBKFergus would eat him alive).
He's so loving and friendly, and obviously a pure-bred critter, I can
well imagine he'll be re-homed quickly. But int he mean time, can
people spare a few purrs for him? (And if someone can tell me how to
relieve a long haired persian-type cat of matts, I'd also be grateful)

Yowie

I don't know what to do, except to donate a (tiny) bit of money to whomever
takes care of this critter - (Victor - are you the "keeper" of the RPCA
account?) - whether it be for vet bills or for food for Jet to eat. He
sounds like a keeper - if I were'nt already full to the brim with cats (and
in 'Merika), I would gladly take him!