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Pat[_2_] July 24th 08 06:19 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a
pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs. When
he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need to
have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this
winter.




kilikini July 24th 08 08:37 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
Pat wrote:
I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was
a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5
lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too
thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of being
semi-comfortable this winter.


Well dang! This news just keeps getting better! Congrats to you and
Abelard!

kili



Adrian[_2_] July 24th 08 09:37 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
Pat wrote:
I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was
a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5
lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too
thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of being
semi-comfortable this winter.


That's great news, I hope he continues to gain weight.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk



Gandalf July 25th 08 06:33 AM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a
pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs. When
he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need to
have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this
winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of course.

Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm, and
I can add more clothing.

I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work,
and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein


Pat[_2_] July 25th 08 07:22 AM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 

"Gandalf" wrote

| Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

Even when he was at his heaviest (about 10 lbs) he was the smallest adult
cat I've ever been owned by.

| Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I wish he would spoil *me* just a little bit. I mean, the least he could do
would be poop in a litterbox. I've given up on getting him to use a box to
pee, and now he's stopped using them to poop, too. It's getting very
tiring.....

| I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm, and
| I can add more clothing.

Right about now I'd like to know how to get cool. It's so damned hot in my
house that I can't sleep.

| I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter.

Aby has plenty of warm spots to sleep in winter, but as soon as he gets out
of bed he shivers like a little chihuahua.




[email protected] July 25th 08 07:30 AM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
Pat wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a
pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs. When
he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need to
have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this
winter.


That's great news. What did he weigh at his lowest (I mean, with this
illness)?

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

Yowie July 25th 08 11:58 AM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
"Gandalf" wrote in message

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.

Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.

I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work,
and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.


Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?

It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little
colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to
bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and I'm
toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily cope
with those sorts of temperatures.

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the sun
starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it keeps
the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the windows, even
on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on at some point
after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the
moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy
image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the
printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as the two
previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on 'her' mat on the
kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks of putting so much as a
whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is once again shedding into the clean
laundry pile. None of them are seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the
computers, the top of the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its
about 13C, 55F in here at the moment.

Yowie



Sherry July 25th 08 06:34 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
On Jul 25, 5:58*am, "Yowie" wrote:
"Gandalf" wrote in message







On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:


I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!


But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.


Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.


I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.


I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work,
and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.


Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?

It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little
colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to
bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and I'm
toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily cope
with those sorts of temperatures.

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the sun
starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it keeps
the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the windows, even
on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on at some point
after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the
moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy
image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the
printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as the two
previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on 'her' mat on the
kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks of putting so much as a
whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is once again shedding into the clean
laundry pile. None of them are seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the
computers, the top of the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its
about 13C, 55F in here at the moment.

Yowie- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


55 would be freezing cold indoors to me. In the winter, our heat is
set at about 74
in the daytime, 70 at night.
Sherry

[email protected] July 25th 08 08:31 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
Yowie wrote:

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the sun
starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it keeps
the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the windows, even
on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on at some point
after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to bed.


I'm confused. You have the A/C on in the evenings in the winter??

Do you mean something different from what I mean by A/C (air conditioning,
what is used to *cool down* a house or room during hot weather)?

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

Yowie July 25th 08 10:53 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
wrote in message

Yowie wrote:

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before
the sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the
place - it keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to
open up the windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The
A/C comes back on at some point after the sun going down, and
usually stays on till we go to bed.


I'm confused. You have the A/C on in the evenings in the winter??

Do you mean something different from what I mean by A/C (air
conditioning, what is used to *cool down* a house or room during hot
weather)?


We have reverse cycle A/C, it can be set to either cool down, to warm up, to
maintain 'x' temperature, or just de-humidfy the air.

Natureally, in the last few months, I've had it set on 'warm' or 'maintain'
when its needed. Its not needed when we're all in bed, under our winter
blankets (or doonas) or during the day when the sun comes through the
northern windows and warms the place.

Yowie

--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.



Christina Websell July 25th 08 11:12 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 

"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"Gandalf" wrote in message

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.

Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.

I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at work,
and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.


Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?

It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a little
colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after I've gone to
bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and flannelette pyjamas and
I'm toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a natural fur coat, can easily
cope with those sorts of temperatures.

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before the
sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the place - it
keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to open up the
windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The A/C comes back on
at some point after the sun going down, and usually stays on till we go to
bed. But at the moment, with me sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks
(yes, such a sexy image), I am perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki
is curled up on the printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same
cause of death as the two previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is
curled up on 'her' mat on the kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that
thinks of putting so much as a whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is
once again shedding into the clean laundry pile. None of them are seeking
out the natural heat sources (me, the computers, the top of the tv, top of
the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its about 13C, 55F in here at the
moment.


That would be "warm" for my house in the winter if I was out at work or in
bed (which means my woodburner would be too)
Am I the only person who has found my flannel (face towel) had fallen into
the bath and frozen to the plughole overnight? Probably ;-)

Tweed




Outsider July 25th 08 11:29 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
wrote in
:

Yowie wrote:

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before
the sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the
place - it keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to
open up the windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The
A/C comes back on at some point after the sun going down, and
usually stays on till we go to bed.


I'm confused. You have the A/C on in the evenings in the winter??

Do you mean something different from what I mean by A/C (air
conditioning, what is used to *cool down* a house or room during hot
weather)?



I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but maybe
folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode they are
running. Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area? We get too cold here
so they are not popular for this area.

Andy

[email protected] July 26th 08 12:18 AM

Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
 
I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA. :)

outsider wrote:

I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but maybe
folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode they are
running. Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area?


Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have
electric heat. They're baseboard space heaters, one for each room
(except kitchen and bathroom). I don't know if that's relevant to
your question or not, because I'm not sure what "heat pump" means. I've
never heard the phrase before, though. Since I'm a renter I tend not to
pay close attention to that stuff. I just call it "the heat". :)

The building doesn't come with a/c (by which I mean only air-cooling and
dehumidifying), although I bought a small window unit which cools just
one room. I don't use it that often though - I used it mainly when I was
working at home on extremely hot days. Don't work at home anymore. Mostly
it's pretty temperate where I live, so a fan does the job pretty well.

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

Outsider July 26th 08 01:30 AM

Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
 
wrote in
:

I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA. :)


Yeah.



outsider wrote:

I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but
maybe folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode
they are running. Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area?


Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have
electric heat.



Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need for heat
is not great. In those locations heat pumps are economical compared to
other sources but I don't think they can produce enough heat for northern
locations. I think that is how it works.


Yowie July 26th 08 02:03 AM

Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
 
"outsider" wrote in message

wrote in
:

I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA. :)


Yeah.



outsider wrote:

I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but
maybe folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode
they are running. Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area?


Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have
electric heat.



Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need
for heat is not great. In those locations heat pumps are economical
compared to other sources but I don't think they can produce enough
heat for northern locations. I think that is how it works.


That would be us :-). Need for cool temps in summer is great (it got to 52C,
125F in the kitchen one year before we had a/c), need for warming in winter
is desirable, but not great. It never snows here, for example, and even
frosts are very rare.

Students that come for work experience from places like Canada and Northern
America always complain they're very cold in winter - thats because our
houses don't usually come with built-in heating or insulation, and usually
cheap rental accomodation has no heat (besides the stove top) at all. In
cheap rental accomodation, if its 10C outside, it will probably be close to
10C on the inside, too. When I was flatting, a two bar electric radiant
heater did the trick, though, and warmed the lounge/dining/kitchen of the 2
bedroom apartment quite adequately, but we had to puchase that ourselves. It
just plugged into a normal electric wall socket.

I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South
Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a rough
idea of my climate.

Yowie



Sherry July 26th 08 02:06 AM

Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
 
On Jul 25, 7:30*pm, outsider wrote:
wrote :

I love how this subject line typifies thread drift on RPCA. :)


Yeah.

outsider wrote:


I think in the US we might say heat pump for a reversable A/C but
maybe folks with those even say heat and A/C according to what mode
they are running. *Aren't you (Joyce) in a "heat pump" area?


Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. In my apartment building, we have
electric heat.


Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need for heat
is not great. *In those locations heat pumps are economical compared to
other sources but I don't think they can produce enough heat for northern
locations. *I think that is how it works.


We have a heat pump. Like you said, it's great in the summer, but when
it's really frigid outdoors, it doesn't seem to warm the house well.
Normal operation when it's
really cold is that it blows lukewarm air, constantly. You never get a
blast of hot
air like you do with a gas furnace. It seems very efficient though;
our bills are much lower than neighbors with regular electric central
heat.

Sherry

Sherry

[email protected] July 26th 08 02:19 AM

Heat Pump and A/C
 
outsider wrote:

Heat pumps are popular where the need for A/C is high but the need for heat
is not great. In those locations heat pumps are economical compared to
other sources but I don't think they can produce enough heat for northern
locations. I think that is how it works.


OK, then I doubt I have a heat pump. It might produce enough heat for
the winter here, but we don't have a great need for A/C. Most homes do
not have A/C around here. It's often foggy and cool in the summer, with
the occasional very hot day, but not enough of them to justify installing
central air conditioning.

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

[email protected] July 26th 08 02:22 AM

Heat Pump and A/C
 
Yowie wrote:

I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South
Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a rough
idea of my climate.


Do you have high humidity, too? I think South Carolina is very humid.
I've never been there, but in general the southern east coast of the US
is very humid.

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

tanadashoes July 26th 08 03:39 AM

Heat Pump and A/C
 

wrote in message
...
Yowie wrote:

I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South
Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a
rough
idea of my climate.


Do you have high humidity, too? I think South Carolina is very humid.
I've never been there, but in general the southern east coast of the US
is very humid.


Charleston SC usually has 85%+ humidity, as does our area. They average
5-10 F hotter than us as well. We have a heat pump, we do use it every
winter and it usually works well enough, but we also have a fireplace with
an insert that works when it gets really cold as the furnace doesn't warm
enough for us to get away with regular shirt sleeves and I hate asking
family and friends to wear sweaters ala Jimmy Carter.

Pam S.



Adrian[_2_] July 26th 08 11:21 AM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
Christina Websell wrote:
"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"Gandalf" wrote in message

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!

But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.

Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.

I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.

I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at
work, and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.


Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?

It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a
little colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after
I've gone to bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and
flannelette pyjamas and I'm toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a
natural fur coat, can easily cope with those sorts of temperatures.

I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before
the sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the
place - it keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to
open up the windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The
A/C comes back on at some point after the sun going down, and
usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the moment, with me
sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy image), I am
perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the
printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as
the two previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on
'her' mat on the kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks
of putting so much as a whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is
once again shedding into the clean laundry pile. None of them are
seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the computers, the top of
the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its about 13C,
55F in here at the moment.


That would be "warm" for my house in the winter if I was out at work
or in bed (which means my woodburner would be too)
Am I the only person who has found my flannel (face towel) had fallen
into the bath and frozen to the plughole overnight? Probably ;-)

Tweed


I have a glass of water by my bed at night, more than once I've gone to take
a sip and found it frozen.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk



Sherry July 26th 08 02:08 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
On Jul 26, 5:21*am, "Adrian" wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:
"Yowie" wrote in message
...
"Gandalf" wrote in message

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:09 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:


I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It
was a pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than
6.5 lbs. When he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's
too thin. He'll need to have that much weight to have a chance of
being semi-comfortable this winter.


Wow, that seems so *light* to me, for an adult cat!


But every ounce gained is a big step in the right direction, of
course.


Just keep spoiling him, unmercifully.


I know what you mean about winter! It's hard for *me* to stay warm,
and I can add more clothing.


I spoil my Kenzie with a heated bed in the winter. While I'm at
work, and at night, it's only 55F (13C) in my house.


Is that considered cold for inside the house on a winter night?


It gets colder here at night (down to about 10C, 50F, sometimes a
little colder) and I've never bothered to leave the heating on after
I've gone to bed. One nice thick doona (duvet, comforter) and
flannelette pyjamas and I'm toasty warm. I figure the cats, having a
natural fur coat, can easily cope with those sorts of temperatures.


I get up in the morning and turn the A/C on for an hour or so before
the sun starts coming through the northern windows and warms up the
place - it keeps the place warm all day (and sometimes we have to
open up the windows, even on winter days, because of the sun). The
A/C comes back on at some point after the sun going down, and
usually stays on till we go to bed. But at the moment, with me
sitting in my flanny PJs and bedsocks (yes, such a sexy image), I am
perfectly comfortable without the A/C. Suki is curled up on the
printer (which will no doubt soon suffer the same cause of death as
the two previous ones - cat hair overload), Shadow is curled up on
'her' mat on the kitchen floor (woe betide another cat that thinks
of putting so much as a whisker near its perimeter) and Pickle is
once again shedding into the clean laundry pile. None of them are
seeking out the natural heat sources (me, the computers, the top of
the tv, top of the fish tank light, etc). I reckon its about 13C,
55F in here at the moment.


That would be "warm" for my house in the winter if I was out at work
or in bed (which means my woodburner would be too)
Am I the only person who has found my flannel (face towel) had fallen
into the bath and frozen to the plughole overnight? *Probably ;-)


Tweed


I have a glass of water by my bed at night, more than once I've gone to take
a sip and found it frozen.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your hearthttp://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Wow! You are of much more hardy stock than I. That is a compliment. I
know
it's a wasteful use of energy to keep the house so warm at night. But
I
just can't stand it. I'm a disgrace to my pioneer ancesters :-)
I've also heard it is healthier to sleep in a cooler house.

Sherry

Wayne Mitchell July 26th 08 02:43 PM

Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
 
"Yowie" wrote:

Students that come for work experience from places like Canada and Northern
America always complain they're very cold in winter - thats because our
houses don't usually come with built-in heating or insulation, and usually
cheap rental accomodation has no heat (besides the stove top) at all. In
cheap rental accomodation, if its 10C outside, it will probably be close to
10C on the inside, too.


I can relate to the students' situation. I was raised here in Maine --
well north in the US and considered by most folks a cold place to be in
winter. But the coldest I've ever been for any length of time was when
I was a student in Monterey, California -- an area that doesn't have any
real winter (and unfortunately also doesn't have any real summer). Not
having any winter to worry about, student accommodation was not heated
very well; and the typical daytime temperature for eleven months out of
the year is 55 degrees F (13C). So daytime indoor temperature generally
ranged from 50F in the morning to 60F in the afternoon -- and we here in
the cold north consider that downright frigid.
--

Wayne M.

Jofirey July 26th 08 03:47 PM

Heat Pump and A/C (was: Abelard = 6.6 lbs.)
 

"Wayne Mitchell" wrote in message
...
"Yowie" wrote:

Students that come for work experience from places like Canada and
Northern
America always complain they're very cold in winter - thats because
our
houses don't usually come with built-in heating or insulation, and
usually
cheap rental accomodation has no heat (besides the stove top) at
all. In
cheap rental accomodation, if its 10C outside, it will probably be
close to
10C on the inside, too.


I can relate to the students' situation. I was raised here in
Maine --
well north in the US and considered by most folks a cold place to be
in
winter. But the coldest I've ever been for any length of time was
when
I was a student in Monterey, California -- an area that doesn't have
any
real winter (and unfortunately also doesn't have any real summer).
Not
having any winter to worry about, student accommodation was not
heated
very well; and the typical daytime temperature for eleven months out
of
the year is 55 degrees F (13C). So daytime indoor temperature
generally
ranged from 50F in the morning to 60F in the afternoon -- and we
here in
the cold north consider that downright frigid.
--

Wayne M.


Not to mention their famous 'marine layer' that makes sure you are
always damp as well as cold.

At least real cold like you get in Maine tends to dry the air out.

Jo



Christina Websell July 26th 08 07:05 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 

"Pat" wrote in message
...
I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a
pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs.
When
he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need
to
have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this
winter.



That's really good news that he's gaining. What would a normal weight for a
male Aby be? I've not met many, but they seem quite light-framed, slender
cats, 8lbs would be quite chunky ;-)

Tweed






Pat[_2_] July 26th 08 07:56 PM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 

"Christina Websell" wrote

| What would a normal weight for a male Aby be? I've not
| met many, but they seem quite light-framed, slender
| cats, 8lbs would be quite chunky ;-)

Normal is 9-10 lbs. Abelard has been up to at least 10 lbs. since I moved to
town. His adult weight on the farm was around 7-7.5 because he was always
out and about and often missed meals at home. He was too thin then. I was
very pleased when he went up to 9, then 10 in the last couple of years.

The 2nd time he went to the vet for the recent emergency, he weighed in @
8.8 lbs, but then I had trouble feeding him, off and on for several weeks
after that, and he became emaciated. Now he is on the way back up.







rb July 27th 08 02:34 AM

Abelard = 6.6 lbs.
 
Pat wrote:
I knew he had gained some because I had to loosen his harness. It was a
pleasant surprise discovering that he is back up to more than 6.5 lbs. When
he's at least 8 lbs. I will quit worrying that he's too thin. He'll need to
have that much weight to have a chance of being semi-comfortable this
winter.




Glad to hear that he is picking up weight! I am sure he will be back up
to normal in no time.

rrb

Yowie July 27th 08 12:33 PM

Heat Pump and A/C
 
"tanadashoes" wrote in message
m
wrote in message
...
Yowie wrote:

I live at about he same latitude (except south) as Charleston, South
Carolina, and near the coast like Charleston. That should give you a
rough
idea of my climate.


Do you have high humidity, too? I think South Carolina is very humid.
I've never been there, but in general the southern east coast of the
US is very humid.


Charleston SC usually has 85%+ humidity, as does our area. They
average 5-10 F hotter than us as well. We have a heat pump, we do
use it every winter and it usually works well enough, but we also
have a fireplace with an insert that works when it gets really cold
as the furnace doesn't warm enough for us to get away with regular
shirt sleeves and I hate asking family and friends to wear sweaters
ala Jimmy Carter.


Yup, we're on the coast and generally humid (around 80%). Thats the big
difference between Sydney & Melbourne - Sydney is by & large quite humid,
whereas Melbourne isn't.

I am very sensitive to dry air, I get really flakey, itchy skin (especially
my scalp & face). I don't like using the reverse cycle a/c to heat because
its always very dry air, but it is by far the cheapest option so put up with
it.

Yowie




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