Advice needed

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:22:26 GMT, "KellyH" wrote:



"H. Barker" wrote in message
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, kaeli wrote:

The other problem is how do we have the door open in the summer
without
her getting out? It may seem obvious to some people, but not I.

We use screen doors in the States. A little door with a screen that goes
on the outside of the main door to keep bugs out but let air in.
Do you have a screen door?

Nope, we don't, but I'd consider that if I knew where to get one in the
UK. Worth a thought, though, thanks.


I don't mean to sound like an idiot, but if you don't have screens on the
doors and windows, how do you keep flying insects out of your house? If I
didn't have screens on my windows and doors, I would have bees, mosquitos,
flies, wasps, and who knows what else in here.

I have a couple former strays, and they all seem content to stay inside.
They never even make a motion for the door. It's the cat that I've had
since he was a kitten that always wants to go out.

I think a screened-in area for your cat would be the best solution.
Something like this:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Produc...&N=2002+113262

There are lots of different options. Not sure if they deliver to the UK,
though.



I live in a city in the north east of Scotland and apart from the very
occasional wasp or bee, don't really get many flyling insects in the
house and I am most definitely a window opener!

Besides, it's the cat's job to keep the bugs under control in the
house. How else would she earn her keep? )

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:33:39 GMT, Laura R.
wrote:

circa Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:18:00 -0400, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
MadHatter ) said,
i wonder if my kitty wants me to eat with her when she calls me to the
kitchen, where her food is, so that she can eat with me there.


But of course! Doesn't everybody's cat do that? ;-)

Laura
No, my tuxedo likes to eat alone. He'll eat when the other two are
finished. If I walk into the room he gives me the why are you
disturbing me look ad walk away. When I leave he comes back to the
food.
He has always done that ever since I got him as a foundling.
If he doesn't like the food offering he will try to bury it.
One time he brought TP from the bathroom and piled it on top of the
food bowl. I never bought that flavor of food again. I can't afford
the TP expense.

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:33:39 GMT, Laura R.
wrote:

circa Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:18:00 -0400, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
MadHatter ) said,
i wonder if my kitty wants me to eat with her when she calls me to the
kitchen, where her food is, so that she can eat with me there.


But of course! Doesn't everybody's cat do that? ;-)

Laura
No, my tuxedo likes to eat alone. He'll eat when the other two are
finished. If I walk into the room he gives me the why are you
disturbing me look ad walk away. When I leave he comes back to the
food.
He has always done that ever since I got him as a foundling.
If he doesn't like the food offering he will try to bury it.
One time he brought TP from the bathroom and piled it on top of the
food bowl. I never bought that flavor of food again. I can't afford
the TP expense.

"Cathy Friedmann" wrote


She knows the outside life isn't what
it'scracked up to be and wants no part of it.

Sherry

That was my Debbie Cat. She was found as an approx. 10 month old stray,
in
a NE February, starving & pregnant, in '86.

Same with Sweet Cheeks. She ran out the front door her first week here and
when I screamed (busy road out front) she just circled the azaleas and ran
in the front door when I ran out. She has never since tried to exit. She
does love sitting in her windows esp. the upstairs ones which are screened.

"Cathy Friedmann" wrote


She knows the outside life isn't what
it'scracked up to be and wants no part of it.

Sherry

That was my Debbie Cat. She was found as an approx. 10 month old stray,
in
a NE February, starving & pregnant, in '86.

Same with Sweet Cheeks. She ran out the front door her first week here and
when I screamed (busy road out front) she just circled the azaleas and ran
in the front door when I ran out. She has never since tried to exit. She
does love sitting in her windows esp. the upstairs ones which are screened.

"Ellie Pea" wrote
I live in a city in the north east of Scotland and apart from the very
occasional wasp or bee, don't really get many flyling insects in the house
and I am most definitely a window opener!


I was just in Paris in the early spring, same there, and same in Florence
and other places in Italy. At first I was appalled that there were no
screens then I noticed there were no mosquitos etc.

"Ellie Pea" wrote
I live in a city in the north east of Scotland and apart from the very
occasional wasp or bee, don't really get many flyling insects in the house
and I am most definitely a window opener!


I was just in Paris in the early spring, same there, and same in Florence
and other places in Italy. At first I was appalled that there were no
screens then I noticed there were no mosquitos etc.

"H. Barker" wrote in message
...

She went out again last night for about 45 mins, and since then, again,
she's been kinda anti-me. It's weird, it feels almost like she's going off
me, which is odd.

I found that with my cat too. She was really affectionate to the point that
she would follow me around the house constantly before she started going out
(I kept her in for a month after bringing her home from the shelter, as
advised). As soon as she started going out, she became noticably less
clingy. My theory was that she just didn't *need* me as much as I wasn't
the centre of her whole world anymore. She had other interests outside, eg
hunting, socialising with other cats, climbing trees etc, and this made her
less clingy as a result. Could be wrong but that was my conclusion.

Jeannie

"H. Barker" wrote in message
...

She went out again last night for about 45 mins, and since then, again,
she's been kinda anti-me. It's weird, it feels almost like she's going off
me, which is odd.

I found that with my cat too. She was really affectionate to the point that
she would follow me around the house constantly before she started going out
(I kept her in for a month after bringing her home from the shelter, as
advised). As soon as she started going out, she became noticably less
clingy. My theory was that she just didn't *need* me as much as I wasn't
the centre of her whole world anymore. She had other interests outside, eg
hunting, socialising with other cats, climbing trees etc, and this made her
less clingy as a result. Could be wrong but that was my conclusion.

Jeannie

"H. Barker" wrote in message
...

She went out again last night for about 45 mins, and since then, again,
she's been kinda anti-me. It's weird, it feels almost like she's going off
me, which is odd.

I found that with my cat too. She was really affectionate to the point that
she would follow me around the house constantly before she started going out
(I kept her in for a month after bringing her home from the shelter, as
advised). As soon as she started going out, she became noticably less
clingy. My theory was that she just didn't *need* me as much as I wasn't
the centre of her whole world anymore. She had other interests outside, eg
hunting, socialising with other cats, climbing trees etc, and this made her
less clingy as a result. Could be wrong but that was my conclusion.

Jeannie