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SuzQ wrote: Sherry, I don't mean to be a smart asterisk, but your lot in life is to rescue kitties. If your husband disliked cats it might have help prevent it. But alas he likes cats, as long as there are cats in need you will probably be there. basically this is a good thing as far as karma is concerned, but it wont be convienent. Suz&Spicey LOL, it helps that it is a tuxedo. DH's cat Boots is a tuxedo and he is just crazy about her. She follows him all over the yard, like a d*g. She goes everywhere except the apiary and that's because she's been stung before. She waits patiently and watches till he comes back. I found a pic to show you what I mean: http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg And Bootsie gets away with murder. She can scratch on the furniture, jump on the counters and he just says, "Oh look. Isn't she precious." He just called about 10:30 tonight. Nothing in the trap yet. Sherry |
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wrote in message oups.com... SuzQ wrote: Sherry, I don't mean to be a smart asterisk, but your lot in life is to rescue kitties. If your husband disliked cats it might have help prevent it. But alas he likes cats, as long as there are cats in need you will probably be there. basically this is a good thing as far as karma is concerned, but it wont be convienent. Suz&Spicey LOL, it helps that it is a tuxedo. DH's cat Boots is a tuxedo and he is just crazy about her. She follows him all over the yard, like a d*g. She goes everywhere except the apiary and that's because she's been stung before. She waits patiently and watches till he comes back. I found a pic to show you what I mean: http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg And Bootsie gets away with murder. She can scratch on the furniture, jump on the counters and he just says, "Oh look. Isn't she precious." He just called about 10:30 tonight. Nothing in the trap yet. Sherry LOL, I love that picture, Sherry, that's classic! I have two tuxedos, brother and sister, but they're very independent. They only emerge when company comes over, for the most part. They love people. I guess they're bored with me???? kili |
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"Karen" wrote in message news:2006011719315527590%kchuplis@alltelnet... On 2006-01-16 23:57:38 -0600, said: This is kind of long and rambling, but if anyone has any advice I'd appreciate. My experience trapping cats is very limited. DH tells me there is a feral tuxedo kitten at work. He says it has a close to zero chance of long-term survival. It will eventually get mangled in machinery or run over by a truck. So he wants to trap it. I have arranged to borrow a trap for tomorrow night when he goes to work. We SO do not need another cat. But this cat can't be taken to the shelter, it's too wild. He wants to keep it in the garage until it tames down considerably, and after that we really don't have a plan. DH says, even if it is a yard cat/barn cat here it has a much better chance and a better life than a feral in a paper factory. PFFT. Yard cat. It will be in the house sleeping with us on the bed a year from now. I'm not sure how old it is. He keeps calling it a "baby kitten" so I imagine pretty small. This will make six cats. That's too many for a house this size. But I just don't see that we have much choice. We do have a nice barn with 3 barn-cat neutered male ferals that I've had for several years. I don't think they would accept an interloper though. And I just couldn't turn a "baby kitten" out like that. Well, anyway, purrs for a successful trapping on Tuesday night. And purrs that the kitten is still there and hasn't already come to a bad end since DH has been off for the weekend. Sherry No advice on trapping but I grew up in a 926 sq ft house with 7 cats and 3 dogs. It's big enough. I'm sure :P I don't know, I live in an 800 sq ft. house, and three cats is a bit much. There isn't much room for zoomies. :~) kili |
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"sriddles" wrote in message
oups.com LOL, it helps that it is a tuxedo. DH's cat Boots is a tuxedo and he is just crazy about her. She follows him all over the yard, like a d*g. She goes everywhere except the apiary and that's because she's been stung before. She waits patiently and watches till he comes back. I found a pic to show you what I mean: http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg/// She obviously feels that "paw" needs very close supervision, LOL! Helen M -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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I don't know, I live in an 800 sq ft. house, and three cats is a bit much. There isn't much room for zoomies. :~) We've got four in a two bedroom apartment and there's an actual "zoomie route." It goes from the back of the bedroom, turns 90 degrees and runs down the length of the apartment, down the hall and into the living room, turns again to traverse the width of the apartment through the living room, then arches through the kitchen 180 degrees. After the kitchen, a tight turn will put them going the opposite way down the hall, ideally placed to jump into the bathroom, or turn into either the bedroom or the office. Purrs for the trapping. Smokey was feral but after 3 months as "unit mascot", being worshipped by a few hundred aircrew, and getting fed outside the op-center, his "Capture" simply involved picking him up and dropping him into a box. --Fil |
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"Enfilade" wrote in message oups.com... I don't know, I live in an 800 sq ft. house, and three cats is a bit much. There isn't much room for zoomies. :~) We've got four in a two bedroom apartment and there's an actual "zoomie route." It goes from the back of the bedroom, turns 90 degrees and runs down the length of the apartment, down the hall and into the living room, turns again to traverse the width of the apartment through the living room, then arches through the kitchen 180 degrees. After the kitchen, a tight turn will put them going the opposite way down the hall, ideally placed to jump into the bathroom, or turn into either the bedroom or the office. Ah, you have corners! I live in a perfect rectangle. My kids' only zoomie route is the small hallway between the rooms. I have two bedrooms, side-by-side (the master is slightly longer), a bathroom opposite the master bedroom and the closet for the hot water heater, then the kitchen side-by-side the living room. If the house was designed differently, I think the cats would have much more fun. kili |
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