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Cats Are Very Shy Toileters
Cats in general are very shy toileters and will often only pee or poop
in their litter box if it is placed in a quiet, secluded area, away from family members and other animals. The importance of your cat toileting regularly cannot be over-emphasized. Too often owners do not provide their cats with private & clean litter boxes, an unlimited supply of water or access to the outdoors. Such a lifestyle quickly leads to urinary tract disease which is very common in cats and often very debilitating. In this disease, large crystals form in your cat's bladder, which can then flow through your cat's urethra (the tube linking the bladder to the outside world) and they often become lodged and stuck! This obstruction of pee then causes a cat to become very ill and very sore, at which time veterinary intervention is the only option. The key to preventing this problem is to encourage your cat to drink more and to pee more! This helps prevent the formation of the crystals in the bladder in the first place! Ensure that you have a couple of full water bowls for your cat around the house as well as outside. Your cat should have an unlimited supply of water. As for toileting, you will need to encourage your cat to pee by ensuring privacy and security when he does so. In general, there should be more than one litter box in your household. In fact, the generally accepted formula for the best number of litter boxes for your household is, one per cat you own, plus one. So, if you have 2 cats, you should have 3 litter boxes around the house, while if you only have one cat, have 2 litter boxes - and so on. Just as important is that you use a good absorbable litter that your cat likes and that you regularly replace this litter once every 2 - 3 days (rather than once a week!). The cleaner the litter, the more your cat will want to toilet on it. Then when placing the litter boxes around the house, it is important to ensure that they are in a secluded area away from a busy area of the house - however make sure you don't leave a litter tray in a corner, or anywhere where your cat may feel trapped while he is trying to toilet. The key to avoiding your cat developing urinary tract problems and toileting in inappropriate places, is to make the toileting experience as stress free for your cat as possible. By providing unlimited water, allowing some outdoors access and maintaining clean litter boxes in private areas of your house you will be providing your cat with this stress-free environment. http://catsdby.blogspot.com/# |
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Cats Are Very Shy Toileters
On Apr 16, 5:31 am, "marcos cheung" wrote:
Cats in general are very shy toileters and will often only pee or poop in their litter box if it is placed in a quiet, secluded area, away from family members and other animals. snipped This is very true. I've learned this with Bikkie & Jack, too. Cats feel very vulnerable when they're "on the box" and if there's another cat in the household who is picking on them, they'll start going under a table, behind furniture, somewhere they can hide. We ended up draping a card table with a sheet and putting the litterbox under there in an unused bedroom. We never had another issue with Biskit going under the desk. She really *wanted* to use proper litter. She was afraid of Boots. Sherry |
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"marcos cheung" You have changed your id a few times just to advertise your blog site. You have posted in every cat group |
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On 16 Apr 2007 07:02:02 -0700, "Sherry" wrote:
On Apr 16, 5:31 am, "marcos cheung" wrote: Cats in general are very shy toileters and will often only pee or poop in their litter box if it is placed in a quiet, secluded area, away from family members and other animals. snipped This is very true. I've learned this with Bikkie & Jack, too. Cats feel very vulnerable when they're "on the box" and if there's another cat in the household who is picking on them, they'll start going under a table, behind furniture, somewhere they can hide. We ended up draping a card table with a sheet and putting the litterbox under there in an unused bedroom. We never had another issue with Biskit going under the desk. She really *wanted* to use proper litter. She was afraid of Boots. Our girls obviously never got that memo... they'll follow me into the bathroom when I go in to change their food or litter and do their business right in front of me. They don't care that their food and water are right next to the litterbox either (something else they're 'supposed' to hate!) |
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Matthew wrote: "marcos cheung" You have changed your id a few times just to advertise your blog site. You have posted in every cat group That's a crime? Since his blog address is merely posted as part of his signature, it isn't even "poor Netiquette"! |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Matthew wrote: "marcos cheung" You have changed your id a few times just to advertise your blog site. You have posted in every cat group That's a crime? Since his blog address is merely posted as part of his signature, it isn't even "poor Netiquette"! No it is not never said it was In the other groups he has spammed the groups multiple times using different tactics and different ids just to visit his blog. that was the point I was bringing up |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:38:26 -0400, Matthew wrote:
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Matthew wrote: "marcos cheung" You have changed your id a few times just to advertise your blog site. You have posted in every cat group That's a crime? Since his blog address is merely posted as part of his signature, it isn't even "poor Netiquette"! No it is not never said it was In the other groups he has spammed the groups multiple times using different tactics and different ids just to visit his blog. that was the point I was bringing up No, not a crime, but spamming is spamming. Maybe I'm more inclined to be less tolerant of him because his blog is feeble. ;-) -- Joey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:07:21 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: That's a crime? It's spam. Not even clever anymore. Since his blog address is merely posted as part of his signature, it isn't even "poor Netiquette"! That isn't a signature. It's bad netiquette. Not surprising, Blogspot is a spammers haven. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block _Quote- The formatting of the sig block is prescribed somewhat more firmly: it should be displayed as plain text in a fixed-width font (no HTML, images, or other rich text), and must be delimited from the body of the message by a single line consisting of exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, followed by the end of line (i.e., "-- \n"). This latter prescription, which goes by many names, including "sig dashes", "signature cut line", and "sig-marker", allows software to automatically mark or remove the sig block as the receiver desires. A correct delimiter is required for a news posting program to receive the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval. -Unquote- |
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Ketzl's Dad wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:38:26 -0400, Matthew wrote: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Matthew wrote: "marcos cheung" You have changed your id a few times just to advertise your blog site. You have posted in every cat group That's a crime? Since his blog address is merely posted as part of his signature, it isn't even "poor Netiquette"! No it is not never said it was In the other groups he has spammed the groups multiple times using different tactics and different ids just to visit his blog. that was the point I was bringing up No, not a crime, but spamming is spamming. Maybe I'm more inclined to be less tolerant of him because his blog is feeble. ;-) Well, I don't know what he's done on other newsgroups, but the post that drew the diatribe here merely includes his blog address as part of his signature, which SFAIK is considered perfectly okay. (How many people even NOTICE a web-address appended as part of a poster's signature, at the bottom of a post?) |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:24:56 -0400, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Ketzl's Dad wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:38:26 -0400, Matthew wrote: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Matthew wrote: "marcos cheung" You have changed your id a few times just to advertise your blog site. You have posted in every cat group That's a crime? Since his blog address is merely posted as part of his signature, it isn't even "poor Netiquette"! No it is not never said it was In the other groups he has spammed the groups multiple times using different tactics and different ids just to visit his blog. that was the point I was bringing up No, not a crime, but spamming is spamming. Maybe I'm more inclined to be less tolerant of him because his blog is feeble. ;-) Well, I don't know what he's done on other newsgroups, but the post that drew the diatribe here merely includes his blog address as part of his signature, which SFAIK is considered perfectly okay. (How many people even NOTICE a web-address appended as part of a poster's signature, at the bottom of a post?) I'm pretty much agreeing with you except that it's not, technically speaking, a signature where his blog's URL is listed, it's in the body of his message. As someone else pointed out, a signature should be delineated some way (and there is a proper way for Usenet), but his isn't. I wasn't aware of his other posts in other newsgroups either. I don't let these things bother me anyway, usually, except that this one sounded like it would be worth a visit, so I did. IMHO it wasn't worth the visit. So, I'll just know enough to avoid him in the future. I think it has something to do with a regular poster in a NG "suggesting" others visit a web site (with the understanding that the regular poster is just that: a contributor with the group's interests at heart.) When a stranger visits a group and initially posts a web site, it seems it's most likely to be a spammer or a marketer. I took a chance on this one. It was a mistake. No problem but mine. -- Joey DoWop Dee Remember: It is To Laugh |
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