Silent purring

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wrote:

Yes!! Exactly. He opens his mouth a little, enough to show only his
bottom teeth. It looks so odd, and kind of silly. One time I was petting
him and he was deep into kitty bliss mode, head pointed upward and his
jaw lowered a bit, with his lower teeth showing, and it looked so funny
that I burst out laughing. He was so startled that he gave me a shocked,
horrified look and fled the room. I felt so bad! It took hours for him
to let me near him again. BTW, I have not laughed at him since. I wouldn't
dare!

But nothing is quite as funny as a cat who has just been struck by a
brilliant idea while bathing - and sits for five minutes with her tongue
stuck halfway out....

Baird

Is not funny!

Leila

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"Stormmee" wrote:

When Tiger purrs there is no sound. If he is on my lap and I am
stroking his throat (which he loves) I can feel the throb. Also, when
he purrs he breathes at double his normal rate so I can see it. Other
than that there is no indication. Strange!

Normal for older cats, in my experience. Though Leila can still produce
an ear-splitting kitten-purr when she wants to.

Baird

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"Stormmee" wrote:

IT IS ODD AND EITHER SOUNDS LIKE A TRILL OR LIKE THEY ARE MEOWLING INTO A
BOX FAN, QUITE CUTE, lEE
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(---MIKE---) wrote:
I give Tiger six pieces of Friskies Dental Diet at bedtime. He likes
this so much that he gets all excited, shakes his tail and meows. His
meow then has a trill which tells me he is purring at the same time.

I've never heard a meow-purr before. I didn't think that was
possible!

Wait until you hear somebody try to speak, purr and eat, all at the same
time.....

Baird

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Baird Stafford wrote:
Wait until you hear somebody try to speak, purr and eat, all at the same
time.....

I've heard that. When I found Frank after he'd been missing for five
weeks, he slept a lot. When he was awake, he tried to eat, tell me all
about his adventures, and catch up on all his purrs for five weeks, all
at the same time. Then he'd go back to sleep. That's what I call
efficient time management.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Baird Stafford wrote:

But nothing is quite as funny as a cat who has just been struck by a
brilliant idea while bathing - and sits for five minutes with her tongue
stuck halfway out....

Baird

Is not funny!
Leila

Sorry, Leila, but that *is* funny. Well put, too.

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Baird Stafford wrote:

Wait until you hear somebody try to speak, purr and eat, all at the same
time.....

Smudge often purrs while eating, and the sound gets amplified in her open
mouth.

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Jofirey wrote:

Raw pork? Not good for cats or any other animal. Too much risk of
parasites. Unwholesome.

True if you are in the US (possibly). Not the same problem in Great
Brittan. Trichinosis is a Western Hemisphere problem.

I was always under the impression that the UK was in the Western
Hemisphere.

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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:27:09 +0000, bastXXXette wrote:

Jofirey wrote:

Raw pork? Not good for cats or any other animal. Too much risk of
parasites. Unwholesome.

True if you are in the US (possibly). Not the same problem in Great
Brittan. Trichinosis is a Western Hemisphere problem.

I was always under the impression that the UK was in the Western
Hemisphere.

Well, if you use the Greenwich Meridian as the dividing point, it is in
both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.

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She had minced raw pork tonight and purred. Thank Bast, with
encouragement she ate it all.
Raw pork? Not good for cats or any other animal. Too much risk
of parasites. Unwholesome.
True if you are in the US (possibly). Not the same problem in Great
Brittan. Trichinosis is a Western Hemisphere problem.

Wrong risk. The problem with feeding raw pork to cats is toxoplasmosis,
which is a lot more serious (both for the cat and for any human it goes
on to infect). Pork is not the only meat that can host the toxoplasma
eggs. But to keep it in proportion:

http://www.fabcats.org/cat_group/pol...ents/toxo.html


Trichinosis is fairly trivial - for some reason (perhaps religious)
it's been blown out of proportion in US folklore. Compared to some
of the parasites you get in sheep and fish, it's utterly benign in
humans.

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She had minced raw pork tonight and purred. Thank Bast, with
encouragement she ate it all.
Raw pork? Not good for cats or any other animal. Too much risk
of parasites. Unwholesome.
True if you are in the US (possibly). Not the same problem in
Great
Brittan. Trichinosis is a Western Hemisphere problem.

Wrong risk. The problem with feeding raw pork to cats is
toxoplasmosis,
which is a lot more serious (both for the cat and for any human it
goes
on to infect). Pork is not the only meat that can host the
toxoplasma
eggs. But to keep it in proportion:

http://www.fabcats.org/cat_group/pol...ents/toxo.html



And from that link

infection with T gondii rarely causes disease in cats

So I'm guessing if KFC wants raw pork, KFC will get raw pork.

Jo