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silly kitty....
Yes, silly. Though, the behavior on one is a bit worrisome.
Two of our girls, right? First subject - about a year old. She's monogamous. That is to say, she will only allow one male cat to attempt to mate with her. And it just so happens that the cat she allows to couple with her doesn't realize that he is incapable of reproduction, since we had him fixed in September. Her mother is causing us a bit of grief though. She seems to be having dental trouble (for which she is going to the vet for), yet for some reason she favors kibble. Then she's weirding us out. She will literally dehydrate herself before she drinks out of the small plastic bowls we have interspersed around the house and in the bedroom where we have her isolated, yet she will drink from the toilet bowl. Another source tells us that she seems to prefer containers that are wide. So my wife gets this wild idea. A round cake pan. She fills the pan with water, and we talk a bit. The cat sniffs the water, ignores it as we talk. We get quiet. And wait. She drinks. Thank God. Carefully at first, but then she manages to drink for about two minutes straight before deciding that it's a good time to demand I lay on my back so she can sit on my chest and get scritched, by way of jumping on the bed and pacing around with the occasional "meow". Granted, we force-fed her 30 mLs of standard issue dihydrogen monoxide, much to her chagrin, but she's strangely responding well to wide containers OK, there's no point to this, I'm just rambling. It's late, and my brain's gotta spill over. Though I am curious if anyone else has ever seen that monogamy thing. (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from happening.) -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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Are your girls neutered? I'd be somewhat surprised to hear of a spayed
female letting anyone attempt to mate with her. W "Dennis Carr" wrote in message news Yes, silly. Though, the behavior on one is a bit worrisome. Two of our girls, right? First subject - about a year old. She's monogamous. That is to say, she will only allow one male cat to attempt to mate with her. And it just so happens that the cat she allows to couple with her doesn't realize that he is incapable of reproduction, since we had him fixed in September. Her mother is causing us a bit of grief though. She seems to be having dental trouble (for which she is going to the vet for), yet for some reason she favors kibble. Then she's weirding us out. She will literally dehydrate herself before she drinks out of the small plastic bowls we have interspersed around the house and in the bedroom where we have her isolated, yet she will drink from the toilet bowl. Another source tells us that she seems to prefer containers that are wide. So my wife gets this wild idea. A round cake pan. She fills the pan with water, and we talk a bit. The cat sniffs the water, ignores it as we talk. We get quiet. And wait. She drinks. Thank God. Carefully at first, but then she manages to drink for about two minutes straight before deciding that it's a good time to demand I lay on my back so she can sit on my chest and get scritched, by way of jumping on the bed and pacing around with the occasional "meow". Granted, we force-fed her 30 mLs of standard issue dihydrogen monoxide, much to her chagrin, but she's strangely responding well to wide containers OK, there's no point to this, I'm just rambling. It's late, and my brain's gotta spill over. Though I am curious if anyone else has ever seen that monogamy thing. (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from happening.) -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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Are your girls neutered? I'd be somewhat surprised to hear of a spayed
female letting anyone attempt to mate with her. W "Dennis Carr" wrote in message news Yes, silly. Though, the behavior on one is a bit worrisome. Two of our girls, right? First subject - about a year old. She's monogamous. That is to say, she will only allow one male cat to attempt to mate with her. And it just so happens that the cat she allows to couple with her doesn't realize that he is incapable of reproduction, since we had him fixed in September. Her mother is causing us a bit of grief though. She seems to be having dental trouble (for which she is going to the vet for), yet for some reason she favors kibble. Then she's weirding us out. She will literally dehydrate herself before she drinks out of the small plastic bowls we have interspersed around the house and in the bedroom where we have her isolated, yet she will drink from the toilet bowl. Another source tells us that she seems to prefer containers that are wide. So my wife gets this wild idea. A round cake pan. She fills the pan with water, and we talk a bit. The cat sniffs the water, ignores it as we talk. We get quiet. And wait. She drinks. Thank God. Carefully at first, but then she manages to drink for about two minutes straight before deciding that it's a good time to demand I lay on my back so she can sit on my chest and get scritched, by way of jumping on the bed and pacing around with the occasional "meow". Granted, we force-fed her 30 mLs of standard issue dihydrogen monoxide, much to her chagrin, but she's strangely responding well to wide containers OK, there's no point to this, I'm just rambling. It's late, and my brain's gotta spill over. Though I am curious if anyone else has ever seen that monogamy thing. (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from happening.) -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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In article ,
enlightened us with... (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from happening.) Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a breeding queen for show, that is. -- -- ~kaeli~ A hangover is the wrath of grapes. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:31:16 -0600, kaeli wrote:
Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a breeding queen for show, that is. She's a breeding queen for now, but I'm considering taking her out of the pools in favor of one of her daughters who has some beautiful spotting and probably showing her as an altered. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:31:16 -0600, kaeli wrote:
Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a breeding queen for show, that is. She's a breeding queen for now, but I'm considering taking her out of the pools in favor of one of her daughters who has some beautiful spotting and probably showing her as an altered. -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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In article ,
enlightened us with... On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:31:16 -0600, kaeli wrote: Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a breeding queen for show, that is. She's a breeding queen for now, but I'm considering taking her out of the pools in favor of one of her daughters who has some beautiful spotting and probably showing her as an altered. Ah, well then at least she prefers your sterile male or you might be in trouble! *LOL* What breed is she? -- -- ~kaeli~ Is it possible to be totally partial? http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
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In article ,
enlightened us with... On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:31:16 -0600, kaeli wrote: Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a breeding queen for show, that is. She's a breeding queen for now, but I'm considering taking her out of the pools in favor of one of her daughters who has some beautiful spotting and probably showing her as an altered. Ah, well then at least she prefers your sterile male or you might be in trouble! *LOL* What breed is she? -- -- ~kaeli~ Is it possible to be totally partial? http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:00:58 -0600, kaeli wrote:
Ah, well then at least she prefers your sterile male or you might be in trouble! *LOL* What breed is she? She's a bengal cat. I have a picture of her somewhere... ah, here it is. http://www.esthar-bengals.org/queens...nd-neresse.jpg (sorry, bad photograph. The camera we took this with went to the Great Darkroom In The Sky a few months ago.) Snape is the little lady on the left; the gray blurry spot with darker spots and eyes is Neresse, her mother. She's the one been giving us grief recently (I'm writing that one up right now). -- Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind, http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way. ------------------------------------+------------------------------- |
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