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Need Ideas for Cat Anniversary
Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe.
Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it sounds. Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been shredded. I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But perhaps someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar cat. I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg Art |
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Need Ideas for Cat Anniversary
"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe. Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it sounds. Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been shredded. I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But perhaps someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar cat. I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg Art get her a small cardbox box with holes for her arms to poke in with some nip inside. That should amuse her for a while. If she likes the nip of course. Kitty FC was immune to it. It did nothing for her. Boyfie will occasionally rub his head on a sock I fill with nip for him but he doesn't get out of his head on it. He is such a serious earnest boy I would love him to get really stoned occasionally |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe. Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it sounds. Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been shredded. I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But perhaps someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar cat. I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg Art get her a small cardbox box with holes for her arms to poke in with some nip inside. That should amuse her for a while. If she likes the nip of course. Kitty FC was immune to it. It did nothing for her. Boyfie will occasionally rub his head on a sock I fill with nip for him but he doesn't get out of his head on it. He is such a serious earnest boy I would love him to get really stoned occasionally maybe add some ping-pong balls in that box ;-) |
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* It may have been the liquor talking, but
Arthur Shapiro wrote: Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe. Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. My response is short, but I believe gets to the heart of the matter: it doesn't matter what you do for her; it's a fekkin' CAT. Terry -- "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls |/ drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own |/ Gentoo Linux despair, against our will, comes wisdom through |/ the awful grace of God." -Aeschylus |/ |
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"Sylvia M" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe. Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it sounds. Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been shredded. I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But perhaps someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar cat. I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg Art get her a small cardbox box with holes for her arms to poke in with some nip inside. That should amuse her for a while. If she likes the nip of course. Kitty FC was immune to it. It did nothing for her. Boyfie will occasionally rub his head on a sock I fill with nip for him but he doesn't get out of his head on it. He is such a serious earnest boy I would love him to get really stoned occasionally maybe add some ping-pong balls in that box ;-) He is not interested in any boxes or toys. He goes out looking at rats and occasionally gets some small ones. He's a sensible boy and lets the big ones pass. He pretends he hasn't seen them ;-) I do get some big rats here after the chicken food, they can be a challenge even for the fierce terriers . Boyfie has be kept in the house when the terriers come or he'd be a gonner, they would kill him. So I keep him in and they sweep through killing everything in their path. No rat remains alive. Neither would he be, they are killing machines. I wouldn't want one those terriers myself as a pet, but they aren't pets, they are for killing and that's why I get the terrier men in for rats. You will always get rats if you have chickens or pigs. |
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"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe. Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it sounds. Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been shredded. I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But perhaps someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar cat. I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Duffy's favorite toy (other than his cat trees and climbing poles) is a Turbo Scratcher. Unlike most toys, this one has continued to be a favorite ever since I adopted him nine years ago. I hear him playing on it every day. Here's one site where you can see it: http://www.amazon.com/Bergan-Turbo-S.../dp/B000IYSAIW MaryL |
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In article , "MaryL" wrote:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Duffy's favorite toy (other than his cat trees and climbing poles) is a Turbo Scratcher. Unlike most toys, this one has continued to be a favorite ever since I adopted him nine years ago. Looks interesting! As it isn't particularly expensive, I'll see if I can find it at PetSmart or Target. Thanks for the suggestion. Art |
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"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... In article , "MaryL" wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Duffy's favorite toy (other than his cat trees and climbing poles) is a Turbo Scratcher. Unlike most toys, this one has continued to be a favorite ever since I adopted him nine years ago. Looks interesting! As it isn't particularly expensive, I'll see if I can find it at PetSmart or Target. Thanks for the suggestion. Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think they also have it at WalMart. The center is a corrugated cardboard scratcher. Duffy uses his primarily as a toy, and he is ambidextrous. He will sit beside it and bat the ball back and forth; sometimes he will leap back and forth over it as he hits the ball. Pretty good for a blind cat! He also wore out one of the scratchers, but refills are available. MaryL |
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I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my
big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg "if you think you can get even CLOSE to imagining what I'm going to do now I've got a three-foot height advantage... watch THIS..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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On 8/3/2012 4:38 PM, MaryL wrote:
"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... Thursday will mark one year since I got my little Russian Blue kitty Niobe. Like Emma, she was a CraigsList acquisition. I'm trying to figure out something nice to do for her. After the first couple of months, where she was eating everything in sight and bulking up substantially (I think the previous folks underfed her), she isn't particularly picky or gluttonous about food. So there's nothing obvious to feed her as a treat. About her most blatant like is destroying cardboard, strange as it sounds. Almost every box in the house - and I'm quite a pack rat - has been shredded. I'm thinking about finding her a nice big cardboard box to ruin. But perhaps someone here will come up with an off-the-wall idea for an unfamiliar cat. I've posted this before, but here's a picture of Niobe up on my big ten-foot stepladder. http://www.ocrebels.com/NiobeOnLadderResized.jpg Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Duffy's favorite toy (other than his cat trees and climbing poles) is a Turbo Scratcher. Unlike most toys, this one has continued to be a favorite ever since I adopted him nine years ago. I hear him playing on it every day. Here's one site where you can see it: http://www.amazon.com/Bergan-Turbo-S.../dp/B000IYSAIW MaryL We used to have one of these. Cats loved it, but Lizzie (or Ping) would pee on the cardboard insert... and then Ernie and Moe learned how to get the ball out of the track and it eventually vanished into the black hole that cat toys (and single socks) have a habit of finding their way to... The two cats learned to remove the ball in different ways, too: Ernie, a big boy at 18~ lbs, would simply take the ball in his mouth and pick it up... Moe, much smaller at a svelte 6-7 lbs, would hold the ball in place with her mouth, and use her two front paws on either side of the ball to wedge it up and out of the track. -- ^..^ This is Kitty. Copy and paste Kitty into your signature to help her wipe out Bunny's world domination. -- The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© email me at nalee1964 (at) comcast (dot) net http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep |
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