A word of advice...

Lois Reay wrote:
You have my sympathy - sorry no words of advice I have my own
problems here with a cat (Phoebe) that thinks she should mate RIGHT
NOW - I am not ready to let her mate just yet.
I have 15 kittens in the house and don't need anymore just yet!

Lois

FIFTEEN KITTENS? (sorry but that just demanded all caps)

Jill
"LOL" wrote in message
om...
If you can help it, never, never, never sit out the dregs of a
hurricane in the company of a cat in heat.

We are supposed to call TED this week to make an appointment for
Tallulah's spay and Hubert's shots. (Today is a holiday in the US,
and TED is closed.) It's been raining steadily for two days, and all
day today the wind has been topping 50 mph. With impeccable timing,
Tallulah has decided that *now* is the perfect time to get started on
a new batch of kittens, and has gone into heat today.

We will be at TED's office, prepared to beg, first thing in the
morning, but until then, if any of you Cattish speakers could
translate a short statement for me to read to Tallulah, the gist of
which should be "I'm a different species and I'm female, so you're
wasting your time" I would very much appreciate it. ;-)

------
Krista

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:18:43 +1200, "Lois Reay"
yodeled:

You have my sympathy - sorry no words of advice I have my own problems here
with a cat (Phoebe) that thinks she should mate RIGHT NOW - I am not ready
to let her mate just yet.
I have 15 kittens in the house and don't need anymore just yet!

Lois

15 kittens? FIFTEEN KITTENS?!!!

Where are the pictures?


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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:18:43 +1200, "Lois Reay"
yodeled:

You have my sympathy - sorry no words of advice I have my own problems here
with a cat (Phoebe) that thinks she should mate RIGHT NOW - I am not ready
to let her mate just yet.
I have 15 kittens in the house and don't need anymore just yet!

Lois

15 kittens? FIFTEEN KITTENS?!!!

Where are the pictures?


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com
alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/

"LOL" wrote in message
om...
If you can help it, never, never, never sit out the dregs of a
hurricane in the company of a cat in heat.

We are supposed to call TED this week to make an appointment for
Tallulah's spay and Hubert's shots. (Today is a holiday in the US,
and TED is closed.) It's been raining steadily for two days, and all
day today the wind has been topping 50 mph. With impeccable timing,
Tallulah has decided that *now* is the perfect time to get started on
a new batch of kittens, and has gone into heat today.

We will be at TED's office, prepared to beg, first thing in the
morning, but until then, if any of you Cattish speakers could
translate a short statement for me to read to Tallulah, the gist of
which should be "I'm a different species and I'm female, so you're
wasting your time" I would very much appreciate it. ;-)

------
Krista

Try "scruffing" her and holding her in place on the floor for a few minutes.
This sounds strange, but I told this to a friend who had a similar problem
and it worked for her. Actually my cats showed me this. When we first got
Jessie she went into heat before we could get her spayed and Demi would jump
on her, bite the back of her neck and hold her down for a few minutes - and
it shut her up for a while!

Hugs,

CatNipped

"LOL" wrote in message
om...
If you can help it, never, never, never sit out the dregs of a
hurricane in the company of a cat in heat.

We are supposed to call TED this week to make an appointment for
Tallulah's spay and Hubert's shots. (Today is a holiday in the US,
and TED is closed.) It's been raining steadily for two days, and all
day today the wind has been topping 50 mph. With impeccable timing,
Tallulah has decided that *now* is the perfect time to get started on
a new batch of kittens, and has gone into heat today.

We will be at TED's office, prepared to beg, first thing in the
morning, but until then, if any of you Cattish speakers could
translate a short statement for me to read to Tallulah, the gist of
which should be "I'm a different species and I'm female, so you're
wasting your time" I would very much appreciate it. ;-)

------
Krista

Try "scruffing" her and holding her in place on the floor for a few minutes.
This sounds strange, but I told this to a friend who had a similar problem
and it worked for her. Actually my cats showed me this. When we first got
Jessie she went into heat before we could get her spayed and Demi would jump
on her, bite the back of her neck and hold her down for a few minutes - and
it shut her up for a while!

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Lois Reay" wrote in message
...
You have my sympathy - sorry no words of advice I have my own problems
here
with a cat (Phoebe) that thinks she should mate RIGHT NOW - I am not ready
to let her mate just yet.
I have 15 kittens in the house and don't need anymore just yet!

Lois
--

Uh, isn't Phoebe the one who will find herself a mate given half a chance?
And in two months when her kittens would be due, the 15 would be all grown
up right? If she does have kittens, is it too late for them to be Christmas
kittens?

Jo

"Lois Reay" wrote in message
...
You have my sympathy - sorry no words of advice I have my own problems
here
with a cat (Phoebe) that thinks she should mate RIGHT NOW - I am not ready
to let her mate just yet.
I have 15 kittens in the house and don't need anymore just yet!

Lois
--

Uh, isn't Phoebe the one who will find herself a mate given half a chance?
And in two months when her kittens would be due, the 15 would be all grown
up right? If she does have kittens, is it too late for them to be Christmas
kittens?

Jo

O J wrote:



I've almost made the final breakthrough twice, once with German and
again with Spanish. Unfortunately, I've let both of them lapse. When
do you all practice? Do you sit around at night with friends and
decide that everyone will speak some other language for the evening?
I can't conceive of any other way to get in the practice that's
needed.

LOL! No, I practice here on rpca all the time. ;o) Nobbut, I used to
live in the US as a child, so I learned to speak and, more importantly,
to read and write English then. After we moved back to Finland, I kept
up my English by reading English books. We also have a lot of British
and American shows on TV, so I guess that has helped me to keep up. My
Dad was a scientist with many international contacts, so we often had
guests who spoke English (since that was the only language they all
knew). I don't speak it very well any more, since I hardly ever get to
speak any English nowadays. I didn't really study to be a translator,
but am an MA in English literature. However, that won't put bread on the
table. And more importantly, meat in the cats' bowls. ;o)


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O J wrote:



I've almost made the final breakthrough twice, once with German and
again with Spanish. Unfortunately, I've let both of them lapse. When
do you all practice? Do you sit around at night with friends and
decide that everyone will speak some other language for the evening?
I can't conceive of any other way to get in the practice that's
needed.

LOL! No, I practice here on rpca all the time. ;o) Nobbut, I used to
live in the US as a child, so I learned to speak and, more importantly,
to read and write English then. After we moved back to Finland, I kept
up my English by reading English books. We also have a lot of British
and American shows on TV, so I guess that has helped me to keep up. My
Dad was a scientist with many international contacts, so we often had
guests who spoke English (since that was the only language they all
knew). I don't speak it very well any more, since I hardly ever get to
speak any English nowadays. I didn't really study to be a translator,
but am an MA in English literature. However, that won't put bread on the
table. And more importantly, meat in the cats' bowls. ;o)


--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

"Jo Firey" wrote in message
...

Uh, isn't Phoebe the one who will find herself a mate given half a chance?
And in two months when her kittens would be due, the 15 would be all grown
up right? If she does have kittens, is it too late for them to be
Christmas
kittens?

Jo

No it was Freya who *jumped* the fence - the FIFTEEN kittens are not all the
same age - Bobbi's six are eight weeks old - Freya's four are two weeks old
and Gigi's are two days old.
Will probably mate Phoebe late this month or early next month - I don't let
them go to their new homes until they are twelve weeks old so will miss the
Christmas rush (which I think is a good thing)

Lois