[luleey]

thanks gomersalgirl...he seems to be eating again now! either he couldnt smell the food well enough or he was just being finicky. appreciate the advice!!

[yummymum]

Hey! I'm kind of new to this thread. We just got a new kitten. His name is Mr. Muggins. :-) Anyway, he uses the litterbox. But he's been having some episodes of going in other places. He peed on my daughters bed, crapped in the bathroom on the floor, and did both in my suitcase that was left open in my closet.

I know how to train a dog. But how do you train a cat not to do this? I'm at a loss. I have never had a problem with the other cat that we had. HELP!!!!

[gomersalgirl]

luleey, many times when they have a respiratory infection they can't smell their food--so they don't eat. Try warming a little bit of wet food in the microwave and putting a little in his mouth or on his nose.

[luleey]

sigh...more kitten probs with the dukester. he caught a cold that wouldnt go away, so we got him liquid penicillin which has made the symptoms abate. he takes it tiwce a day with a dropper. but now he is really reluctant to eat! i've tried hanging out by his food dishes, pretending to eat his food, even giving him different flavors of canned food and tuna. he just sniffs it and walks off. i know he is eating a tiny bit but it hardly seems enough, and i'm afraid he'll lose weight...any advice? he seems frisky otherwise, playing and hopping around, just skinny. and we're on day 3 of his hunger strike...

[raskel]

Just be sure she's not gaining weight too fast. Can cause serious liver/kidney problems.

[laurenann]

i changed her name to maggie. i just wasn't feeling squirrel.

raskel, that is just what i was thinking! i also bought this high calorie gel supplement that the woman at the pet store reccomended.

[datagirl]

www.mycathatesyou.com

The funniest freakin site!!!

[raskel]

Laurenann, maybe you could feed them the same light food, but sneak Squirrel away and give her a can of wet food a day to help her gain weight.

[luleey]

laurenann, i think the two will learn to like each other. it takes time, but it'll happen and in the end i bet they'll be happy to have each other as friends! make sure you give sharpie lots of love initially, even tho he may act like he's super pissed at you.

for the food thing im not sure, but squirrel will probably get more filled out once she gets more accustomed to her new home. even if she is eating lighter food.

on a funny note duke was sitting down today and started silently meowing--just opening and closing his mouth with no sound! it was hysterical. it looked like he was going "meh. meh-meh. meh!" i had no idea what he wanted but it was super cute.

[laurenann]

i got a new kitty today from the mspca! her intake papers said her owners gave her up when they became homeless. she has fluffy brown and white fur and she is SO skinny. we named her squirrel because she has a big bushy squirrely tail.

we already have another cat, sharpie, and i put the new cat in the spare room like you are supposed to. but the door blew open and they saw each other and freaked out. i really hope they learn to love each other!

sharpie is kinda fat and squirrel is really thin, has anyone used that food that is supposed to bulk up small cats and trim down big cats? or should i try to give them different food?

i am so happy to have another cat!

[missladyj]

sixelacat,
thanks for the suggestion. We are going to pick up the snake today. I know this is all about kitties but I have to say I never thought I would feel so much affection for a snake.I am hoping that both animals will be okay. I will keep you posted.

[jkat]

Oh, I have such a funny story about my crazy kitty and the computer. I have to tell it.
I used to leave my computer on when I went to school, until my kitty decided it was her personal playground. I came home one day and found my msn on, with a conversation happening between me and a guy that I had met in another city and not seen for probably a year. Convo (as far as what I could see) goes like this:
me:lsdfopsafb
him: what?
me:yad98fy3qhb4
You get my drift here. Anyway, the next day he asks me if I had sent him messages about male anatomy, so I said no, but my cat had jumped on the keyboard while I was away at school. He says "Well your cat is pretty eloquent." I was a little embarrassed, but had no idea what he was talking about so I said "That's weird..." and left it there for a while.
It struck me a few hours later that I had cut and pasted a couple paragraphs about giving blowjobs and ball torture and sent them to a friend who is trying to get over her *fear* of penises as a joke a few days earlier, and they were still in there. My cat had managed to cut and paste those paragraphs into the conversation!!! I was so embarrassed. But at least this guy pretended to believe me when I explained...

[sixelacat]

When I wanted to keep my kitties off of a table with a nice lamp my mum had made (they were in their young, knockin' sh*t over all the time phase) and I wasn't there to do the spray bottle thing, I put double-sided scotch tape all over the top of the table (kind of around the edges and in stripes across). They hate stepping on that stuff, so after a couple of weeks they actively avoided the table, even when they were chasin' each other around like mad kitties. It wasn't the extra strong kind and peeled right off after. Maybe you could put some on the snake tank and table?

[missladyj]

love the kitty with the computer.

Usually Miss Boo will either sit on the back of the chair or next to the keyboard while I am on the computer. If she stands up so that she is blocking the screen I will put her in my lap.

Hubby has a music studio at home and apparently Boo decided to walk across the keyboard while he was recording something and he kept it in the song. While playing it for me he tells me, hear that, that's Boo walking across the keyboard it sounded cool so I kept it.


I have an odd question. I am bringing home a rat snake from my classroom . It is in a secure tank that Boo will not be able to get into. I want to make sure that she stays off of the tank and doesn't jump on top of it or even get onto the table where we will put the tank. The rat snake is about 5ft 6inches long and Boo is about 11 pounds. I know that she it to big for the snake to eat plus if I take the snake out to clean it's tank Boo will be locked in another room so I am not worried about that.

Does anyone have any advice about snake/cat living arrangments?

[doodlebug]

Someone posted it here awhile back, but I don't remember what it was called....somebody has invented a software program that recognizes the "non-typing" pattern of a cat walking on a keyboard and stops you from losing whatever you were working on...

Unfortunately, I don't know if it would help me with my problem. I have one of those fancy cordless keyboards that has extra controls for everything. My cat keeps walking across the "close window" button! (Of course, I sometimes accidentally press it myself.)

I'm a little worried about George. It seems like he is losing weight. I realize this is probably because I switched to "light" cat food...but Carmella was the one who was supposed to lose weight, not George! He's a slim boy already. Also, in combination with daily puking over the past week (mainly hairballs, but not always), I'm a wee bit worried (he's never really been a puker). I'm going to try de-worming him, and also next time I buy cat food (later this week), I'll switch back to the regular kind...Carmella doesn't like Eukanuba, so I think if I get that just for him, she'll keep eating the light food. Anyway, if I don't notice a change in a couple of weeks, I'm going to book him in for an early vet check-up. He seems healthy and happy otherwise...

Oh please, universe, don't let there be anything wrong with my boy! He's an extra-special little guy...

[luleey]

hee hee! my little kitty loves the computer--we have a desktop and laptop, and he tries to hop all over both. i don't care if he watches the screen, but i am trying to discourage him from walking all over the keyboard while i'm working! it's hard when he's so cute, though!

[pollystyrene]

Ha, my bf and I thought the same thing-" oh, claws on LCD- no good!!"

[doodlebug]

solitary...LOL, that's exactly what *I* kept thinking! "OMG, he's gonna wreck the screen. OMG, he's gonna wreck the screen..."

[solitary_fey]

My boyfriend saw the kitten clip with the computer and all he could say was "That cat is going to tear into the computer screen!" Thats what I get for having a techie for a husband. "But honey, he's so cute!" "He's going to tear into the computer screen!" ::sigh::

[pollystyrene]

Y'know, those two bear incidents took place only 16 miles apart (less, "as the crow flies") Coulda been the same bear- exhausted by his harrowing experience with that cat he took refuge in a nearby hammock