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Post by Dianna on Apr 10, 2017 12:45:41 GMT -5
Could not find the dog thread.. since it does involve a cat.. real cute! My Ruby who is pitbull bullmastiff mix does this too, except with our poodle Coco.. our other dog, Abbey is a golden retriever, despite their size both are scared to death of Coco, who weighs 15 lbs.. I have to act as their human shield when they have to pass her to go outside.
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Post by the Scribe on May 12, 2017 8:07:39 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on May 19, 2017 11:27:43 GMT -5
Thanks to the tobacco companies who put chemicals into cigarettes to keep them from going out a new industry was formed to put flame retardant chemicals (polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) ) into clothing, furniture, carpet, etc. Turns out it is causing cancer in cats. Question: When is a cat a bird? ans. right now. The cat seems to be the canary in the coal mine. If this is killing cats what is it doing to humans?
The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats
Forty years ago, feline hyperthyroidism was virtually nonexistent. Now it’s an epidemic — and some scientists think a class of everyday chemicals might be to blame.
By EMILY ANTHESMAY 16, 2017
Most days, the back room of the Animal Endocrine Clinic in Manhattan is home to half a dozen cats convalescing in feline luxury. They lounge in their own individual “condos,” each equipped with a plush bed, a raised perch and a cozy box for hiding. Classical music plinks softly from speakers overhead. A television plays cat-friendly videos — birds chirping, squirrels scampering. Patients can also tune in to the live version: A seed-stuffed bird feeder hangs directly outside each window.
One afternoon in April, a jet-black cat named Nubi assumed a predatory crouch in his condo as a brawny pigeon landed on a feeder. Dr. Mark Peterson, the soft-spoken veterinarian who runs the clinic, opened the door to Nubi’s condo and greeted the 12-year-old tom in a lilting, high-pitched voice. “How are you?” Peterson asked, reaching in to scratch his patient’s soft chin. Nubi, who typically is so temperamental that his owner jokes about needing a priest to perform an exorcism, gently acquiesced, then turned back to the bird. Peterson seemed eager to linger with each of Nubi’s four feline neighbors — Maggie, Biggie, Fiji and Napoleon — but, he warned, “these cats back here are radioactive.”
He meant that literally. The previous day, all five animals received carefully titrated doses of radioactive iodine, designed to destroy the overactive cells that had proliferated in their thyroid glands and flooded their bodies with hormones. These cats are among the millions suffering from hyperthyroidism, one of the most mysterious diseases in veterinary medicine. When Peterson entered veterinary school in 1972, feline hyperthyroidism seemingly didn’t exist; today, he treats nothing else. In the intervening decades, hyperthyroidism somehow became an epidemic in cats, and no one knows why. “I’ve devoted most of my time in the last 35 years to this,” said Peterson, who noted that he has treated more than 10,000 hyperthyroid cats, “and I still have more questions than I have answers.”
Although definitive answers remain elusive, scientists are narrowing in on one possible explanation: A steady drumbeat of research links the strange feline disease to a common class of flame retardants that have blanketed the insides of our homes for decades. But even as the findings may answer one epidemiological question, they raise another in its place. If household chemicals are wreaking havoc on the hormones of cats, what are they doing to us?
more www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-wasting-house-cats.html?_r=0
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Post by the Scribe on May 29, 2017 8:06:28 GMT -5
Cat Cafes are becoming popular...EVERYWHERE!!
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Post by Dianna on Jun 14, 2017 23:09:07 GMT -5
My Chula.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 4, 2017 4:16:10 GMT -5
OK. I am going to sign up with the Lyran's rather than the Reptilians. I already have a head start and may already be a god there. I have extensive experience with galactic litter boxes and hairballs from hell.
Lyran Feline Race - Lion People - Everything You Wanted to Know 2017
About the Lyrans, The Lion People The Feline Race
The Lion People (Sirius) Transmission: Connecting with the Blue Lodge Masters
feline race
and now for a cosmic update.........
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 8, 2017 2:10:26 GMT -5
HOUSE CATS 101
The Ultimate Guide House Cats Documentary
Cat Behavior and Psychology DR MW Fox
Published on Sep 30, 2015
A narrated slide show that explores feline communication and body language, behavior, play, socialization, and looks at various emotional and behavioral problems along with their prevention and treatment.
All About Cats
Published on Dec 15, 2012
A fine documentary about felines (cats).
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 18, 2017 23:10:47 GMT -5
Recently, vets in Cape Town were surprised to find a "Werewolf Cat" in an abandoned litter of kittens. The official name for this rare breed of feline is Lykoi, and it's only been recognized since 2011. Groups of Lykoi are said to have a pack mentality like wolves, but once they get know a human, they can be friendlier.
Published on Aug 7, 2017
Meet Bulgaria's famous emerald green cat, a stray cat seen roaming the streets of the seaside town of Varna, Bulgaria.
One day I came home from work and found a beautiful ashen grey cat had found its way into my house. It was very friendly and had the biggest beautiful eyes, one gold and one blue. That was the give away. I had a white cat named powder puff with similar eyes. When I went into the living room I noticed the glass doors to my fireplace were opened and there was soot and ashes all over my carpet. Mystery solved!!
11 Cats You Won’t Believe Actually Exist!
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 22, 2017 9:36:58 GMT -5
This Cat Escaped Its London Home In 2007 And Showed Up In Paris Eight Years Later#Travel #Cats By: Abigail Eastwood • 07.28.16
Regardless of your pet partisanship, it’s hard not to appreciate when our furry friends overcome somewhat tragic circumstances in miraculous ways. Like this little cutie who survived a 12-mile ride in a running car engine. Or this poor guy, covered in blue spray paint, who was shot in the head and left to rot behind his owner’s car. But it’s not always at the mercy of horrible people that our pets are forced to prove their resilience; sometimes they just escape and go on a road trip.
Meet Moon Unit the cat, whose curiosity evidently got the best of her. Presumably named after Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of musician Frank Zappa, Moon Unit the cat slipped out the door while her parents Marna Gillian and Sean Purdy hosted a New Year’s Eve party back in 2007. The couple spent ages searching London for her, but when leafletting, posters, and phone calls left them empty-handed, they eventually gave up. Then last month they received a very surprising email.
Gillian told Mashable, “We got an email about a month ago saying that a cat had been found in Paris and they’d traced us by her microchip.” Gillian said she was in disbelief until she and the animal rescue charity ADAD exchanged photos. A very distinctive white strip on Moon Unit’s nose provided the good news.
Gillian speculates that Moon Unit must have stowed away and wound up in the suburbs of Paris. Because her microchip was never activated over the last eight years, they believe she arrived illegally. Lucky for her, a return to London was still possible despite Brexit.
Though they are no longer together, Gillian and Purdy traveled to Paris together to retrieve Moon Unit. She is staying with Purdy until she acclimates because, as it turns out, one of the kittens that Moon Unit gave birth to eight years ago still lives with Gillian and they don’t want to overwhelm the resilient kitty. A Crowd Funding page has been set up to thank the rescue group that saved Moon Unit.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 27, 2017 22:01:01 GMT -5
Lots on youtube by Sarah Ellis. Stuart Larter/Basic Books
Who Says You Can't Train A Cat? A Book Of Tips For Feline-Human Harmony
October 27, 2017·1:53 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air Feline behavior specialist Sarah Ellis explains how you can train your kitty to come on command, take medicine and stop waking you up in the middle of the night. Originally broadcast Sept. 12, 2016.
Hear The Original Interview: ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2017/10/20171027_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1132&d=2211&p=13&story=560387049&t=progseg&e=560359098&seg=1&siteplayer=true&dl=1
It's 3 a.m. and Whiskers has decided it's time for breakfast. He jumps up on your bed, gently paws at your eyelids and meows to be fed. Annoyed? Cat behavior specialist Sarah Ellis says you have only yourself to blame.
Ellis says that cat owners reinforce negative behaviors when they give in to them. "Cats are not necessarily born meowing and screaming at us for food, it's a behavior that they learned," Ellis tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
Sarah Ellis is a feline behavior specialist at the British charity group International Cat Care, which collaborates with organizations around the world involved with cat welfare. She has trained her cats to come when she calls, voluntarily walk into the cat carrier to go to the vet, take medicine and become acclimated to her dog and her baby. Instead of indulging Whiskers' request for an early morning snack, Ellis recommends adopting an "extinction schedule," whereby you ignore the behavior entirely until it stops. If cat owners "can be really strong with that extinction schedule and just make sure at every occurrence of that behavior they do not reward it ... it will stop," Ellis says.
In her book, The Trainable Cat, Ellis and her co-author, John Bradshaw, describe how humans who understand basic feline nature can get their cats to come on command, take medicine and, yes, wait until morning for breakfast.
When it comes to encouraging the positive, Ellis recommends rewards over punishment — especially if the rewards are intermittent. "You don't give a reward every single time," Ellis explains. "This sort of keeps the cat guessing. They don't know if running toward you this time will get the food or it'll be the next time, and that actually makes the behavior more likely to happen."
On why cats can be more difficult to train than dogs
Dogs are innately very, very sociable. They have evolved from a social animal, the wolf, and they are incredibly sociable, not just to their own species but to humans. The cat, however, has evolved from a solitary ancestor, the North African wildcat, and that process of domestication has also been much, much shorter ... and therefore the cat hasn't had the chance to develop these social tendencies that the dog already has.
Because of that, ... [cats are] less likely to understand the cues that we may give, for example, things like pointing. They're less likely to naturally attune to us, so they're much less likely to look at our faces, to be able to read our expressions, and that's where we've got less of a currency ... than we have with dogs when training. Because [dogs] naturally want our affection. They naturally want to please us. With cats we have to use a different kind of currency.
On cats being more attached to place than people
The primary attachment for a dog is generally its owner, and so by an attachment bond, think of like a mother and their child. ... A child to be around its mother creates a feeling of safety and security and when you go to a new place as a child, as long as your mother or your parent is there, you still feel a sense of safety, and that's the same for a dog. ...
For the cat, that security does not necessarily come from a person or another animal, it comes from a physical place. Cats are very, very territorial animals, and they create safety by getting to know a physical place very well and by marking that place and impregnating it with their own scent. So when we take a cat out of that physical environment, we've taken away their safety or their security, and that's why they don't cope nearly as well in novel environments.
On getting a cat to come when you call Most people's cats know their names already, but where people tend to go wrong is they think, Oh he knows his name, I'll use his name to get him to come to me. But because we use their names all the time, it's not a command to say, "Come to me," it's just a word that we say to them that they know they need to give their attention to us.
So the first thing we need to do is think about what word are we going to use that actually means "I want you to move your body over toward me and stop when you get to me." We tend to use "Come" or "here" or any word that works well for you. ...
Let's say I'm training Cosmos, my cat, I would say the word "Cosmos," to get his attention, but then I would always say the word "come," to tell him the command of "What I'd like you to do, now that I've got your attention, is to come toward me." ...
The first thing we do is we make sure the cat is actually quite close to us when we start teaching the recall. When I say close, I mean within a meter or 2 meters, definitely within the same room. We show the cat that we have something that it really likes — so most commonly food. ...
The cat should come toward you purely because you've got food and it's motivated for that food, so choose a time when the cat's hungry, choose a food it really, really likes. ... As soon as the cat gets up and starts to walk toward you — and we're only talking at this stage a few steps — you then give that cat that reward. ...
After doing that in different locations within the house and doing it at different distances, which are increasing, we can start to do it when the cat can no longer see us, it can just hear us. So that's quite good fun. That's when you know you've trained well, you can be in a completely different room of the house, call the cat, give your cue word, and see if the cat comes.
On why the timing of rewards is key
We need to have a message to tell [cats], "That was exactly it, right now, right there what you're doing." If we cannot give the reward at that exact time — and usually the reward is food — we can use other things to pinpoint a reward or mark that behavior that allows the cat to know that food is going to come two minutes later. But the only way you can do that is first of all to create an association between whatever your marker behavior is and your reward. ...
Let's say we were teaching a cat to go through a cat flap. The behavior that we would want to reward going through the cat door, or jumping down, we cannot get food at that exact moment in time, because we might not physically be able to get the food to the other side of the cat door, or to the cat the minute, the second its feet lands on the floor.
So we can use something that we call a marker, and in this case very often with cats I just use a word, and the word often is just "good." But what you have to do before that is teach the cat the word "good" predicts that the real reward, food, is going to come and you do that just simply by pairing those two things, presenting the word "good," so saying it, and then giving food, and doing that time and time again.
And then you know the cat has learned the association when you just say the word "good" and the cat orientates toward you. It might meow at you, it shows you all the behaviors that it normally shows you that are indicative that it knows food is on its way. Then you've got a tool that will allow you to buy those extra few seconds, but it's not going to be a few minutes, it's only going to be a few seconds.
On why you shouldn't punish your cat for bad behavior
"The reason that we don't advocate punishment at all is because it can be really, really damaging to the relationship of the cat with the human."
Sarah Ellis The reason that we don't advocate punishment at all is because it can be really, really damaging to the relationship of the cat with the human. If you get your timing wrong, you may be punishing a very different behavior to what you think you're punishing, and that can be quite disastrous. And secondly, if you're delivering that punishment, so you are holding a water sprayer, or you are throwing something at the cat, or you are physically smacking its back-end off the kitchen counter or whatever it is, the cat will associate that punishment with you and may not associate it with the actual act of what it's doing, because you're very salient in that environment at that time, and you are the one delivering the punishment.
So all you're doing then is teaching your cat that you're not a very good person to be around, that you deliver quite unpleasant consequences, and therefore the cat will start to avoid you, rather than stopping to do that behavior. So the cat may well carry on doing the behavior you didn't want, just not in the presence of you, so now you've got a cat that's still doing the behavior that you don't want, but it's also actively avoiding you and you've damaged that relationship.
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Post by erik on Oct 30, 2017 8:53:03 GMT -5
I am writing this with a heavy heart.
About three hours ago, the cat that I have had for fourteen years passed away in his sleep from what my mother believes was a heart attack. He was a very loving, congenial cat named Schubert (after the early 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert), and, though he seemed in perfect health only yesterday, he also had been suffering from kidney disease for a year. Both my mom and I knew that it was due to his age, and that it was only a matter of time. It's just sad that this was the time. He passed away here at our house, which is now a lot lonelier.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 30, 2017 10:09:26 GMT -5
Very sad. No one knows better than me what you and your family is going through as this is a monthly occurrence for me. I lost one the same age from the same problem a week ago today. Time seems to heal just about everything so give it time. If you have a photo I wish you would post it here. I love to see other peoples pets and it would be a nice remembrance for Schubert.
a send off from me, LindaAusfan, Franz, Linda and Aaron
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Post by erik on Oct 30, 2017 12:26:39 GMT -5
Thanks for the video, and the condolences, Rob.
I should also say, perhaps repeating myself, that I have only ever known cats as house pets and, perhaps most importantly of all, as members of the family. My mom has always been very good around felines; and while, out of the six we've had, three of them didn't live longer than six years because of pre-existing health issues, three others, including Schubert, lived between fourteen and eighteen years (in human chronology), which is an exceptionally long time, according to all the veterinarians we've talked to over the years.
Losing any pet is, of course, tantamount to losing a member of family, which is why it always hurts. All of our cats have always been considered nothing less than Family, and I would guess that's how we have all felt about the pets we've owned, be they cats, dogs, hamsters, birds, or any others.
My mom is in her late seventies, and she says that, for that reason and the very sudden loss of Schubert, it isn't likely that we can ever own another cat. I have to concede that fact because, while I have been good about taking care of our cats while she has gone overseas to see her family and friends in her birthplace of Denmark, I am not particularly well versed in the finer points of a cat's overall health. It wouldn't be fair to them.
I know that my mother and I can take comfort in having loved and enjoyed all the cats we've ever had, so the thing to do is to remember them in our hearts.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 16:58:10 GMT -5
Condolences on your loss, Erik... I know from experience it is never easy...
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Post by erik on Oct 30, 2017 20:06:32 GMT -5
Thanks to everyone here for the thoughts, well-wishes, and condolences.
I will still be here as usual, but there is going to be a week-long period of mourning and remembrance. And it will certainly take far longer to get used to the reality of not seeing our cat again. But in the end, it is the memories that are the most important. Life and death take their courses, and we must all try to live what lives we have to the fullest.
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Post by Dianna on Nov 28, 2017 3:12:18 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 30, 2017 22:40:08 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Dec 1, 2017 0:09:58 GMT -5
When your furry ones ingest a fistful of catnip, weird things have a tendency to take place:
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 3, 2018 16:32:17 GMT -5
Santa Rosa Woman Reunites 'Fire Cats' And Owners After Northern California Wildfires NPR Jan. 3, 2018 11:26 a.m.
A lost cat poster is taped to a light pole in the fire-devastated Coffey Park neighborhood on Oct. 14, 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. (David McNew/Getty Images)
In the aftermath of the October wildfires in Northern California, one woman has devoted much of her time to finding lost cats — going out nightly with a group of volunteers.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Jennifer Petruska of Santa Rosa, California, about her efforts, which include a Facebook group created to help reunite pet owners and pets.
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit www.npr.org/.
www.opb.org/news/article/npr-santa-rosa-woman-reunites-fire-cats-and-owners-after-northern-california-wildfires/The Hunt for ‘Fire Cats’ Amid Northern California Ashes The New York Times By THOMAS FULLER 52 mins ago
Volunteers posted flyers of cats found in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Volunteers posted flyers of cats found in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — When a firestorm swept down the hillsides of Sonoma County, bringing terror to this tight grid of thousands of homes, dogs tended to rush to their masters.
But cats went in the opposite direction, ignoring the pleas of panicked owners and disappearing amid the chaotic evacuation.
Finding the missing cats that fled the October wildfires has been an impassioned quest for Jennifer Petruska, an animal lover whose home, pets included, was one of the few in her neighborhood to be spared.
Ms. Petruska has spent nearly every night since the fires tracking and trapping fire cats, as she calls them, the felines that for weeks have remained missing because of stubbornness, trauma, instinct, or a mix of all three.
Catching cats can be tricky in the best of circumstances but she and her team of volunteers have caught more than 70. They believe many dozens more are on the loose.
Pet Rescue & Reunification, as the volunteers call themselves, have set up night-vision cameras in storm drains and creek beds, where many cats went into hiding. Every evening at dusk they set traps baited with tuna and mackerel, checking them hourly until dawn.
“If you want to catch a cat you have to stay up all night — that’s just the name of the game,” Ms. Petruska said as she prepared for another dark and cold round of cat stalking. “I’ve been a horrible insomniac my whole life so it suits me.”
Coffey Park, the neighborhood where Ms. Petruska is focusing her efforts, may as well have been struck by a bomb. Well over 1,000 homes were leveled. Ms. Petruska and her team say they realize that with nearly 5,000 homes destroyed in the Santa Rosa area alone their effort is ancillary to the grieving and massive effort of reconstruction that is only just beginning.
The bleak landscape of charred lots is still teeming with creatures stealthily crawling throughout the night, mostly unseen.
Ms. Petruska says she knows there are still many cats on the loose because her motion-activated cameras capture them nearly every night, along with a parade of other nocturnal animals such as skunks, opossums and raccoons.
To the families who lost everything, recounting how Ms. Petruska helped recover their cats often brings tears.
“I just wanted my cat — that was the only thing I wanted back,” said Kelly Stinson, whose home in Coffey Park was destroyed. “I spent hours every single day looking for her.“
Ms. Petruska located Evy and after an evening of coaxing returned a day later and grabbed the cat by the scruff of the neck.
Sara Ratekin, a veterinarian who has treated many of the cats rescued by Ms. Petruska’s team, says the fires have shown the ability of cats to survive perilous circumstances. Captured fire cats often arrive in her office with burned paws, singed whiskers — and many pounds lighter than before the fire. Unlike dogs, cats have an instinct to flee when they sense danger, Dr. Ratekin said.
“I can explain why they ran away,” she said. “But I can’t explain why they became so wild so quickly.”
In August, during the flooding in Houston caused by Hurricane Harvey, cats were spotted by rescue workers swimming or floating on furniture and debris trying to find high ground.
When emergency medical workers showed up at flooded homes, dogs would often greet them at the door, tails wagging, said Katie Jarl, the Texas director of The Humane Society of the United States.
If cats were still home they would often be hiding — and when discovered would need significant coaxing to leave.
”No matter if it’s fires or flooding, or any type of natural disaster, cats will often hide,” Ms. Jarl said. “It can be days or weeks before they re-emerge.”
To lure Santa Rosa’s fire cats back into domestic life, Ms. Petruska assembles personality profiles of each cat she stalks. One cat likes the sound of whipped cream fizzing from a can. She carries a can in her car. Another cat answers to the sound of the crinkling of a bag of a specific brand of cat treats. She carries the treats.
Unsurprisingly the most effective lure appears to be fish. Ms. Petruska soaks socks in the juices from cans of mackerel and hangs them from trees.
On a recent evening at dusk, she drove through the countless rows of burned out houses to a neighborhood near a small creek. In near freezing temperatures, she hauled a cat trap across the molten remains of a home, careful to step over pieces of roofing and other remnants jutting up through the rubble. She passed a random assortment of household items laid bare in the detritus — a solitary teacup, a blackened metal colander and the burned out remains of a washer and dryer — before setting up a metal trap.
By morning the trap was still empty. But she has persisted, working through the holidays.
Around 10 fire cats have been found without any clues as to their owners; they are being kept at Sonoma County’s animal services department.
She has found cats even after owners gave up the search. Cindy Fulwider fled her home in the early hours of October 9 as embers the size of golf balls rained down. She was convinced that her cat, whom she calls Sweet Baby, had perished. Then she got a call five weeks after the fire from one of Ms. Petruska’s team. “I really thought we would never see him again,” Ms. Fulwider said.
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Post by Dianna on Feb 26, 2018 1:04:17 GMT -5
Rob, I was going to ask you if there was a sure fire way to get a cat out of a very tall tree without a ladder.. Yesterday my only female cat, Chula got stuck in the neighbors tree... We only let them out to play in the afternoons and they always come back inside when I called. I tried to coax her down by calling her and shaking food, I even placed a can of food near the tree she was up..actually I tossed the can as it was too far to reach from my side of the fence).. There is a chain fence between our property and the neighbor lives on 2 acres, so I doubt they could see or hear me calling her.. I've had other cats climb a tree but they eventually come down after a few minutes to 1/2 to an hour, so I thought, "she'll come down." Well late afternoon turned in to evening and still she wouldnt come down.. When I would call her she'd meow in that distressed tone, one I'm still hearing in my head.. lol it's very dark out and I figured the more I talk to her the more stressed she got and at that point I couldn't see her and it was too dark to see anything, so a ladder would be out of the question for me.. I even thought about calling the fire department..Anyway, I got 1 hour sleep last night worrying about her, going outside with the flashlight trying to lure her down and to check on her.. it was rainy, windy.. just yucky. I thought by morning she would come down on her own.. As soon as daylight broke, I went to check on her and she was still up there, wet and weak, her meow's had grown raspy and I was a wreck worried about her but at least we could see her and Brian was up to help.. he got the ladder and no sooner when he had propped it against the tree the little shit lol ran down the tree like a pro... Anyway, she ran to the front of the garage so I let her in.. she ran to her litter box to do her business.. but really waiting until she had to go was the appropriate time to climb down? just ugh.. No more.. she is now an indoor only cat.
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Post by Dianna on Feb 26, 2018 11:14:08 GMT -5
I forgot to mention.. yes, there is one male cat, who is a stray.. actually he belongs to my negligent neighbors too.. I call him "Dad," I think he's their father slash great uncle. lol.. he was part of the original litter the neighbors female cat result of not having her fixed (several litters later and my 5 they finally got her fixed) He appears and disappears for long periods and I want to catch him and take him in to be fixed.. anyway, I saw him out there by the tree, even tho my cats are fixed, Chula, my only female is still afraid of him and she hides when he comes around, usually hides in the garage up on the rafters. She doesn't like him... I keep food outside for him
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Post by Dianna on Feb 26, 2018 12:13:06 GMT -5
Ugh, I couldn't even listen to the one story about the cat up in the tree for 2 weeks.. shit that's crazy and the woman was so calm.. At that point I would have climbed up the tree myself.. ... She's not going out any more. I was watching my chula climb back down and they grab the trunk with their claws as to hug the tree.. head up butt down and wiggle down with claws gripped in trunk and and jump down as soon as they are far enough down to land safely. genius lol
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Post by Dianna on Feb 26, 2018 12:37:30 GMT -5
lol @ Ginger.. but it looks like she's having a ball up there.. Thanks for all the tips. This momma was worried all night!
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 8, 2018 15:36:48 GMT -5
11 Ways To Show Your Cats Love That They Can Understand
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 31, 2018 5:02:36 GMT -5
We Found a Cheetah At the Pool
FUR AND FEATHERS
Owl’s Unusually Close Friendship With A Cat Has Animal Researchers Scratching Their Heads
Kitten And Baby Owl Meet For The First Time And Their Next Move Is Too Much For Words
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 17, 2018 23:31:58 GMT -5
This Is What Everyone Gets Wrong About Cats Published on May 29, 2018 If you're new, Subscribe! → bit.ly/Subscribe-to-GrungeCats are adorable, furry little ninjas that share our homes with us and have an overwhelming urge to push things off other things. We opened our homes and our hearts to them a long time ago, but despite what we think we know about our hairball-hacking friends, there's still a ton of misinformation floating around out there that just refuses to go away... Cats love milk | 0:27 Keeping the balance | 1:12 Feet first | 1:39 Loners and rebels | 2:03 Fur vs. personality | 2:38 Keeping the claws | 3:17 Cats are standoffish | 4:01 Read more here → www.grunge.com/46581/things-everyone-gets-wrong-cats/Nature www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbvw8GqH5MenCeJtiX-ZsdI0qazlgnejrCats That Are Almost Bigger Than Their Owners ...
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 22, 2018 3:44:38 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 1, 2018 3:32:16 GMT -5
Cabbit
I just adopted 2 cabbits out. Mama was a cat, daddy a rabbit. Really cute.
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Post by erik on Sept 1, 2018 12:48:59 GMT -5
Back in June, we had at least five cats show up in our backyard, likely hunting for some kind of food, so they were in all likelihood strays. And so, shortly before the July 4th weekend, against what we thought was our better judgment initially, my mother and I adapted one of them, a red-orange female that, for whatever reason, my mother named "Julie". The vets that we took her too estimated her to be about a year and a half old (in human years) We have decided to make sure she stays an indoor cat, because you never know about the other felines that prowl our suburban neighborhood.
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Post by Dianna on Sept 9, 2018 12:38:46 GMT -5
Rob, kind of frustrated. We have 5 cats from the same litter who we rescued as babies.. all are spayed/neutered and are little over 3 years old... They sleep in the garage and play outside during the day.. we can't have them inside because of our dogs... I bring them in around 6 or 7 pm.. like a little routine.. when I call them come to eat and I close the garage door.. in for the night.. Well, the smallest male black cat.. (I call Flacko) decided he doesn't want to come in anymore.. lately he has been staying out overnight.. I have to call him, which he may or may not respond (he never did this before.. just once in awhile) he's been outside for about 5 days.. I usually see him across at the neighbors house between 5 -6pm.. I call and he runs (little shit) this has been the longest he has stayed away. normally he eventually comes.. then rolls around on the ground so I can pick him up and take him in the garage .. I think he found his own little slice of heaven across the road, in back of the neighbors yard.. which is a deer trail.. trees and big creek.. I do leave food and water out at night. The weather is still nice but once it starts down pouring, gets cold and windy I would think he'd want the comforts of his own bed.. Just frustrated. lol
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