BS: Bad Cat!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 03:05 AM

OK - Here's one for you Mick.

I knew I was going away for a couple of weeks so I carefully made arrangements for my cat to be fed, etc. I told my friend to always leave the door to the bsmt. open because that was where her cat box was.

When I returned, I opened the door and the entire living room was covered in cat hair. There had been a heat wave and she had been locked upstairs with no water and no catbox. The poor thing! I quickly cared for her and then began sniffing around. I was really puzzled. Where was the shit?

I found it that night. She had shit in the bathtub and carefully pushed every piece down the drain!

Yes, it meant that I had a disgusting job to do but talk about dignity! I have a whole new respect for my little feline.

d

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:06 AM

I have a friend who has Turk vans. They are really all that fond of water, but they will play with it for hours, especially running water. The big boy when bored will play with his paw in his water dish.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Peace
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:10 AM

"The big boy when bored will play with his paw in his water dish."

What's his maw say 'bout that?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 05:40 AM

emjay, I have just got round to reading your link. Poor cat but that is so funny and true too!

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 08:31 AM

If you have a good vet they can do wonders. Our vet uses some "home remedies" as well. This is a learned behavior and natural to the cat so when we had one that did this, I asked my vet. He had an idea which I thought was wacky as hell.

I had a cat with a serious biting issue and my vet suggested a 1/2 teaspoon of gasoline fer chrissake!!! I admit that I thought the guy was nuts, but it did work, sorta. It ain't too easy to get a half teaspoon of gasoline down a cat's throat, but when I did, he liked to tore me to shreds getting away. He blasted around the room about 3 or 4 times, ran up the hallway, up the stairs, back down both, and into the den, leaped on the drapes and ran to the end of the curtain rod. From there he leaped down and ran right to me and instead of biting, licked me for 3 or 4 minutes. Suddenly he stopped and fell on his side on the floor, lying very, very still......... I thought I'd killed the poor thing, but it turns out he'd just run out of gas.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 09:21 AM

Sigh!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 09:40 AM

An old gem classically told!! You made me laugh, Patrick!!

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: maire-aine
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 01:42 PM

The little malingerer.. LOL, Liz. And I fell for 'Spaw's tale, too. My big orange cat Danny used to jump up to the bathroom sink and drink from the faucet, and he'd play with the little trickle of water if i left it on for him.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Teresa
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 04:16 PM

I've had the bitey cats before, and I prayed when I got Hans at 8 weeks that he wouldn't be one. So far, he is a giant 6-month-old monster lummox, and a total wussy ball of affection. :) Loves to be picked up, held upside-down, all of it. He's a little skittish around new people, but that quickly goes away when they are able to pet him. :) He will flick his tail to be played with for hours if you let him, and it is a magnificent thing, all fluffy. All of him is a large orange fluff.

T

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:19 AM

Pull.

















Boom.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: GUEST,skipy
Date: 13 Oct 04 - 12:04 PM

How to wash a cat:-
1 Thoroughly clean the lavvy bowl.
   
2 Add the required amount of shampoo to the cludge water, and have both lids lifted.
   
3 Obtain the mingin' moggy and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.
   
4 In one smooth movement, put mingin' moggy down the bog and close both lids.
   
5 Flush the lavvy three or four times. This provides a "power wash and rinse" which is most effective.
   

Note: You may need to stand on the lid so that the cat cannot escape.
   
6 Have someone to open the door to the outside and ensure that there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.
   
7 Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.
   
8 The now-clean cat will rocket out of the toilet, and run outside where he will dry himself.
   
9 Repeat once cat is dry.

Signed "The Dog"!

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Gurney
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 05:58 AM

But seriusly, if you have a cat that needs a pill (other than the leaden kind) you can wrap it in veal (weiner shnitzel, however it is spelled) and tie the parcel with cotton, cutting most of the surplus off. They know it is a ring-in, but it tastes SOOO good.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:10 PM

You can get a cat to eat mustard, too. Just put a wee dab directly underneath his tail.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 03:52 AM

Flossie my lovely tabby and white floozie cat is a real queen. I have to trim her claws a little as she is not very adept at scratching them down on the cat post. (she came from a bad home and is only now learning how to do some things). I sit her next to me on the sofa, and lift a paw, she holds it up for me like in a manicure parlour and lets... LETS! me clip her claws.

I've also been teaching her how to use her cat post, to the amusement of me other half. It took me an age showing her how to use the cat flap (again to my other halfs amusement).

And when she was given fresh chicken and fresh fish for the first time she went mad for it.

It's taken us a year to get her to like us, and in that year we've taught her how to play (she didn't even know how to do that - her previous owner had given her no stimulation at all, she was ignored and left to get on with it).

Now, anything is fair game, she hides behind sofas and launches an attack on you. Pounces on the family dog when it is least likely to expect it. And has turned in to the most lovely cat ever.

But I still miss my bad ass cat that I had from when I was 5. He died when I was 25, a feral kitten which we tamed. It was never a dull moment with him, and he was like a tasmanian devil. But with us he was a softy. Pee him off though, and he'd launch an attack maybe 20 minutes later when you are least expecting it. He chased me down the garden once when I was smaller. Me hopping in the air, him flying behind me attacking me.

He hated men (except my dad), but was the fabbest cat ever!

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:19 PM

My older sis harbored a vicious yellow fiend she named "Puddy Tat", a nuisance and biter all his life. The only time I felt a moment of affection for him was when he attacked a particularly abnoxious livestock feed salesman by jumping on him from the top of an old refrigerator, ripping a strip out of the back of the guys shirt from shoulder to belt. The memory is still vivid after almost 50 years.
No, I'm not a cat-hater; just referring to one cat who wasn't easy to love.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: beadie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:32 PM

Remember:

Where a dog will consider humans as "family",

A cat thinks of humans as "staff."

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: black walnut
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:30 PM

I had a cat who was EVIL. She would lunge and bite and she terrified me. We tried Prozac. We tried Valium. We tried love. We tried patience. We tried everything. We were either going to have her put down, or take her back to the people we got her from when she was a kitten.

In the nick of time, a vet suggested something that worked! Every time we feed her, we put the dish down, then place a hand on the top of her head - putting her in a place of submission. If she can keep the hand on there for a few seconds without turning and snapping it off, she gets to eat her food. Otherwise, we put the food bowl into the cupboard, with her watching, and she isn't allowed to eat it for 2 or 3 hours. Then same thing - hand on head for a few seconds, then eat the food.

Within 2 days, she was CURED! She had only a couple of small relapses. She is NICE now!!! Try it. It works.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad Cat!!!!
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 01:50 AM

Ever read the Hemmingway scene:

Sniper in the church steeple for days on end with only a cat for company. He talks to it, he shares his rations.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Man is shot in the head - cat eats his brains.