BS: Cat farts.

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 07:39 PM

Interestingly enough, most of ours never fart....they are evidently satisfied with the occasional crap on the floor instead. It seems to be a game of sorts with them as we have three litter boxes and it isn't related to how clean they are. I think the little assholes do it just to piss me off. We have them ranging in age from almost 20 years to 4 months, 7 in all. Cutter, my old black kittup,in his last days; Genoa (Poogee)a calico, who is only affectionate when she's pregnant or nursing, the best Momma Cat I ever saw; Freddie Cougar, a blue/green eyed, champagne tabby, who sleeps 20 hours a day but also loves to nuzzle your neck; Gus, a sweet but bad-assed and fat-assed, long haired gray; Scrounger, my boy, and the name reflects his disposition, but also a great lap sitter, very doglike with me, follows me everywhere; Moggy, a gray & white Cornish Rex, suffering from terminal weirdness, but an outstanding lap cat; and Rocky, 4 months old and full of himself.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Micca
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 06:55 PM

Have you tried charcoal biscuits, you don't feed them. you ram them up with a broom handle (running for cover)or the old Simon Wales remedy of a champagne cork (think shape)and a crocquet mallet( dons tin hat and flak jacket and runs for it)

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Áine
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 06:44 PM

How much is that kitten in the window, The one with the odorous bum. The aroma is one that we should know, Reminds me of green river scum.

His eyes are the colour of emeralds, His toothies they shine in the sun, I would love to hug him and kiss him, If his butt didn't smell like bad rum.

Next . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 06:25 PM

Me, too, Kath. I asked my vet about Science Diet and they said this one was different. Maybe they are just scamming me for the money. Oh, and I had the name wrong...it is c/d.

Bert, because my Siamese, Heyokah, my "mamma's boy" is almost toothless and my other Siamese, Lovee, my "grrrrl", has an auto-immune thing which makes her mouth sore, I mix a little bit of the little tins of Fancy Feast with a jar of chicken baby food. They each get a litle over a spoonful twice a day. The rest of them, Kazell, Charlie, Kelpie, and Trystan get about a spoonful per day of just the Fancy Feast.

In 1983, all of my cats had free rein to wander in and out over the prairie and home. When we moved to New England, they all became strictly house cats; the traffic etc. would have quickly killed them all. Since then, they've all become accustomed, even the old die hard prairie cats, the last one of which passed on this year, to being inside all of the time, safe and sound.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: paddymac
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 06:12 PM

How much is that kitten in the window, the one with the odorous bum.
The aroma is one that we should know, reminds me of ____ ____ ___ ___.

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: KathWestra
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 05:33 PM

My cats (Tosspot a.k.a. "Tossie" and Misty)never go out in the Mud (or the barn, or the street...) They don't fart either, maybe due to the fact that, like Kat's cats, they eat Iams and Science Diet (the over-the-counter equivalent of what Kat gets from her vet). Mine are 17-1/2 and 13-ish years old and even if they were malodorous, I'd like that better than not having them around. They probably are wondering what they should feed ME..... *BG*

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 05:27 PM

You thought it was the lyrics to 'Smelly Cat' didn't you!!

How about starting on this one then...

How much is that kitten in the window, The one with the odourous bum.

I'd love to have barn cats again, I spent a lot of my childhood on my grandfather's farm, and there were always at least 6 lurking about, but that was in Dorset and there aren't that many barns in East London, although there were 7 cats in the area when we moved our two in....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Metchosin
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 05:20 PM

Hey MMario, you have barn cats too! So do I, although the Westie is much better at doing the vermin control job. Would love to have our Mao Mao inside, but both my husband and daughters are severely alergic to cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Áine
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 04:41 PM

What's all this then? I thought this was a song thread . . . uh, you mean it's not? Well, maybe it could be, depending on whether or not your cat can get 'jiggy' with it . . .

-- Áine (proudly owned by 3 normal size alley cats and a 17 lb. Siamese toy-boy who suffer from SBDs)

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: MMario
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 03:47 PM

heh-heh! That's where having "Barn Cats" is an advantage. We have two large (18 and 19 lb) orange ex-toms; who not nly always smell nice, but are the friendliest cats I've ever been associated with. They will do anything to be allowed indoors for a half hour or so....

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 03:42 PM

Felix has always been good for me - Other half did the shopping a few weeks ago and got a deadly British brand called 'Paws'. Sorry, 'Spaw, but it made both cats impossible to live with, and I'm convinced that that is what made the computer crash last week..... There has always been a somewhat 'kittenish' aroma about them, but after eating 'Paws', they could have farted for Britain.... They could have filled the Goodyear Blimp and made it float round the world like Brightling Orbiter!!! Talk about painstripper poo!!! Now I'm no shrinking violet (you've seen the picture....) and I'm used to the malodourous manefestations of many a morris dance team, after all, I've had a baby, and there is precious little worse than baby poo, but two cats and a tin of 'Paws'and I'm screaming for mercy. Maybe if I sent them to Rotorua in NZ........

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: Bert
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 03:17 PM

OK, I'll try Iams next time. Any suggestions on canned food?

Subject: RE: BS: Cat farts.
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 03:11 PM

HD, I get it from the vet. One of them has to be on it for age and being prone to bladder infections. It is really good for them; little output and they don't eat as much, yet don't seem any hungrier than normal, plus that one has gained a little weight.

Used to use IAMS and had no problems with *SBD's then, either.

katlaughing

*silent, but deadlies

Subject: Cat farts.
From: Bert
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 02:11 PM

Ol' Liz the squeak, in the 'new similes' thread was complaining of her malodorous cat.

Well, we've got three of the little buggers who are just as bad, if not worse.

I recall reading something once about the choice of catfood making a difference. Does anyone have a brand name that they recommend which might alleviate this serious problem?

Bert. (quick before I run out of joss sticks)