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(vanity) Cat teethbrushing experiences: DO TELL
9/28/08 | marty_f

Posted on 09/28/2008 7:42:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro

So earlier today we had a most illuminating thread on the travails of bathing one's cat.

Now I'd like to hear from cat owners' experiences with brushing their cats' teeth:

We have a cute little kitteh or two here whose breath is beginning to represent The Crypt. And I've heard that remedial dental work on cats can be $pendy as all get-out.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cat; toothbrush
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To: martin_fierro

61 posted on 09/29/2008 6:25:30 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Nice pearly whites!


62 posted on 09/29/2008 6:27:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: BuffaloJack

Amazing what they can do with CGI these days. And I say that because based on my cat experience - those aren’t real cats.


63 posted on 09/29/2008 7:03:02 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (A prayer's as good as bayonet on a day like this.)
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To: BuffaloJack
Huh! That didn't look so bad.

I suspect my experience may differ.

64 posted on 09/29/2008 8:17:43 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: piasa

That’s very interesting, piasa. Wonder why my vet just always says, “no bones.”
thanks for the info.


65 posted on 09/29/2008 10:43:45 AM PDT by kitkat (EX DEO LIBERTAS (From God, liberty))
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To: LucyT; Slings and Arrows; Daffynition; nw_arizona_granny; potlatch; devolve; Fred Nerks; ...
Everyone with any experience with cats knows that all you hafta do is leave your toothbrushes out and your cat will clean its own teeth.




66 posted on 09/29/2008 10:54:16 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: martin_fierro

I think my cat needs an enema. How does that happen?


67 posted on 09/29/2008 10:57:42 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP! It's gonna be a BIG one.)
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To: Lady Jag

Good idea! I think I’ll try that with our cats.


68 posted on 09/29/2008 11:18:03 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Buy KY Jelly stock - congress is screwing us without a kiss.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
I think my cat needs an enema. How does that happen?

You asked...

69 posted on 09/29/2008 11:20:21 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: alarm rider
Pay the vet, it’s not worth the suffering.

That was certainly true for our last kitty - Li'L Iron Jaws. She would twist her own head off before opening her mouth for us - a task made even harder since she was Persian and had a flat face.

Our current Persian kitties came from a trailer park in southern Virginia. They are little slack-jawed yokels. If you flip them on their backs and rub between their eyes, their little mouths drop open. Makes it easy to give pills and give the teeth a brush now and then. I've never seen anything like it.

70 posted on 09/29/2008 11:21:00 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: martin_fierro

An attempt to brush my cat’s teeth in February of this year cost me my life.


71 posted on 09/29/2008 11:23:31 AM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: Lady Jag

LOL


72 posted on 09/29/2008 11:27:53 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: Exit148

Please, I’m lucky I can brush my “big gray” cat’s fur....he try’s to take my hand off.


73 posted on 09/29/2008 11:32:25 AM PDT by geege
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To: martin_fierro

I like my hands and arms intact..Do they have breath mints for cats?
I feed my cats dry food only..I have never had a “breath problem”.


74 posted on 09/29/2008 11:33:12 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: Arrowhead1952

You can imagine how I found out!


75 posted on 09/29/2008 12:40:12 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: pabianice; null and void

I did a blinking Gif of Angror the Jabberwock.
Found here: http://i12.tinypic.com/61mlt93.gif


76 posted on 09/29/2008 2:12:14 PM PDT by Darksheare (My cyborg mecha-squirrels shall taunt that annoying Pomeranian over there..)
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To: Lady Jag; martin_fierro
Purriodontal perfection perchance? ...


77 posted on 09/29/2008 2:13:08 PM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, SorosÂ… use a RED crayon.)
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To: Petronski

Your life?


78 posted on 09/29/2008 5:09:02 PM PDT by null and void (Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.-F. de La Rochefoucauld)
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To: meowmeow
I wish we had a cat that would drop a jaw open. Sadly, that is not true, and I have the scars to prove it as such.

The vet has the stuff to do the job. Let him bleed.

In the course of my life, I have been stepped on and thrown from horses, run over by cattle, bitten by dogs when trying to break up a fight. I have been spat upon by Llamas, slapped by a monkey and had snakes jump at me.

By far, a cat is the most dangerous when irritated.

79 posted on 09/29/2008 5:10:50 PM PDT by alarm rider (Peace! through superior fire power....)
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To: null and void

Yep. I was killed in February. ;O)


80 posted on 09/29/2008 5:13:38 PM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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