Posted on 09/30/2007 2:00:02 PM PDT by Daffynition
Really the cat is not fixed? Aren’t you going to do that?
Why should I? He never goes outdoors. He doesn’t spray the furniture. I see no reason to put him through the stress.
I know what you mean. Our 20# desert lynx slipped out while our daughter was house sitting and she couldn’t get him back in. We can’t leave him at the vet because they will sedate him to make him stop screaming. He lived outside (with food and water of course) for a full two weeks because he was not coming in with my daughter, granddaughter and their 70 pound beagle (actually its a fox hound but they were told it was a beagle.
You captured a wonderful moment!
What a great name for a cat! How’d you think of it? (You are going to get Dinky snipped? You won’t like the spraying all over and the constant yowling if you don’t). Sorry for sticking my nose in but it’s so important not to have kitten ‘accidents’! They’re being euthanized by the thousands, so pardon my rudeness please?
He’s beautiful! And evidently quite the personality! Congratulations on your new pet ownership!
Keeping the newbie separate and in one room with all he/she needs gives ‘em the opportunity to ‘buy-in’ to this new situation so that they’re not easily chased off. The newbie will then at least have the opportunity to feel as if the new place is just as much THEIR territory and home as the oldies, and as RFF says, gives them all a chance to sniff each other safely under the door with no blood shed! And if you take the dishes that the newbie has eaten out of and the dishes that the old hands have eaten out of and exchange them, the scent of each other becomes familiar as well. Toys, too. Exchange from room to room the toys or blankies used. It all helps with the introductions!
That’s hysterical! Too bad they haven’t figured out a way to make moving pictures on greeting cards. That’d be a great one to send somebody who’s gotten a new pet!
Oh I’m so sorry. A few years back? Did you go to Kitties R Us and get more? They make more all the time, y’know.
Had him for about 6 years, no yowling or spraying.
1. Find large burlap sack.
2. Insert new cat into burlap sack.
3. Insert older cat into burlap sack.
4. Seal sack.
5. Allow for dominance training. (As little as 10 minutes, as long as 2 hours.
6. Open sack. Excercise concluded.
OR
1. Open can of tuna.
2. Smear tuna liberally over both cats.
3. Insert cats in confined space.
4. Allow for dominance training. (As little as 10 minutes, as long as a 2 hours.)
5. Release kittys from confinement. Excercise concluded.
6. Use Lysol spray for smell.
I hope you realize this is all in satire.
My late mother said she didn’t like cats (she didn’t like pets in general — thought they were “dirty”), and it seems that every time she came for a visit to my house, my cats would always gravitate toward her. My one cat, Peaches, was often considered the “goodwill ambassador” for cats. She gave space to people who were allergic, but if you seemed to just not like cats, she would try to persuade you otherwise. She even got my brother to like cats, which was good because the woman he married had two of them when they were courting. Brother and sister-in-law now have four cats.
Oh! I was thinking he was a kitten as you’d say ‘last of a litter’ but you did say yard cats, not kittens. You’re lucky then, you got a good ‘un and it’s unusual that he’s not yowling or spraying. But you did say that he was hot to trot! I assumed then he’d be busily trying to find someone to trot with.
Someone in the neighborhood has a male Siamese (never been neutered)that is running wild and he regularly comes over here and harasses my 3 kitties that go outside. Friday morning at about 3am he leaped on our oldest cat (18) and assaulted her. She’s been unable to walk since it happened, very sore and hurting. He’s a beautiful cat but has no social skills whatsoever. He’s caused more trouble for us and I guess I’m a little sensitive to un-nuetered male cats! If Dinky had lived free for six years as a yard cat, he’s already made a bunch of kittens, I would guess.
Fixed cats are healthier and the stress he has right now is the need to mate....which is more than it would be if you got him fixed.....he will also become much calmer.
He is perfectly calm as it is.
Oh sure, NOW you tell me.....
Gone in 60 miliseconds.
Any little sound coming from outside and you’d swear Miss Molly was capable of communicating directly with Scotty to Beam ‘Er Up!
“Should the time come when it seems appropriate to attempt friendship with a cat, I’ve found it best to simply extend one finger several inches away from its face and hold it there for 10 seconds or more.”
I’ve tried that but the cats never know what the middle finger means. :)
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