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o man:( I just heard that the owners of the cat that I told you guys about (who lived in the closet) put the poor guy to sleep:( :(

when I asked them why they said "well he's 18 and living in a closet"

He also apparently had gotten too lazy to use the litterobox too, so my guess is the owners felt that his quality of life was too low to keep him around

:( :(
 
^ That is really sad. :sad: But it also sounds like the cat had other problems, as I don't think they typically get "too lazy to use the litterbox". Usually, it's something else that causes box issues, as others here have said.



I just wanted to give an update to my opinion about the cat calming products I tried with my recent move. As I said before, I think the Rescue Remedy did nothing for the cats, so I won't be recommending that one to anybody, but I think the Feliway is working pretty well. It's subtle and it took about a week to notice anything after plugging it into my bedroom wall, but both cats are playing hardcore with their mice - something Gordon hasn't done in years. He's spending more time awake lately chasing things around and putting mice in my bed, on the window sills, on the kitchen counters and in boxes I'm trying to unpack. I know cats sleep a lot, but he was getting to the point of only moving around when he went to get something to eat. Boris is also more social than she's been in a long while.

Of course, this may all be due to the fact that they like the new place a whole bunch more than anywhere else they've been. There's more windows and sunlight and things to look at outside ... and the mice slide really good on the floors, which I think they find really exciting.
 
I'm Ready sorry about your friends cat, that is really sad. It doesnt sound like he got the care he needed in his older years. So many things could have been wrong with him at that age. :(


Dork, so glad to hear the move went well :up:
 
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He's spending more time awake lately chasing things around and putting mice in my bed, on the window sills, on the kitchen counters and in boxes I'm trying to unpack.

Jack does that a lot. Sometimes he brings me toys in the middle of the night, then wakes me up and makes sure I see them, like he's saying, "Here, I brought you this!" :giggle:
 
Gordon has a squirrel friend...

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U2dork said:
Gordon has a squirrel friend...

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:lmao:

Worf just wants to kill the squirrels.

Speaking of Worf, I just got home from a week's vacation to a very pissed off cat. For most of the day she has hissed at me, but I think I am finally forgiven (at least a little bit) because she is now lying on my bed and I got one purr out of her :wink:.

edit: nevermind, she just tried to bite me :reject:

The spray I used was called "At Ease" and it did nothing :grumpy:. I wanted to get Feliway, but it was out of stock last time I went to the pet store.

Orange tabbies are :cute:.

I hope Saki is doing better :hug:.
 
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my cat did a great job of hunting and eating some of the earwigs that have made their way into my room
 
Another cute cat story in the news.

Willy the Cat Burglar Steals Gardening Gloves

PELHAM, N.Y. (July 20) - A pink-and-white gardening glove was missing Thursday morning from Jeannine Goche's front porch. But there was absolutely no mystery about who had taken it. Willy, the cat who loves gloves, had struck again.

"It has to be him," said Goche, an attorney. "I've heard about him."

As if the gardeners of Pelham don't have enough to worry about, with the rocky soil and the slugs and the big trees casting too much shade, a feline felon has been sneaking into their back yards and carrying off gardening gloves.

Goche's flower-patterned number may soon take its place on the clothesline that's strung across the front fence at Willy's home, which he shares with Jennifer and Dan Pifer, their 19-month-old son Hudson and a mutt named Peanut Chew.

Above the line is a sign that says, in words and pictures, "Our cat is a glove snatcher. Please take these if yours."

On Thursday morning, nine pairs of gardening gloves and five singles were strung up, nicely framed by the Pifers' flourishing tomato and basil plants. Willy, looking innocent, was playing with a beetle under the Subaru in the driveway and occasionally dashing after Hudson.

"This all started about the time people began working in their gardens, I guess March or April," Jennifer Pifer said. "Willy would just show up with a glove, or we'd see them on the front steps. I guess it's better than if he was bringing home dead birds."

A friend, Claudia Bonci, said she was in the Pifers' kitchen recently and had noticed a single gardening glove on the sidewalk.

"Jennifer was telling me all about how Willy was bringing home all these gloves, and there was a small pile of them outside the door, and then here comes the cat with a glove in its mouth, proud as could be, like he was giving me a gift."

Some of the gloves really are gift-worthy.

"A lot of these looked brand new," said Pifer. "Some of them are really nice."

She doesn't know how far afield Willy goes to find a glove, but she has learned it takes him two trips to bring home a matched pair.

Willy, born to a stray last spring and taken in by the Pifers as a newborn, stays out some nights but seems to assemble his collection in daytime raids.

"Mostly it happens on weekends, I guess when people are out gardening," Pifer said. "Can't you just imagine people saying, `The gloves were right here, where'd they go?"'

John Cassone, who lives and gardens across the street, said he isn't missing any gloves. He uses "the big, heavy leather kind" and figures Willy, a wiry type, isn't strong enough to drag them away.

Guess again: There's a pair of the big, heavy leather kind among Willy's trophies.

Willy couldn't care less about the gloves after they're captured. On Thursday he could not be enticed into a grab-the-glove game.

In winter, when gardening gloves are hard to find, Willy switches to his offseason prey, dirty socks, which he brings from the laundry room.

"We find them in the hallway, on the stairs," she said. "I used to think, `Oh, I must have dropped it on the way down.' But now I know better."

Despite his criminal nature, neighbors get a kick out of Willy. Cassone said the cat likes to accompany the mailman up and down the block, all the way to each front door. Willy also likes to climb trees and bat at the heads of people below.

Since Pifer grows flowers and vegetables and herbs herself, isn't she tempted to make use of the endless supply of garden gloves that arrive at her doorstep free, shipping included?

"No," she said, a bit sadly. "I do a lot of gardening but I don't use gloves."


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