OT: MORE Cat Problems!!! - Page 2

>J* wrote:
>> nope, it doesnt relate to quilting other than lots of us who quilt also have
>> cats who are pretty good QIs. a job someone has to do and they are so good
>> at it.
>> ...and with all that poop to clean up i'd forget to put OT as well.
>> no worrys from me tho.
>Actually, she did label the subject OT--at least it came through that
>way on my computer. Maybe not everyone is seeing that?

> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:35:42 -0700, "Michelle C."
>
>> J* wrote:
>>> nope, it doesnt relate to quilting other than lots of us who quilt also have
>>> cats who are pretty good QIs. a job someone has to do and they are so good
>>> at it.
>>> ...and with all that poop to clean up i'd forget to put OT as well.
>>> no worrys from me tho.
>> Actually, she did label the subject OT--at least it came through that
>> way on my computer. Maybe not everyone is seeing that?
> Some newsreaders, most notoriuously several versions of OE, will strip
> out anything preceding a colon in post titles.
> This is done as a very sloppy way of avoiding posts that start re:re:
> re:re:re:(ad infinitum)
>
> So when you use a colon when marking a post OT, when a person who is
> using a reader that does that responds, it strips the OT off, and as a
> result of that it starts a parallel thread.
> It is why I do not use a colon when I mark a post OT.
>
> NightMist

> I'm not quite sure how this relates to quilting. I don't share your love
> for cats, having been raised on a farm, where people are inside and
> animals are outside. I would not have patience to clean up these messes.
> Good luck to you.
>> I am really in a quandary with these pussycats! Cassie (Old Lady Cat)
>> has turned into as 24 Kt. witch with a capital "B". She has been
>> terrorizing poor Ivy Jane who is the world's most wimpy cat. Ever since
>> Cassie and I returned from Lizard Land things have gone from bad to
>> worse. It's gotten Ivy Jane so traumatized that she is afraid to come
>> upstairs for any length of time. Upstairs is where the litter boxes are
>> so Ivy Jane will come up long enough to take a leak but NOT long enough
>> to go poop. She has taken to going poop on the oriental carpet in the
>> dining room and it is ALWAYS almost liquid. Cleaning that up every day
>> is NOT fun.
>> So, we have -- for the second time in the last three weeks --
>> isolated Cassie from the rest of the cats. The first time she was kept
>> in the guest bathroom for three days. During that time, there was no
>> poop in the dining room and Ivy Jane was running around playing with
>> Bunnie Sue & Cheeto. We let Cassie out and the next day the poop in the
>> dining room started again :-(. We will be gone on a cruise for the next
>> week and have decided to isolate Cassie again but will give her the run
>> of the guest bedroom, bathroom and the computer room. She started a
>> horrible fight last night about midnight and ended up in the bathroom but
>> today I opened the doors to the other rooms and have spent several hours
>> with her while on the 'puter. Ivy Jane has again been playing and
>> hanging out upstairs and in the kitchen.
>> Unfortunately, Ivy Jane pooped in the dining room again this evening
>> and I'm not sure what is going on. I really don't look forward to coming
>> home in seven days to at least seven piles of dried poop stuck to the
>> wool carpet! I'm starting to wonder if she might have something
>> physically wrong so if we come home to lots of poop, I'll be taking her
>> to the Baby Dr. If the Dr. finds nothing physically wrong with her and
>> she continues to use the dining room as her litter box, then I'll try
>> putting a litter box downstairs. If she *still* poops in the dining
>> room, then she will likely be the one to end up being isolated!
>> Ivy Jane was already traumatized when we adopted her and I hate to
>> think of having to put her back into some sort of cage. If that is the
>> case, I'm going to see about getting a very large dog kennel so that she
>> has room to move around and be a bit active. I've already decided that
>> we will have to make room for the kennel in the 'puter room so that she
>> gets to have some safe interaction with the rest of the family.
>> I know that if cats aren't well and have very loose stool, they will
>> often avoid using the litter box (just when they *should* be using the
>> box, too)! If Ivy Jane keeps pooping in the dining room and it's very
>> loose stool, I need to find out if it's a physical problem or just
>> emotional. If she quits then we know for sure that it's an emotional
>> thing that was eliminated once Cassie was removed from the equation.
>> After spending the previous 4 years or so in a smallish cage, I'm not
>> sure but that Ivy Jane might prefer spending her time in a much larger
>> cage so that she feels safer. She's still not letting us get close to
>> her and only allows a little scratching on top of her head while she
>> waits for her canned food. I'm fine with that as I never expected her to
>> get really friendly. I'm just concerned that, after being with us since
>> early January and using the cat box properly from the very first, she has
>> started having such loose bowels AND making her deposits in the dining
>> room.
>> VBS -- seems like I am going to feel like a not so good cat mom no
>> matter what I do. I'll be saying prayers to St. Frank and want to ask
>> again for everyone to send "good stuff" our way in the hopes that we can
>> find a happy solution to this very vexing problem. Thanks & CiaoMeow
>> >^;;^<
>> PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
>> Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
>> their whiskers!
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>

> I'm not quite sure how this relates to quilting.

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