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| 2231.1 | | YOSMTE::CORDESBRO_JO | | Wed Feb 15 1989 17:07 | 9 |
| When Joui was having her first litter in our bedroom all the other
cats where locked out for awhile. They would drive us crazy scratching
and crying at the door to be let in. When they started up, we would
get out of bed, open the door and squirt them with the spray bottle.
Well, that got old (who wants to get out of bed at 3:00 AM to
discipline a cat?), so instead I parked the squirt bottle outside
the bedroom door, kind of as sentry. It worked for us.
Jo
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| 2231.2 | just the idea of it, I guess | PARITY::DENISE | And may the traffic be with you | Wed Feb 15 1989 18:42 | 7 |
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My bedroom has the ol' squirt bottle as sentinel also.
It definately works.
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| 2231.3 | Change the feeding schedule | WITNES::HANNULA | Cat Tails & Bike Wheels Don't Mix | Wed Feb 15 1989 19:45 | 11 |
| I've kind of solved the problem in our house by leaving tons of
food out at night - a huge bowl of dry, plenty of fresh water, and
2 cans of wet food. That usually keeps all cats full unitl morning.
Then for the day, I just leave the dry out - they usually eat about
half of a bowl all day.
Now, the only battle we face at night time is that Elmo likes to
have 3:00 AM cuddle sessions as Portia plays with her jingle bell
ball.
-Nancy
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| 2231.4 | *AN AWAKENING* | AIMHI::OFFEN | | Wed Feb 15 1989 20:51 | 10 |
| Aw, cmon, what's wrong with hugs and kisses at 3:00 A.M.????
Only kidding. Thunder has the 4:30 to 5:30 A.M. shift.
Sandi (Lightning, DejaVu & Thunder's mom)
P.S. I've never scolded her because I dont want her AFRAID to wake
me if something is WRONG in the house (like a fire).
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| 2231.5 | Rattles doorknob | HDSRUS::BOURGEOIS | | Thu Feb 16 1989 14:58 | 7 |
| Mewoing is nothing! How would you like to have a cat that is long
enough that it stands up and rattles the door knob. Kitty hasn't
gotten the bedroom door open yet but it would suprise me in the
least. not
Jan
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| 2231.6 | Opening doors | STAR::BARTH | | Thu Feb 16 1989 15:24 | 11 |
| re: .5
Watch out! As a child we had a Siamese that could open just about any
door that wasn't locked. Screen sliding doors were slid open with a
paw, doors that opened out were opened by jumping up, twisting the
knob, and pushing it open with his body weight on the way down. He
even tried to open the sliding glass door by jumping up to the handle
and dangling there, swinging back and forth. Kitty might just do
it some day!
Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.
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| 2231.7 | I remember it well! | ISLNDS::SOBEK | | Thu Feb 16 1989 18:52 | 14 |
| re:.6
Yup, TiJai used to open any door by wrapping both front paws around
the knob and turning. Cupboard doors and bread boxes were opened
with one extended claw. ....and then there was the Starcraft tent
trailer with the locking door; TiJai turned the handle ..pushed
the door open ..walked across the add-a-room floor ...inserted one
claw in the top of the zipper pull ...pulled up ..and squeezed out!
Honestly ....I couldn't figure out how he got out in the middle
of a strange campground half-way cross the country. I put him back
in the trailer and watched him repeat the performance without even
a hesitation. Ah, those Siamese college grads!
Linda
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| 2231.8 | | CRUISE::NDC | | Fri Feb 17 1989 11:16 | 22 |
| Any chance of decreasing his supper feeding and leaving out some
reduced calorie food when you go to bed? Maybe if he gets to snack
later in the evening he'll make it through until morning.
My parents have a dog that weighed 95 lbs on ONE cup of meal/day.
The poor dog was so hungry that she chewed EVERYTHING. She even
ate the couch (really!) one day. Well, the next time she took
Mindy Moose to the vet the vet told her that Mindy should only
weigh 55 lbs and that she'd have to lose weight. My mother threw
up her hands and said "she's only getting one cup of food a day
as it is". The vet took blood samples and it turned out the dog
was Hypothyroid. She's on medication now and gets 2 cups of food
per day (she's now 9 yrs old) and at 55 lbs looks like she could
stand to gain a pound or two.
Now I"m sure that the percentage of Hypothyroid animals is about
the same as in humans (1% of overweight humans have a thyroid
condition) but if you're not overfeeding and he's still heavy
perhaps that should be checked. (Tho it doesnt sound like this
is the case here - it was just an excuse for a good story).
I guess the moral is- don't be upset by a cat that wants to be
fed at 3 am - you could have a dog that eats your furniture!
Nancy
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