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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2835.0. "SNAILS TRAIL" by CHEFS::MASONC () Thu Sep 07 1989 12:20

    Can someone please advise me as to what this silvery slimey stuff
    is that I keep finding on my carpet. We have never had it before
    until we got our cat. Now on two occasions I have found what looks
    like a snails trail on my carpet. Well needless to say it is not
    a snails trail. I just wondered if anyone else had this problems
    or if you know what it is. Please help because it is discusting.
    
    A Kitty Owner
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2835.1Huh??PENPAL::TRACHMANExoticSH=Persian in UnderwearThu Sep 07 1989 16:3011
    Silvery slimey stuff ???
    
    How about a few more details?  How old is the cat/kitten?
    Does the SSS look like worms?  Has the cat been wormed?
    Has the cat been vomiting?  Or does he/she have hairballs?
    Is the cat old enough to be a spay or a neuter?
    
    I guess I have never seen a 'snails trail', but sure would
    like to know what that is !!
    
    E.T.
2835.2CASPRO::SPINNEYThu Sep 07 1989 16:4910
    the closest I have seen my cats do which is similar is when
    they get into something that smells good but tastes awful.
    they spit it out and leave trails of spit sometimes mixed
    with whatever they got into. Misha's trail was purple - she
    got into a glass of grapejuice and hated it.
    could your cat be nibbling on something that would look
    silvery?
    
    Fran
    
2835.3AIMHI::OFFENMon Sep 11 1989 18:457
    Huh????   I have three cats and never saw SSS like that before??
    
    Can't wait to find out what this is.
    
    Sandi  (mom to Lightning, DejaVu, Thunder & Storm)
    
    
2835.4WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JOMon Sep 11 1989 19:466
    Any chance that it is .... SNAILS!!!
    
    
    (Sorry, just couldn't resist, ;^})
    
    Jo
2835.5SUBURB::TUDORKSKEADUGENGAWed Oct 11 1989 17:1813
    In our house it is worm trails - Tarot just can't resist bringing
    them in.
    
    Don't read next bit if you're having your lunch..
    

    Letting them crawl around on the carpet for a while and then EATING
    them - yuk!
    
    Before anyone starts flaming me - he is very, very well fed - he
    just feels he has a deficiency of worms in his diet:-)

    
2835.6Worms?GENIE::KRINERtanstaaflWed Oct 11 1989 19:525
Re: .5

Maybe Tarot thinks he is a fish??? 

Paul
2835.7CRUISE::NDCNancy Diettrich-Cunniff-I wanted it allThu Oct 12 1989 12:537
    re: .5 Hey listen - my guys catch moths, dragon-flies, flies, crickets
    and grasshoppers, either while out on their leashes or on the deck.
    They they bring them down to the livingroom, yodeling all the way,
    and procede to play with them, then eat them (crunch!!) in front
    of us...  "Look mommy and daddy what a good hunter I am!" (blech!)
      Nancy DC
    
2835.8EDUHCI::GOLDBERGwake up DEAD!Thu Oct 12 1989 14:1010
    
    
    8*)
    
    Who needs bug killer, etc. when you've got kitties?  My two are
    the official bug killing/consuming kitties of the house!
    
    Yum yum.  Maybe it gives them extra protein?
    
    F.
2835.9Fly PatrolGENIE::KRINERtanstaaflThu Oct 12 1989 17:3515
Reminds me of Dinky, she was our official "Fly Patrol", which
actually included any flying bugs.  If she spotted a fly, she
would stalk the unsuspecting insect, while making this stuttering
sort of meow "Ma' a' a' a'".  Her head would swivel in ways I 
couldn't believe a head would swivel.  Then, things would get 
quiet...there she was, crouching in the middle of the floor,
not moving a muscle, glaring at the fly on the ceiling...we,
never actually saw her catch any of the flies, but there was
always a damp spot on the wall or ceiling where the fly WAS,
and Dinky would smile, lick her chops, and look around for
more!  

How DID she get those flies from the ceiling????

Paul
2835.10Big, black and too macho to meowSUBURB::TUDORKSKEADUGENGAThu Oct 12 1989 18:038
    Re .6
    
    I don't know what Tarot thinks he is, but whatever it is, its mean
    (when it can hide behind me), playful (especially when you're trying
    to sleep), painful (when playing gets out of hand and the claws
    emerge), loving (at 8:45 when I'm late for work)..
    
    and totally delightful.
2835.11BLKWDO::PARKSMon Oct 16 1989 22:338
Tsunami takes care of all the "big" bugs in my apartment, but the other
day we had some intruders that she could only warn me of . . . ANTS!
She just sat there looking and M.a.a.a.ing as if to say "Hey mom! I can't
get ALL of those!"  They were invading her dish and she definately looked
confused.  One spray of RAID ended that intrusion, but Nami stood guard
for hours afterward.

Becky