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Magic Mood Jeep? - 18 Oct 2004 21:26 GMT

OK, Lizzie picked DH out when he visited the local shelter - that I'm fine
with. I'm also fine with the fact that she loves on him - aggressively -
when he sits at his computer, wanting to be on his chest/stomach so that
he's almost reclining in his office chair, and kneading his belly with ALL
FOUR PAWS (even though we trim the front, I don't think I could tolerate it
a bit).

But now, just this morning, after I got up, stumbled into the kitchen in
search of a liquid form of caffeine (not liking coffee, it's usually tea, or
soda), I made my way to my desk to check the email & newsgroup postings.

Not five minutes after I sit down , I smell this god-awful smell, and it's
emanating from under my desk. I look, and there sits Lizzie, with a smug
look on her face, tinkling on the floor!

I'm not sure if she's telling me that a) litterboxes need changed, b) how
dare you lock me out of the bedroom!, c) GET RID OF THOSE @#$!@$% KITTENS,
or d) she hates me more that I originally thought, or if she's in need of a
dr's visit (and since I'm the one who will take her, I will become even
higher on her hate-list).

I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we lost
Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)

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Annie Wxill - 19 Oct 2004 00:42 GMT

...> I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we
lost

> Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)

...

I hope it turns out to be just a one-time thing. If not, then something
easily treated. It makes you nervous when you've already experienced a
loss.
Annie

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Dan M - 19 Oct 2004 04:29 GMT

> I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we lost
> Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)

Oh dear! We'll be purring that Lizzie will check out ok.

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jemifur - 19 Oct 2004 14:46 GMT

"Magic Mood Jeep©" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:<0GVcd.263758$MQ5.244881@attbi_s52>...

> OK, Lizzie picked DH out when he visited the local shelter - that I'm fine
> with. I'm also fine with the fact that she loves on him - aggressively -
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> I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we lost
> Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)

You may want to have a look at something before you assume worse case
scenario (CRF or a spiteful cat). Lizzie is a female cat, and having
only been owned by male cats I may be way off base, but the fallowing
happened to me three days ago. I was standing next to DH, who was
reclining in a chair. Simba was on the back of the chair chewing on
the leather. I picked Simba up with one hand under his bottom and one
under his two front arms. To my surprise he urinated on my hand -
just a little trickle. Now, this cat loves DH and is not overly fond
of me, but he had never gone so far as to pee on me. Well, I put him
down and he walked a few feet and then dribbled a little more urine on
the carpet. At this point I realized something was not right, Simba
looked so upset that he had gone outside his box, and he had never wet
on the carpet before. My DH happens to have a Doctorate in Animal
Science/ Physiology so looked at Simba. After gently pulling aside
the sheath of the penis, we noticed that Simba had a fairly large
piece of cat litter stuck to his penis. He had been unable to clean
it off via the usual licking because every time he went to "unsheathe"
and clean it rubbed the piece of litter, causing pain. We wiped off
the litter with a cool damp cloth, and have looked at the spot for the
last two nights. Simba is doing just fine and has had no more
accidents. Lizzie is female, but you may want to have a look at her
back-end anyhow, just to be sure it is not just a piece of something
causing irritation and elimination problems.

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Dan M - 19 Oct 2004 15:04 GMT

>>I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we lost
>>Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)

And it TED doesn't find anything organic wrong, it might be appropriate
to look into kitty mood meds. Human antidepressants (Elavil comes to
mind) are often prescribed to kitties to handle behavioral issues.

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Magic Mood Jeep? - 20 Oct 2004 00:47 GMT

TED is booked until later next week (it's a one-man business, he's the only
vet, and he has one full-time & 2 part-time techs), I changed a couple of
the litterboxes and she hasn't done it since - I think she was telling me
she wanted the litter fresh & clean!

If no further incidents before her appt, I'll cancel it.

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>>>I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we
>>>lost Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)
>
> And it TED doesn't find anything organic wrong, it might be appropriate to
> look into kitty mood meds. Human antidepressants (Elavil comes to mind)
> are often prescribed to kitties to handle behavioral issues.

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Adrian - 20 Oct 2004 15:21 GMT

<SNIP>

I'm so glad your DH found what was troubling Simba and managed sort the
problem so quickly. Simba has good reason to love him, long may kit
continue. Hugs and purrs.

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jemifur - 21 Oct 2004 13:54 GMT

> <SNIP>
>
> I'm so glad your DH found what was troubling Simba and managed sort the
> problem so quickly. Simba has good reason to love him, long may kit
> continue. Hugs and purrs.

Thanks! We were both very happy that the problem was so easy to cure.
It seems so funny to me that we adopted Simba to be my cat - DH did
not want a cat, and most definitely not an orange cat to serve as a
reminder of her RB tigger. But as it turned out Simba and DH have
bonded and are the best of buddies. In fact Simba would like nothing
better then for me to leave the house forever so he could receive all
of DH's attention. Of course we had to adopt a second cat to be "my"
cat - so Pepper entered the picture!
~jemifer

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Adrian - 20 Oct 2004 15:18 GMT

<SNIP>

> I suppose a visit to Dr is due, just to rule out anything medical (we
> lost Ivy to CRF almost 2 years ago...)

I hope whatever's wrong with Lizzie can be easily sorted. Hugs and
purrs.

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