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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / September 2007Tiger Balm
Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs them! I started out having the flu and now it's progressed to an annoying cough. Last night I decided to try that supposedly sure-fire night-time cough remedy where you put a thick layer of Vick's Vapo Rub on the soles of your feet at bedtime. Unfortunately I didn't have any Vick's, but I did have Tiger Balm. I figured it must be close to the same thing so I tried it. I got on the bed and oped the jar of Tiger Balm. Vino jumped up on the bed and approached me. I held out the jar for him to sniff and it was like he hit an invisible force field that prevented him from getting any closer. It was so funny the way he instantly stopped dead in his tracks and jerked his head back a bit. And this from a distance of probably a foot from the jar! Anyway, I coated the soles of my feet and put some socks on. Then I went to bed. I was lying in bed reading when suddenly Vino jumped up and attacked my feet under the doona! Wow, I thought, he's sure playful tonight, he hasn't done "bedmice" for ages! But it just went on, and on, and on! He was burrowing my thick winter doona like crazy, trying to dig through to my feet. I finally realized that it was the (by now much fainter) smell of the Tiger Balm that was driving him crazy. It got to the point where I had to push him away a couple of times, I was afraid for my doona cover. But he just kept returning, glazed look in his eyes, purring non-stop. Finally he must have had his fill and he sacked out in a catnip-high type trance and went to sleep. As for the cough remedy, I didn't cough all night and had a great sleep, so it must have worked. I will try it again tonight. We'll see if Vino has the same reaction again!  SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson >Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately >and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >so it must have worked. I will try it again tonight. We'll see if Vino >has the same reaction again! I've never heard of Vicks (or Tiger Balm) on the feet, but hey, what ever works. I've used Tiger Balm quite often in the past for sore aching muscles, and it's wonderful stuff. Glad Vino was having fun with it. -bonbon >>Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately >>and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > -bonbon Just keep it away from "sensitive" areas. :P Stinky loves all minty, eucalyptus-y smells, too. ;) >Just keep it away from "sensitive" areas. PLEASE!!!! I still flinch at the memory even through it was 34 years ago of when I forgot just that! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > >Just keep it away from "sensitive" areas. > PLEASE!!!! I still flinch at the memory even through it was 34 years ago of > when I forgot just that! I'm trying to think how it would get from one's feet to a "sensitive" area. I'm also curious as to what happened 34 years ago. You knew someone was going to ask! :) Joyce >>> Just keep it away from "sensitive" areas. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Joyce I was going to ask but I thought I might get a slap. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >I'm also curious as to what happened 34 years ago. You knew someone was >going to ask! :) I applied some Tiger balm not then knowing of its medicinal properties because someone told me and my then (not surprisingly we didn't last much longer after this!) BF that the scent had aphrodisiac properties when applied to certain parts of the male anatomy I leave the rest to your imagination Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > I leave the rest to your imagination Oh. My. God. SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> I'm also curious as to what happened 34 years ago. You knew someone >> was going to ask! :) [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs The thought brings tears to my eyes, and there was me thinking in your previous post you were talking about certain parts of the female anatomy. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >>> I'm also curious as to what happened 34 years ago. You knew someone >>> was going to ask! :) [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > previous post you were talking about certain parts of the female anatomy. > ;-) I see. That would be OK then, eh? :P >>>> I'm also curious as to what happened 34 years ago. You knew someone >>>> was going to ask! :) [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > I see. That would be OK then, eh? :P That's why I didn't ask, I thought I might get a slap. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > >> I'm also curious as to what happened 34 years ago. You knew someone > >> was going to ask! :) [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > The thought brings tears to my eyes, and there was me thinking in your > previous post you were talking about certain parts of the female anatomy. > ;-) Well, if things went well that evening, some of it most likely *did* get applied to parts of the female anatomy... ouch! Joyce >Well, if things went well that evening, some of it most likely *did* >get applied to parts of the female anatomy... ouch! Alas having his "bits" annointed with tiger balm sort of cooled his ardour so nothing was applied to me apart from a lot of rude words! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > >Well, if things went well that evening, some of it most likely *did* > >get applied to parts of the female anatomy... ouch! > Alas having his "bits" annointed with tiger balm sort of cooled his ardour so > nothing was applied to me apart from a lot of rude words! Oh, dear. Time for a few words with whomever had told you it was an aphrodisiac! What *were* they thinking?! Joyce >Oh, dear. Time for a few words with whomever had told you it was an >aphrodisiac! What *were* they thinking?! They said they "read it somewhere"- obviously sadistics weekly! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > I applied some Tiger balm not then knowing of its medicinal properties > because someone told me and my then (not surprisingly we didn't last > much longer after this!) BF that the scent had aphrodisiac properties > when applied to certain parts of the male anatomy Have you read Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting"? (No I'm not going to summarize the relevant bit...) ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 > Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately > and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Rub on the soles of your feet at bedtime. Unfortunately I didn't > have any Vick's, but I did have Tiger Balm. (snip) >the (by now much fainter) smell of the Tiger Balm that was > driving him crazy. It got to the point where I had to push him away [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > sleep, so it must have worked. I will try it again tonight. We'll > see if Vino has the same reaction again! Vino's a little nut! :) I love Tiger Balm. I use it on left shoulder and it really helps soothe the ache. They make "pain patches", too, and they're much cheaper than any other stick-on pain patch you can buy at a drug store. Hope you feel better very soon. Jill > Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately > and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > so it must have worked. I will try it again tonight. We'll see if Vino > has the same reaction again! When I was a child and caught a cold, my mother rubbed Vick's Vapo Rub on my chest and covered it with a flannel rag. I never heard of putting it on feet. On the chest, the vapors rose to nose and throat. The last time I bought a small bottle of Vick's it cost $10.00. It used to be ten or fifteen cents. MLB >>Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately >>and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > The last time I bought a small bottle of Vick's it cost $10.00. It used > to be ten or fifteen cents. MLB Yeah, and bread used to be ten cents a loaf, meat fifty cents a pound! (I think we betray our age!) >> [quoted text muted] > > Yeah, and bread used to be ten cents a loaf, meat fifty > cents a pound! (I think we betray our age!) >> [quoted text muted] You are so right! MLB >>>Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately >>>and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > Yeah, and bread used to be ten cents a loaf, meat fifty cents a pound! (I > think we betray our age!) And don't forget 3 cent stamps and penny postcards. I can't remember when postage went up to 4 cents, but I know it was at least several years after I had married. Joy <snip> >> The last time I bought a small bottle of Vick's it cost $10.00. It used >> to be ten or fifteen cents. MLB > >Yeah, and bread used to be ten cents a loaf, meat fifty >cents a pound! (I think we betray our age!) Don't forget.....it used to cost 10 bucks to spay a cat. > <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Don't forget.....it used to cost 10 bucks to spay a cat. Here in NY, we have the pizza rule. The price of a slice of pizza, has, all my life, seemed to be tacked to the price of a subway token. I remember when both were 15 cents. Now they're both two dollars. :( >> [quoted text muted] > > Here in NY, we have the pizza rule. The price of a slice of pizza, has, all > my life, seemed to be tacked to the price of a subway token. I remember > when both were 15 cents. Now they're both two dollars. :( I remember the first time I had a slice of pizza it was at Woolworth's (remember that one) and it was 15 cents. MLB >>>[quoted text muted] >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I remember the first time I had a slice of pizza it was at Woolworth's > (remember that one) and it was 15 cents. MLB Back during WW2, my mom and I used to go shopping on Thrusday nights (the stores were only open in the evening one day a week). We'd have dinner at Woolworth's, first, for about 35 cents each! (Real "dinner" - meat, potato and veg, plus dessert and beverage.) > <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Don't forget.....it used to cost 10 bucks to spay a cat. And my starting salary, when I left school, was $180 a MONTH! (All my friends considered me fortunate - most of them started at only $160.) Like they say, everything is relative. >> <snip> >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > friends considered me fortunate - most of them started at only $160.) > Like they say, everything is relative. My parents paid $75 a month for the apartment we lived in when I was born. I think the placegoes for a couple thousand now. yeah and as my son would say you all walked three miles to school in the snow, uphill both ways. They just can't imagine anything but jumping a car to go two blocks to buy a sida. Makeing a list for once a week shopping would tramatize so many. Sorry, just had to add my two cents, ooppss would be a dollar by now! >>> <snip> >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > My parents paid $75 a month for the apartment we lived in when I was born. > I think the placegoes for a couple thousand now. > yeah and as my son would say you all walked three miles to school in the > snow, uphill both ways. They just can't imagine anything but jumping a car > to go two blocks to buy a sida. Ha. The way things have been going, we can tell our kids, "When I was young, we rode a bus to school, and it had heat, and we had hot lunches every day, and everyone had books and pencils and paper, and we had music and art and phys ed classes..." and they will be amazed. (OK, the buses didn't have heat - poetic license.) I think the next generation will be the one to tell us that *they* are walking uphill both ways in the snow. And don't forget barefoot! Joyce > > yeah and as my son would say you all walked three miles to school in the > > snow, uphill both ways. They just can't imagine anything but jumping a car [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I think the next generation will be the one to tell us that *they* are > walking uphill both ways in the snow. And don't forget barefoot! Given the way the world's governments are ignoring global warming, the "outsourcing" of American jobs, and the rapid melting away of America's "middle class", you may well be right, alas! >> [quoted text muted] > > Yeah, and bread used to be ten cents a loaf, meat fifty > cents a pound! (I think we betray our age!) >> [quoted text muted] Guess I'm lucky I can still remember!!! MLB > Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately and > on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs them! [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > so it must have worked. I will try it again tonight. We'll see if Vino > has the same reaction again! Given a chance he's gonna kill those socks today. Jo > Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately > and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs them! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > did have Tiger Balm. I figured it must be close to the same thing so I > tried it. When I was a kid, my mom always rubbed Vick's on my chest, warmed a flannel cloth over a lamp, and pinned it to my pajama top over my chest. That seemed to work - still does, if I have a cough that seems likely to keep me awake. (Mentholatum works, too - apparently anything with a fair content of menthol.) > Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately > and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > overflow. > Check out pictures of Vino at:http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson Britta, I'm sorry you're not feeling well, I hope by now you're feeling a little better. Purrs and gentle headbutts on the way to you. Special chin scritches to Vino who says he's only trying to make you feel better and if you think the route to feeling better is through your feet then he'll rub your feet. Julie, Hobbes, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus Well, I did it again the next night but Vino wasn't fussed with the Tiger Balm. I guess he got all his cravings out of his system the night before??? Strange cat, that one. On the other hand, I had a good sleep again that night, but I didn't use it last night and woke up at 2am hacking. Hmmm, there might be something to this trick... SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson >> Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane >> lately and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> happiness overflow. >> Check out pictures of Vino at:http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson > Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately > and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs them! [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > so it must have worked. I will try it again tonight. We'll see if Vino > has the same reaction again! I hope you are feeling much better by now, Britta. Lots of purrs and best wishes, Polonca and Soncek Stosh actually likes the smell of such things; but his favorite is Gold Bond itch cream. He is all over me and Louie when we put this stuff on, and we have to do it at night and cover up quickly, or else4 he'll try to lick it. Blessed be, Baha >Sorry I have participated so little lately. Life's been insane lately >and on top of it all I've been sick. So purrs for everyone who needs [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >cough remedy where you put a thick layer of Vick's Vapo Rub on the soles >of your feet at bedtime.
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