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Dennis Carr - 17 Dec 2003 07:06 GMT

Yes, silly. Though, the behavior on one is a bit worrisome.

Two of our girls, right? First subject - about a year old. She's
monogamous. That is to say, she will only allow one male cat to attempt
to mate with her.

And it just so happens that the cat she allows to couple with her doesn't
realize that he is incapable of reproduction, since we had him fixed in
September.

Her mother is causing us a bit of grief though. She seems to be having
dental trouble (for which she is going to the vet for), yet for some
reason she favors kibble. Then she's weirding us out. She will
literally dehydrate herself before she drinks out of the small plastic
bowls we have interspersed around the house and in the bedroom where we
have her isolated, yet she will drink from the toilet bowl.

Another source tells us that she seems to prefer containers that are wide.
So my wife gets this wild idea.

A round cake pan.

She fills the pan with water, and we talk a bit. The cat sniffs the
water, ignores it as we talk.

We get quiet. And wait.

She drinks. Thank God. Carefully at first, but then she manages to drink
for about two minutes straight before deciding that it's a good time to
demand I lay on my back so she can sit on my chest and get scritched, by
way of jumping on the bed and pacing around with the occasional "meow".

Granted, we force-fed her 30 mLs of standard issue dihydrogen monoxide,
much to her chagrin, but she's strangely responding well to wide
containers

OK, there's no point to this, I'm just rambling. It's late, and my
brain's gotta spill over. Though I am curious if anyone else has ever
seen that monogamy thing. (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm
kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from
happening.)

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Wendy - 17 Dec 2003 13:18 GMT

Are your girls neutered? I'd be somewhat surprised to hear of a spayed
female letting anyone attempt to mate with her.

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Yes, silly. Though, the behavior on one is a bit worrisome.

Two of our girls, right? First subject - about a year old. She's
monogamous. That is to say, she will only allow one male cat to attempt
to mate with her.

And it just so happens that the cat she allows to couple with her doesn't
realize that he is incapable of reproduction, since we had him fixed in
September.

Her mother is causing us a bit of grief though. She seems to be having
dental trouble (for which she is going to the vet for), yet for some
reason she favors kibble. Then she's weirding us out. She will
literally dehydrate herself before she drinks out of the small plastic
bowls we have interspersed around the house and in the bedroom where we
have her isolated, yet she will drink from the toilet bowl.

Another source tells us that she seems to prefer containers that are wide.
So my wife gets this wild idea.

A round cake pan.

She fills the pan with water, and we talk a bit. The cat sniffs the
water, ignores it as we talk.

We get quiet. And wait.

She drinks. Thank God. Carefully at first, but then she manages to drink
for about two minutes straight before deciding that it's a good time to
demand I lay on my back so she can sit on my chest and get scritched, by
way of jumping on the bed and pacing around with the occasional "meow".

Granted, we force-fed her 30 mLs of standard issue dihydrogen monoxide,
much to her chagrin, but she's strangely responding well to wide
containers

OK, there's no point to this, I'm just rambling. It's late, and my
brain's gotta spill over. Though I am curious if anyone else has ever
seen that monogamy thing. (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm
kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from
happening.)

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kaeli - 17 Dec 2003 14:31 GMT

> (I've seen the dummy male thing, in fact I'm
> kind of glad to have it - it tends to keeps unplanned breedings from
> happening.)

Getting her spayed would probably help there.
Assuming she's not a breeding queen for show, that is.

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Dennis Carr - 18 Dec 2003 03:26 GMT

> Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a
> breeding queen for show, that is.

She's a breeding queen for now, but I'm considering taking her out of the
pools in favor of one of her daughters who has some beautiful spotting and
probably showing her as an altered.

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kaeli - 18 Dec 2003 15:00 GMT

> > Getting her spayed would probably help there. Assuming she's not a
> > breeding queen for show, that is.
>
> She's a breeding queen for now, but I'm considering taking her out of the
> pools in favor of one of her daughters who has some beautiful spotting and
> probably showing her as an altered.

Ah, well then at least she prefers your sterile male or you might be in
trouble! *LOL*

What breed is she?

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Dennis Carr - 19 Dec 2003 05:09 GMT

> Ah, well then at least she prefers your sterile male or you might be in
> trouble! *LOL*
>
> What breed is she?

She's a bengal cat.

I have a picture of her somewhere... ah, here it is.

http://www.esthar-bengals.org/queens/snape-and-neresse.jpg

(sorry, bad photograph. The camera we took this with went to the Great
Darkroom In The Sky a few months ago.)

Snape is the little lady on the left; the gray blurry spot with darker
spots and eyes is Neresse, her mother. She's the one been giving us grief
recently (I'm writing that one up right now).

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kaeli - 19 Dec 2003 13:47 GMT

> She's a bengal cat.
>
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> (sorry, bad photograph. The camera we took this with went to the Great
> Darkroom In The Sky a few months ago.)

Oh, how gorgeous!!!

You have some unique names for your cats. :)
Um, just an FYI, clicking on some of the links on the queens page shows
Forbidden error messages because they link to directories (e.g.
http://esthar-bengals.org/kittens/zelgadis/). I think you need to change
permissions on the directories or make index.html pages in them or set
the server's perms.

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Dennis Carr - 19 Dec 2003 15:21 GMT

> You have some unique names for your cats. :)

Most of them came from my wife. Between furry, anime, and Harry Potter,
the lines are starting to blur.... =>.<=

> Um, just an FYI, clicking on some of the links on the queens page shows
> Forbidden error messages because they link to directories (e.g.
> http://esthar-bengals.org/kittens/zelgadis/). I think you need to change
> permissions on the directories or make index.html pages in them or set
> the server's perms.

The page has been needing a remodel for some time actually.

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Orchid - 21 Dec 2003 21:19 GMT

>> Ah, well then at least she prefers your sterile male or you might be in
>> trouble! *LOL*
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>
>http://www.esthar-bengals.org/queens/snape-and-neresse.jpg

I'd love to see a better picture of Snape, as in the photo
you've got up she looks to have several rib bars. :)

I've got Bengal boys myself -- you can see them on their page
in my sig. :)

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Marek Williams - 20 Dec 2003 02:33 GMT

>I've seen the dummy male thing ...

My ex insisted I had that.

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