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Dude Harry - 26 Apr 2005 02:06 GMT

Hi. We have a young black cat about 7 months old. Any time you place
her on a soft material like a blanket made of wool, she seems to very
slowly be pushing her front paws into the material. We cannot tell if
she is stretching or exercising or just feeling the material. Has
anyone else seen this or can you figure out what she is doing and why
from the video. (about 2 meg avi file)
She still has her claws and only does this on soft material and will
do this for 2 or 3 minutes at a time. She has a scratching post which
she uses, but is very aggressive with it, but very slow and delicate
with the wool.
Any info would be appreciated.
(not a problem, just curious)

Please reply here or to the email below.

dhansen@ca.inter.net

Dave

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Cathy Friedmann - 26 Apr 2005 02:44 GMT

> Hi. We have a young black cat about 7 months old. Any time you place
> her on a soft material like a blanket made of wool, she seems to very
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> Any info would be appreciated.
> (not a problem, just curious)

It's called "kneading", and many - if not most - cats do it when they're
happy & content, no matter their age.

It's the same motion they made on their mother cat's stomach while they were
little kittens & nursing.

Cathy

> Please reply here or to the email below.
>
> dhansen@ca.inter.net
>
> Dave

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Mary - 26 Apr 2005 03:11 GMT

"Cathy Friedmann" <clfr@adelphia.net> wrote :

> It's the same motion they made on their mother cat's stomach while they were
> little kittens & nursing.

And in the south people call it "making biscuits."

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Dude Harry - 27 Apr 2005 00:18 GMT

Hi. Sorry, if I offended anyone, I am new to using newsgroups and do
not have time to check all the rules. I sometimes post to 3 or 4
different related groups hoping to find domeone kind enough to answer.

I did not know that some groups can have attachments and some cannot,
and that some servers strip the attachemnts out as this one obviously
did.

dave

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John Ross Mc Master - 27 Apr 2005 01:10 GMT

>Hi. Sorry, if I offended anyone, I am new to using newsgroups and do
>not have time to check all the rules. I sometimes post to 3 or 4
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>
>dave

Post binaries to a binaries group such as alt.binaries.animals then
tell people about it.

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Mary - 27 Apr 2005 01:10 GMT

> Hi. Sorry, if I offended anyone, I am new to using newsgroups and do
> not have time to check all the rules. I sometimes post to 3 or 4
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> and that some servers strip the attachemnts out as this one obviously
> did.

Welcome anyway! We often post photos and mpegs to
alt.binaries.pictures.animals.

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John Ross Mc Master - 27 Apr 2005 01:11 GMT

>Hi. Sorry, if I offended anyone, I am new to using newsgroups and do
>not have time to check all the rules. I sometimes post to 3 or 4
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
>dave

REVISED>>>>I left out a word

Post binaries to a binaries group such as
alt.binaries.pictures.animals then tell people about it.

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BarB - 28 Apr 2005 20:19 GMT

>Hi. Sorry, if I offended anyone, I am new to using newsgroups and do
>not have time to check all the rules. I sometimes post to 3 or 4
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
>dave

Giganews, Supernews and many others will not post a binary to a text
group. They run Cleanfeed or some similar program that strips the
binary. The reason is that many small servers like those at
universities can not handle a binary feed.

Text groups are very small compared to binaries. Andrew at Supernews
wrote the following in March:

"With day-to-day variations averaged out over a one-week period,
we're currently seeing a total feed volume of about 1830 GB/day (1.79
TB/day), of which no more than 1.3 GB/day is text traffic. That make
the entire text content amount to no more than 0.07% of the total
feed.With day-to-day variations averaged out over a one-week period,
we're currently seeing a total feed volume of about 1830 GB/day (1.79
TB/day), of which no more than 1.3 GB/day is text traffic. That make
the entire text content amount to no more than 0.07% of the total
feed."

That means that many people can not see the picture. That's the main
reason to ask people to post to alt.binaries.pictures.animals. It's
an extremely friendly group.

Do not post a binary to any group except one named alt.binaries.*.
Do not crosspost it to any text group. That's because there is only
one copy of a crosspost on a server no matter how many groups are
named in the header.
Post the location and the title to the text group. If you include the
message-id of the picture in the format news:mesage-id, many readers
can go directly to that post when the link is clicked.

Try clicking this link to a post in abpa.
news:4270d64b$0$13945$c30e37c6@ken-reader.news.telstra.net

BarB

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