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Ted Davis - 08 Mar 2005 21:49 GMT

It rained yesterday. Last night Ozy came in wet and dirty - Ozy
*never* gets dirty. Avery came clean and dry, and with no mud on his
feet - Avery *always* brings in mud if it can be found. Fluffy
challenged a possum in the mud room - Fluffy *never* challenges
anything but other cats, and then not in the mud room (common range
for all the cats); for that matter, none of my cats has ever
challenged a possum - mostly they just ignore them. Ozy, Dandy, and
one other were all over me trying to get my chocholate ice cream -
none of them have *ever* been interested in chocholate ice cream, and
none of those three has ever tried to take food away from me (only
Millie tries to do that); Ozy even managed to get one foot in the
bowl.

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M.C. Mullen - 09 Mar 2005 05:48 GMT

| It rained yesterday. Last night Ozy came in wet and dirty - Ozy
| *never* gets dirty. Avery came clean and dry, and with no mud on his
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| Millie tries to do that); Ozy even managed to get one foot in the
| bowl.

Don't worry - it's full moon.
Maybe one cat started with different behaviour and that knocked the rest out
of their routine.
And ... shame on you trying to eat your ice cream all by yourself! :-)

Carola

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Ted Davis - 09 Mar 2005 15:07 GMT

>| It rained yesterday. Last night Ozy came in wet and dirty - Ozy
>| *never* gets dirty. Avery came clean and dry, and with no mud on his
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>of their routine.
>And ... shame on you trying to eat your ice cream all by yourself! :-)

I understand that chocholate is toxic to cats - in any case, it's not
good for me and surely isn't good for them.

Actually, the moon was a few days before New (New Moon is 10 March,
09:32 UT)

BTW, Dandy has developed a taste for popcorn (I've never had a cat
that would eat popcorn). Yesterday evening Mickey (my neighbor's cat
who lives with me) was threatening Mudpie under the back steps -
normally, Mudpie would have just beaten him up, but this time I had to
show Mickey the 'instrument of torture' (a broom - he is terrified of
brooms) to get him to back off.

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Dr_Dickie - 09 Mar 2005 14:05 GMT

> It rained yesterday. Last night Ozy came in wet and dirty - Ozy
> *never* gets dirty. Avery came clean and dry, and with no mud on his
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The only routine that I have ever been able to ascribe to one of my cats for
any period of time is that of constant change. Oh, they go through periods
of routine behavior, but as soon as I start counting on it, they switch it
up on me. I think they know the challenge is good for me.;-)

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Karin Gillette - 09 Mar 2005 15:00 GMT

Does sound like they switched identity for the night.

My dear Shiloh, when she was living, would jump up on the chair and watch me
eat Cereal. If she thought I wasn't looking she would start to sneak
accross the table to get to the bowl. She always licked my ice cream bowl
clean. She lived to be 15 or 16.

Our lovely Sissy, who I adore will not eat anything that is human food. She
won't like my ice cream bowl and she never tries to get anything from me.

Our spoiled Neko will eat nearly anything. She particularly likes my
husbands soup bowl remnents as well as tuna (she doesn't like canned 'cat'
food though). The treats are her favorite though. She will eat any flavor
where as Sissy will only eat Tarter Control Tuna Flavored Whisker Lickens.

Aren't our four legged children unpredicatable!

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Ted Davis - 09 Mar 2005 21:57 GMT

>Does sound like they switched identity for the night.
>
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>food though). The treats are her favorite though. She will eat any flavor
>where as Sissy will only eat Tarter Control Tuna Flavored Whisker Lickens.

Most of my cats have "barn cat" or "starving stray" somewhere in their
backgrounds so they are not too particular, though there are
preferences: Fleagor prefers frog to mouse while Dandy and his sister
Maryweather stongly prefer mouse to frog. Most of the others that
hunt seem not to care too much what they catch.

Two have a thing for watermelon and several will squable over an ear
of steamed sweet corn.

I long ago gave up on trying to get cats to eat tuna cat food,
especially when human grade tuna in water is about the same price - I
have never met a cat that didn't like that.

>Aren't our four legged children unpredicatable!

Yeah, and I have the scars to prove it.

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jacquie0 - 10 Mar 2005 03:25 GMT

>>Does sound like they switched identity for the night.
>>
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"I long ago gave up on trying to get cats to eat tuna cat food,
especially when human grade tuna in water is about the same price - I
have never met a cat that didn't like that."

You haven't met my big guy. He will not eat any human food including
tuna, cheese, and bacon. Not even any other seafood. Now my little girl
will eat pretty much anything you put in front of her, whether it is
people food or cat food. I think it is because she had to fend for
herself at 4 weeks old amongst a bunch of other feral cats of all ages.

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Ted Davis - 10 Mar 2005 14:01 GMT

>You haven't met my big guy. He will not eat any human food including
>tuna, cheese, and bacon. Not even any other seafood. Now my little girl
>will eat pretty much anything you put in front of her, whether it is
>people food or cat food. I think it is because she had to fend for
>herself at 4 weeks old amongst a bunch of other feral cats of all ages.

Maybe your cat is just holding out for solid pack albacore in water
(at *way* more than cat food price). Many cats won't eat tuna in
oil, or sardines in oil, or anything else in oil, though cats are
supposed to like fishy oil. Also many won't eat salmon - something I
cannot understand.

Only a couple or three of my cats will eat bacon - it's the favorite
treat of only one. I don't eat cheese so I have no experience with
cats and cheese.

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jacquie0 - 10 Mar 2005 15:29 GMT

>>You haven't met my big guy. He will not eat any human food including
>>tuna, cheese, and bacon. Not even any other seafood. Now my little girl
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Nope, no kind of tuna, salmon, or fish of any kind for my guy. No people
food whatsoever. This is probably a good thing, as the last time he was
at the vet, he weighed in at 27 pounds. He is an active cat, is on a
diet of 3/4 of a cup of food per day, and he just can't loose the extra
weight. I tried to blame it on his extra toes,(he has 23 of them), but
the vet didn't buy it. LOL

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Dr_Dickie - 10 Mar 2005 12:21 GMT

"All men should strive to learn before they die,
what they are running from, and to, and why."
James Thurber

> Most of my cats have "barn cat" or "starving stray" somewhere in their
> backgrounds so they are not too particular, though there are
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> especially when human grade tuna in water is about the same price - I
> have never met a cat that didn't like that.

Some of my cats like tuna (cat food kind, sometimes--human kind most times),
but two males (Fred and Copernicus) as well as Fred's sister Ethyl (who just
never came home one day :-( ) go insane for chicken or turkey. I mean,
insane. When Copernicus knows there is chicken in the house for him (he is
somewhat tolerate of mine, but not when he knows I have some for him---I buy
them the $0.99/Lb thighs), he is unlivable until he gets some. He is a
talker my nature, but my gosh! Ethyl was worse, if we had let her, she
would have eaten NOTHING but chicken and turkey. The two guys have to have a
variety of wet food every day (never the same thing two days in a row).
Sweet Lilly, will eat cat food tuna (about the only wet food she likes), but
will barely sniff at real tuna--eat it, no way! She turns her nose up at
chicken, turkey, anything but cat food tuna and her dry. NEVER any variety,
she is not interested.
Clyde, treat man all the way. He nibbles at dry, eats some cat food tuna,
once in a blue moon chicken or turkey, then begs for treats until you give
up. And not just any treats, oh no. ONLY temptations brand, nothing else
will do. No way. Nothing soft, nothing else ever.

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