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Cat Forum / General Topics / May 2007Isis Adjusting Well to New House
Her Majesty, Isis, the cat, is now settling into my new digs pretty well. She is still a bit skittish about entering my office, but her appetite is rip-roarin' fine and she is sleeping like never before. She has decided my bed, upstairs, is the place to spend her days dreaming of mice parties, I imagine. To avoid a problem with territorial urination in this new house my vet suggested Prozac. I stared out with 50 millileters but that was too much so I have dropped the dose to 20 millileters and will continue to gradually drop it to the absolute minimum level possible. I took her to the vet because of a problem with, er, her breath smelling less than springtime fresh but her teeth and gums are in A+ condition so it may have something to do with her constant diet of food and more food, even though her weight is stable at six and a half pounds. She is still quite cranky in the mornings but that is normal because so am I. In short, I would say another month in the place and we will be back to our normal routines. I remain, as always, her obedient slave and caretaker. Mike in Illinois > Her Majesty, Isis, the cat, is now settling into my new digs pretty well. > She is still a bit skittish about entering my office, but her appetite is [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Mike in Illinois Prrr... Isis just came down for a quick inspection tour of the new office and then left. I know what the problem is. In the old office I had a box that sat under a special energy hog 250 watt lamp. She used to spend hours sunbathing in that. There's nothing like that now. In fact, I don't currently have any hot spots in the house. Oh, boy. Mike in Illinois >> Her Majesty, Isis, the cat, is now settling into my new digs pretty well. >> She is still a bit skittish about entering my office, but her appetite is [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Prrr... > Isis just came down for a quick inspection tour of the new office and then > left. I know what the problem is. In the old office I had a box that sat [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Mike in Illinois Bad cat slave you know what your master needs.;-) Glad everything went ok >>> Her Majesty, Isis, the cat, is now settling into my new digs pretty >>> well. [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >> Prrr... I'm working on this problem today. My eastern and western walls have no windows. Unless I blast out some walls I cannot get Isis hotspots that way. I am putting up dining room curtains and I can leave those open for semieffective southern facing hotspots. I see now that I am going to need a dedicated hotspot place in this house somewhere. It will have to based on electricity and a 250 watt bulb. Isis is napping now in her dedicated sleep spot on my bed upstairs so I will let my mind churn on how I will fix this. Mike in Illinois >> Isis just came down for a quick inspection tour of the new office and >> then left. I know what the problem is. In the old office I had a box that [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >>> >>> Prrr... > I see now that I am going to need a dedicated hotspot place in this house > somewhere. You already got one. Just put kitty in the oven on self-cleaning cycle. > I'm working on this problem today. My eastern and western walls have no > windows. Unless I blast out some walls I cannot get Isis hotspots that [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Mike in Illinois You can always get one of those pet blankets the ones that use the furballs body heat instead of electricity I got a couple of these and mine love them http://www.harrietcarter.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/_/Pet-Warmer/pr oductID/f8145759-4909-44d3-9224-107c64b12f05/categoryID/68d0271b-6300-4227-ad66- 5a6c6b87e483/searchString/pet/ >>> Isis just came down for a quick inspection tour of the new office and >>> then left. I know what the problem is. In the old office I had a box [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >>>> >>>> Prrr... I like this idea, Matthew. What are they made of? Are they soft? Washable? Thank you! Mike in Illinois >> I'm working on this problem today. My eastern and western walls have no >> windows. Unless I blast out some walls I cannot get Isis hotspots that [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Prrr... >I like this idea, Matthew. What are they made of? Are they soft? Washable? > > Thank you! Washable yes soft yes it is a thermal blanket of sorts nice thing is claws can't rip it IME so far the furballs fight to get on them during the day even though there are 10 of them laying around you know cats > Mike in Illinois > [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> Prrr... >I like this idea, Matthew. What are they made of? Are they soft? Washable? > > Thank you! > > Mike in Illinois I used a waterproof heating pad for "my" feral cat for a while, (until he learned to come in the house) But you have to be careful that you just keep it on "low", because it can get too hot otherwise....they do make special heating blankets for animals, but they don't put out much heat..... "Mike" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message > I see now that I am going to need a dedicated hotspot place in this house > somewhere. It will have to based on electricity and a 250 watt bulb. Isis is > napping now in her dedicated sleep spot on my bed upstairs so I will let my > mind churn on how I will fix this. I leave a heating pad on all the time for my Deetoo. Even though it's almost June out, she still uses it, so it isn't time yet for me to shut it off for the summer. That and sleeping on my bed a foot underneath the Luxo lamp over the bed are her hotspots. This place I'm in is fairly big and Isis and I sleep in separate quarters as she is a very bad Bed Hog who is unable to be happy with a full half of a queen size bed. So, she sleeps downstairs and I sleep upstairs. If this changes in the winter I'll get her a nice heating pad where I can keep an eye on it. Sometimes those things make me nervous if I'm not aware of where they are . . . I know what she is used to. She wants that blazing heat from direct sun or the 250 watt sunlamp. I have failed again. Nothing I do is enough. Sigh. Mike in Illinois > "Mike" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > over > the bed are her hotspots.
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