Donna Ferentes
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I confess I am baffled too.sojourner said:
Balloons and cats
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cyberfairy
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I have a persian with alopecia. Everytime I take a sip from my bedside pint look like fucking father Christmassojourner said:God the water thing. I wonder if any cats actually drink out of water bowls? Mine prefer the glass by the bed, and the leaking taps. Mmm, cat spit in your midnight sip of water
Apparently cats hate drinking near their food as have such developed smell that food that looks and smells fine to us is wrong to them and they can't bear to be near it. However, does not explain my cat as only has dry food
Does seem very common thoughMsShirlLaverne
wearing purple
sojourner Mine prefer the glass by the bed said:One of mine also only likes his water from a glass by the bed. I tried leaving one there especially for him but he won't drink it if it's a day old.I hate water with cat spit and hairs in it
cyberfairy
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My cat is a persian and due to her flat face can only sip a bit of water from the top of a pint glass as can't fit her huge flat head inMsShirlLaverne said:One of mine also only likes his water from a glass by the bed. I tried leaving one there especially for him but he won't drink it if it's a day old.
But she won't use a bowl, oh no so have to refill pint glass by loo five times a dayYep, same here - second the light goes out!MsShirlLaverne said:One of mine also only likes his water from a glass by the bed. I tried leaving one there especially for him but he won't drink it if it's a day old.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
What about when you don't realise the buggers are in your room and they not only wake you up by the jingling of their cat collars on the edge of the glass as they steal your water, but then spill it all over you, your radio and the plug adapters by jumping in response to you jumping at the jingling.
Or is that just me?
ETA I do hope your cat makes a full recovery, and, as someone who has lived with cats for most of my life, I don't agree with any suggestion that you have been irresponsible.
Or is that just me?
ETA I do hope your cat makes a full recovery, and, as someone who has lived with cats for most of my life, I don't agree with any suggestion that you have been irresponsible.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
No, it is near impossible to ensure your cat has no contact with anything remotely dangerous.
When we first got our Charlie we left a wine glass on the side in the kitchen, went out, and in the meantime he got up there, knocked it off and proceeded to carry shards of broken glass to hide in various places around the house. Didn't seem to cut his mouth, but still, there was very little we could have done about it and how on earth would we have forseen his penchant for carrying and hoarding broken glass?
I was an idiot once and left a silly wool bracelet (okay, it was just a piece of wool tied in a knot I wore around my wrist a la kabbalah but blue) on the bed and he wolfed it down. We called the vet coz I was worried that coz it was tied in a ring it would get all entangled in his intestines. The vet just said to make sure he was eating over the next 24 hours and monitor his poo. That was fun.
I make sure I keep elastic bands, batteries and so on out of the way, but the thing about cats is that unless you live in a hermetically sealed bubble devoid of everything but air they will find a way of getting something they shouldn't, and you just have to be prepared to feel as guilty as hell until they are in the clear and are bounding about again.
When we first got our Charlie we left a wine glass on the side in the kitchen, went out, and in the meantime he got up there, knocked it off and proceeded to carry shards of broken glass to hide in various places around the house. Didn't seem to cut his mouth, but still, there was very little we could have done about it and how on earth would we have forseen his penchant for carrying and hoarding broken glass?
I was an idiot once and left a silly wool bracelet (okay, it was just a piece of wool tied in a knot I wore around my wrist a la kabbalah but blue) on the bed and he wolfed it down. We called the vet coz I was worried that coz it was tied in a ring it would get all entangled in his intestines. The vet just said to make sure he was eating over the next 24 hours and monitor his poo. That was fun.
I make sure I keep elastic bands, batteries and so on out of the way, but the thing about cats is that unless you live in a hermetically sealed bubble devoid of everything but air they will find a way of getting something they shouldn't, and you just have to be prepared to feel as guilty as hell until they are in the clear and are bounding about again.
OK. My cat liked to play with and eat plastic bags. I put them out of sight because they are obviously not good.
You thought to encourage them to play with balloons seems silly to me. Cats play with anything, but you seem surprised that they hoarded them.
Anyway... your intentions weren't bad, it seems.
You thought to encourage them to play with balloons seems silly to me. Cats play with anything, but you seem surprised that they hoarded them.
Anyway... your intentions weren't bad, it seems.
Vintage Paw said:No, it is near impossible to ensure your cat has no contact with anything remotely dangerous.
When we first got our Charlie we left a wine glass on the side in the kitchen, went out, and in the meantime he got up there, knocked it off and proceeded to carry shards of broken glass to hide in various places around the house. Didn't seem to cut his mouth, but still, there was very little we could have done about it and how on earth would we have forseen his penchant for carrying and hoarding broken glass?
I was an idiot once and left a silly wool bracelet (okay, it was just a piece of wool tied in a knot I wore around my wrist a la kabbalah but blue) on the bed and he wolfed it down. We called the vet coz I was worried that coz it was tied in a ring it would get all entangled in his intestines. The vet just said to make sure he was eating over the next 24 hours and monitor his poo. That was fun.
I make sure I keep elastic bands, batteries and so on out of the way, but the thing about cats is that unless you live in a hermetically sealed bubble devoid of everything but air they will find a way of getting something they shouldn't, and you just have to be prepared to feel as guilty as hell until they are in the clear and are bounding about again.
Agreed. Ditto 3 year olds. Is that a defence?
Do you think Donna would have allowed his cat to play with balloons if he'd have known that the cat would eat them? This is a world (well, urban) renowned soft lad when it comes to cats, not some idiot who doesn't give 2 hoots about their mog. He just wanted her to have funnonamenopackdrill said:
And you only put bags out of sight because now you know what yours likes - you didn't before
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
There are not many cats who eat braceletsnonamenopackdrill said:
There are few people who hide small stuff from cats as such a tiny possibility things might get eaten and cause harm. I'm sure the toddlers I work with have access to balloons and wristbands as well-You can't sanitise the universe. Shit happens whenyou least expect it. Would you be rude to someone whose kid choked on a piece of lego?
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
nonamenopackdrill said:
*shoo*
Go away?
OK, I thought DF was being funny. Failed to notice the time difference between postings.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I've walked half way home from work before because I left an elastic band on the coffee table and was worried he'd eat it and be dead by the time I came home - but I check the front door 18 times before leaving and run upstairs to double check I've unplugged my hair dryer, and worry all day even though I checked before I left just incase I actually didn't. I check that the front door is locked every time I walk past it to go upstairs to the toilet, and again when I come back down again. It's hardly surprising I'm a paranoid nervous wreck about the little things. I'm a neurotic weirdo - but I don't expect everybody else to be too
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
My cat is boringly sensible. I run about with bits of string and fun cat toys I have bought for her entertainment and she lifts a quarter of one eye up to give me a malevelent glare before going back into a disgruntled sleep. Come three am and she is leaping around the house with her stashed bottle of olbas oil crashing it merrily into my head and shrieking with glee
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
not cats, but i received an email jsut now in which my mother exemplifies the problem of animal eating habits....
cyberfairy said:My cat is boringly sensible. I run about with bits of string and fun cat toys I have bought for her entertainment and she lifts a quarter of one eye up to give me a malevelent glare before going back into a disgruntled sleep. Come three am and she is leaping around the house with her stashed bottle of olbas oil crashing it merrily into my head and shrieking with glee
My two are big fans of running around with special kitty clogs on at 3 and 4 am, in and out of the room, under the bed, over the bed, up and down the stairs.Ace fun
trashpony
Hag
bluestreak said:
Our dog ate my favourite pair of knickers when I was a teenager. He puked them up some time later the same day. My mum was all for washing them - she said they'd be 'as good as new'. But somehow, knowing they'd been in the dog's stomach for about ten hours meant they lost their appeal.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
((((trashy))))
((((trashy's pants))))))
i like the numbed acceptance that both our parents exhibit, as if there is no possible way in the world that car keys (or knickers) aren't for the eating, and so there is no point getting wound up by the annoyance!
((((trashy's pants))))))
i like the numbed acceptance that both our parents exhibit, as if there is no possible way in the world that car keys (or knickers) aren't for the eating, and so there is no point getting wound up by the annoyance!
Donna Ferentes
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Well not really - I'm just surprised that she ate them. There's loads of things in the flat that she could eat if she had a mind to. I've thrown away plenty of burst balloons in case she ate them, but I can't throw away all the loose plastic, or pencils, or pens, or plastic bags, or book covers, or everything else that she likes to bite into.This is particuyalrly so given that we're basically living in one room as we can't use our spare room (it's a small enough flat anyway) due to water coming through the ceiling. So everything's piled up all over the place and it's a mess.nonamenopackdrill said:
This doesn't mean I don't feel guilty about it - if I'd looked and seen shredded balloons or seen her trying to eat them (and she bites everything, so just nibbling something doesn't really tell us much) then I'd have been more careful. But I couldn't know.
This morning, she's vomiting again.
Donna Ferentes
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Just before midnight she came out of the wardrobe where she's been resting, climbed to the top of the sofabed and vomited white stuff all down it.
We suspect there's going to have to be an operation.
We suspect there's going to have to be an operation.
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
looks that way doesnt it?
Poor kitty, is she insured?
Poor kitty, is she insured?
Donna Ferentes
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No she's not.
The operation is starting about now.
The operation is starting about now.
boozybirdie
New Member
Hope everything goes ok
