If there are any more kitty threads,

[asthmaticeog]

I have it on good authority that the admins are going to rename the Lounge "The Litter Box."

[skooooo]

1. I have no problem with that..

..as long as the sand is changed every other day.

[RodneyCK2]

2. Please, no. "No more Kitty threads...No more kitty threads.."

I just found a coughed-up fur ball in the DU Lounge.

For Pete's sake, I thought it was toy mouse.

:-)

[StClone]

3. Hair ball in the lounge...is that all

Dale and Cy are having a contest in my house right now. Green gooey slime balls of hair and undigested Kitty chow. I labor.

[asthmaticeog]

4. Damn.

"Green gooey slime balls of hair and undigested Kitty chow. I labor."

That's almost a haiku. Change "Kitty" to "cat" and you're there.

[StClone]

6. Thanks for humoring me

Cats! Got to love 'em.

[asthmaticeog]

10. I do love 'em.

I just wish that either they wouldn't make my face puff up or that the hairless ones didn't cost so freakin' much.

[barb162]

7. one time when I found a hairball

it was a mouse...with no head. My 4 cats were lined up in a row watching my face and that dead mouse. I guess that was supposed to be my gift from them.

[skooooo]

11. Oh yeah...throwing up mice..

...was a great pastime of our can Bill, who died this year. :-(

He'd gobble them up, crunch their little heads, then when his stomach couldn't take it..

:puke:


Really gross.

[Bertha Venation]

5. Call it the Hork Festival.

We have a cat who -- I swear -- barfs more than he eliminates from the other end. He eats too fast and horks it all up. When he gets a hairball, then the fun really begins.

Here's the culprit. His name is Toby -- or, more affectionately, Toe-Man.

[barb162]

8. are his globulin levels in normal range?

is he losing weight

[Bertha Venation]

13. Don't know about the blood, but he's not losing weight.

He's extremely healthy otherwise. He eats like there's no tomorrow and begs for treats when it's "time," so I wondered if maybe he wasn't getting enough to eat. But he weighs about twelve pounds; his coat is thick and glossy; he's 3 years old and plays like he's 3 months old.

What would the globulin level tell me?

[barb162]

16. how things are doing in the abdominal area, etc

and a lot of the other levels for the abdomimal area...there are so many damned reasons they throw up. I have one cat who threw up a lot and it was because he could never really get hair balls to go through his system the right way. To this day, he is 15 now, he still does this. Another cat, with longer hair, could digest all kinds of hairballs all the time but started vomiting a lot and later discovered he had some liver tissue dieoff about to years ago. He's 16 now. Don't ask me how that happened. ANother cat I had ate like a horse, was always hungry, always seemd to vomit a lot and he died of pancreatic cancer. The longer I have cats, the more attention I pay to the blood tests, I always take a copy of the blood work results home with me and watch the progress of the numbers myself.

I am very glad your cat is keeping his weight up. That is so important .I was talking to this one consulting vet at Cornell about my little lover boy who died of cancer last year and she said even one half pound weight loss in a cat is important and should be investigated. The blood test on this cat was not relayed to me nor the ramifications.

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Anyway, your cat's markings, I have a cat named Bobo with markings very very similar. He is a super duper sweet cat...brought him in as a stray last Jan. He is a huge with really long legs.

[skooooo]

12. oh what a cutie...

...makes me wonder what he's looking at so intently!

[Bertha Venation]

14. I think it was a bird perched under the eaves.

He was chattering, too. ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack

[barb162]

9. do the dog people ever do poochie threads

[skooooo]

15. I'm sure there are poochie threads...

...but this crowd seems more interested in kitty cats (the superior species, imo).

:hi:

[barb162]

17. oh yeah cats are better

more discerning, but I love dogs too.