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RE: What is your cat doing? - 12/29/2011 7:57:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		ughh, furballs!
Dud and Madge are my first, and probably only, cats as I am a dog person.
And furballs were a whole new and unwelcome experience for me!

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 12/31/2011 3:34:45 PM   
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RE: What is your cat doing? - 12/31/2011 4:04:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bit Bit is ddriving me nuts playing here while I'm on the computer.......stepping on the keyboard and what have you.....everyone else is chilling. They are going to be upset because I'm about to pull htem out of the windows because of all the assholes shooting off their damn guns.

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 1:29:40 AM   
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Melting down I am, seeing them two lying here








Charnegui, is that a Min Pin you've got there, a mix, or something else? Beautiful dog!

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 1:30:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: twistedwillow

ughh, furballs!
Dud and Madge are my first, and probably only, cats as I am a dog person.
And furballs were a whole new and unwelcome experience for me!


Yeah, they're not the most fun, Twisted. Pearl's never had one in her life, and Weenie, she's never not had one!

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 5:02:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		i dont know what he;s doing but it doesnt sound good. i better go check


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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 6:28:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just figured out that the outdoor kitty I call Bibby is in fact NOT a boy. *sigh* I wonder where she's planning to drop her litter.

I also discovered that most of the outdoor cats are intimidated by the neighbors chicken (that I am thinking MIGHT actually be a rooster.. do hens get the wattle thingie?); it's been chasing a few of them away from the kibble! This, despite the fact that at the same time I put the kibble out, I put out bird seed...

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 9:57:09 AM   
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

I just figured out that the outdoor kitty I call Bibby is in fact NOT a boy. *sigh* I wonder where she's planning to drop her litter.

I also discovered that most of the outdoor cats are intimidated by the neighbors chicken (that I am thinking MIGHT actually be a rooster.. do hens get the wattle thingie?); it's been chasing a few of them away from the kibble! This, despite the fact that at the same time I put the kibble out, I put out bird seed...


Yeah, Greedy, males & females usually have both (some, like some Silkies and others, may lack them), tho' the the males are larger, due to the greater amount of testosterone in them. Wattles, and combs (on top of the head), mainly serve as cooling devices, as chickens have a body temperature higher than ours, approx. 102-103 degrees. They overheat quickly, and can die off, en masse, during very hot summers.

That high body temp is very interesting. I remember back in college, when I took Aggie/Animal Science courses, and worked on the school farm (complete with abundant numbers of all kinds of farm animals, i.e., 2,000 chickens), when we caponized (castrated) young roosters (cockerels), we simply tied them (their wings) face down, and with a scalpel, made incisions over their backs, to remove their testes. We then just pressed closed the incisions and turned them loose. No topical/oral antibiotics were needed, as their high body temp was quite effective at warding off bacterial growth/infection.

For those wondering about the reasons for caponization, it's so they develop without the influence of sex hormones. The benefits are easier handling (behavior), rapid weight gain (nearly doubling) = better market weight, moister, fattier, and more tender, flavorful meat.

As you might have already guessed, caponizaton = bye bye testes = no testosterone = much smaller combs and wattles.

OK, that's it, my chicken lesson is over. Class is out!

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 9:58:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's hard to believe my foster son (Angel's bothersome boyfriend) Dusty is still alive. I was driving about a block away and he meandered out into the street right in front of me, then proceeded to take his sweet time crossing the street. I honked and rolled down the window to yell at him, but he just looked up and went on his merry way. Several times in the past, I have come across him lying in the street (and he's a color that blends in with the pavement). The neighbors here must be very observant. I'm thinking I may get another squirt bottle to keep in the car and spray him when he does this.

A friend asked me if he might be deaf, but I don't think so. When he lies under the tree in my yard, he always looks up when he hears me coming.


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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 10:48:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Mystic.. Tomtom does the same thing.. fucker.

DP.. so what is a pullet?

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 11:56:17 AM   
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ORIGINAL: MysticFireTopaz

It's hard to believe my foster son (Angel's bothersome boyfriend) Dusty is still alive. I was driving about a block away and he meandered out into the street right in front of me, then proceeded to take his sweet time crossing the street. I honked and rolled down the window to yell at him, but he just looked up and went on his merry way. Several times in the past, I have come across him lying in the street (and he's a color that blends in with the pavement). The neighbors here must be very observant. I'm thinking I may get another squirt bottle to keep in the car and spray him when he does this.

A friend asked me if he might be deaf, but I don't think so. When he lies under the tree in my yard, he always looks up when he hears me coming.




Hahaha! I'm guessing he wasn't the one from which the chicken crossing the road joke originated. More like, "Why is the chicken the road?" Silly bird!

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 12:04:39 PM   
Duskypearls


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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

Mystic.. Tomtom does the same thing.. fucker.

DP.. so what is a pullet?


A young hen, usually under one year of age. They're not fully mature, just getting the hang of laying eggs, and the size of their eggs reflect that.

Pullet eggs on the left, hen eggs on the right:

http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/kitchen/2010_06_02-pullets2.jpg

BTW, here's a great pic showing size/shape differences in the combs and wattles of cocks and hens:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Female_pair.jpg/200px-Female_pair.jpg

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:03:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		I waas trying to take a pic of Boo's face with his eyes open....got this instead......they NEVER cooperate!




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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:14:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is Bit's new trick...he pops up from under the desk to creat havoc and misery. I keep waiting for him to get stuck. Goofball!




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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:18:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Soul, has Bit got both eyes, or has his right one been enucleated?

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:19:48 PM   
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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:28:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		No Dusky, Bit lost the eye about 6 weeks ago. I think he was playing with KB and it got scratched. I had antibiotic drops and stuff, but they didn't help. I was so hoping I could save the eyeball, but to no avail. He lost it at about 6 weeks. Hasn't slowed him down at all...he still runs around like a dervish, and pounces on KB with all his youthful abandon. Occasionally, I hear a "THUNK" when he hits something in his haste to get wherever, but otherwise, he maneuvers just fine.

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:52:36 PM   
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ORIGINAL: soul2share

No Dusky, Bit lost the eye about 6 weeks ago. I think he was playing with KB and it got scratched. I had antibiotic drops and stuff, but they didn't help. I was so hoping I could save the eyeball, but to no avail. He lost it at about 6 weeks. Hasn't slowed him down at all...he still runs around like a dervish, and pounces on KB with all his youthful abandon. Occasionally, I hear a "THUNK" when he hits something in his haste to get wherever, but otherwise, he maneuvers just fine.


Thunk...that's funny, and I don't mean it in a mean way, just that I understand how it is, bless their little hearts. Like you said, they adapt beautifully. I'm assuming it was surgically enucleated, yes?

BTW, Bitty's a cutie kitty. They both are.

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 7:54:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Weenie just flew off the bed like a bat out of hell, as she's sensitive to loud noises, and always over reacts to my sneeze. You'd think I'd dropped a nuclear bomb. Pearl, on the other hand, could care less, and just keeps right on sleeping and snoring like nothing's happens. Ah kitties, what ever would we do without them?!

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RE: What is your cat doing? - 1/1/2012 8:18:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, Dusky. I was lucky enough to find a vet that would let me pay the bill in payments, and he cut the cost of the surgery in half. The whole infection happened so fast......less than a week from scratch to surgery. I feel so bad about him losing the eye. He was a little stray as it was, the last one of a litter Mama had. This was him on the day I brought him inside.




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