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Freaked out felines
"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message ... [Splodge, intact tomcat] Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early this year he got a poisoned foot. We took him to the vet for antibiotics and painkillers, but the day after he was off again for some all-night partying, hopping out through the catflap on three legs before I could say "where do you think you're going?". Have you ever considered getting him neutered? Of course. But we haven't. Your cat will be fighting with other intact toms in the neighbourhood all the time. He will not always win. He will be injured if he doesn't and you will get an enormous vet bill. Get him neutered asap. It will also stop him impregnating any girlkitty that comes his way. He might even stay home afterwards. Tweed |
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[Splodge, intact tomcat]
Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early this year he got a poisoned foot. We took him to the vet for antibiotics and painkillers, but the day after he was off again for some all-night partying, hopping out through the catflap on three legs before I could say "where do you think you're going?". Have you ever considered getting him neutered? Of course. But we haven't. Your cat will be fighting with other intact toms in the neighbourhood all the time. He will not always win. He will be injured if he doesn't and you will get an enormous vet bill. Get him neutered asap. It will also stop him impregnating any girlkitty that comes his way. He might even stay home afterwards. Do you think we don't know that? ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message ... [Splodge, intact tomcat] Splodge can be *very* determined when he gets in the mood. Early this year he got a poisoned foot. We took him to the vet for antibiotics and painkillers, but the day after he was off again for some all-night partying, hopping out through the catflap on three legs before I could say "where do you think you're going?". Have you ever considered getting him neutered? Of course. But we haven't. Your cat will be fighting with other intact toms in the neighbourhood all the time. He will not always win. He will be injured if he doesn't and you will get an enormous vet bill. Get him neutered asap. It will also stop him impregnating any girlkitty that comes his way. He might even stay home afterwards. Do you think we don't know that? If you know that, why don't you get him neutered, then? It is unfair to keep him intact to get injured from fighting, not to mention the unwanted kitten population he is certain to be contributing to. Boyfriend was an intact tom when he arrived here. It took some time to gain his confidence so I could handle him but as soon as I thought he was sure enough of his new home that he wouldn't abandon it, I took him to be neutered. He took 24 hours to get over it completely. I have never regretted "having him done." He used to get very anxious to go out to defend his territory and presumably to look for girls. He would only come in for food and would want to go back out asap. His testosterone seemed to keep him on tenterhooks. He seems happier. He is no longer driven by his hormones and goes out when he feels like it, on rat patrol or just for a general look around. He doesn't get into fights with intact toms now, so his ears aren't ripped up and he hasn't got an abcess. If the weather isn't very nice, he's glad to have a snooze on the spare bed. He would never have done this when he was intact - he was always too worried about whether another tom would come in to his garden and the necessity to go out and check, and fight it off if there was one there. No matter if it didn't happen often, he needed to check out his territory as often as he could. I'm glad I had him neutered. He's very laid back now. His life is better for it, IMO, of course. Tweed |
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"Karen" wrote in message ... "Adrian A" wrote in message ... Debbie Wilson wrote: Christina Websell wrote: Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy? Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I think! Deb. Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come. -- Wow. You guys don't normally get this harsh of weather, do you? Yes, we do. The Gulf Stream doesn't always protect us. I've experienced temperatures as low as -16C (all my water pipes in the house froze) and as high as 34C. Can't remember what that is in fahrenheit. Whatever, that is *very* cold and *very* hot. I'll rely on Adrian to convert it. Thanks, Adrian. Tweed |
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Karen" wrote in message ... "Adrian A" wrote in message ... Debbie Wilson wrote: Christina Websell wrote: Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy? Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I think! Deb. Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come. -- Wow. You guys don't normally get this harsh of weather, do you? Yes, we do. The Gulf Stream doesn't always protect us. I've experienced temperatures as low as -16C (all my water pipes in the house froze) and as high as 34C. Can't remember what that is in fahrenheit. Whatever, that is *very* cold and *very* hot. I'll rely on Adrian to convert it. Thanks, Adrian. I'm not Adrian, but my trusty on-line conversion site tells me -16 C is 3.2 F, and 34 C is 93 F. We get lows of -30 C (-22 F) and more during cold winters, summers usually don't get hotter than +30 C (86 F). -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Karen" wrote in message ... "Adrian A" wrote in message ... Debbie Wilson wrote: Christina Websell wrote: Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy? Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I think! Deb. Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come. -- Wow. You guys don't normally get this harsh of weather, do you? Yes, we do. The Gulf Stream doesn't always protect us. I've experienced temperatures as low as -16C (all my water pipes in the house froze) and as high as 34C. Can't remember what that is in fahrenheit. Whatever, that is *very* cold and *very* hot. I'll rely on Adrian to convert it. Thanks, Adrian. Tweed -16°C = 3.2°F, 34°C = 93.2°F. When it got to -16 bwhere you were was probaly the same day when it got to -17 where I was, I remember a lot of diesel vehicles got frozen fuel lines because the additives only protected them to -14, since then it's about -20. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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"Adrian A" wrote in message om... Christina Websell wrote: "Karen" wrote in message ... "Adrian A" wrote in message ... Debbie Wilson wrote: Christina Websell wrote: Other Brits, how's your weather? Breezy? Strong winds and intermittent rain, yucky but not as bad as yours I think! Deb. Looking at the satellite pictures tonight there's more to come. -- Wow. You guys don't normally get this harsh of weather, do you? Yes, we do. The Gulf Stream doesn't always protect us. I've experienced temperatures as low as -16C (all my water pipes in the house froze) and as high as 34C. Can't remember what that is in fahrenheit. Whatever, that is *very* cold and *very* hot. I'll rely on Adrian to convert it. Thanks, Adrian. Tweed -16°C = 3.2°F, 34°C = 93.2°F. When it got to -16 bwhere you were was probaly the same day when it got to -17 where I was, I remember a lot of diesel vehicles got frozen fuel lines because the additives only protected them to -14, since then it's about -20. Yes, it was probably the same time, I remember the roads being clogged up with broken-down diesel vehicles. I also remember feeling pleased that I'd had the foresight to fill my car's radiator with 3/4 antifreeze/1/4 water. Started first time! Tweed |
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