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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
Never say never. After 10 long years, my hard-core feral appears
to be softening up to me. Early on, I began singing (badly) to her because it visibly relaxed her. Over the last month or so, she has started coming around me while I am in my computer chair. I can usually gently grab her tail as she goes by, but even slight petting has occurred. Amazing. After living with the feral animal for 10 years. Of course I could be wrong, about a month or two more should tell. Something weird... Not sure if I read it in this group or on the Internet somewhere, but... Someone wrote about their cat's fur being matted, and I think they said it fell off in clumps and their cat's disposition changed for the better. That fur thing happened here recently to the hard-core feral. There were maybe three or four clumps total that fell off of her. I was afraid she had some serious problem, but the fur is growing back. It was matted hard, clumped. And her mood change corresponds to that. But after 10 years? LOL Of course I could never tell much of what was going on with her since I could not even get close, let alone touch. Whatever the cause. Yea. |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
Yep. Almost one month later, the trend continues. Slowly. At
first, she approached only when another cat was being petted/scratched under my dangling arm. Now she might even be approaching without another cat there. I have been able to scratch near her tail. To which, at first she responded by turning her head and phantom licking vigorously, like... "So that's civilization!" Today was able to scratch her back a little. It is weird, removed a tiny/small piece of crud from her skin. My hand ends up furry every time. At some point maybe I can brush it. Or take a vacuum to it (kidding). Have kept it since before May 2007. -- I wrote: Never say never. After 10 long years, my hard-core feral appears to be softening up to me. Early on, I began singing (badly) to her because it visibly relaxed her. Over the last month or so, she has started coming around me while I am in my computer chair. I can usually gently grab her tail as she goes by, but even slight petting has occurred. Amazing. After living with the feral animal for 10 years. Of course I could be wrong, about a month or two more should tell. Something weird... Not sure if I read it in this group or on the Internet somewhere, but... Someone wrote about their cat's fur being matted, and I think they said it fell off in clumps and their cat's disposition changed for the better. That fur thing happened here recently to the hard-core feral. There were maybe three or four clumps total that fell off of her. I was afraid she had some serious problem, but the fur is growing back. It was matted hard, clumped. And her mood change corresponds to that. But after 10 years? LOL Of course I could never tell much of what was going on with her since I could not even get close, let alone touch. Whatever the cause. Yea. |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 04:43:29 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote: Yep. Almost one month later, the trend continues. Slowly. At first, she approached only when another cat was being petted/scratched under my dangling arm. Now she might even be approaching without another cat there. I have been able to scratch near her tail. To which, at first she responded by turning her head and phantom licking vigorously, like... "So that's civilization!" Today was able to scratch her back a little. It is weird, removed a tiny/small piece of crud from her skin. My hand ends up furry every time. At some point maybe I can brush it. Or take a vacuum to it (kidding). Have kept it since before May 2007. I may have mentioned before that my friend in San Diego had a feral cat for over twenty years. Pity-Pat stayed under John's bed and would only come out at night to eat and use the litter box. She came out from under the bed at the end, I guess when she sensed her death. She was a sweet thing. I saw her very briefly only on a couple of occasions. |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 11:53:27 AM UTC-4, Mack A. Damia wrote:
I may have mentioned before that my friend in San Diego had a feral cat for over twenty years. Pity-Pat stayed under John's bed and would only come out at night to eat and use the litter box. She came out from under the bed at the end, I guess when she sensed her death. She was a sweet thing. I saw her very briefly only on a couple of occasions. Ask yourself. 20 years in a 6 x 7 space (if that), coming out only for basic bodily functions, and only at night. Solitary confinement is reserved only for the hardest of prisoners, and even then they get some exercise and get to see the sky even if only over a wall. Is that any life for a cat? Any life at all? Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
A not-quite-grown-up troll...
-- "Peter W." pfjw aol.com wrote: X-Received: by 10.200.4.143 with SMTP id s15mr3102671qtg.82.1502209541292; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:25:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.31.148.19 with SMTP id w19mr28155vkd.17.1502209541226; Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp. giganews.com!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcol ogne.de!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned .com!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!s6no1232324qtc.1!news-out.google.com!n39ni517qtf.1!nntp.google.com!s6no1 232323qtc.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo. googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:25:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: qcnjoc9ebvl6n3av47a523kro36a6hah2c 4ax.com Complaints-To: groups-abuse google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=100.11.134.66; posting-account=tQE80AoAAACYibCqNWmwmvQ2q1XctZSS NNTP-Posting-Host: 100.11.134.66 References: ojvacg$8f5$1 dont-email.me ombfhh$f7d$1 dont-email.me qcnjoc9ebvl6n3av47a523kro36a6hah2c 4ax.com User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: f4e97d18-2791-495e-ae40-f01c5f0d5892 googlegroups.com Subject: Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years From: "Peter W." pfjw aol.com Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:25:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Body-CRC: 2973274028 X-Received-Bytes: 2153 Xref: news.eternal-september.org rec.pets.cats.health+behav:12505 Lines: 20 On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 11:53:27 AM UTC-4, Mack A. Damia wrote: I may have mentioned before that my friend in San Diego had a feral cat for over twenty years. Pity-Pat stayed under John's bed and would only come out at night to eat and use the litter box. She came out from under the bed at the end, I guess when she sensed her death. She was a sweet thing. I saw her very briefly only on a couple of occasions. Ask yourself. 20 years in a 6 x 7 space (if that), coming out only for basic bodily functions, and only at night. Solitary confinement is reserved only for the hardest of prisoners, and even then they get some exercise and get to see the sky even if only over a wall. Is that any life for a cat? Any life at all? Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:25:40 -0700 (PDT), "Peter W."
wrote: On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 11:53:27 AM UTC-4, Mack A. Damia wrote: I may have mentioned before that my friend in San Diego had a feral cat for over twenty years. Pity-Pat stayed under John's bed and would only come out at night to eat and use the litter box. She came out from under the bed at the end, I guess when she sensed her death. She was a sweet thing. I saw her very briefly only on a couple of occasions. Ask yourself. 20 years in a 6 x 7 space (if that), coming out only for basic bodily functions, and only at night. Solitary confinement is reserved only for the hardest of prisoners, and even then they get some exercise and get to see the sky even if only over a wall. Is that any life for a cat? Any life at all? Pity-Pat would roam around John's condo at night, and she did come to him for love and affection. My friend had another cat (he always has two) and they did enjoy each other at times. He saved this one from a certain death. Pity-Pat had a good life - much better than she had outside. Anyway, this group is filled with nasty trolls who really don't care about cats. It's all about their narcissistic egos. John Doe, the trumpian coward, is a good example. |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
The hypocrisy screams in this troll's post...
-- Mack A. Damia drsteerforth yahoo.com wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mack A. Damia drsteerforth yahoo.com Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Subject: Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:46:54 -0700 Lines: 31 Message-ID: 5eqjocd435cl7qcc48p8k996d78fhkijun 4ax.com References: ojvacg$8f5$1 dont-email.me ombfhh$f7d$1 dont-email.me qcnjoc9ebvl6n3av47a523kro36a6hah2c 4ax.com f4e97d18-2791-495e-ae40-f01c5f0d5892 googlegroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net tK6npnL7kA5wkJc37TkEvgB4UmpyMDa7a1I83safHXz1Y6D3iX Cancel-Lock: sha1:2fKvbMPqUOnQURrPCWdZdFLgf2c= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Xref: news.eternal-september.org rec.pets.cats.health+behav:12507 .... Anyway, this group is filled with nasty trolls who really don't care about cats. It's all about their narcissistic egos. John Doe, the trumpian coward, is a good example. I posted only about my cat, and for that the troll calls me "a trumpian coward with a narcissistic ego who doesn't really care about cats". Go figure. But since the troll brought it up... My concern about Democrats going extinct is rael. In fact, just last week West Virginia Democrat governor changed parties to Republican. That sets a record for Republican governors. DEMOCRATS HOLD FEWER OFFICES NATIONWIDE THAN IN OVER 100 YEARS. American Trump-bashers should realize that many of their Trump-bashing comrades are foreigners who could not care less about America. I do, and it is a pity that Democrats are going extinct. I mean that sincerely. We need two viable political parties. The cannibal left suck at logic. |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4430/3...efc13b8d_b.jpg
My hard-core feral cat, coming out after 10 years. Slowly. |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
On 08 Aug 2017, John Doe wrote:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4430/3...efc13b8d_b.jpg My hard-core feral cat, coming out after 10 years. Slowly. Excellent, thank you for both an on-topic article /and/ another cat picture for the Internet! -- Mark |
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Hard-core feral softening up after 10 years
Mark Carroll wrote:
John Doe wrote: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4430/3...efc13b8d_b.jpg My hard-core feral cat, coming out after 10 years. Slowly. Excellent, thank you for both an on-topic article /and/ another cat picture for the Internet! Thanks. Apparently this group is fading as many other USENET groups have over the last decade or so. But as long as I have cats, I will post about them. Even if it were apparently nothing more than a blog. This is a place to post about our experiences with cats, especially to do with behavior, of course. When a USENET group fades, seems there is more frustration and anger than usual. |
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