Cats - Page 3

#21 05-03-2007, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ILG

I am looking for some suggestions. We have a neighbor that called the city about our cats being in their yard. We had a cat a while back that disappeared before we got the kitten we have now (the other cat we have now is a neighborhood stray that we adopted). Our kitten has been coming home with strange but somewhat serious injuries. We have not had to take him to the vet, but considered it. He has had two bizarre injuries that have taken a few weeks to heal up each. The thing is that the neighbor we think is doing this has dogs that bark all the time and an emotionally disturbed son who comes over all the time. Even when we eat in our back porch he comes and talks to us through the screen and invites himself over and talks about how good it smells. We have been very tolerant and have had him over a lot. He has spent a number of meals here and we have never complained about their dogs or their son. We do sometimes not answer the phone when their son calls ours about 5 times in one evening. We are considering putting up a privacy fence but that still doesn't help the cat situation. Aside from keeping our cats inside 24/7, I am not sure what to do. I can't understand why someone would be so petty as to be this way when the cats are only in their yard once in a while.

ILG~ If the cat a male have you had him fixed?
Getting a male cat fixed can save you alot money in vet bills in the long run, plus it keeps them from getting into fights with other males when females are in heat. Are male cat came home on a weekly base tore apart, the last fight he was in was real bad, his eye was almost tore out and his fur around his neck rip out and bite marks. We live in the woods and though maybe a wild aniaml got to him or a dog, the vet said nope a cat fight, it cost 600.00 to put him back, he had to have drain tubes, he was a mess . The vet told us to get him fixed if we wanted to end the problem, so we had it done, sure enough a year later he not come home torn up once so far.

Margies3 · #22 05-03-2007, 11:56 AM

Do those "Invisible Fence" things work on cats as well as they do on dogs? I'm just curious. Our cat is a house cat that never goes outside. She won't even go out if we leave the door wide open and try to coax her out. But our neighbors have cats who are always in our yards. My feeling is that they're JUST cats - good grief, how much harm can they really do? Yes, they sit under my bird feeder. But we don't have any control over the instincts that God put in them. So who am I to fight nature?

ILG · #23 05-03-2007, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by CupCake

ILG~ If the cat a male have you had him fixed?
Getting a male cat fixed can save you alot money in vet bills in the long run, plus it keeps them from getting into fights with other males when females are in heat. Are male cat came home on a weekly base tore apart, the last fight he was in was real bad, his eye was almost tore out and his fur around his neck rip out and bite marks. We live in the woods and though maybe a wild aniaml got to him or a dog, the vet said nope a cat fight, it cost 600.00 to put him back, he had to have drain tubes, he was a mess . The vet told us to get him fixed if we wanted to end the problem, so we had it done, sure enough a year later he not come home torn up once so far.

I have an appt for him to get fixed. He is a kitten and just pretty much to the 'fixin' age.

ILG · #24 05-03-2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Do those "Invisible Fence" things work on cats as well as they do on dogs? I'm just curious. Our cat is a house cat that never goes outside. She won't even go out if we leave the door wide open and try to coax her out. But our neighbors have cats who are always in our yards. My feeling is that they're JUST cats - good grief, how much harm can they really do? Yes, they sit under my bird feeder. But we don't have any control over the instincts that God put in them. So who am I to fight nature?

I agree with you. Maybe nobody should have cats, the way some folks act about it. But anyway, I am not sure about the invisible fences and cats.

Hoovie · #25 05-03-2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ILG

I have an appt for him to get fixed. He is a kitten and just pretty much to the 'fixin' age.

The chineese like to "fix" cats for dinner...

#26 05-03-2007, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ILG

I have an appt for him to get fixed. He is a kitten and just pretty much to the 'fixin' age.

Get it done....

#27 05-03-2007, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

The chineese like to "fix" cats for dinner...

I just bet your wife has a recipe for that Step~.....

Margies3 · #28 05-03-2007, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

The chineese like to "fix" cats for dinner...

Ewwwwww, that's just sick

Hoovie · #29 05-03-2007, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Ewwwwww, that's just sick

here kitty kitty...

ILG · #30 05-03-2007, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ILG

This just isn't my week! I got a call from the school. My son passed out at his desk, fell on the floor and got a good knot on his head! I took him to urgent care and they say that he probably just had a blood rush to his head because he had just bent over and picked up a pen. So, hopefully he's just had a normal fainting type spell. Eeks.

I have to admit that my feelings are hurt that nodoby responded to this. I've had a hard day folks. Does somebody care? (I'm sure you do, but I'll beg it out of you if I have to.

) At any rate, please keep him in prayer because I don't want it to be anything worse. I have never personally fainted and bonked my head ever in my life and it just seems wierd to me.