Cat help needed

[moonfroggy]

orange girl cats are very special. it is very rare genetically for girl cats to be orange and for boy cats to be calico. she is very special and very beautiful.

[hammertime]

my cat has this... the legs of the tree are wrapped in twine/rope which he uses alot scratching..

http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Armar...1-ATM1010.html

i also have a few smaller cat posts that he scratches. he did used to scratch one chair pretty bad, but i just accepted it and let it be. i ended up selling the chair anyway, cat scratches and all

i declawed my first cat... not knowing what it was about and i was much younger and uneducated. when i adopted this cat 5yrs ago at 1.5yrs old, there was no way i was going to do that to him. he is a fine cat still, scratches things here and there but not too bad... but then again, i've got the huge tree and a few other posts to keep him busy.

good luck... sometimes it's just a matter of finding the right cat furniture for him to use, in addition to accepting that he's a cat... and you might lose some furniture by having him...

[zoom-zoom]

orange girl cats are very special. it is very rare genetically for girl cats to be orange and for boy cats to be calico. she is very special and very beautiful.

That reminds me of a cute story. A friend of ours isn't really a cat person, but used to work somewhere next to where a tortie was always seen. Eventually he made friends with this kitty and would bring "him" treats...gave him a masculine nickname, really bonded with the cat. Jason was telling us the story and I explained that torties and calicos are almost never male (I think the odds are something like less than 1/1000 and I believe they are sterile if they are male with that color scheme). Then Jason felt bad that he'd been assigning a masculine name to his little kitty girlfriend.

I agree that orange girls are special. I've seen a few, but they usually have that very pale orange coloration.

[bmccasland]

my cat has this... the legs of the tree are wrapped in twine/rope which he uses alot scratching..

http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Armar...1-ATM1010.html

I suppose if I truly loved my kitties, I'd remove the chair that's in front of the picture window in the livingroom and replace it with that. Thanks Hammertime. Don't give my cats any ideas.

[TsPoet]

All I can say is I'm thrilled that the chair is sick and the cat is healthy, and not the other way around!

[footloose]

orange girl cats are very special. it is very rare genetically for girl cats to be orange and for boy cats to be calico. she is very special and very beautiful.

Hmmm...I'd never heard that about orange cats before although I knew about the calico ones.
I just was adopted by a orange female cat a week ago....just appeared in my garden one afternoon. I think she was dropped off as I live in a rural location. She had matted fur and was skin and bones...except for the part of her that is pregnant! A week later she is cleaned up and has gained weight and is loving her new basket to sleep in. She really enjoys my warm greenhouse too.

[footloose]

My Mom drapes pieices of plastic over furniture she doesn't want her cat to get on. He doesn't like the feel of the plastic I guess. If it was drape far enough it could cover the legs of your furniture also.

The sticky tape idea sounds good too.

All my cats have always been outdoor ones as I am quite allergic. They have a pet door in the door of my barn so they may come and go as they please and larger animals can't get their food and they have a safe place to run to if needed. I live out in the country though and have an acre of property for them to roam on. They have never shown any inclination to roam farther than that. Just empty farm fields around me and they are too well fed!

[tangentgirl]

I volunteer at the Humane Society - I've also noticed that declawed cats who are frightened or aggressive *bite*.

We had a declawed cat when I was a kid. That cat got MEAN after losing her nails. Would bite like heck, just out of spite. Would walk up to you for no good reason, jump your leg and bite the front of your ankle, hard. Pretend to want to be petted, and then chomp into your hand. She lived a long time too. Seventeen years of mean, bitey cat.

I'm not much of a cat person (gee, wonder why?), and I'm not even especially warm and fuzzy about animals in general, but I think declawing cats is kinda wrong. I might go as far as looking for a new vet if the vet I had thought that it was ok.

[moonfroggy]

this is sort of interesting, about cat genetics and fur color.

the problem i had when i used the sticky tape stuff on my chair was i couldn't really sit in the chair when it had the tape stuff on it. my cat didn't scratch it though!

[kiwibug]

My first cat was already de-clawed when we got him (he was a year old), and for my second cat, the procedure was included with getting fixed- and I think we thought it was a good idea simply because the first cat was already de-clawed. I never thought it was a big deal until reading these comments!

That said, both cats were the sweetest and most affectionate cats I've ever met. I know I'm biased because they were mine, but they were always friendly with strangers as well. They wouldn't hesitate to come and jump on the laps of guests. So I wouldn't say that all de-clawed cats turn mean.

[PinkBike]

claudia, your cat is such a cutie!!

[Eden]

...... So I wouldn't say that all de-clawed cats turn mean.

I didn't say they were all mean. We've had some very sweet declawed kitties at the shelter. When they are mean (or stressed or irritated) the declawed ones won't just take a swipe at you - they bite first, ask questions later.

[uforgot]

claudia, your cat is such a cutie!!

Thank you! Although I think she has more of a "I'm Queen of all I survey" look.

[Catrin]

Thank you! Although I think she has more of a "I'm Queen of all I survey" look.

Isn't that the way it is for all cats? As someone said once, at one time they were worshiped in Egypt and they haven't forgotten it

[uforgot]

Isn't that the way it is for all cats? As someone said once, at one time they were worshiped in Egypt and they haven't forgotten it

Thanks for the laugh. Have you ever heard the quote "Dogs have masters, cats have staff"? How true.