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From: Aimee S
Date: 01-03-2004, 01:52 AM (1 of 27)
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We have a wild cat that comes to our home. She will now come in to eat but she will not stay because of our male devil cat. He chases her around and such. ( He's fixed and dont know it) I have thought of one of the cat beds that the pattern companies have in the craft section but how do I keep it weather proof. She has started to come in when it is too cold but Chipper wont let her be and she wants to be out side. Any ideas... The more you disaprove, the more fun I am having!
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From: brendalou
Date: 01-03-2004, 11:34 AM (2 of 27)
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Honestly - I would recommend a dog house! At any of the pet stores you can get the electric outdoor heating pads and put that in the dog house. Protection from the weather, and warmth. Unless you have the cat on a covered deck. Poor kitty! Very nice of you to take care of it.....
==Brenda Lou
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-03-2004, 01:00 PM (3 of 27)
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We had a wild cat once, not cuddly but my favorite. He didn't like warmth but he appreciated a full belly and protection. Any shelter was fine for him. MaryW
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From: patsews
Date: 01-05-2004, 03:31 PM (4 of 27)
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We had several wild cats staying on our deck when it was cold. They slept on the chairs that had a cushion on them and that were out of the wind. They didn't like to be confined (in something) when outside as they liked to know what was going on around them and to have an easy escape route (from dogs). pat  seatbelts save lives |
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 01-06-2004, 01:33 AM (5 of 27)
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I just came across this post. Is this a wild cat like a domestic cat with no home or a wild cat like a bob cat of some kinds. When I first read it I thought you were talking about a wild animal that came out the woods. LOL Sorry about that. I like cats and my hubby don't, he likes dogs. So we compromise and don't have any animals which is just as well because when we travel we don't have to worry about what to do with our pet. I think when an animal stays out all it's life it's coat is thicker than ones that are in the house. I think that is the way it goes, anyway I do feel sorry for any thing that has to be out in some of the weather you are having right now. You could see about getting some hay from the local feed store and putting it in a box and closing the top on the box and putting a hole in the side so the animal can get in. If you make the hole small enough, just big enough for the cat to get in and then wind won't be as bad in the box and larger animals can't get to the cat. Most of the people here who have big dogs that don't want to bring them in put hay down in the dog house when it gets cold. Just an idea. Hay is cheap here it's only about 3.00 a bale. susie |
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From: Bama
Date: 01-06-2004, 05:42 PM (6 of 27)
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We needed an outdoor box for a cat with kittens last year and used a large Rubber-Maid storage box. I cut a small door on one of the ends and left one side attached like a hinge and left it about halfway open. It was waterproof when the rain blew underneath the porch roof. I'm not sure about leaving it completey exposed to the weather. With the Rubber-Maid box, we could take the lid off to clean the box or check on the kittens, since the door was so small. There's a product at WalMart called "Purr Pads" that you could put inside a house to keep a cat warm. It insulates and holds in heat plus catches loose fur. They are about $9 for a pack of 2 and are in the pet section. Keep in mind even if you put a house out for the cat, it might take a while for it to use it. We wound up putting a towel in our cat's house that already had her scent on it, and she stayed there. Maybe you could try something like that. Don't put food in it though.  We tried that once years ago with another cat's house and had a possum take residence instead.
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-06-2004, 06:59 PM (7 of 27)
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There is the answer Aimee. Get her scent on an old towel or blanket then put it in a box. She'll go for that I bet.
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From: Aimee S
Date: 01-06-2004, 07:12 PM (8 of 27)
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I do have her scent on a towel that was left out. At night I sometimes trick her and bring her in. When it drops to 20 degrees. She will sleep at the foot of one of the boys beds as long as the male that is an indoor cat stays away from her. Some have been asking. SHe came up to our house 8 years ago battered and beaten. Took her to the vet they estimated her age under 6 months at the time. The vet said she would not live the night. We had two male cats at the time. As soon as she recovered she made a break for it. Months later she showed up with 4 babies and she was bleeding bad. Took her to the vet and they did a hysterectamy (spelling) to stop the bleeding. I took care of the babies the first 2 weeks and then she started to. When the kittens where 5 weeks old she dissappeared again. When the kittens were 8 weeks we found homes for them. She came back about a year later. Skinny and unhealthy. We took her to the vet again and she has been around ever since. She comes in at times. When the 3 other males we had died 2 years ago she came in and acted like she owned the place. Laying on everything and everyone. She can be loving, but she would hiss and slap at you if you were uninvited to touch her. This went on till we got the stray new male 6 months ago. Then she took off. and she comes around to eat. Sometimes I will leave food out other times she has to come in to get it. Any time our male comes near it is world war III in the house. He tries to investigate her and she attacks anything that moves. The more you disaprove, the more fun I am having!
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From: Lise
Date: 01-11-2004, 06:05 AM (9 of 27)
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I wrapped the underside of my back porch in heavy plastic, filled it with straw and left just a small opening for the cat to get in. Worked fine until the fire dept told me it was dangerous because straw can catch fire spontaneously. My question :- is hay the same thing as straw? (I'm a city gal). If hay is ok where would I find it ? Lise .
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 01-11-2004, 05:26 PM (10 of 27)
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Lise, I'm not sure but I think straw and hay are the same things and hay is very conbustable also. I don't think it would make a fire by itself but if a spark got to it, it would go up fast. Didn't think of that when I suggested the hay. susie |
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From: Magot
Date: 01-12-2004, 02:52 AM (11 of 27)
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Straw is wheat or barley stalks, very hard and indigestable, hay is dried grass and clover, much softer, and I thought only prone to spontaneous combustion in extreme heat or the accidental dropping of a match..
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 01-12-2004, 10:47 AM (12 of 27)
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Jan, You are so intelligent. LOL I didn't know the difference between straw and hay I really thought they were the same thing. I do know that we have grain elevators and grain silos around here and in the past we have had one blow up and caused a hugh explosion. I didn't know grain would do that before that happened. Live and learn. Lise, I think the same as Jan on the hay theory, it will only combust if there is an outside egnition. Match, spark, ect. Better check with fire department on that one. If you have some trees close together you could wrap them or use stakes away from the house and lay the hay on the ground and wrap the trees in plastic to make an enclosed area. Just some ideas. I can't imagine an animal living out in the weather up north. I see where a lot of you are having weather in the minus degrees. BURRRRRRR I know it's beautiful with the snow and all but I'd have to be like a bear and hybernate all winter. LOL I just had my air condition on last week and today the heater hasn't cut off. Susie |
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From: Magot
Date: 01-12-2004, 02:00 PM (13 of 27)
It's true Susie, I am stunningly intelligent!!!!! That why I turned down Mensa!Actually, I know an aweful lot of stupid facts which means I'm great on a Pub Quiz team, so long as there is someone else to do the soaps. Flour is combustable as well. it's to do with the grain size. We had a tragedy around here of a man who fell in a silo of rapeseed when cleaning it and died. Farms are dangerous places. love and kisses, Jan
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 01-12-2004, 02:16 PM (14 of 27)
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I'm like that with stupid facts too Jan. Just don't asked me something that really counts, then I draw a DAHHHHHHHH. My siblings use to call me "elephant memory" I never forgot anything especially things they wanted me to forget. Now they just call me NUTS!!!! They think that of me, LOL I use to be like them and take things and let it roll off my back but now I fight back and they think I'm nuts now. So be it but no one's going to pull a fast one on me. LOL Anyway, the older I get the wiser I get, not smarter just wiser to all the garbage. Susie 
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From: Magot
Date: 01-12-2004, 02:24 PM (15 of 27)
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My Momma always used to say, "Life is like a box of chocolates.."
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Bama
Date: 01-12-2004, 07:20 PM (16 of 27)
Hay can catch fire spontaneously. Hubby (a country boy ) and I were tearing some hay from a large round bale of old hay (no longer good to feed the cows) to put down for our goats. I commented that the hay felt warm inside the bale even though it was cool outside. Hubby explained how sometimes barns full of hay can catch fire. Don't ask me to explain it but he seemed to think he knew what he was talking about. There's been a couple of barns near us that burned down when full of hay, but I think it was in the summer time. Lise, I wonder if pine straw would be less dangerous? Maybe not. We've put pine straw in dog houses before. |
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From: Lise
Date: 01-13-2004, 09:20 AM (17 of 27)
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Bama, What is pine straw ? Lise
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 01-13-2004, 01:33 PM (18 of 27)
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Lise, you can tell you're a city girl from the North. Do they have pine trees up your way? Way down here close to the swamp we could use moss to warm an animal, although I think the old timers use to say moss has lice in it so I'd watch that YUCK. LOL Susie |
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From: Magot
Date: 01-13-2004, 01:53 PM (19 of 27)
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Susie, she's in Qubec! I thought the only things that grew in the Great White North were Pine trees!
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Bama
Date: 01-13-2004, 05:10 PM (20 of 27)
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Lise, pine straw is just dried pine needles. We have lots of it here. It's also great to use for mulch around trees and shrubs. Especially azaleas. It's funny how all of us from different areas sometimes say things not realizing that some may not know what we mean.  We call a large grouping of pine trees a thicket. Do the rest of you? |
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From: Bama
Date: 01-13-2004, 05:17 PM (21 of 27)
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Hey Susie, you reminded me. We brought home some spanish moss from my bil's place in Louisiana once. I thought it would be good to put around the trunk of a potted ficus tree I had in the living room. WRONG. A couple days later we saw tiny little bugs crawling around in it. They looked like spiders to me, not lice. BIL said we should have sealed it in a plastic bag for a while before using it. I think I'll just stick with the kind you can buy at Walmart. But I do love to see it hanging in the trees outside..
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From: Magot
Date: 01-14-2004, 02:54 AM (22 of 27)
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Where I am a thicket would be a small group of deciduous treees like Hazel, larger trees would be a copse. A group of (normally Beech) standing alone on the top of a hill is called a hanger, though that is not a word popularly known. There are som many different words for things because of the roots of the language eg beef (boef,) mutton(mouton) pork(porc) are from the Norman French roots of English -( they liked eating) whereas cow,(cu)sheep(Shep) and pig are from the anglo saxon roots ( they were the stupid farmer who farmed the animals for the french to eat) I love etymology! love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-19-2004, 08:49 AM (23 of 27)
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A thicket to me is a group of any kind of tree. We have pine trees along with loads of others. Cedar, oak, maple, pine, the list goes on.
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 01-19-2004, 01:17 PM (24 of 27)
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DS keeps Websters beside computer. according to this ' New Websters Dictionary' thicket = dense shrubbery. Here we usually use it to mean trees with pretty heavy undergrowth of bushes around..
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From: Magot
Date: 01-19-2004, 05:15 PM (25 of 27)
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That's it, understory layers, hawthorne and other small bushy things! Hawthorne was what I meant to say when I said hazel - I always get those mixed up.
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-19-2004, 06:01 PM (26 of 27)
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Susie, stop, her head is swelling.
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-21-2004, 06:57 AM (27 of 27)
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Well Aimee, what did you end up doing with your cat.
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