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Overbearing Feline Supervisor

 
 
ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 07:36 pm
@nextone,
wise woman
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MattDavis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:22 pm
@dlowan,
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I have a maze feeder, which needs little paws to get into it to make the kibble come out.

Great idea!
Any recommendation regarding make/model or where I might get one?
roger
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:23 pm
@MattDavis,
Ever see a cat on a hunger strike, Matt? It'll tear your heart out.
MattDavis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:29 pm
@Roberta,
Thanks for all the suggestions.
From my limited reading on the subject, I give some deference to indulging his hunting instincts.
We already do a lot of the toy at the end of a string play.
Munkin really gets into having me make this stuffed monkey (ironic and true) "wrestle" with him. It is pretty hilarious; the monkey and the Munkin are about the same size. Munkin seems quite willing to accept Monkey as a worthy contender, and I make sure Munkin wins most of the fights.
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MattDavis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:35 pm
@nextone,
Thanks. Very Happy
Good point regarding the mouser/birder.
This makes me think that I might need to change my play a bit.
Munkin is facinated by all sorts of reflections up on walls/ceilings (maybe more of a birder).
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MattDavis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:45 pm
@nextone,
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One day as he walked away, I followed him, and I did a Frankenstein walk, arms up, big slow steps. He looked back and ran like hell down the hall and around a corner. I stood still, and several seconds later he poked his head out, and then ducked back. I walked down the hall; he shot out of the bedroom, streaked past me, and then checked back. I lurched toward him, and there and then I realized he'd taught me "Chase me, chase me". His game, his rules. We played it often.

Reminds me of how my sister's Chihuaha (sp?) learned her version of "fetch".
Somehow or other, Kenzie learned that "fetch" was played in the following sequence:
1. Person with hands throws toy.
2. Kenzie runs to toy.
3. Kenzie carries toy to Kenzie's bed.
4. Person with hands retrieves toy from Kenzie's bed.
Rinse, Repeat

PS. "Kenzie fetch" is playable no matter the relative positions of Human/Kenzie/Bed.
She would play the game the same way even when her bed was in an entirely different room. Laughing
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MattDavis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:52 pm
@roger,
Quote:
Ever see a cat on a hunger strike, Matt? It'll tear your heart out.

No I haven't. I'm sure it would.

It reminds me of how dolphins have been known to commit suicide in captivity.
The "skill" relies upon their more complete conscious control of breath.
They can literally hold their breath until they die.
The dolphin who played flipper, her trainer claims this is how she went.
He credits the witnessing of the suicide to his conversion from dolphin trainer to a "zealot" in the cause against ending the dolphin trade and slaughter in Tiaji, Japan.
MattDavis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Feb, 2013 10:57 pm
@MattDavis,
If you can even stomach it, I think it takes a very rare person not to cry after watching The Cove.

Link to full documentary
(I don't know if there are kids on A2K, but please don't start watching this if you are one. Its not graphic, but it is almost more visceral because of that.)
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cove/
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MattDavis
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 02:15 am
@Frank Apisa,
Cabot, what big eyes you have...
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 04:45 am
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:

OK. Wussy delinquents.

I bought a fountain for Mikey. Constantly running water. He drank the water when I first put it in. Then he ignored it. The water has to be fresh.


My cats are the exact opposite, they'd rather drink out of puddles and water butts. The only time they'll touch fresh water is when they can't access rainwater.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 05:05 am
@MattDavis,
http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com/the-benefits-of-using-puzzle-feeders-for-cats/

I have this one
http://www.freyacat.co.uk/2011/07/catit-design-senses-food-maze-review.html
dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 05:11 am
@dlowan,
I want one like this, but less ugly. I have seen one online but can't find it.

http://inventorspot.com/articles/stimulo_cat_feeding_station_and_activity_center_akiou

There are lots of DIY ones if you google cat puzzle feeders.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 03:57 pm
@nextone,
You betcha.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 04:07 pm
@MattDavis,
Didn't know that, thanks for the info.

By the way, not to bury you into a2k further, from whence there is not worming yourself out, here is a good thread:
http://able2know.org/topic/172295-1

170 pages, sorta like a catbook.
MattDavis
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 04:22 pm
@dlowan,
Awesome! Thanks. Very Happy
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MattDavis
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 04:29 pm
@ossobuco,
Thanks for the link,
I'm checking out the thread.
So far I found http://able2know.org/topic/172295-1#post-4613749
tsarstepan wrote:

Quote:
Tale of Two Kittens

It was the whiskers of times, it was the hairballs of times....

Hilarious!!! Laughing
ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 04:33 pm
@MattDavis,
I've been rereading it myself for the last minutes. It's a seriously good thread in many ways.
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Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 04:54 pm
Cat on a hunger strike? PPHHHfffttt.
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After we would return from a vacation, having left our two cats in pretty competent hands for feeding, watering and de-pooping the boxes, (Yes. Box-es. One refused to use the same box as the other.), we would be punished.
The punishment had several forms.
One, no petting our heads you filthy abandoning miscreants until we say so.
Two, we will not reduce ourselves to eating any of that vile crunchie stuff, and, unless you open the really good canned fishy/chickeny food~ the ones you usually only give us on Christmas Day for crying out loud, we will starve ourselves right before your lying eyes.[/u]
Three: Beg, we say, plead, cajole, weedle for our forgiveness. ON YOUR HANDS AND KNEES>>>>>>>

~~
If we had arrived on a Sunday night, we might be allowed some consideration. It usually involved being allowed to be awakened at four AM in order to go to the kitchen and get some greenies which had to be placed on the floor before they would eat them.

Joe(We could then go back to bed.)Nation
MattDavis
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 06:52 pm
@Joe Nation,
Love it! Laughing

Also love your "sign offs", pattern.
Seriously tempted to steal it.
But I won't Wink
...ehe....
...Maybe just once....

Matt (can't be trusted to live up to his own principles) Davis
ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 17 Feb, 2013 08:04 pm
@MattDavis,
A lot of us copy him on that, I bet he loves it.

Joe Nation - no better writer, sez me.

Well, maybe not that particular post, but body of work.
 

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