It has been an eventful weekend

DaveC426913 said:
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I try to avoid laster pointers. They can be dangerous. A pet can look back into the laser, even for a brief moment, and suffer eye damage. That' seems irresponsible - especially in a house with small children who can't resist copycating what they see.
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Я об этом не подумала. Действительно, дети могут посветить в глаза. Но у нас в России это популярное развлечение для котов, они от бегающего по полу лучика с ума сходят, гоняются за ним наперегонки. Сама это наблюдала много раз.
 
ольга said:
I didn't think about it. Indeed, children can shine a light into their eyes. But in Russia, this is a popular pastime for cats, they go crazy over a beam running across the floor, and chase it in a race. I have seen this myself many times.
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It's quite popular here too. No less dangerous for its popularity.

But people don't think about the dangers to the pets. Noone takes their kitty to the eye doctor to check for lesions on its retinae.
 
DaveC426913 said:
It's quite popular here too. No less dangerous for its popularity.

But people don't think about the dangers to the pets. Noone takes their kitty to the eye doctor to check for lesions on its retinae.
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Ещё продаются маленькие мышки из натурального меха, котята с ними тоже отлично играются.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Sometimes. Some cats. It's a crap shoot.

My kitten ignores her mouse and goes gaga for a piece of string or a washer that fell off the table.
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Нужно быть осторожным с проводами. Котята любят грызть провода, тем более, что ваш любит верёвки.
 
ольга said:
You have to be careful with the wires. Kittens love to chew on wires, especially since yours loves ropes.
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Yes. She is responding well to progressive reinforcement.

A disapproving tone will get her attention. If that doesn't work, a sharp tone. If that doesn't work, then she is moved away. If she comes back, she gets tossed away (gently, but with obvious disapproval). If that doesn't work, I show her the spray bottle, which is usually enough. If not, she gets a spritz to the face.

I just brought her back from the vet, where she got her second shots and got her nails trimmed for the first time. Trimmed nails will go a long way toward positive playtime. Maybe long enough for my blood volume to recover to pre-kitty levels.
 
Our armada of six is now 3 weeks and five days old. People are besotted. Names based on fur markings have been assigned, and some personality features are appearing, usually along gradients of exploratoriness, squeal volume, interest in our toes, and aggressiveness in nipple hijacking.

One question I have for anyone here who has been involved in bedlam kitten raising is about queen poo. The queen is eating the feces of her kittens, as they do until weaning, and then producing her own which is astoundingly foul smelling. We are coping - frequent cleaning the box, mixing in baking soda afterwards, ventilating as much as possible - but it still seems worse than I remember it usually being. It could be something in the chain of biochemistry of digesting the Iams cat food (kitten formula), converting that to milk, then the conversion to kitten poo, then that in turn converted to queen poo - maybe any brand would have the same result. But I have never smelled anything quite like it, and we have a house guest who is suffering as well. (We did try putting the box outside, but that poses access problems at night, and maggots started appearing in the litter if the assigned cleaner got behind on their duties or sifted insufficient ly)
 
TheVat said:
Our armada of six is now 3 weeks and five days old. People are besotted. Names based on fur markings have been assigned, and some personality features are appearing, usually along gradients of exploratoriness, squeal volume, interest in our toes, and aggressiveness in nipple hijacking.

One question I have for anyone here who has been involved in bedlam kitten raising is about queen poo. The queen is eating the feces of her kittens, as they do until weaning, and then producing her own which is astoundingly foul smelling. We are coping - frequent cleaning the box, mixing in baking soda afterwards, ventilating as much as possible - but it still seems worse than I remember it usually being. It could be something in the chain of biochemistry of digesting the Iams cat food (kitten formula), converting that to milk, then the conversion to kitten poo, then that in turn converted to queen poo - maybe any brand would have the same result. But I have never smelled anything quite like it, and we have a house guest who is suffering as well. (We did try putting the box outside, but that poses access problems at night, and maggots started appearing in the litter if the assigned cleaner got behind on their duties or sifted insufficient ly)
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Я видела в продаже автоматический лоток для кошек. Он подключается к канализации, и смывает сам автоматически, после того, как кошка сходит в туалет. Бывает с гранулами, которые тоже промываются автоматически после каждого раза, бывает без них. Он недорогой, стоит что то около 500$ по курсу.
 
Not likely anyone would install new plumbing and a $500 dollar cat toilet for a problem that only lasts a few weeks. I also wonder about flushing granules of litter into a drainage system. But sposiba for an interesting idea. For someone with many cats, an automatic cat toilet could be a great thing.
 
TheVat said:
Not likely anyone would install new plumbing and a $500 dollar cat toilet for a problem that only lasts a few weeks. I also wonder about flushing granules of litter into a drainage system. But sposiba for an interesting idea. For someone with many cats, an automatic cat toilet could be a great thing.
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Их существует множество разных моделей. Есть и по 300$. Большинство из них не требует канализации, и какой-либо установки. Все отходы отправляются в мусорный пакет, который можно менять раз в неделю. Просто вытаскивать старый, и закладывать новый. И там стоит система очистки и ионизации воздуха. Никаких запахов нет. Ещё есть в продаже просто очистители воздуха за 10$. Они тоже убирают все запахи. Их можно использовать не только для кошачьего туалета, но и для обычного.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Do NOT flush clumping cat litter down the toilet.
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Есть наполнители, на которых написано: смывать в канализацию. Они распадаются при контакте с водой.
 
TheVat said:
Not likely anyone would install new plumbing and a $500 dollar cat toilet for a problem that only lasts a few weeks. I also wonder about flushing granules of litter into a drainage system. But sposiba for an interesting idea. For someone with many cats, an automatic cat toilet could be a great thing.
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Сейчас посмотрела на "Озоне" такие автоматические лотки. Напрямую из Китая они стоят в несколько раз дешевле, около 100-120$. Только ждать нужно 3-4 недели.
 
So Eliza, now 5.5 months old has emerged as quite the eccentric. And this is high eccentricity on the cat spectrum so that's saying something. The latest weirdness is her sudden love of cucumbers. This is not often a passion of obligate carnivores (though cats will chew on grass sometimes, usually to make themselves barf up something else that didn't sit right). But Eliza seems to actively crave cucumber and will now cry piteously when she smells me slicing one up and not stop until I've cut a few small chunks for her. Which she gobbles down as if they were warm salmon fillets. And keeps down.

One day recently she went so far as to climb up on the counter and place her forepaws on my shoulder so she could cry directly into my ear until I got with the program.* Another day, Ms Vat asks, what IS she playing with there on the floor? Turned out to be a sizeable chunk of cucumber skin, snatched off a plate of vegetal trimmings carelessly left out. Which she eventually tore into small enough shreds to eat.

And no, she's not pregnant (and unlikely to be fertile for several months). Or poorly fed - she gets the good stuff. And she is very active and healthy, producing normal stools. She's just...weird.

* A variant on the ear intimacy strategy she often uses on people foolish enough to still be sleeping at dawn. That involves pushing her nose into the ear opening. It's effective.
 
What the box says: "This auto litterbox has a sensor that knows when your cat is near and shuts off the cleaning cycle. This is useful when your cat is skiitish and first needs to acclimatize to the new device."

My cat: "Ooooooh! Is that the new litterbox making noises?"
Me: "Get the hell outta there while it's cleaning! You're gonna end up sealed in a trash bag!"
 
DaveC426913 said:
What the box says: "This auto litterbox has a sensor that knows when your cat is near and shuts off the cleaning cycle. This is useful when your cat is skiitish and first needs to acclimatize to the new device."

My cat: "Ooooooh! Is that the new litterbox making noises?"
Me: "Get the hell outta there while it's cleaning! You're gonna end up sealed in a trash bag!"
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LoL. Have never seen an auto litterbox. Sounds like a fairly complex gadget, if it sifts out the clumps and then separates them. Yeah you hope that sensor works well.
 
TheVat said:
LoL. Have never seen an auto litterbox. Sounds like a fairly complex gadget, if it sifts out the clumps and then separates them. Yeah you hope that sensor works well.
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It's a big rotating barrel on a platform. Takes up about as much floor space as a table chair.

The clumped litter gets caught in a sieve as it rotates, letting unclumped litter fall through. Change it every week or two.
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Even if the sensor is not perfect, it's a dam sight better than no self-cleaning, which is what we've had till now.

The litter box is in the living room, five feet from our noses, because reasons. (Kitten is still too young to be left out at night. She will terrorize the place. So her cage - and thus her litter box - remains in the main room till she settles down.)

I have yet to decipher what the app does for me. I might guess, but I do not care. Fer cryin' out loud, it's enough that I let my loved ones contact me - I don't need to hear from my cat's poop!
 
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