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    Telephones, Biting And Chasing The Postman

    My daughter, Rosemary, is owned by her blue cat, Polly, who was my Sukie's mother, Sukie passed in August last year. Polly lives with Rosemary in an upstairs flat and is an indoors/outside cat who was left on the vet's receptionist counter heavily pregnant aged about 9 months. My daughter is...
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    Sukie Was Run Over And Died

    Our two and a half year old blue X Alley cat, Sukie, was run over and died three days ago. She was micro-chipped and the driver of the car took her to an all night vet who scanned her chip and rang us up with the news. We are so grateful to him that we were spared the long wait without any...
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    Intelligent Cat

    Sukie is fed in the kitchen and she usually eats a small amount and comes back later to finish her meal. It is winter now in Australia so we keep the internal kitchen door shut and the heater on while we have lunch, we do not have an external kitchen door. Today Sukie came back to finish her...
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    Loves being wheeled

    My female,3 year old Blue cross Alley cat, Sukie, loves our shopping trolley.  She waits until it is emptied and then gets into it.  Once in, she expects to be wheeled around the house until we tire of the activity, after this she then gets out and continues with her catty business. Sukie and...
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    Sukie's desire for paper

    Sukie, our 2 year old female Russian Blue cross, has shown an addiction to paper, ever since she was a kitten.  The above photo was taken six months ago, when Sukie came to join us in the sitting-room as she wanted to lie down in front of the fire.  However she did not lie in front of the fire...
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    The Fairy on top of the Christmas Tree.

    The Christmas Tree had been moved for safety from Sukie into the study. However Sukie decided that she belonged on top of it!
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    Example of different coloured eye pupils

    There has been a previous discussion on different coloured eye pupils.  I suggested that the different colours were due to an artefact produced by the flash being taken at an angle, so that one eye reflected the light from the retina at an angle and the other retina reflected the light at a...
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    How can I stop a female cat from spraying?

    Sukie, aged 17 months, see Avatar, has started spraying at the side of a cupboard.  She was spayed at 8 weeks.  I have never seen any other cat wandering around before she has sprayed and she always goes to the same place.  We have tried putting down disinfectant but to no avail!    I once had...
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    British Siamese

    William was our two year old Seal Point Siamese whom we had brought up since he was eight weeks old. When we moved from UK to Australia in 1961,of course William came too. We found ourselves in Adelaide, South Australia where there was the South Australian Cat Show being held in 1962 and William...
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    Ginger Tom on Dartmoor

    It must be getting on for 50 years now when my wife and I were touring Dartmoor, a large remote Moor in England, famous for Dartmoor Prison.  We set up our tent and started cooking our evening meal, the Moor was very  desolate and remote with nobody around for miles. Suddenly, just as we were...
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    Euthanasia

    Obviously there are many careful and compassionate Vets who assist animals to die as painless as possible and without stress.  However, having observed how difficulty in getting into veins can so often cause fear and stress, and even cause multiple attempts at putting down an animal, I wonder...
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    Feline predators in Australia

    I wrote this after reading the post "Will Great Horned owl eat cats?".  We Australian city dweller cat owners are very lucky as far as not having our cats taken.   Except for universal predators like cars.   Surprisingly there are foxes in the Cities, but they are unlikely to be a problem.   ...
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    A Reversal of Roles

    When Rupert was a young Siamese cat, we had a cottage on the shore of an inlet 20 miles north of Sydney.. All of the neighbours knew each other well so we were quite comfortable in leaving our doors open to allow Rupert, and his brother Kerry, to go in or out as they wished. Unfortunately...
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    Feline addiction for newspaper

    My blue- white cat, 16 month old Sukie, has developed a remarkable addiction to newspaper! You only have to place a sheet of newspaper on the floor for her to stop whatever she is doing and sit on it. Now that Australia is entering Autumn, we sit in the Drawing-Room with the fire on and Sukie...
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    Feline Schadenfreude

    Schadenfreude is defined as 'pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune' and I have no doubt that some cats practice this.  It may be as simple as sitting on a wall and hitting the heads of humans passing under him. and our Tonkinese adult male 'Kinky' was well versed in this...
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    Jumping on the mantelpiece

    Can anyone advise please?  Sukie has developed the habit of jumping on the mantelpiece and trying to knock every thing off!!   We have had to remove everything from the mantelpiece including a clock, a framed photo, a paperweight and a vase of flowers.    It has reached the stage that we cannot...
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    Feline homing instinct

    I have read of cats returning home after being lost when their owners had moved and our then cat, William, exhibited an extraordinary example of this feline homing instinct.    Many years ago we emigrated from England to Australia.  William was a beloved Siamese neutered male and we had had...
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    Hello from Australia!

    Sukie waiting to go to bed, Sukie in her elastic mode and at the top, Sukie pretending to hide under a chair. Best wishes to you all from Australia, My name is Geoffrey . I have been a cat owner since I qualified as a doctor in England. My wife is also a cat lover and we have had Siamese...
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    Cat bites when moved

    We, my wife and I, have brought up a Blue and White  female kitten from 8 weeks to 15 months.  She is affectionate in her own way, particularly when she wants food.  However she will never allow us to pick her up, will not sit on our laps and rarely comes when called.  Attempts to pick her up...
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