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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Cat Habit (ick)
Message-ID: <444@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 13:14:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 13:14:41 1985
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In article <164@entropy.UUCP> fetrow@entropy.UUCP (David Fetrow) writes:
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> I have a new problem with my cat Bast. He has accquired the habit of
>hitting any new nylon quilt (or quilt-like object) that comes into a
>particular room with a waste liquid. This wouldn't be a serious problem
>except:
>
>         1) This room is my room-mates and he has a nylon sleeping bag.
>
>         2) I have had several room-mates recently; all who sleep in
>            nylon sleeping bags.
>
> This is the reason I can't keep room-mates. Does anybody else have this
>problem, or a similar problem? The dry-cleaning bills are getting excessive.
>He only does it once per room-mate. HELP.

Has Bast been neutered?  From the way you describe his behavior, I'll bet
not.  This sounds like classic spraying behavior.  Bast is doing his
instinctive thing to tell your room-mates just whose bedroom this *really*
is.  Neutering should help, though not immediately.  The old behaviors
hang on for a bit.

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						Byron C. Howes
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