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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Beads! was Re: Cat Bathroom Habits
Message-ID: <610@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 12:42:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 12:42:53 1986
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In article <677@frog.UUCP> wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert) writes:
>In article <1176@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> mendell@mcnc.UUCP writes:
>>is that Desper doesn't always leave everything that he is supposed
>>to leave in the box.  He walks away with feces dangling from his
>>rear.  If I am around when he uses the box, I check him and clean
>>him up right away.  Sometimes I am not around though, and I come
>>home to find smeared evidence on the carpet, on the bedspread, etc.
>
>Yeah, I have the same problem with Luna.  The problem seems to be that
>she likes to chew on brushes, which means she eats hair.  Which means
>that she $h|ts beads.  I've been attempting to teach her that if she
>draws it to my attention I will _instantly_ stop whatever I'm doing,
>grab the scissors, and "debead" her.
>
>One person has told me that adding a bit of sugar (about 1 t./day) to
>her diet would fix this, but I haven't noticed any effect.
>
>You might try giving her kitty-mushies (semi-moist catfood) though,
>since it does produce a somewhat softer stool than kittycrunchies do.
>

	Or you could try feeding kitty intraveniously (sp?))

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					--MKR

Sometimes even the President of the United States must have to 
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