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- From: jm012b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jeffrey P. Moon)
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- Subject: Re: Cat out of control!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.133658.22662@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:36:58 GMT
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- In <1992Nov20.030759.14560@lclark.edu> larryw@sun.lclark.edu (Larry Westdahl) writes:
-
- >There is a lovely cat living in my apartment, but she does two things that
- >drive me up the wall. First, she does not eat out of her bowl. She ficks
- >the pieces of dry food on to the floor and then eats some of it, leaving the
- >rest all over the place. Second, when I come home from work, I can't walk
- >across the room without the cat running in front of my feet. I nearly
- >trip over every time, and I'm afraid I'm going to step on her one of
- >these days. Now, I know that cats only do what they want to do, and that
- >I'd have better luck trying to squeeze water from a rock than I would
- >trying to train her to do anything. So, what do I do????
-
- >- Lawrence
-
- I don't think that you have anything to worry about. Some cats (like mine)
- like to eat their food off the floor or as close to it as possible. Boots
- does the same thing that your cat does, and she does it with both moist and
- dry food. Try putting the food on a placemat or cloth so that most of it
- will stay on there and not on the floor of that room. Also, cats that are
- really attracted to their owners will follow them around. When you return
- home, they are happy to see you back home and want to run up and "hug" you.
- So they come right up to you and begin to nuzzle. If you stomp some with
- your feet when you come in (like you were pounding snow off), the cat may
- become a bit cautious; it doesn't like to be stepped on. Just ask Coots;
- many times he will be walking up right behind us, we don't see him, we turn
- around, put our foot down right on him, and get the loudest noise known to
- man (it also doesn't help that he is a Siamese, who naturally are very
- loud).
-
- Good luck, and don't worry; your cat is just as neurotic as any other cat.
-
- Jeffrey Moon
- University of Rochester
- New York
-