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- From: giordano@andromeda.rutgers.edu (E. Giordano)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: cats and olives
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.21.58.19.1993.3356@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:58:20 GMT
- References: <9301211902.AA06554@rwasic27.aud.alcatel.com> <1993Jan21.195420.28656@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer) writes:
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- >In article <9301211902.AA06554@rwasic27.aud.alcatel.com> alclark@rwasic27.aud.alcatel.com ( Amy L Clark) writes:
- >>My mother has a friend that wanted me to ask ya'll about a
- >>quirk that his cats have. It seems that when he gives any
- >>of them (he owns about 8 cats) olives (green or black) the
- >>cats go crazy as if they had just inhaled catnip.
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- >My uncle's late cat, Fruitcake, was also an olive addict. They
- >allowed him to have an olive at Thanksgiving and one at Christmas, as
- >a special treat. He got too wild and crazy for them to give him
- >olives on a regular basis. Wonder what there is in olives that has
- >this effect on some cats? I've tried them on other cats, with no
- >results.
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- >--
- >Vicki Holzhauer, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- >Boulder, Colorado / / / / vicki@ncar.ucar.edu
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- I thought I heard everything but this is a first,
- although cats, like humans are all individuals and each
- have their own peculiar habits, tastes and personalities,
- my question is WAHT KIND OF OLIVES? With or without
- pits, marinated in oil or plain, sicilian, greek or those
- plain black canned pitted ones?
-