| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5089 |
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All this rain we've been getting here in Massachusetts has gotten
to us in two ways. We have no heat or hot water due to about 10
inches of water in the basement and during one of the landlord's
excursions into the basement Zach, our 5 year old black and white
Main Coon (mostly), figured he'd take advantage of the open door
and do a little exploring. Never having seen standing water there
before he casually jumped onto what looked like the floor and found
out that it was something different.
Now, playing with water from a faucet and trying to stay afloat are
not the same thing and although he enjoys the former he found the
latter quite embarrasing. He promptly hid in a crawl space dripping
water onto what dirt was left there, most of it was deeply imbedded
in his fur. I had to crawl in after him and when I got there he
was shaking with fear and I was shaking with laughter, I'm sure
you've all seen a wet cat. After a rinsing in the sink and being
dried off he was extremly affectionate and I only got two scars.
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| 544.1 | what is under all that fur? | NEWVAX::BOBB | I brake for Wombats! | Tue Apr 07 1987 15:45 | 18 |
The most pathetic (commical pathetic) thing I have ever seen is
a wet cat. Especially a long-hair wet cat!
I never realized how small Rascal really is under all the fur until
the first time we gave him a bath. He has a large head, though,
but it isn't noticable until he is all wet.
Merlin, who has medium length hair, looks about as silly, but what
it really funny is that he has a very long tail and when that gets
wet and the rest of him doesn't, (he dips his tail in the pool without
realizing it every once in a while) he doesn't know what to do.
And it takes on the look of a rat tail....
and the look on their face when they are wet shows they are now
happy at all.... and yes, we have a few scars too, from the baths!
janet b.
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| 544.2 | Scars from Claws? | GALWAY::SMARTIN | Wed Apr 08 1987 15:09 | 11 | |
Surprising enough - mine haven't given me any scars from the 3 baths
they have had in their (short - 1 year) lifetimes. They do get
bug-eyed scared and struggle (strong little beggars!) but no claws
yet. (Please don't tell them about the claws!)
Both of them are maine coons so they're longhaired and yes they
look rather tiny when wet. They don't look nearly so grown up
when wet.
Sally
P.S. usually don't even feel the claws when they are dry except
a little when they "make bread"
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