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Conference misery::feline_v1

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
Total number of notes:60366

1856.0. "SPASTIC CAT!!" by HAVOC::KENDRICK () Tue Oct 11 1988 15:48

    I am just curious if anyone else has had the same thing happen.
   
    
    Last night I came home from ceramics and my husband told my cat
    was spastic ( of course I said Mikki? - our problem child).  Here
    it was Kali our lazy cat.  She was laying on Tom's stomach and
    nonchallantly (sp) walked over to an oven mit on the coffee table
    - sniffed it and went berserk.
    
    So I picked Kali up and picked up the mit - she sniffed it and went
    beserk again.  I put the mit down - went and got Kali, asking her
    what was wrong (of course she didn't answer).  I went to give her
    to Tom and she went spastic again.  I accused him of doing something
    to her and he said she probably had a bad dream about the oven mit?
    
    Through the evening I would go over to Kali and just lie down beside
    her and pet her and she seems offly jumpy.
    
    Any clues on to what might be wrong.  The oven mit is not new so
    that is out of the question.
    
    Thanks for any help.
    
    Barbara
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1856.1CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif.Tue Oct 11 1988 16:332
    Could there be some sort of chemical oven cleaner on the mitt?
1856.2The smell?STAR::BARTHTue Oct 11 1988 16:3810
    Certain smells will trigger craziness in Tristan.  I never know
    what will do it.  The shampoo I've been using lately sets him off,
    as does "used" or damp wool sweaters, Colgate toothpaste, and 
    Frosted Flakes.  These smells will, depending on which one, cause
    crazy fits where he runs around the house, extremes of affection,
    chirping, purring and head bumping -- all of these to extremes.
    Not that I mind, but Tenzing never does these sort of things.  I
    simply consider them a part of Tristan's unique charm.
    
    Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.
1856.3MoreSTAR::BARTHTue Oct 11 1988 16:405
    The point of my response, which I realize I never got to, is that
    there could be something on the oven mitt -- some smell -- which
    set her off.
    
    Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.
1856.4OVEN CLEANER MUST BE IT!!HAVOC::KENDRICKTue Oct 11 1988 17:1911
    re:1
    
    
    I think you got mom thinking.  Yesterday while mom worked and dad
    had the day off, he cleaned the oven (with oven cleaner) and dad
    must have still had the smell on him.  That had to be it!!
    
    Thanks for your "detectiveness"
    
    Barbara
1856.5MORE SCENT CRAZIESDPDMAI::BALLTue Oct 11 1988 17:2816
    Funny someone should bring up smells and crazies now.  The other
    day, Corkie started doing something she's never done before (or
    at least that I never saw.)  She'd go over to the refridge, sniff
    at the bottom edge of the door until she was so out of breath she
    was panting, and then go into a face rubbing, head "bapping" on
    the door that was just sooooo funny!  I got down there and tried
    to see if I could smell anything and there wasn't anything I could
    detect.  The fridge hasn't been cleaned in awhile, so I hadn't used
    anything new on it.  Only thing I could figure was that I bought
    something she really got off on.  I thought that if I opened the
    door and let her look inside, she'd go right to what it was, but
    of course, since I wanted her to she didn't.  No telling what she
    was up to!
    
    Pat