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Black Cat Appreciation Day: Do You Know Your Melanistic Cats?
National Geographic ^
| August 17, 2013
| Jordan Carlton Schaul
Posted on 08/18/2013 3:35:35 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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To: Paladin2
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:44:32 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: berdie
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:44:47 PM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(I hate Illinois Nazis!)
To: ExpatGator
Black cats are entitlement cats...
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:46:32 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:49:17 PM PDT
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: mcmuffin
*laugh* Too funny! Saving for possible wallpaper-useage later, LOL!
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:49:24 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: Paladin2
"Do not hold in hand"
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:55:43 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: diamond6
The only thing that would help that situation you describe wouldn’t be figuring out how to “clean her cage”. You would have to put her in a large enclosed area that could contain food, water and a kitty “toilet”. That would take care of the momma but when the kitties were born, what then, in terms of tiny babies and “toilet” needs.
I agree with the advice to try to provide an area where she could have the kittens if she chooses, but where she is free to come and go and you would not feel you had to keep cleaning up the area.
As for her running away, obviously she fears being trapped or whatever “for her own good”. Keeping on trying to get her just feeds that sense of defensiveness.
All I can add is try to get her comfortable with you as a friend who only wants to give her sustenance and a few kind words, so she would be content near you, in your area. Might try calling her a particular name over and over in a gentle tone.
I once sang a song to such a cat as that, tho she wasn’t old enough quite yet to be pregnant but she needed my help and was pretty wild. Today that cat has been with me about a dozen years...she came around.
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:58:44 PM PDT
by
txrangerette
("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." - Glenn Beck)
To: Slings and Arrows
Too late .... NOW you've done it!!
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posted on
08/18/2013 4:59:07 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Schwartzenkatzenbumpf)
To: diamond6
P.S.
Need to mention, the cat I just told you about in my other post, IS BLACK!
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:00:16 PM PDT
by
txrangerette
("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." - Glenn Beck)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:15:34 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Kill Obamacare not wound it.)
To: Mike Darancette
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:16:00 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Mike Darancette
My only pic of Blackie who was lost so long ago.
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:17:33 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
We had a black cat named Angela she would fetch a thrown quarter and put it in your shoe.
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:21:18 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Kill Obamacare not wound it.)
To: GeronL
We had a black cat named Angela she would fetch a thrown quarter and put it in your shoe.
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:21:31 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Kill Obamacare not wound it.)
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:23:25 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: RandallFlagg
That’s a Zombie Kitty, alright! But mine has a very cute bikini.
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:24:30 PM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: mikrofon
Black cats serve FR well.
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:24:54 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: GeronL
I had exactly the same reaction!
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:25:34 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: txrangerette; diamond6
Agreed, and again: Please contact an animal rescue group. They’re the experts; I’m a guy who makes wisecracks on the Internet.
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:27:41 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Mike Darancette
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posted on
08/18/2013 5:28:46 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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