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Hi all;
I just got home from a week-end out of town. I read some here, but think I'm going to sign off right now so I can unpack and get supper, etc.
Many of you who knew me on the former list remember my having worked summers at a camp. Well, this year, I was back there. I have a cat (Peaches) who is not allowed at the camp due to kids with allergies. However, we have a sister camp that is a ranch with lots of animals and they let her live there for the summer. In Aug when I went to pick her up, she would not come out of hiding at all. She lives outdoors at camp (strictly indoors at home!) and has this 40 acre ranch to roam on. We (4 of us) looked for 1 1/2 hrs for her and even tried to tempt her with food, but she just wouldn't come out at all. So, I came home without her. I drove back to the ranch this week-end to pick her up and now have her back home!
It was a long and tiring week-end - it's about a 7 hr drive each way. A girl friend went with me and we took in a wonderful theatre yesterday just as soon as we got there. We spent the night at ranch, then got Peaches this morning (she came right to me) and came home. I'm exhausted, but it was a good week-end. And, it's good to have her back home!
She lost a lot of weight while living outdoors and exercising more than usual. The ranch camp has a new director, and the previous director let Peaches live indoors with her. This director has a Great Dane who is a bit teritorial and likes his home. I knew this and agreed that she could live outside, but I'm really surprised at her weight. I think I'll de-worm her and see if she will start gaining weight soon. If not, I'll have to take her to the vet. She's REALLY thin! But, she seems happy to be home!
I'll check postings again later tonight or tomorrow. I'm hungry!
G'ma Mary
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Hi G'ma Mary,
I'm glad you finally got Peaches back home. I don't have any idea where that camp is located, but from the time it took to drive there, I'm guessing it must be somewhere in the Hill Country. I also don't have a clue what the predator population might be like on that ranch, but around here, a cat living outdoors doesn't last very long, due to the coyote and bobcat population.
I live in the strip of farmland known as the "blacklands", just east of the Balcones Fault Line, (IOW, just east of I35), about 50 miles north of Austin, and up until about a year ago, we rarely had a problem with predators bothering our "farm cats", (IOW, cats that hang out in and around barns, sheds, etc., to keep mice and rats under control). During the past year, however, the predators apparently caught every last one of our cats, (and we had probably twenty or so, to begin with). I'm pretty sure that bobcats are the main problem here, because we've had a lot of coyotes for the last 20 or 30 years, but the bobcats only began to show up around here during the past 2 or 3 years.
Anyway, I'm glad that Peaches didn't run into that problem.
Tex
I'm glad you finally got Peaches back home. I don't have any idea where that camp is located, but from the time it took to drive there, I'm guessing it must be somewhere in the Hill Country. I also don't have a clue what the predator population might be like on that ranch, but around here, a cat living outdoors doesn't last very long, due to the coyote and bobcat population.
I live in the strip of farmland known as the "blacklands", just east of the Balcones Fault Line, (IOW, just east of I35), about 50 miles north of Austin, and up until about a year ago, we rarely had a problem with predators bothering our "farm cats", (IOW, cats that hang out in and around barns, sheds, etc., to keep mice and rats under control). During the past year, however, the predators apparently caught every last one of our cats, (and we had probably twenty or so, to begin with). I'm pretty sure that bobcats are the main problem here, because we've had a lot of coyotes for the last 20 or 30 years, but the bobcats only began to show up around here during the past 2 or 3 years.
Anyway, I'm glad that Peaches didn't run into that problem.
Tex
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Tex;
Yes, Ranch is in the Hill Country - just outside Harper. The camp where I work is outside Kerrville.
Ranch Camp has a barn cat who has been there for several years and is fatter than most cats I'm familar with. They told me this morning that they never feed him, but they had to start because he would "steal" Peaches' food. They firmly believe that is a big part of her weight loss.
Yes, I'm happy Peaches wasn't found by any predators there, and I had no reason when I left her to believe she would be at risk for that. However, there are other risks there - they've been known to have rattlers on site.
Haven't decided for sure what to do next year. I'm seriously thinking of staying home. That decision is not just because of her, but for several reasons. I want to have some work done on my house (read "mobile home") that I just can't seem to afford on my salary. However, I can stay here, continue to draw my school salary to live on and work at a high paying nursing job (home health, which I really don't like, but will do for a short time just for the $$$) and get the work done. Then, I could always return to camp after one year off, and have that time to decide what to do with Peaches.
Who knows - it'll all work out. For now, I'm here and she also is now here!
Off to watch the news and go to bed. I'm exhausted!
G'ma
Yes, Ranch is in the Hill Country - just outside Harper. The camp where I work is outside Kerrville.
Ranch Camp has a barn cat who has been there for several years and is fatter than most cats I'm familar with. They told me this morning that they never feed him, but they had to start because he would "steal" Peaches' food. They firmly believe that is a big part of her weight loss.
Yes, I'm happy Peaches wasn't found by any predators there, and I had no reason when I left her to believe she would be at risk for that. However, there are other risks there - they've been known to have rattlers on site.
Haven't decided for sure what to do next year. I'm seriously thinking of staying home. That decision is not just because of her, but for several reasons. I want to have some work done on my house (read "mobile home") that I just can't seem to afford on my salary. However, I can stay here, continue to draw my school salary to live on and work at a high paying nursing job (home health, which I really don't like, but will do for a short time just for the $$$) and get the work done. Then, I could always return to camp after one year off, and have that time to decide what to do with Peaches.
Who knows - it'll all work out. For now, I'm here and she also is now here!
Off to watch the news and go to bed. I'm exhausted!
G'ma
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Must feel very good to have her home. My cat Tigger is an outdoor cat and in the summer he looses his winter weight just from the exercise. Then in the winter, he stays in much more and porks up a bit (he truely thinks his dish is always empty...yeah, right). Peaches being an indoor cat may also not know how to hunt. I've heard indoor cats will catch prey but then just play with them because they don't associate the catch with meal time, but rather with play.
Definately deworm her. They have new dewormer now that is a topical application on the back of the neck like the flea products. So much easier than pilling a cat (and my vet did it for me at their last visit and no second dose was needed like with the pills). Ask your vet.
Give Peaches some ear skritches for me (the ultimate cat lover).
Katy
Definately deworm her. They have new dewormer now that is a topical application on the back of the neck like the flea products. So much easier than pilling a cat (and my vet did it for me at their last visit and no second dose was needed like with the pills). Ask your vet.
Give Peaches some ear skritches for me (the ultimate cat lover).
Katy
Yea, it's good to have her home. She was just now sitting on my lap (as I tried to hold the laptop), then got pushed aside so she could cuddle up against my leg and I could actually put the 'puter down. She's back to her old self - activitywise, that is. She loves to cuddle next to my leg when I sit in the recliner with the laptop.
I just had a Bible Study group here at the house and a little tiny baby kitten came up on the deck and right up to the door. It was so lost - just cried and cried. We all felt sorry for it, but no one seemed to want to take it home after Bible Study. I picked it up and carried it in one hand and a handful of cat food in the other, took both to the maintenance building at my mobile park and left it there. Hope the management will take care of it, and that it will believe that is where the food is. If it finds my house again in the morning, I believe we have a no-kill shelter here in town who will get a phone call tomorrow. It's a good thing Peaches is back, or I would have had a baby in my house
Better go, have lots to read tonight.
G'ma
I just had a Bible Study group here at the house and a little tiny baby kitten came up on the deck and right up to the door. It was so lost - just cried and cried. We all felt sorry for it, but no one seemed to want to take it home after Bible Study. I picked it up and carried it in one hand and a handful of cat food in the other, took both to the maintenance building at my mobile park and left it there. Hope the management will take care of it, and that it will believe that is where the food is. If it finds my house again in the morning, I believe we have a no-kill shelter here in town who will get a phone call tomorrow. It's a good thing Peaches is back, or I would have had a baby in my house
Better go, have lots to read tonight.
G'ma
Those who are not part of the solution, are part of the problem.