I had a cat who liked to hunt. Why do they leave the leftover guts by the door?
As my guest put it last week, Tuesday is less of a cat than rather a mixture between a child and a little dog. Child because she goes to bed with me and gets up when I get up, demands a lot of attention and will start showing off and doing little tricks to get the attention. And little dog because she basically follows me around as soon as I get home. She doesn’t exactly hunt much at night. She caught a gecko once…
I’ll see what I can find on my way home. Btw, off topic, just passed a whole stack of yellow zucchinis on my lunch break…
Iris
[quote=“Jive Turkey”]
Something I’ve always wondered about is why cats love fish so much. It doesn’t seem to be in their natural diet because most housecats hate to get wet. [/quote]
Not necessarily. Wishbone likes getting wet. Of course that could be because when I first found her, she was a shivering little ball in the gutter nearby Shida Road. I took her home and my boyfriend and I gave her a hot shower and made her feel all cozy and warm. We gave her several baths in those days as she was flea infested. I think she associates warm water with comfort and safety now. Every single time I take a shower, she sits on the edge of my tub and waits. I sometimes spray the shower at her from behind the transparent curtain, and she play ‘bites’ at the water. It’s soooo cute. Then, when I get out of the shower, she jumps straight into the tub to lick up the water. Sometimes she licks the water off my feet too.
Pumkin, on the other hand, could give a shit less about water. She sometimes gets in the tub and licks the water too, but she doesn’t NEED to be sitting on the edge of the tub like Wishbone does.
Cats are funny little things. I can’t wait to let my girlies go hunt outside some day soon.
Doesn’t work, she hated the inner organs, chicken wings and egg I tried to feed her. You’d think after two days going without food… She loved the cooked fish I got her, even though she never eats the fish pieces in her tinned food.
Different question:
I’m preparing my move out of here and am getting closer and closer to having all the information I need for taking her to Germany. I need an international vaccination passport and a health certificate signed and stamped by a veterinary officer. What’s the best place to go to?
Thanks
Iris
[quote=“iris”]
Different question:
I’m preparing my move out of here and am getting closer and closer to having all the information I need for taking her to Germany. I need an international vaccination passport and a health certificate signed and stamped by a veterinary officer. What’s the best place to go to?
Thanks
Iris[/quote]
I took my dog to a vet in Neihu. After they do that paperwork, you have to go to some sort of ministry of something behind the Sheraton for an official govt check, or at least that was the way with my dog. This vet is excellent and knowledgable about taking your pet out of the country, I found. But I don’t have the address. It is on Neihu Rd., Sec. 1, left side if you are going to Neihu from Tachi on Neihu Rd., right past Lane 285 and before the Ford dealership. If you pass Ulead, you’ve gone too far.
The street cats outside my apartment are beginning to annoy me. It’s spring and L-U-V is in the air. The female that lives on the adjoining roof has been moaning in heat all night for the past several weeks. Well, apparently last night she finally found a boyfriend. They were at it all the wee hours of this morning…sheesh. The one time living in this apartment I’ve heard the neighbors have sex and they turn out to be cats.
I got the same problem. I live next to a big graveyard and cats are going at it, spring, summer, fall and winter. Don’t know if they’re in heat or just talking.
Feeding cats uncooked meat - doesn’t uncooked meat have problems with toxins and stuff in Taiwan?
Brian
If you are switching your cat to a raw food diet it should be done slowly!Organ meet should not exceed 20% of the diet!Ask questions here b-naturals.com/
This is the first time I’m in Taiwan and it’s also my first experience to see cats & dogs which/“who” act like humans.
There’s this beagle in the neighborhood which sits on a long couch outside a restaurant. It usually plays with its stuffed toys and look at the passers by (including me) and once i stared at it for a moment and it suddenly turned its head back. gee as if i was trying to flirt with it 
There are many other instances which i can consider them as “humans”
you have him in a crate at home? you monster. :fume:
First of all, I don’t “keep” him there. Most of the time he stays in the buxiban with us - the kids love him, and he has a mat behind the front desk where he can hang out and keep an eye on things, or if he wants to crash, he can go into my office and snooze on the big floor pillow there (if I’m not already on it!)
Second of all, are you not familiar with crate training? It is without question the best foundation for training your dog. Gustav loves his crate - we don’t even need to close the door when it’s bed time. We just say “kennel up” and he trots right in - no hesitation. In the morning he stays there until we talk to him - he’ll stick his head out the door to sort of test the waters and if we don’t greet him, he retreats back inside. On the few occasions when he’s not with us and must stay alone, we lock him up for his own good (and for the good of our personal possessions). He’s a pretty smart dog though, and has figured out how to open the crate’s double latch door, even though it latches from the outside. We must now padlock it or come back to a house that looks like a whirlwind hit it! Last time we forgot to padlock his crate, we came back to find that he had dragged a bottle of champers from the kitchen to the master bedroom, along with a brand-new package of Tim-Tams. He polished off the entire package of Tim-Tams, had chewed off the tinfoil on the champagne bottle and had almost succeeded in getting the wire off the cork. The blankets on our bed had chocolate stains all over them. Man, this dog knows how to live! We’re lucky though that he didn’t get poisoning - chocolate can be deadly to dogs, depending on the size of the dog, and the nature and amount of the chocolate consumed. Anyway this kind of behaviour is to be expected from a puppy - Gustav is only 10 months old. By the time he’s two, we can expect more responsible behaviour from him.
Here are some good links on crate training:
http://www.perfectpaws.com/crt.html
http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html
http://www.siriusweb.com/AAD/crate.html
http://www.ddfl.org/behavior/cratetraining.htm
http://www.cuhumane.org/topics/crate.html
http://www.doglogic.com/cratetrain.htm
http://www.barkbytes.com/training/crate.htm
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/crate1.html
Gustav is about the best-mannered puppy I’ve seen in Taiwan. He knows exactly what’s expected of him, and he does what he’s told. When he screws up, he knows it too, and is appropriately guilty for at least half an hour. 
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First of all, I don’t “keep” him there. Most of the time he stays in the buxiban with us - the kids love him, and he has a mat behind the front desk where he can hang out and keep an eye on things, or if he wants to crash, he can go into my office and snooze on the big floor pillow there (if I’m not already on it!)
Second of all, are you not familiar with crate training? It is without question the best foundation for training your dog. Gustav loves his crate - we don’t even need to close the door when it’s bed time. We just say “kennel up” and he trots right in - no hesitation. In the morning he stays there until we talk to him - he’ll stick his head out the door to sort of test the waters and if we don’t greet him, he retreats back inside. On the few occasions when he’s not with us and must stay alone, we lock him up for his own good (and for the good of our personal possessions). He’s a pretty smart dog though, and has figured out how to open the crate’s double latch door, even though it latches from the outside. We must now padlock it or come back to a house that looks like a whirlwind hit it! Last time we forgot to padlock his crate, we came back to find that he had dragged a bottle of champers from the kitchen to the master bedroom, along with a brand-new package of Tim-Tams. He polished off the entire package of Tim-Tams, had chewed off the tinfoil on the champagne bottle and had almost succeeded in getting the wire off the cork. The blankets on our bed had chocolate stains all over them. Man, this dog knows how to live! We’re lucky though that he didn’t get poisoning - chocolate can be deadly to dogs, depending on the size of the dog, and the nature and amount of the chocolate consumed. Anyway this kind of behaviour is to be expected from a puppy - Gustav is only 10 months old. By the time he’s two, we can expect more responsible behaviour from him.
Here are some good links on crate training:
http://www.perfectpaws.com/crt.html
http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html
http://www.siriusweb.com/AAD/crate.html
http://www.ddfl.org/behavior/cratetraining.htm
http://www.cuhumane.org/topics/crate.html
http://www.doglogic.com/cratetrain.htm
http://www.barkbytes.com/training/crate.htm
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/crate1.html
Gustav is about the best-mannered puppy I’ve seen in Taiwan. He knows exactly what’s expected of him, and he does what he’s told. When he screws up, he knows it too, and is appropriately guilty for at least half an hour. [/quote][/quote]
i guess i should have put a winky winky 
to show i was joking. but yeah, he seems like a great dog, well-behaved, good-natured, and very attentive (always trying to make eye contact or reading our faces). good looking dog (hopefully, your diet will work out. Stop Vanessa from feeding him!)
I still see people having dogs in pens or cages. Just amazing. What are they thinking? Dogs are not birds. Dogs should only be in a cage to be transported or when at the vet for some reason overnight(s).
Come off it! Leaving a puppy in a crate during periods where it cannot be supervised is a very responsible way to raise a puppy. Any of the sites that Maoman referenced would also stress that it is not cool to overdo it. There is a world of difference between this and the the kind of neglect being insinuated here. Dogs like to have their very own den, with shelter. A simple ‘old-skool’ dog basket can’t offer them that.
My grandmother’s shih-tzu was crate-trained and he used it as his little escape from the crowd of relatives (and small kids) during the holidays. Poor Raggs.
As for maoman’s dog…he’s sooo beautiful! From his chocolate, slightly curly fur, to his soulful light-brown eyes. What a friendly disposition too and so obedient. I absolutely love his puppy. Always a pleasure to have him around.
Fixed that for you
Why not just leave it in a room where it can’t get into trouble? I have had dogs for about 35 years. We never put them in a cage. I think this is some more recent mindset.
As for dogs liking “their very own den, with shelter,” are you thinking of a dog house? This is something for an outside dog to get into to escape the elements (heat, rain, cold, etc.) and is not applicable inside. Sure, a dog will find its spot(s) such as mine today likes to sit under the desk and coffee table and a space beside the bed. She is perfectly content. I would not, as an owner, want to have my dog conditioned into thinking that a cage is a suitable substitute for freedom to be where it wants naturally.
Regarding cages, I was referring to the shop on the corner of Mintsu and Sungchiang roads. If Maoman keeps his dog in a cage then that is his business (my mother even does this with her dog at night); I completely disagree with this, but it is his dog, not mine.
Do you cat people put your animals into cages too? Do they get conditioned to this?
Of course human children are a different matter. ALL human children ought to be caged until the age of about 12 or so. This is, of course, common knowledge.
Why not just leave it in a room where it can’t get into trouble? I have had dogs for about 35 years. We never put them in a cage. I think this is some more recent mindset.[/quote]
And yet, you’re not a professional. Why don’t you do a bit of reading on the subject, instead of sniping at us? I follow my breeder’s advice when it comes to raising my dog - she has the experience and professionalism that an armchair critic like you lacks. You have no training or expertise in this matter. Telling other people (even through PMs!) how they should be feeding and training their dogs is a bit much.
Sometimes Wolf, to paraphrase an old saw, it’s better to just shut up and be thought a prick then to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. :wanker:
hee hee