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[Jryan]

Shoot me now! I am starting a thread. I am an animal lover and I know a few of you are too. And as I mopped my concrete floors I thought about starting this topic, first for selfish reasons, then I thought maybe others may benifit too. First let me start my story from the beginning, which will be hard cause my computer is lagging bad.

As most of you know I had Tiger for 10 yrs before we lost him during the hurricane evacuation this year. When we got shaggy Tiger was 6yrs old Male, neutered, front claws declawed, we had another cat female younger spaded who hated shaggy, shaggy was just a puppy about 4m old 3-4 lbs, tiny little thing. But kara was scared of him and would hiss and claw him if he came around, shaggy would chase the cats and even though they were bigger the cats would run. Shaggy thought it was fun, cats weren't amuzed. Tiger would at times stalk and attack, but as he got older he just avoided him, Kara ran away. Shaggy learned to go out through the doggy and potty in the back yard. Tiger also. But after awhile my son and his girlfriend movied in with their yorkie, who was paper trained. Well accidents started to happen. Their dog started peeing on the edge of the furniture, leaving stains on the carpet. Then they found another dog, another yorkie, well he wasn't trained either, well after about 6m they moved out, well the peeing continued. I figured shaggy was marking over their scent. Then just continued the habit. Well two years later,.... He is still doing it. My hubby only caught him once. I think he is doing it while we are asleep, maybe he doesn't want to go out at night? I clean the area with straight Pine oil. Anyone know what we can do to break this bad habit? Hubby afraid to get new furniture till we do. He still goes outside when we are watching, so I think he knows better.


Thanks
Jryan



Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a cat to bring him back to reality"

This post has been edited by Jryan: Nov 14 2008, 03:51 PM

[Enaka]

Shoot me now! I am starting a thread. I am an animal lover and I know a few of you are too. And as I mopped my concrete floors I thought about starting this topic, first for selfish reasons, then I thought maybe others may benifit too. First let me start my story from the beginning, which will be hard cause my computer is lagging bad.

As most of you know I had Tiger for 10 yrs before we lost him during the hurricane evacuation this year. When we got shaggy Tiger was 6yrs old Male, neutered, front claws declawed, we had another cat female younger spaded who hated shaggy, shaggy was just a puppy about 4m old 3-4 lbs, tiny little thing. But kara was scared of him and would hiss and claw him if he came around, shaggy would chase the cats and even though they were bigger the cats would run. Shaggy thought it was fun, cats weren't amuzed. Tiger would at times stalk and attack, but as he got older he just avoided him, Kara ran away. Shaggy learned to go out through the doggy and potty in the back yard. Tiger also. But after awhile my son and his girlfriend movied in with their yorkie, who was paper trained. Well accidents started to happen. Their dog started peeing on the edge of the furniture, leaving stains on the carpet. Then they found another dog, another yorkie, well he wasn't trained either, well after about 6m they moved out, well the peeing continued. I figured shaggy was marking over their scent. Then just continued the habit. Well two years later,.... He is still doing it. My hubby only caught him once. I think he is doing it while we are asleep, maybe he doesn't want to go out at night? I clean the area with straight Pine oil. Anyone know what we can do to break this bad habit? Hubby afraid to get new furniture till we do. He still goes outside when we are watching, so I think he knows better.


Thanks
Jryan



Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a cat to bring him back to reality"

[KimberlyTaylor]

Shoot me now! I am starting a thread. I am an animal lover and I know a few of you are too. And as I mopped my concrete floors I thought about starting this topic, first for selfish reasons, then I thought maybe others may benifit too. First let me start my story from the beginning, which will be hard cause my computer is lagging bad.

As most of you know I had Tiger for 10 yrs before we lost him during the hurricane evacuation this year. When we got shaggy Tiger was 6yrs old Male, neutered, front claws declawed, we had another cat female younger spaded who hated shaggy, shaggy was just a puppy about 4m old 3-4 lbs, tiny little thing. But kara was scared of him and would hiss and claw him if he came around, shaggy would chase the cats and even though they were bigger the cats would run. Shaggy thought it was fun, cats weren't amuzed. Tiger would at times stalk and attack, but as he got older he just avoided him, Kara ran away. Shaggy learned to go out through the doggy and potty in the back yard. Tiger also. But after awhile my son and his girlfriend movied in with their yorkie, who was paper trained. Well accidents started to happen. Their dog started peeing on the edge of the furniture, leaving stains on the carpet. Then they found another dog, another yorkie, well he wasn't trained either, well after about 6m they moved out, well the peeing continued. I figured shaggy was marking over their scent. Then just continued the habit. Well two years later,.... He is still doing it. My hubby only caught him once. I think he is doing it while we are asleep, maybe he doesn't want to go out at night? I clean the area with straight Pine oil. Anyone know what we can do to break this bad habit? Hubby afraid to get new furniture till we do. He still goes outside when we are watching, so I think he knows better.


Thanks
Jryan



Everyone needs a dog to adore him, and a cat to bring him back to reality"

Hey, I just put my pet stuff in Off Topic...hope that was okay...since they are my "kids" I figured it was okay to talk about them there.

As for the marking territory thing...they make this stuff to clean the areas. It has enzymes that actually eat the urine or other biological substances. We had a neighbors cat spray (pee) into our living room, through the sliding glass door screen. We got some of that cleaner at a local hardware, they also rent steam cleaners. You shake it a bit, then just pour it onto the infected area. It soaks through carpets, pads and into subfloors. It should soak into grout as well, if you have a tiled or lino flooring. We have not had any issues since we used that. It doesn't smell anymore and my animals ignore it. Good luck!

[tashafallen]

I am soo happy you started this .. i love my animals .. they are like my kids


first theres Chester my Chihuahua


then there is daisy my Black lab mix


and my youngest Polly my lab boxer mix





I do love cats too .. i had my cat pepper for a long time but developed an allergy to her ..sams mom has her now but i still think of her as mine i even risk two days of sneezing fits just soo i can love on her when we visit


This post has been edited by tashafallen: Nov 14 2008, 04:16 PM

[Jryan]

Hey, I just put my pet stuff in Off Topic...hope that was okay...since they are my "kids" I figured it was okay to talk about them there.

As for the marking territory thing...they make this stuff to clean the areas. It has enzymes that actually eat the urine or other biological substances. We had a neighbors cat spray (pee) into our living room, through the sliding glass door screen. We got some of that cleaner at a local hardware, they also rent steam cleaners. You shake it a bit, then just pour it onto the infected area. It soaks through carpets, pads and into subfloors. It should soak into grout as well, if you have a tiled or lino flooring. We have not had any issues since we used that. It doesn't smell anymore and my animals ignore it. Good luck!

Thanks I got some NO GO, after The cleaned area drys I will try that, but it says to reapply in a week, Lets hope I remember. Right now all I have is Cement floors, until all repairs are done, but for sure, I am not putting back carpet. Going with Stone or Ceramic tile.

[Jryan]

I am soo happy you started this .. i love my animals .. they are like my kids


first theirs Chester my Chihuahua


then their is daisy my Black lab mix


and my youngest Polly my lab boxer mix





I do love cats too .. i had my cat pepper for along time but developed an allergy to her ..sams mom has her now but i still think of her as mine i even risk two days of sneezing fits just soo i can love on her when we visit

Same here about the cats, we want another cat sooo bad, since we lost tiger, but daughter has bad alergies, when I was looking at pet shelters online, my hubby said go look at that D'onofrio guy, lol. Never thought I would here him say that! lol But he doesn't want another cat. So I have to settle for the ones in my signature. Thanks for sharing the pics. I need to take some updated ones of shaggy. Last night hubby had supper meeting, and brought home some left over steak, Shaggy could smell it through the foil, and he barked and jumped till hubby gave him some, I Never saw him so exited, I think now he is part bloodhound, lol.

[LadyBlueDevil]

I love this thread, Jryan! It's great to see pics of everyones' critters. I posted this over on the "post your pictures thread", but it seemed appropriate here, too.

This is our little ferocious jungle cat, Kitty Girl (yes...so original!). She's only about 9 lbs and about 7-8 years old, we think, and the vet says she's a Maine Coon mix. We found her as a stray. She loves my husband, tolerates me, and hates every other living thing, but we love her nonetheless. She is actually very useful when solicitors come to the door. She turns into a snarling beast and chases most of them away. It's quite funny to watch the UPS guy toss me a package and hurry away! She even chased away a cat sitter we tried to hire to take care of her when we went on a trip. It reminded me of the scenes in "Addams Family" when visitors high-tailed it out the door after seeing their pet "Kitty", the lion. Luckily we have nice neighbors with hip-waders and leather gloves that will feed her while we're away.




I also learned on the other thread that our Kitty Girl has a stiking resemblance to KimberlyT's kitty. Such a small kitty-world!

[Jryan]

I love this thread, Jryan! It's great to see pics of everyones' critters. I posted this over on the "post your pictures thread", but it seemed appropriate here, too.

This is our little ferocious jungle cat, Kitty Girl (yes...so original!). She's only about 9 lbs and about 7-8 years old, we think, and the vet says she's a Maine Coon mix. We found her as a stray. She loves my husband, tolerates me, and hates every other living thing, but we love her nonetheless. She is actually very useful when solicitors come to the door. She turns into a snarling beast and chases most of them away. It's quite funny to watch the UPS guy toss me a package and hurry away! She even chased away a cat sitter we tried to hire to take care of her when we went on a trip. It reminded me of the scenes in "Addams Family" when visitors high-tailed it out the door after seeing their pet "Kitty", the lion. Luckily we have nice neighbors with hip-waders and leather gloves that will feed her while we're away.




I also learned on the other thread that our Kitty Girl has a stiking resemblance to KimberlyT's kitty. Such a small kitty-world!

Does she love to wag her tail in your face? My princess had a tail like that, and she love to do that to me when I wasn't giving her enough attention, she would lie by me and hit me in the face with her fluffy tail,lol.

[Jryan]

Just as a reminder, the last picture Tiger and Shaggy took together, you can feel the love they had for each other, lol. Tiger is greatly missed

This post has been edited by Jryan: Nov 14 2008, 07:15 PM

[LadyBlueDevil]

Does she love to wag her tail in your face? My princess had a tail like that, and she love to do that to me when I wasn't giving her enough attention, she would lie by me and hit me in the face with her fluffy tail,lol.

Yes, she sashays up to my husband and wacks him with her tail. It's quite expressive. She'll also hunker down with her tail up in the air, "giving us the butt", to get her back scratched. She's a piece of work!

Your Tiger looks like such a sweet kitty...I know you miss him terribly.

[chimera]

I love this thread. I hope it helps you feel
a bit better about Tiger, Jryan, if it is possible.

Many of you know I am Chimera the Pug, but
only a few of you know that our male and
female pug died in years past. Now, my husband
is retiring, and we are going to get another pug!!!
We are joy!

[chimera]

Anyone want to adopt me for the holidays?

[lady_mephisto86]

Great thread!

I've had my share of pets over the years, mainly cats. First cat was Boots, she was a shorthair tabby (I think, although there was a theory that she was part raccoon - is that even possible?). My mom took her in from one of the neighbours which was right around the time I was born so had her for a long time. She died of age I think when I was 15-16ish. My current cat is Emmy, or as I like to call her, the fuzzball (she's got a LOT of fur!). This one likes to meow very loudly mind you at ungodly hours of the morning, it sounds even louder when everyone's sleeping.

Other then that, I've had a guinea pig, like to get another or a hamster or a rabbit. Had a dog very briefly, he was a sheltie but had to give him away b/c the apartment was too small. We got him from a breeder that's a good friend of the family on my dad's side, his family practically got all their dogs from them (mostly shelties). I wouldn't mind getting a dog but not a large one, my cousin had a Bouvier, talk about huge! And to think it was only a wee one as a puppy O__o. She had to get rid of that one and now she's got a black Lab.

Here's something really cool for animal lovers, I found it last night just randomly surfing the net. It's a web series featuring clips of funny and cute pets.

http://www.ultrakawaii.com/

[lady_mephisto86]

Anyone want to adopt me for the holidays?

LOL! Good one! The weird thing is that's what my history teacher's nickname for my class was (Good times!)

[LadyBlueDevil]

I love this thread. I hope it helps you feel
a bit better about Tiger, Jryan, if it is possible.

Many of you know I am Chimera the Pug, but
only a few of you know that our male and
female pug died in years past. Now, my husband
is retiring, and we are going to get another pug!!!
We are joy!

Pugs are so cute! We had neighbors in FL that had two, and they would run over to us if we were out in the yard and want lots of pats. So sweet!

[LadyBlueDevil]

Great thread!

I've had my share of pets over the years, mainly cats. First cat was Boots, she was a shorthair tabby (I think, although there was a theory that she was part raccoon - is that even possible?). My mom took her in from one of the neighbours which was right around the time I was born so had her for a long time. She died of age I think when I was 15-16ish. My current cat is Emmy, or as I like to call her, the fuzzball (she's got a LOT of fur!). This one likes to meow very loudly mind you at ungodly hours of the morning, it sounds even louder when everyone's sleeping.

Other then that, I've had a guinea pig, like to get another or a hamster or a rabbit. Had a dog very briefly, he was a sheltie but had to give him away b/c the apartment was too small. We got him from a breeder that's a good friend of the family on my dad's side, his family practically got all their dogs from them (mostly shelties). I wouldn't mind getting a dog but not a large one, my cousin had a Bouvier, talk about huge! And to think it was only a wee one as a puppy O__o. She had to get rid of that one and now she's got a black Lab.

Here's something really cool for animal lovers, I found it last night just randomly surfing the net. It's a web series featuring clips of funny and cute pets.

http://www.ultrakawaii.com/

A guinea pig was my very first pet when I moved out on my own, then I adopted a French Angora rabbit and then a Blanc de Hotot rabbit (all white with black Cleopatra eyeliner). I always loved how the piggy squeaked at me when I opened the frig (he wanted carrots!), and both bunnies were very sweet, well behaved indoor bunnies. They did chew on things, though. One ate all the tassels off of a wool rug, and the other liked to eat the baseboards.

I'd love to get another rabbit, but I don't think my cat would like it...or worse, she might like it too much. So, since we seem to have to be a one-pet household, we sponsor a leopard at The Wild Animal Sanctuary near Denver, CO. They were featured on Animal Planet in a story about Eddie, the leopard. I'm going to Denver on a business trip in a few weeks, so I'm excited to go visit "my" leopard!

Thanks for the link, LM!

[butteredparsnips]

Would anyone like a 15 year old toothless Siamese. Lots of personality and likes warm bodies. He just hasn't been getting enough attention since our bundle of joy arrived.

[Jryan]

Cat stuck in a box

Makes me miss having a cat in the house even more, this is such a funny video.

[fdl]

Thanks for this thread! I just had to share the love. Last year I thought it would be fun to make an old fashioned popcorn & cranberry chain for my Christmas tree. My cat, Sasha, thought so, too...



And here she is peeking out from under the covers to show her face

[hullbound]

Thanks for this thread! I just had to share the love. Last year I thought it would be fun to make an old fashioned popcorn & cranberry chain for my Christmas tree. My cat, Sasha, thought so, too...



And here she is peeking out from under the covers to show her face

How nice of her to "help" you.