Hi Lee - The feeder I saw on line showed a dry feed station up high on a pole
but that's as far as the raccoon could climb. It had one of those metal sheets
that they use to keep squirrels out of bird feeders, and then the actual house
construction on top of that to house the dry cat food. Then they had a small
tiny cat house nearby from which the cats would go atop and jump to the feeder.
But acc to info on line the raccoon can't jump up there. Wondering about
this. Also wondering how the cats would jump in winter when there is snow and
ice on top of that smaller house. Dotty
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From: Lee Evans <moonsiste...@yahoo.com>
To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] RACCOON GETTING INTO CAT STATION
The "jump up" feeder wouldn't work because raccoons can climb just like cats.
Last year, when I was feeding a colony, two mama raccoons and a total of 12
puff balls began dining at my cat feeding station. I got some donated dog food
that they ate, I guess as an appetizer before they cleaned out the cat food. I
don't think there's any way of stopping them. They are so cute, especially the
little puff ball kids. Expensive too. As they grew enormous, one of them
would run over to me and try to grab the feeding container out of my hands.
Scary! I heard that raccoons like fruit. Maybe get some donated fruit and
nuts, anything that cats won't eat and offer it to the raccoon?
From: dot winkler <venus7ora...@yahoo.com>
To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] RACCOON GETTING INTO CAT STATION
Hi there - anyone out there - does anyone know how to construct or how to
keep raccoon out of an outdoor cat colony dry feeder? I am feeding 7 outdoor
cats and now there is a raccoon in the area eating all the dry food every night
in the dry food feeding station. I feed the cats by day some meat and throw
away the plates when done. But the dry food is a staple food for them which
they need to supplement the one feeding I give. Also, in case I can't get
there to feed them. Any suggestions? I have seen some constructions on line
but the cats have to jump up to get into them and there is one older cat I
don't think he can jump up into anything! Please let me know. I know this has
nothing to do with leukemia, but it does have to do with helping cats. Dotty -
Freehold, NJ
From: Maureen Olvey <molvey...@hotmail.com>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] What could it be?
Had to send this again because it bounced back the first time. I hate it when
it does that.
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are
profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon
unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me
sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain
From: molvey...@hotmail.com
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: RE: [Felvtalk] What could it be?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:40:59 -0400
Ha, ha - I love it!!! You sound as pissed off as I was. Believe me he is on
my shitlist too. I was boiling about it for days. Matter of fact I was just
telling my co-worker about him this morning and I got pissed off again thinking
about it.
I guess he just wanted me to take her home and watch her die. I don't know.
He never did go as far as to say that exactly because I said I wanted him to
give her fluids and do a blood test and then e-mail this other vet so I could
get this experimental drug for dry form of FIP. I didn't give him a chance to
send me away with nothing. Course, at the time other than the fever she was
doing okay. Although she was wobbly on her back legs she was still eating and
everything although she had lost some weight. So she wasn't in any pain. But
I think with a temperature of 104 he would have wanted to do something about
that anyway. The
thing is that like toxoplasmosis shows the same symptoms as the dry form of
FIP and if it was that it could be treated with some antibiotics that aren't
even that expensive. He's such a dumbass. I didn't know that the symptoms
were the same until a couple days later and when I asked him about it he said
he had thought about it when he was looking at her. So if he thought about it
and didn't suggest a test for it then he didn't care. He figured with FeLV
she's going to die sooner or later so why spend money doing any kind of tests
or treatments on her. I'm surprised he didn't suggest killing her. BTW - it's
not euthanization unless it's to end suffering so at that point it would have
been just killing her.
I like your answer about doing what you do for the animals. I'm going to steal
it. Most everybody just thanks me for helping the animals (I feed ferals so I
run into different people that see me
doing it plus going to adoptions, etc.) but every now and then I get someone
who asks why I do it, as though it's a bad thing or beneath me or something.
I'll use your answer for those folks. It's probably better than what I
normally say to them, if you know what I mean!
Maureen
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are
profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon
unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me
sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain
From: marciabmar...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:14:58 -0500
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] What could it be?
What the hell is wrong with this vet, that he didn't even want to help a little
helpless suffering animal feel better? And he has the knowledge and power to do
just that!! I'm baffled. Not tooting my own horn by any means, but when people
ask me why I do what I do for animals, the only answer I have for them is
"because I can, and that obligates me". I make no money of course, but I spend
plenty. I guess it all boils down to caring enough. That vet would and is on my
shitlist and I don't even know him.
Sent from my iPad that my most awesome kids surprised me with, Christmas 2010.
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