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THE CAT BIBLE Saves a Kitty’s Life!

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I got this wonderful note from Amanda in Lakewood, Colorado and am really honored to have been part of getting her new kitty cat Raku through a rocky time:

I have to say that THE CAT BIBLE has helped my household a lot! At the beginning of this month (March) my boyfriend and I decided to adopt a second cat from the local animal shelter. We had gone into the shelter with the ideal age and sex for our new cat but fell in love with a 2yr 3mth old Male cat, now named Raku. Though our other cat is an almost 2 and a male as well we couldn’t resist the feeling that we needed to take Raku home with us. It is a good thing we did! He was neutered Sunday the day after we adopted him and the day we took him home. He was so sad looking that first day as they all are the day they get neutered… but we noticed by Tuesday he hadn’t eaten anything or defecated. This caused a lot of worry and distress. We rushed him directly back to the local animal shelter so that he could be looked at by their hospital vet. After three days of tests and sub-q fluids it turns out that he has FLUTD. With all of this stress and the fact that he had to go back to the animal shelter we spent the first week with him very ill from the FLUTD and from the “flu” he brought home with him. If we hadn’t had The Cat Bible on our shelf to reference I think a lot of the symptoms could have been overlooked and may have led to death!

We bought the book when we adopted our first cat Tanoshii. Tanoshii has been a very healthy and laid back lap cat. His world has been turned upside down in the last month! Last weekend, Tanoshii jumped into the safe room to meet Raku… the initial meeting went well. However, Tanoshii is definitely showing some signs of asserting dominance, such as chasing after Raku and trying to bite his neck. We have limited their meetings to the safe room because it is where Raku feels safest and they seem to handle each other much better in this smaller more secure environment. Raku started batting his paws back at Tanoshii today and I think he even “challenged” him a little. I want these guys to be best of friends but am very nervous about this behavior that Tanoshii is exerting. If we let them out of the room Tanoshii chases after Raku and jumps on him! If Raku tries to hide Tanoshii will wait outside of his hiding spot until he comes out. I think that it is important for them to work this out together without my interference. However, is this a normal way to work things out? I am just waiting for Raku to stop turn around and chase after Tanoshii! Hopefully since today he started to challenge (and not just a bluff challenge) Tanoshii their true play days are soon to come and we can stop having to separate them in two rooms when there isn’t supervision! In addition to this, when Tanoshii does get near Raku, Raku just licks him. I think they will be okay. The hissing and growling has been long gone and now it is just the decision of who is the top cat. Right?

I would love an inscribed nameplate for my book. It is currently the #1 used reference book in our house! (Any goodies would be welcome too!) Thank you so much for your highly informative, useful book and website!

Dear Amanda – So great to hear from you – and to have the great pleasure and satisfaction of knowing that something you learned and applied from The Cat Bible might have saved your new pussycat’s life. Bravo to you for being alert!

As to the way your boys are relating, I’m not feeling really good about – too much one-sided play that verges on dominance and bullying. This is not something that will get worked out, but may escalate into some catfights that it will be hard to recover from psychologically. So for the moment, keep them separated and only together under your supervision (as you said that is manageable) and then I want to suggest that you go to my website and order some “Ultimate Peacemaker” from Spirit Essences – these are what I call “emotion potions,” all natural derived from flower essences like Bach’s Rescue Remedy for people. Ultimate Peacemaker has 3 bottles: you’ll give them both drops of Peacemaker in their food, and tough-guy Tanoshii will get Bully Remedy and poor victimized Raku will get Self-Esteem. I think you’re going to see a surprising shift in their behavior – but I want you to tell me!

A package is on its way with bookplate inscribed to the boys, a little bottle of Nordic Naturals, a CD of one of my radio shows and lots of other stuff.

Tracie

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