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It's all that cheese they've been munching lol!

Hee Hee. I guess so. What did you think of the new kitten pics?

Originally posted by Olliekitten
Hee Hee. I guess so. What did you think of the new kitten pics? you are the insane cat person - your house is over run and you are infested with giant rats!! :gag:

love your new cute kitten ollie!!!!!!!!:clap:

one word: toxic plasmosis

Beautiful kittens...may they find good homes. :)

Just two comments...

...It is very risky to feed cheese or milk to kittens as most are latose intolerant.

......It is important to get Olivia spayed asap, both to prevent further litters and fufill your contact with Thornberry.

When you adopted Olivia, the contract you signed with Thornberry you promised to get Olivia altered as soon as possible, else they have the right to recollect her.

If you can not afford to alter her, PM me and I'll give you details of cheap places.

Yes, Olivia got out before we were able to have her neutred. The pregnancy was a suprise. All the kittens have got wonderful homes waiting for them and we are in consultation with the vet to have her neutred as soon as she is able. The vet does not want to neuter her until she has stopped producing milk.

Originally posted by miniminch
one word: toxic plasmosis
Oh no, our kittens don't get approval from someone who can't count to two! ;p

Originally posted by Olliekitten
Yes, Olivia got out before we were able to have her neutred. The pregnancy was a suprise. All the kittens have got wonderful homes waiting for them and we are in consultation with the vet to have her neutred as soon as she is able. The vet does not want to neuter her until she has stopped producing milk.
Great to hear it. :)

BTW she can get pregnant again now even though she is feeding her kits. So keep a really careful eye on the catflap/doors to keep her inside until her operation.

Originally posted by miniminch
one word: toxic plasmosis

mini - half of us are probably infected.

It:
Makes men risk averse
Makes women promiscuous

now. Are you a carrier?


Next are those parasitic, bacterial and viral infections like toxoplasmosis and strep where a strong statistical link to mental illness has been demonstrated but research is underway to establish a causal connection. In humans acute infection with toxoplasmosis gondii can cause brain lesions, changes in personality and symptoms of psychosis including delusions and auditory hallucinations. Researchers at Rockefeller University and NIMH have suggested that after streptococcal infection some children may be at increased risk for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Toxoplasma gondii can alter behavior and neurotransmitter function. Since 1953, eighteen out of nineteen studies of T. gondii antibodies in persons with schizophrenia and other severe psychiatric disorders have reported a higher percentage of T. gondii antibodies in the affected persons. (For example, in one large study toxoplasmosis infection was twice as common in mentally handicapped patients as in healthy controls and in a recent German study of "individuals with first episode schizophrenia compared to matched controls, 42% of the former compared to just 11% of the latter had antibodies to toxoplasma").

The picis are lovely - gosh how theyve grown and the cuttie runt is just beautiful. I forget how funny kittens can be as my cats are aged 18 and 11 years and have had more than 9 lives.

Good luck with them they are gorgeous! :D

They're wonderful! Sooo cute! Looks like you've been looking after them well.
Cats (especially kittens) are lactose intolerant, so although cheese probably isn't such a good idea, whiskas cat milk is great for cats/kittens. They absolutely love it and the lactose is removed so it doesn't upset their tummy.
I don't think it would particularly harm them feeding them cheese, they might just get upset tummies, and you may end up clearing some nasty stuff up! lol

Originally posted by rich951
Oh no, our kittens don't get approval from someone who can't count to two! ;p
Ha! great come back Rich - some people are just naturally pessimistic and have to put happy people down!

Originally posted by Lotti
They're wonderful! Sooo cute! Looks like you've been looking after them well.


They are, without a doubt, adorable!

Originally posted by Lotti

Ha! great come back Rich - some people are just naturally pessimistic and have to put happy people down!


It's not pessimism Lotti - it's realism. Infection with T.Gondii - if you have a cat - is probably inescapable.
http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000376/
Epidemiology
Prevalence Parasite widespread. In the UK, about 0.5-1% of individuals become infected each year (ie by age 50, ~40% test positive for infection). ~21% fertile women were seropositive in London.
Risk Factors Domestic cats as pets - particularly contact with cat faeces. Immunodeficiency - AIDS, heart or heart-lung transplant recipients, Hodgkin's disease, leukaemias, more rarely lymphosarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and recipients of other transplants.1

Presentation

* Immunocompetent individuals: 80-90% of infections are asymptomatic. May present in with lethargy, headache, muscle pain, sore throat, low-grade fever for one or several weeks. There may belymphadenopathy usually affecting the posterior cervical, suboccipital, retroauricular, submental, retroperitoneal and mesenteric nodes (occasionally presenting with abdominal pain). Nodes can be painful and tender for 1-2 weeks, usually small, well defined and mobile. They can persist for months or even years.
* Immunodeficient patients: CNS infection occurs in ~50% and may be a reactivation of old infection. May present with same symptoms as the immunocompetent; plus: meningitis ±encephalitis, mass lesions (eg hemiparesis), seizures, confusion, visual changes, rarely myocarditis or pneumonitis.
* Patients with AIDS usually present with toxoplasmosis encephalitis (TE) - characteristically subacute presentation with focal neurological signs (hemiparesis, speech abnormality, brain stem cranial nerve lesions), but may have disorientation (or even neuropsychiatric symptoms), seizures, cerebellar signs, lethargy, coma, dystonias, pituitary failure, SIADH, or DI. The diffuse form (generalised cerebral dysfunction without focal signs) can be rapidly fatal, and in which CT scan is often normal.
Pneumonitis (pulmonary toxoplasmosis) is increasingly being recognised in AIDS patients, and has a high mortality - clinical picture similar to Pneumocystis carinii (diagnosis confirmed by bronchoalveolar lavage).


Serious Stuff.

They are absolutely gorgeous - its the funniest thing seeing kittens playing together and running around!

Lucky you!

Argghhhhh I love them!! I want to eat them they are so cute!

Please can I have them all!! Be-yooo-tiful! xxx

OMG they are soooo gorgeous!

Id love to have a kitten but im allergic!!!

Originally posted by technophobe
The picis are lovely - gosh how theyve grown and the cuttie runt is just beautiful. :D

Just what exactly is a 'cuttie runt' please? Is it rhyming slang?

I'm guessing at "cutie runt" as in "the runt who is cute", referring to Ollie when we adopted him :)

Could be totally wrong though!

Originally posted by michelley
They are absolutely gorgeous - its the funniest thing seeing kittens playing together and running around!

Lucky you! second only to seeing a senior citizen falling down a manhole!

oh we did laugh at Mini's jokes.....:rolleyes:

why would you eat a cat if you liked it... :loopy:

Originally posted by christine
Argghhhhh I love them!! I want to eat them they are so cute!

Please can I have them all!! Be-yooo-tiful! xxx