Last night, on my way home from my art class, I was listening to a syndicated radio show. The host's name is Kim Iverson... she's based down in Texas, but her show get broadcast a few other places. A lot of her subjects can be rather ... ahem ... interesting. Not always my 'cup of tea' but I'm willing to listen. Well, last night I nearly flipped out driving home. She told her tale about getting a new friend for her cat, in the form of a kitten. She only got the little guy this weekend... well, she didn't introduce them properly, etc, etc... her older cat was beating the little one senseless, and she was noticing behavioral changes in the kitten. Needless to say, she gave him back to the lady she adopted him from.
I normally do not email/call radio show hosts... but I felt i had to. So, I got home, found her website and sent her an email. It grew (like so many of my posts here) into a small book... telling her about proper introduction techniques, the vanilla, towels, slow phases of introduction.... and also gave her the rescue/shelter cat lecture... I told her my history, about being a shelter volunteer and all...
I didn't want to go on the air, still don't. But she emailed me back tonight. I won't copy my whole email, but I will post her reply:
Amanda!
OMG where were you when I needed you!!!! Your insights are great! I love the vanilla on the cats idea. I wish I would have done that. Oh well, I think my cat is an Alpha cat anyway and wants her own space. I definitely will share with the public some of your really great tricks!
Thanks for listening and for taking the time to write me such great info. Write me anytime!
Kim
So, hopefully she'll pass the info along... I don't listen to her all the time. But if anyone here does, and hears her talk about these tips, you'll know where they came from.
If it weren't for TCS, I would not have known about some of the tips and tricks I shared with her. And hopefully passing them along to her, and thus to her public, we'll get some more educated cat folk. I didn't mention TCS by name... but hopefully the message will get out there...
Amanda
~Proud TCS Member~
I normally do not email/call radio show hosts... but I felt i had to. So, I got home, found her website and sent her an email. It grew (like so many of my posts here) into a small book... telling her about proper introduction techniques, the vanilla, towels, slow phases of introduction.... and also gave her the rescue/shelter cat lecture... I told her my history, about being a shelter volunteer and all...
I didn't want to go on the air, still don't. But she emailed me back tonight. I won't copy my whole email, but I will post her reply:
Amanda!
OMG where were you when I needed you!!!! Your insights are great! I love the vanilla on the cats idea. I wish I would have done that. Oh well, I think my cat is an Alpha cat anyway and wants her own space. I definitely will share with the public some of your really great tricks!
Thanks for listening and for taking the time to write me such great info. Write me anytime!
Kim
So, hopefully she'll pass the info along... I don't listen to her all the time. But if anyone here does, and hears her talk about these tips, you'll know where they came from.
Amanda
~Proud TCS Member~