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I have been thinking about getting a cat for my 4 year old daughter. I have a few cats in Australia before. However does anyone know if there are any health risks ?Some khmer friends say oh no ...get sick etc etc. Will be living in a borey so it wont be mixing with too many strays. Would appreciate some advice or personal experiences.
Also my khmer frrinds tell me the ones will long tails are lazy and just hang around the home as opposed to the short tailed ones. I know in indo they break their tails as kittens. Is it the same here or are there two different types ie long tail or short tailed . Look foward to some feed back.
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Also my khmer frrinds tell me the ones will long tails are lazy and just hang around the home as opposed to the short tailed ones. I know in indo they break their tails as kittens. Is it the same here or are there two different types ie long tail or short tailed . Look foward to some feed back.
Lara
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Oh boy, where to start? No, they do not break their tails, many cats in SE Asia have stubby tails. One of my five cats has a long tail, the other 4 all have short tails.Lara Apsara wrote:I have been thinking about getting a cat for my 4 year old daughter. I have a few cats in Australia before. However does anyone know if there are any health risks ?Some khmer friends say oh no ...get sick etc etc. Will be living in a borey so it wont be mixing with too many strays. Would appreciate some advice or personal experiences.
Also my khmer frrinds tell me the ones will long tails are lazy and just hang around the home as opposed to the short tailed ones. I know in indo they break their tails as kittens. Is it the same here or are there two different types ie long tail or short tailed . Look foward to some feed back.
Lara
I think cats hanging around most of the day doing bugger all is normal cat behavior and has absolutely nothing to do with the length of their tails, regardless of what Khmer say.
You obviously want your cat(s) desexed, dewormed, and have all the vaccinations (rabies especially) and then I do not know why there should be health risks? Again, most Khmer are not exactly experts on pet care.
Do not become another one of those expats that has cats for adoption because they sort of forgot they'd only be here for a limited time when they got their pets.
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Totally agree Hanno, it certainly won't be a disposable pet. Where would you suggest procuring a long-tailed cat and getting it desexed, vaccinated etc? Standard costs?
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There's also toxoplasmosis to consider.
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Hi Lara, I am not so sure about Phnom Penh, I found my cats in the street.
Off the top of my head: desexing of female USD 135.00. Cannot remember the cost for a male but obviously considerably cheaper. For my kittens I paid around USD 65.00 each for all the shots (feline rhinotracheitis, feline calicivirus, and feline panleukopenia and rabies). So not exactly cheap.
Toxoplasmosis is less of a problem unless you are pregnant and in all reality you are just as likely to get it from other sources in Cambodia.
Off the top of my head: desexing of female USD 135.00. Cannot remember the cost for a male but obviously considerably cheaper. For my kittens I paid around USD 65.00 each for all the shots (feline rhinotracheitis, feline calicivirus, and feline panleukopenia and rabies). So not exactly cheap.
Toxoplasmosis is less of a problem unless you are pregnant and in all reality you are just as likely to get it from other sources in Cambodia.
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Lara, I strongly agree with everything Hanno has written. Honestly, I have some reservations about getting a cat for your four-year-old daughter. Unless you are willing to spend the time to educate your child on how to handle a cat properly and gently enough, it's likely to turn into a miserable experience for both kid and cat. Left to their own devices, kids are almost always too rough with cats, and when they're clawed and bitten, the cat gets the boot.
If you are serious, though, and you're viewing this as adopting the cat for the rest of its life (not, as Hanno mentioned, just putting it out on the streets when you leave Cambodia), you can check with Phnom Penh Animal Welfare Society (PPAWS) or Animal Rescue Cambodia for adoptable cats and kittens. They're both reputable orgs and will work with you to ensure that the cat gets neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, etc.
And yes, Malaysians and Indonesians love to tell foreigners that they break and fold up cats' tails just for the sheer entertainment value of seeing the horror on the mat sallehs' faces. It's a genetic mutation, quite common throughout SE Asia. Cats, like humans, have very individual temperaments that have nothing to do with their colours, their tails, or any other physical trait.
As for the Khmer friends saying "oh no ...get sick", well, YEAH. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they obtain almost all of their nutrients only from animal products. A diet of left-over rice and a couple of fish bones is going to result in a SICK cat. And if your cat mixes it up with the neighbourhood strays, you're also likely to end up with a sick cat -- there are no vaccines for FIV (the feline version of HIV), feline leukemia, and a bunch of other nasties that are rife in the feral community.
If you are serious, though, and you're viewing this as adopting the cat for the rest of its life (not, as Hanno mentioned, just putting it out on the streets when you leave Cambodia), you can check with Phnom Penh Animal Welfare Society (PPAWS) or Animal Rescue Cambodia for adoptable cats and kittens. They're both reputable orgs and will work with you to ensure that the cat gets neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, etc.
And yes, Malaysians and Indonesians love to tell foreigners that they break and fold up cats' tails just for the sheer entertainment value of seeing the horror on the mat sallehs' faces. It's a genetic mutation, quite common throughout SE Asia. Cats, like humans, have very individual temperaments that have nothing to do with their colours, their tails, or any other physical trait.
As for the Khmer friends saying "oh no ...get sick", well, YEAH. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they obtain almost all of their nutrients only from animal products. A diet of left-over rice and a couple of fish bones is going to result in a SICK cat. And if your cat mixes it up with the neighbourhood strays, you're also likely to end up with a sick cat -- there are no vaccines for FIV (the feline version of HIV), feline leukemia, and a bunch of other nasties that are rife in the feral community.
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Seconded.
I believe a 5-year old child may be too young to interact with a cat unsupervised.
Seconded.
I believe a 5-year old child may be too young to interact with a cat unsupervised.
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^^^I think all of the advise is on the money...thats why i put it out there. What sbout a small dog? Same issues you think? She is really yearning for s pet to look after. Open to suggestions. ,just do want to open a can of worms where the animal suffers and health dramas for my kiddie.
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Seconded.
I believe a 5-year old child may be too young to interact with a cat unsupervised.
WTF. It's a pet to play and stroke now and again. She doesn't want to discuss Kierkegaard with it.
Lara . . just get the cat, do the vaccinations and don't overthink it. It's a cat.
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scobienz, I'm afraid I have to disagree with you yet again, old fruit. (I know it's becoming quite a habit, but I am a disagreeable chap, I suppose.)
I have discussed Kierkegaard with cats - just kidding!
Seriously, I have issues with cats; I regard them as tricksters; I do not trust them. They are the great deceivers of the animal world. They pretend to snooze around, making us feel sleepy & complacent, before they embark (or emmew) on a campaign to terrorise any smaller creatures in the neighbourhood - while tricking us into believing they are cute, loveable & adorable. They dare to stroll up, with all the arrogance of cats-masquerading-as-human-youth, nonchalantly sniff at a bowl of lovingly-prepared milk/soup/porridge or whatever concoction we have lovingly prepared for them, and then proceed to turn their noses up (or whatever they trick us into believing are 'noses') while strolling away as if to conquer (shades of Alexander the not-so great) new species that they regard (not Kierkegaard) as completely beneath their 'superior' feline intellects.
And do not even begin to contemplate the horrors they are perpetrating while we are asleep! They torture anything with wings, anything without wings or anything that is smaller than themselves.
I don't like cats.
I have discussed Kierkegaard with cats - just kidding!
Seriously, I have issues with cats; I regard them as tricksters; I do not trust them. They are the great deceivers of the animal world. They pretend to snooze around, making us feel sleepy & complacent, before they embark (or emmew) on a campaign to terrorise any smaller creatures in the neighbourhood - while tricking us into believing they are cute, loveable & adorable. They dare to stroll up, with all the arrogance of cats-masquerading-as-human-youth, nonchalantly sniff at a bowl of lovingly-prepared milk/soup/porridge or whatever concoction we have lovingly prepared for them, and then proceed to turn their noses up (or whatever they trick us into believing are 'noses') while strolling away as if to conquer (shades of Alexander the not-so great) new species that they regard (not Kierkegaard) as completely beneath their 'superior' feline intellects.
And do not even begin to contemplate the horrors they are perpetrating while we are asleep! They torture anything with wings, anything without wings or anything that is smaller than themselves.
I don't like cats.
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Lara, I down right do not really find you sexually attractive anymore. I know, you don't care, but I did.Lara Apsara wrote:Totally agree Hanno, it certainly won't be a disposable pet. Where would you suggest procuring a long-tailed cat and getting it desexed, vaccinated etc? Standard costs?
Until I saw that!
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During the night my cat loves to bring a mouse inside, place it in the middle of the hallway, let it go then chase it. Catches it and back to the middle of the hallway. If it won't move due to fear, he will gently paw it. Rinse and repeat for hours until the mouse dies of exhaustion.springrain wrote:They pretend to snooze around, making us feel sleepy & complacent, before they embark (or emmew) on a campaign to terrorise any smaller creatures in the neighbourhood - while tricking us into believing they are cute, loveable & adorable.
Never injures it, strictly for play.
When he cannot reach the mouse (like under the washing machine), he wakes me up for some help. Unless I am already awake due to all the racket
If your daughter wants a pet to play with, I'd suggest a dog. They're more social, generally speaking, and they're more likely to interact with the child in ways that make her happy. And unlike cats, dogs have no interest in Kierkegaard.scobienz wrote:Don-Pierre de Plume wrote:^^
Seconded.
I believe a 5-year old child may be too young to interact with a cat unsupervised.
WTF. It's a pet to play and stroke now and again. She doesn't want to discuss Kierkegaard with it.
Lara . . just get the cat, do the vaccinations and don't overthink it. It's a cat.
Again, you can check with PPAWS and Animal Rescue Cambodia for dogs, as well. Just make an appointment, take your daughter to their locations (Boeng Tumpun and Boeng Trabek) and see what happens.
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