New forum- new cat owners - Page 3

Huge · 07-17-2011, 05:04 AM

What on earth is preventation? Is that some kind of American slang?

We could have sticky threads on everything under the sun to do with cats. It would be about 3000 pages long though, and we'd have no room for actual, you know, discussion.

There's a reason the forum has a search button. It's so we don't have to do this. This is why I rarely ask questions. It's not because I think I know it, it's because I've found the answer through a search. Example: Peggy decided to eat the flowers off one of my mother's plants. I have no idea what the plant is, so I had to phone France to ask her, then search for the great link someone posted ages ago on everything a cat can't eat plant-wise. (It was fine, they were African Violets, and my mother sounded a bit angry lol).
Google and the forum search negates any need for a million separate threads and stickies.

saitenyo · 07-17-2011, 05:17 AM

As a cat owner of a little over a year now, I think it'd be hard to determine what goes in the newbie forum and what goes elsewhere. I feel like there'd be a lot of overlap there. Since a lot of the questions I had when I first got cats are things others may not have encountered until, say, their third cat (one of mine had digestive issues) and there are issues other newbie cat owners have encountered that I probably still have not.

Basically what I think others here are trying to say is, this entire forum is a benefit to cat owners whether they are new or not, and the topics that might be relevant to new or old cat owners may not be relevant to only new cat owners or only old cat owners. Often they're relevant to both! It makes the most sense to me that the forums are divided by topic (like health, behavior, etc.) rather than "new cat owner issues" vs "old cat owner issues."

**doodlebug** · 07-17-2011, 09:53 AM

Coming to a forum as a newbie and some of your first posts are about your desire for new forums and stickies is a bit like coming into my home for the first time and telling me to rearrange my furniture to your liking and convenience.

Use the search function, if you can't find the info you're looking for...ask. It's that simple.

And with that said...this thread is closed.

07-17-2011, 05:04 AM	#21 (permalink)
Huge Premier Cat Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ganymede, Jupiter. Posts: 8,543	What on earth is preventation? Is that some kind of American slang? We could have sticky threads on everything under the sun to do with cats. It would be about 3000 pages long though, and we'd have no room for actual, you know, discussion. There's a reason the forum has a search button. It's so we don't have to do this. This is why I rarely ask questions. It's not because I think I know it, it's because I've found the answer through a search. Example: Peggy decided to eat the flowers off one of my mother's plants. I have no idea what the plant is, so I had to phone France to ask her, then search for the great link someone posted ages ago on everything a cat can't eat plant-wise. (It was fine, they were African Violets, and my mother sounded a bit angry lol). Google and the forum search negates any need for a million separate threads and stickies. __________________ hguH Of course I'm out of my mind, it's dark and scary in there.

07-17-2011, 05:17 AM	#22 (permalink)
saitenyo Cat Addict Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: California Posts: 1,564	As a cat owner of a little over a year now, I think it'd be hard to determine what goes in the newbie forum and what goes elsewhere. I feel like there'd be a lot of overlap there. Since a lot of the questions I had when I first got cats are things others may not have encountered until, say, their third cat (one of mine had digestive issues) and there are issues other newbie cat owners have encountered that I probably still have not. Basically what I think others here are trying to say is, this entire forum is a benefit to cat owners whether they are new or not, and the topics that might be relevant to new or old cat owners may not be relevant to only new cat owners or only old cat owners. Often they're relevant to both! It makes the most sense to me that the forums are divided by topic (like health, behavior, etc.) rather than "new cat owner issues" vs "old cat owner issues." __________________

07-17-2011, 09:53 AM	#23 (permalink)
doodlebug Super Moderator Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 17,712	Coming to a forum as a newbie and some of your first posts are about your desire for new forums and stickies is a bit like coming into my home for the first time and telling me to rearrange my furniture to your liking and convenience. Use the search function, if you can't find the info you're looking for...ask. It's that simple. And with that said...this thread is closed. __________________ Onyx & Callie May forever in my heart.

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