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cat food or the dog food, that alone is not sufficient—I wish I could put that in print the size the newspapers use when they have something super-sensational, but remember it again; cat food or dog food alone is not sufficient. You need other things. You need vegetables. You need a bit of meat, and you need water. Many people have the peculiar idea that cats will drink only milk. They have the idea that milk is the only drink for cats—definitely, definitely it is not so, they must have water as well . Do you know what causes constipation? Inside the intestines there are a lot of hairs called villi. These villi are tubes, something like—let us say—hypodermic needles. They pro- trude into the mass that is being propelled through the intestines. Now, in the small intestines the contents are liquid, becoming semi-liquid as they approach the beginning of the large intestines. As this material reaches up into the ascending colon, it is turning from a semi-liquid into what one might term as semi- solid, because the villi are extracting all the nourishment from the material and with the nourishment—water. As the material—now becoming waste material—goes up the ascending colon, it becomes harder, more of a paste and then when it goes down into the descending colon towards the rectum it is getting harder and harder, but still within the range of the muscular effort necessary for its expulsion. If an animal—or a human either for that matter—does not have enough water in his make-up, then the waste material becomes harder and harder, so that in the end impaction takes place, and then the poor wretched animal or human has to have an enema to provide water to soften the hardened mass and make it so that the bowels can expel that mass. An animal, or human, who is correctly fed and correctly ‘watered’ won't suffer from complaints such as this, because at all times the waste material is sufficiently plastic that it can be expelled. Sometimes, with a debilitated creature (human or animal) the muscles of the intestines are too weak to initiate peristalsis and so chronic constipation occurs. In that case, one has to introduce an irritant—a thing which irritates the colon 112
and makes it wriggle, and as it wriggles with much vigor it does cause a more or less expulsion of waste material. If one has to have a laxative (which is an irritant), one should also drink plenty of water to soften the impacted mass, and with cats we have found that if we use some canned milk such as Carnation, well, the cat will lap that up with gusto, and then will go in leaps and bounds to get rid of a lot of waste. It really does work, but here again you have to be careful because if you give too much you get the opposite to constipation which is diarrhea, and a cat rushing around exuding you-know-what behind is not a pretty sight and it means a lot of work, so the best thing is to treat your animals and yourself properly then you won't get constipation. Too much dried food causes constipation. Some raw meat helps overcome constipation, but not too much raw meat, because if there is too much then the cat gets worms, so you have to steer a course between not enough and not too much, and a little practice will show you how. But! Why am I telling all this? If you will consult your veterinary surgeon, he will tell you the best way to treat your cat. It will not cost much, you know, for an interview with him, because we have found that the veterinary people are far, far kinder than many doctors dealing with the human body. The Guv says he wishes he could have a veterinary surgeon deal with him—there would be a lot more sympathy, because there is not much sympathy for people with terminal illnesses. They are denied beds in hospitals and the doctors haven't time to visit, and so it is just a long, long wait throughout long, long days, and longer nights, waiting for the Great Lord to write ‘the end’ to life. Cats are peculiar creatures, you know, they have a trait which is not known to many people. They are something like ducks just emerging from a shell. I know that if a duck emerges from a shell, it treats the first person it sees as its mother! Oh yes, it is perfectly true. Some highly amusing experiments have been carried out in connection with that. Well, there is something the same with cats; a cat gets a great liking for the first food it gets, so that if you feed a young cat 113
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The Pen is Mightier than the sword
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one had to do. But what I really li
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I looked for my soul but my soul I
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you two should come together. Satur
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CHAPTER THREE It was interesting th
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following morning; so it was fortun
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If I accept the snnshine and warmth
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they feel that if they increase the
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One wonders whether he was born wit
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CHAPTER FIVE Weybridge was a busy p
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its hate and misunderstanding, and
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In the midst of winter, I finally l
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have heard the remark, ‘I feel cl
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Many aspects of the whole affair we
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I do my thing And you do your thing
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mass, thus allowing it to complete
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may be absorbed, thus providing the
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Friendship is the inexpressible com
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from me. Lobsang Rampa has a harder
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write, there is a highly intelligen
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CHAPTER NINE Ships that Pass . . .
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happy moment the day an elderly man
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We are told we should not worry so
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CHAPTER TEN Since this narrative se
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‘passed this way’ more than onc
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young he fell from the same outside
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CHAPTER ELEVEN There was one import
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Page 66 and 67: INTERLUDE Have you ever noticed how
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Page 90 and 91: CHAPTER SIX TEEN Thames Ditton must
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Page 102 and 103: CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Soon breakfast was
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Page 120 and 121: CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Now, you cat peo
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Page 124 and 125: What made us friends in the long ag
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Page 132 and 133: Hold fast to dreams For if dreams d
Page 134 and 135: Lives will almost outweigh the inte
Page 136: now Canadian citizens—Her Graciou
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