My Kitty.. Shauna

Oh I'm so jealous...such beautiful cats! Mags, my tabby, Sophie, looks just like yours! Djd...omg your cats are stunning...I'm going to try to get my girls up here (I'm challenged in this area)...and I'm sure they won't be wearing costumes...holy mama...how did you do that?

Wait til I show my daughter. She'll go nuts. Then I'll have to get my son to get the pics up here...what's the easiest way to do it? Can someone pm me on this?

Thanks for the fun and beauty...Mena...xo

Hi Mena, go to this link and look for Kats post. It's explaining how to post pictures.
Hugs
Mags

http://community.breastcancer.org/ubbthr...true#Post481640

This is my sweet little girl of 18 years, Sissy, during the last month of her life. She died of chronic renal failure on 9/29/06, right before I was diagnosed with BC. During the last two months of her life, she was loved, nursed, and pampered, and when I got sad about how she was she would try to cheer me up with a smile, like she's doing here. A few minutes later she fell asleep.

Sierra,

Thank you for your note. Sissy was very, very special. She seemed to understand us, sometimes better than we understood ourselves. When I got frustrated or angry about something, she would come up to me and beg to be held, as if to say, let's have a little visit now, I need to calm you down. And sure enough, she would.

She talked a lot and had quite a wide vocabulary, and sometimes would speak so expressively in whole paragraphs. She understood quite a lot of English and surprised us by the way she responded to things we said.

She is buried in a pretty little white-satin lined casket I made for her out in the back yard with her necklace on (she would never wear a collar, but would purr whenever I put her necklace on).

I am glad your cat was such a comfort to you. They understand us and I think they are enormously more intelligent than people realize.

Linda

Sierra,

I didn't see Shauna's picture when I wrote you last because I was so far at the end of the thread. What a beautiful cat she was! And it was really neat how you got the depth in her eyes in that picture.

She looks very gentle and sweeet to me; I think white cats can be very gentle. They are good listeners too.

You must miss her very much!

Linda

OK cat lovers extraordinaire...I have an important question...I've never had cats before...so here goes....

My Sophie and Scout run to the kitchen every single time I do. They get in their "eating places"...Sophie sits on a bench and Scout stays on the floor. They are actually trained to "sit" before they are fed...

Anyway...is it unusual for cats to want to eat all the time? I mean, they are only just over a year old and they are big...Do cats stop eating when they are full? Or will they just keep eating if I keep feeding them?

I feel like a fool bringing these questions to my vet...

They are big, indoor cats (still have their claws...I cut them myself..oh, isn't that fun...)...but this eating thing is getting out of control...they literally come zipping from one end of the house to the other when they hear me in the kitchen. Is this normal?

Btw, I give them wet food in the morning and leave dry food and water out all day...so it's not like they don't have anything...let me know what you think...thanks..Mena...xo

Sounds to me like Sophe and Scout are bored. Cats will overreat just like people if they get bored and don't have anything else to do. Also, the wet food once a day makes feeding time especially exciting and they probably look forward to it all the time.

I would suggest you slowly wean them off wet food, and if they have a weight problem (if you have trouble feeling their ribs) get them on a diet. Science diet light dry food is an excellent substitute.

Try and find ways to deal with the boredom. Maybe a bird feeder in the window. Cat videos are fun. Be sure there are plenty of play things...the small mice in grocery stores are always a hit, and you can teach some cats will retrieve.

My kitties think it's fascinating when I do exercises on the floor and sometimes try to imitate what I'm doing (it's a game!).

Good luck!

Ok...it's always the Mother's fault...I have gotten them the little mice...dozens of them...they get lost under furniture so fast...

And birdfeeders? Heck, I used to spend hours watching them...until we had bears in our yard and had to take the feeders down...well, the bears literally tore them out of the ground and mangled the suet feeders as well...

I do open the blinds and crack the windows open so they can look out the windows and smell the outdoors...

I guess I could lose a few pounds, too...that exercise idea sounds like a great one...I've noticed Scout actually watches TV...I wonder what she'll think of Richard Simmons hahahhaha...

Oh, btw, they hate Science Diet. Do you think it's a good idea to just start putting that out as their wet food to wean them off? I'd feel like I was torturing my babies...

And you should see me walking them on their leashes...very...how do I say...assinine?...I just want them to have a taste of the outdoors without getting hurt, but clearly they don't like the leashes. Scout just sits and Sophie tries to wriggle her way out of her collar...

Thanks for the advice...I promise I will exercise, if only for my cats...Mena...xo

Oh yes! I will get them cat videos for Christmas. That's a great idea. Thank you...now, exactly what is on a cat video? Is it appropriate for humans hahahah...Mena...xo

I'm glad my kids didn't see the link to your cat video site or they would have ordered the lot! They look great.

Beth,

She's adorable! I've never seen a calico with gray tones. Very beautiful!

What's her name?

I used to have a Siamese that would jump on my shoulders and go to sleep. He also wasn't shy around strangers and once scared the living daylights out of my mother when he decided to jump on her (or in Mom's words, "attack" her!).

I don't see anything but a document on the computer screen - was it cropped from the first photo maybe?