Cats, cats, cats
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Vargadoll,
I don't know if you are on Facebook at all? Personally I think it is a blessing and a curse...all at the same time...
Why I bring it up is I just found a blessing there (for me at least) and thought I would mention it for you to consider.
A piece showed up in my Facebook feed about "Pip the Beach Cat." After reading about Pip, I have been following his page and enjoying his story and antics ever since. IMHO, it is very uplifting and sweet what his owners are doing with him.
If you decide to take a peek, you can google Pip the Beach Cat, and easily find his story.
Thinking of You, Gumdoctor
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Here's a photo of Wally (Sir Walter Raleigh Kitty Cat to give him his full name) ruling the cat toy box.
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Gumdoctor- I am! I will be looking this cat up!
Wally is beautiful! And looks like a true ruler!
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Edg3 - I love your Sir Walter Raleigh Kitty Cat!!! Love the name and Wally's readily apparent comfort on his throne
Gumdoctor
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And if you're on Instagram, check out greatgramsofgary He takes his cat EVERYWHERE, camping, hiking, you name it. The cat is super chill and I love seeing the photos.
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M0mmyof2 - The cat diary is pretty funny. To make myself feel better, though, I choose to believe, my precious kitties are so ETHEREALLY happy with me they would only write about being happy...
Of course I have to come up with a different explanation when one of them attempts to get outside...Baby Chairman Meow did get outside last week...got about 20 feet from the door while I frantically ran after him and successfully thwarted his escape attempt...
Baby Chairman Meow was abandoned and living on the streets without claws and was fixed. He was very thin, lonely, and meowing loudly when he showed up at my front porch on a very fateful day 2 yrs ago...
The very day I took a terrible fall in the shower...and was told they saw "something" on L4 in the CT...and to hurry the CT disc to my oncologist immediately...
I was high on Percocet from the shower fall's ribcage injury and was parked on my front porch...Baby Chairman Meow showed up that very day and came back to see me every single day after that...in October, as it turned cold, I realized I would not have the heart to make him live outside over the harsh midwestern winter. I brought him inside and that's our story of how he adopted me.
He's been with me from the very first day of my MBC journey and is one if the sweetest kitties I have ever known.
Gumdoctor
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What a beautiful kitty!
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Thank you Edj3. This is what Baby Chairman Meow looked like when he was much younger and still living outside. Took me a bit to re-find this picture.
Gumdoctor
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Ginger kitties are the best! Oops don't tell my two grey tiger kitties I said that.
OK kitties are the best.
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Edj3,
I have to agree with you. I have 3 ginger males, 1 Ragdoll male and 1 Maine Coon female. They are ALL the best.
This list does not include the flamepoint female (Whitey my Survivor Kitty) I adopted from our cat hoarder neighbor...we still have "joint custody" of her so I don't think of her as really mine yet...
I call them my "Precious Kitties" as they are very VERY EXTREMELY precious to me. Each one is a little slice of Heaven on Earth.
Gumdoctor
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I (not so secretly) really really want a Maine Coon when my three current kitties move on.
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Baby Ellie is our fifth Maine Coon. None of them have been purebred but each one totally, completely, gorgeously Maine Coon. So beautiful and sweet-natured.
Baby Ellie was a stray listed with Adopt-a-Pet. I made a 6 hr round trip to swoop in and claim her. Love her with all my heart.
Gumdoctor
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We get Maine Coons into the shelter occasionally. They're adopted right away. Everyone who has had one wants another. Black cats are the same way. Most adopters have had black cats in the past. Squeakers is our 3rd.
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I also adore black kitties, I've had 4? Maybe five. Anyway, a lot. Wally is my first ever ginger. I'd have gotten a black kitty only Wally and his littermate were both dumped at my vet's so we took them both (Eddie is a grey tiger kitty).
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I may need to worry about this happening to my cat. He took out after a dog this afternoon. DH was able to step on his leash and stop him. He has gone after 2 small dogs being walked on leashes. After that he attacked our foster cat. The foster cat lost judging by the fur. My cat is FIV+ but the foster is 18 so I'm sure something else will do him in.
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Elliott and Alannah FIRST TIME EVER spotted cuddled together!!
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Progress!!!
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Congratulations on your two cuddlers!!! Kitties are such little social beings.
Gumdoctor
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Woo-Hoo! That's great FF! What a chairfull of gorgeousness
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Corky,
I read that interesting article you linked us to. Amazing. Seems there might be more important things to spend that money on than a little cat.
As an Ernest Hemingway fan, I have visited and kept up with reading on the Key West Hemingway House and Museum. You probably know all about it regarding the resident cats. If you do not know, they host between 55-60 resident cats on the property at all times. Most are supposedly descended from Hemingway's own cats and some have the polydactyl gene for an extra digit on each paw.
Since the kitties are allowed to roam free, in and out of the property, some neighbors decided they wanted to stop the museum's liberal kitty roaming practices. After a lengthy court battle, it was decided the kitties are safe to continue residing at the museum and continue roaming as they please. They are as much a part of the cultural icon's legacy as his house and swimming pool.
Your link triggered my memory on this little kitty-legal tidbit. Although this story is old news, as a huge kitty AND Hemingway fan, this made made me very happy. And still does.
Gumdoctor
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My husband and I were in Key West this last February. I got this photo of one of the Hemingway cats being fed by a tourist (legally) at the end of the guided tour at the Hemingway House and Museum. If you're ever there, it's definitely worth a visit.
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OMG That kitty looks like my Grace!
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I have a question, y'all: Do you think (if you've had or been close to a black cat) that black cats seem to be uniquely affectionate? I've had 2 in my life, one of whom is my dear Dobby. (I'm attaching a pic of him in his last year's Halloween costume. He was a batcat.) My adult kids say that they've never seen a cat as attached as he is to me. He doesn't just follow me from room to room....He's always in the same room I am, and he talks to me throughout the day. He sleeps on top of me apparently all night, every night. If I call him, he immediately comes running. And his absolute favorite thing is to ride on top of my shoulder, usually when I'm fixing dinner. My other black cat was the same way. They both also loved faucets and climbed everything that can be climbed. Is this a fluke or genetics?
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Fairchild - Love the BATCAT COSTUME!!!
I cannot speak to your question as I have not had a black cat ever. Surely others can address this better than me.
I can say several of my kitties have done many of these same things you describe. Following me room to room and talking to me especially...nearly all have loved faucets/running water...one (Ragdoll Max) specifically sleeps on my right shoulder/arm as often as he can.
Gumdoctor
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We had a black cat that slept with my teenage son every night, sharing his pillow. In the winter he got under the covers and in the summer he faced the other way, still with his head on the pillow. Our current black cat comes when he's called, 'walks' on a leash and is with us when not napping.
From my shelter experience, black cats are usually pretty nice although sometimes shy at first. It's the torties we watch out for. There are exceptions of course.
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