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Moggy update
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Still can't get a picture of the little sod.
Anyway, things all settling down nicely - still a bit of snorting and
blowing from originals, but not a lot. He seems to be mostly bemused, she
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As long as he respects their authority he'll be fine. Our two new ones
are (mostly) accepted by our 17-year old. She still thumps them if she
thinks they are getting too close to her food though..
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seems to be mostly irritated, so there's no difference there. On that
basis, I will be allowing freedom to roam for all felines tonight.
Hopefully, I will eventually stop awakening to the rather deafening sounds
of small kitten sucking my earlobe at 0530 in the morning... On the other
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I get 4 kilos of 6-month old cat sat on my chest purring at me in the
middle of the night. Why? I have no idea..
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Wouldn't be so bad but the sharp little teeth and claws are hard to handle
at that time in the morn. Dunno why he can't just suck his tail like my
other boy used to do.
Having gone to the effort of buying IAMS kitten food (as big beasts eat
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That's normal enough. It's happened every time I've had a new member of the
horde
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IAMS), kitten eats big food and big boy is eating kitten food. Sheesh!
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Yup. Our old cat eats Felix senior, kittens eat either Iams kitten or
Felix kitten.
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if you get them on the dry stuff their breath smells better.
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Only if you can stop them eating various assorted rodents as well.
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Feegle prefers sparrows..
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We get the odd thrush and blackbird, especially immature ones, but
they don't seem so bothered about eating them. Thankfully, given the
mess a full bird's worth of feathers can make.
I think it's just that they have an easy and seemingly inexhaustible
supply of at least three types of mice, voles and shrews to keep them
happy.
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That's part of our cunning master plan - we don't go home at lunchtime
any more to give them their mid-day feed - we just leave them a bowl of
buscuits.
And soon the evening meal will be the dry stuff too.
On the downside it looks like we will very soon have a couple of boxes
of surplus senior catfood - our 17-year old has stopped eating
completely. Vets tonight for her to see what the diagnosis is :-(
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Turn your back, old cat eating kitten food, kittens eating senior food.
Which isn't bad for the kittens but kitten food is definately bad for
the senior being very high protein.
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hand, it's the most excitement I've had in bed for well over a year!
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that would bring a tear to a glass eye .........
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Ah. In which case, did you ever see "Five Go Mad in Dorset"?
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Lots of people confuse snorting & blowing, the odd claw strike & a bit
of posturing with a bona fide cat fight.
Having introduced a female kitten into the fiercely guarded territory of
a mature Tom a few years back, believe me, when/if they fight proper the
whole world will know, furniture gets wrecked, holes appear in walls,
curtains & wallpaper get shredded.
Mine get on fine now that he's accepted that she'll beat him in any fight.
Be carefull with that kitten food though, it's a LOT more nutritious
than ordinary cat food & any mature cat eating it will soon balloon into
something resembling a small horse.
My cats get 10mins in the bedroom before they're banished, the first
time you wake up to the 'sherriff's badge' 1/2 inch from your nose
you'll probably do the same & keep the door closed.
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Our senior cat (17 years old) has just stopped eating :-( Same symptoms
as the first cat we lost back in April - sniffs at the food, looks
miserable and then goes back to her sleeping place.
So I suspect we will be down to just the two youngsters soon.
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:( Our senior is 19 give or take a year, currently has kidney
malfunction, a thyroid condition, a thickening of the heart wall and a
skin allergy. He has good days and bad and though he's still eating
has gone recently to spending prety much all his time asleep on the
sofa. Not looking good for much longer though he amazes us with his
remission time & time again. Which will leave us with 4 sooner or
later, but as other half does voluntary work at Battersea Dogs Home I
wouldn't bet on the position remaining vacant for long.
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Thickening of the heart wall (cardiomyopathy, I think) is what did for
our last cat. He was part Maine Coom, apparently it's common in the
breed. Our previous cat had an 80% (I kid you not) enlarged heart that
cost us over ?50 a month in meds (not to mention his ear removal
surgery, leg pinning etc etc). Pegged it aged 11 having blown a fuse
in his brain leading him to have delusions of big-catness resulting in
an unfortunate incident with a neighbour's alsation (the cat thought it
was an impala and attempted to bring it down).
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Feegle does that to our Alsation-Rottie cross all the time. Jed just
rolls his eyes at him and sighs.
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Anyhoo, home visit went ok, SWMBO collects the new cat later today.
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