Friday, February 17
Cat blogging - the new interloper.
Today's seratonin reuptake inhibitor picture is the latest cat to join this family. She's actually an older cat, despite her small size, about 9 or 10 years old according to the vet. She only weighs a little over 8 pounds, and she has a tail stub, of which we're not sure if she was bobbed, or if she was just born that way. She matche's Hairy's coloring pretty well. She goes by various names, Stubs, Loupe (short for interloper), and I have her down at the vet's office as Number 6, an ode to The Prisoner.
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She was a wreck when she first adopted us. She learned how to use the cat door, and set herself up on our futon in the TV room. She has sinus issues, which seem to be congenital, as we've given her a full treatment of antibiotics, and she still has it, it's just not as bad as it was. Once summer hits, I expect her to get over it, as she's been trying to bake it out of her system by laying in the sun when it's out and warm. She had bathroom control issues in the beginning, as we were finding her turds in various places, and I suspect that she actually peed herself while she slept, judging from the smell that came from the futon, and the fact that she was smelling good herself. Although I noticed that the same smell she was giving off was also coming from the cat food that we were using. Either she was getting the smell from the food, or she managed to piss onto the food and make it smell that way. We've changed food, and she and the food no longer smell bad.
She's constantly starved for attention, but she now settles for 10 minutes of attention without complaining about getting the boot afterwards, and sometimes even she decides she's had enough. She was a little psycho in the beginning. If I talked, or coughed, and she didn't like it, I'd get a bite on the chin or nose and/or a slap of the paw. Now I just get a warning growl.
She likes to play peek-a-boo, where she spies on me until I notice, and then she runs off, and then she tries to spy on me again.
Right now, all of the cats are happy, playing with the various Q-tips that our daughter managed to spill in the bathroom. They are all over the house right now.
She is absolutely fascinated with Kitto, the youngest cat we have. He's now a 16 pound hunk of cat that totally ignores her. Then again, he pretty much ignores every other cat in the house, unless he's sniffing their tail.
If I'm worth anything, I'll have some new pictures of the other five cats on the site for Garfield and Sparx to look at latter today. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 2/17/2006 12:27:00 PM
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