Thread: It's tough loving cats.

I've had Dachshunds for 64 years, and always thought that I was a dog person, that is until my 15 year old Norwegian Forest Cat slowly died of kidney failure a year ago. For most of those years, I found him annoying, as he wanted to be my constant companion, whereas I could give my dogs attention when I wanted to. I've grieved with each pet's passing, but nothing like I did for this cat.

After six months of missing him, I adopted an 8 year old Norwegian Forest Cat mix. She's nothing like him, but has taken over the role of being constantly at my side, even when I don't want her there. Damn cats!

We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. The dogs are mostly the wife's, and cats mine. I love cats. When dogs can be better trained to pee in a box I'll love mine more. BTW, I think the cats love me too.

My constant companion who often reminds that I should pay her attention instead of reading shaving forums...

This is one of our $7k squatters, Thorin.
Bengal aka Leopard Cat.



This is our female Serengeti. She is a blue phase which is usually weeded out of the litters and is not desirable for showing. We call her Zelda Blue.The breeder that started this line lives close to us. She produced both of these fur beasts. She wrote the standards for TICA and is also credited for helping to establish the Bengal lines with Jean Sudden Mill.







Zelda the serengeti is much more outgoing and dog like in her behavior but she's an F-10. Thorin the Bengal is more recluse and stays on the edge of your reach until he is comfortable and wants attention. Then its only for a few minutes. He's only an F4 which is still pretty close to the original pair. Its not until you hit F5-6 and up that they start to become more social with humans like you would expect most cats to do. F1-3 are still very wild and do not make good house pets. Trust me, Ive been to her cattery and got a first hand look at them. Amazing and beautiful but you are still lunch and or a threat that needs dealt with. The F1-3s still have the larger than normal eyes for their head size and the ears are huge. Its no joke when I tell you Bengals can leap straight up 8-10 feet with little to no effort. Ceiling fans are a resting place for these guys.

Nice looking cats folks, I've always been a Bengall cat fan myself, but have never owned one, when I hit the bed in about 15 min. I'll have 4 cats with me, my Bob-Tail, The Grey tabby (Freya), my black cat named Leo, and my little Calico,cat (Spitfire) who has been very sick lately, running a fever, not eating and hardly drinking, I have her on some antibotics and 1/2 of an appetite pill once a day since Thursday, she has started eating and drinking some. She can get to the box for No. 2 but still can't make it for No.1 so she sleeps on a couple of folded towels. Boy, Vet bills costs more than when I go to the doctors. $224.00 this time.

Premium looking cats, I kind of like Ocelots, a friend breeds them. I have had two wild Cats, an Alaskan Lynx and a Mountain Lion, both found as babies with no mother. They were each fun to raise and returned to the wild when they were ready. The Mountain Lion went into the area of several breeding pairs in the canyon North Of Paradise California, had ringtail Miners cats in the canyon too, I would wake up at night to feel eyes on me and a ringtail would be sitting on the beam above the bed watching me sleep, you could hand feed them fruit and I had to protect any fruit not locked up or they would have it. The Lion, he got Huge, I was 6ft5" and he could stand and easily look me in the eye and was quite a strong wrestler, when he attacked me from behind one night I decided to take him to Cement Horse, the same area that "The Last Yahi" Indian lived in and turned him loose, I had logged in the area before and knew there was plenty of game for him to eat. He was back in 3 days, about 45 miles as the crow flies. Took him back out, further and he went to living on his own. None of those cats ever ran up a vet bill.

My boy Seamus, who has been departed from this planet for awhile....and as the OP mentions, just lost another cat, "Ink" or "Inky", stroked out a couple of Friday's ago, then had to be put down, he was another incredible cat, born with no or malformed vocal chords, but did his best to be quite the talker, he sounded like something gasping everytime he'd start chatting away...big black cat with some Siamese in him...

Should also add, my daughter has a pure-bred Rag Doll cat named "Cassie" that is insane, and we have a orange and white male cat named Angus who is essentially the cowardly lion, and freaks out every single time he goes outside, thinks the sky is going to fall on him, and a thunderstorm...stay clear, he goes psycho...

Here's a quick pic I have of Seamus sitting on my old pool table, think he was a Forest Cat or a Maine Coon, he was 22lbs of solid muscle, could literally spring off one pillar to another outside our house and casually appear at the second or third story bedroom window and start crapping off to be let in...crazy jungle beasts, gotta love em...

When we moved last year our cat ran away, which upset all of us
We got a new cat from a coworker who had a surprise litter of kittens, and then recently inherited another cat from a neighbor that is moving away.
I love the way that this one (Dino) sleeps!!

Cat scan ............ ;