you could have named her sue…

this picture remind me of my cat max…who is a girl cause they mistaked her for a boy

Unfortunately though, bob now has feline diabetes. Exactly wether or not it was down to the high sugar treats is probably impossible to tell, but it does seem likely that it was a contributing factor.

It’s not all bad though, bob loves her insulin jabs and will sit down flat on the floor waiting for me to jab her. I think it’s cos I give her a proper headrub afterwards & she loves pple rubbing her head

My tiger striped kitty Sage used to beg for Mike Sells cheese puffcorn. He loved the stuff. He also figured out how to pop the plastic tops off his cans of cat treats so I had to start putting them in the cupboard but he figured out how to open it. I eventually put a child lock on it.

CatFreak, we salute you for taking care of the itty bitty kitty.

Anyone who has a tortie knows: you just give up and give in. Do what the tortie says and everyone will be happier. If tortie ain’t happy, nobody ain’t happy. Learn to anticipate her whims, and read her little mutant mind (hey, that color pattern IS a mutation). Even with TK in the house, Her Royal Tortieness is still the semi-benevolent floofy despot.

I just wanna say, bless your heart, catfreak! For putting up with all the oops! messes. They really don’t mean it, and will return your love a hundred-fold.

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CatFreak… while you’re on piddle patrol, try UrineGone. It may save your nose. It comes with a little black light so you can find all Xena’s hidden “gifts” and then spray the living daylights out of them. Our tortie Annie was incontinent her last 6 weeks, and this has really saved the day. It keeps others from marking the same place, and keeps the culprit from returning to the scene of the crime. It can be found at Walgreens, Eckerds, Walmart etc.

> Xena … chakram … blankies …

Good idea! She’ll never be able to hurl it, though. She’ll just have to use her wicked little claws, which she’s learning how to use, this week.

At the moment, she sleeps in Amber’s old cat carrier, the floor of which is covered with blankies, nestled against a Blankie Hill. She really seems to love the enclosed space. I even suspect a little lingering Amber-scent comforts her.

CFreak:

I have this image of Xena curled up inside a chakram that’s been covered in blankies.

Sounds like Suki was the Saddam Hussein of the Aiofe household — a tough merciless ass-kicking tyrant, but she kept the different factions away from each others’ throats while she reigned absolute.

My cat from 30 years ago, Katisha (one of those grayish speckled “paintrag” torties) was like that — tiny, intense, with a goofy screwed-up kink tail and crosseyes and a severe overbite causing Visible Fang at all times. Any of the other cats in the house or on the block could have kicked her ass, physically … but *they* didn’t know that, and neither did she. With her sheer Presence, she reigned supreme. Cats three times her size would lower their eyes and back off when she approached.