Your cats are beautiful Valley Gardener .They look very happy. Lyn so sorry to read that your cat got cancer. We do worry about them .When I was living with my parents ,we had a black cat with part white ears . He grew a long horn shaped wart on one ear which turned out to be cancer . It was removed and it never came back . Pansy I am appalled at the way some animals are treated .There are not enough prosecutions .I hope your new cat settles down quickly . We had a cat called Daisy . Even when she had just been taken to the vets, as soon as we got home she disappeared under a wardrobe and often only came out to eat ,drink and use the litter tray then back she would go under the wardrobe .This behaviour lasted a bout three days . I think she must have forgiven us by then . REM 33 your lovely cat looks mischievous.
@pansyface Thats great news to hear youve given a home to a little puss. My OH used to sit on the floor in the room with Cush when we first brought him home.It took about 2 days before he came out to meet Stig. We propped the door so they could see and smell each other. They have fisticuffs every day,but its more of a wrestling match.😼
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So many lovely cats. I have to admit, all cats are lovely to me, though... @Obelixx I am sure you are right. I think because he was hissing at her, and we were afraid he was actually going to attack her, in her last week when she was at home dying (acute and incurable kidney failure) we thought he didn't want her around. He as very clingy afterwards, but he also had to have an operation (He was soooo funny when I wen to get him. High still, an ecstatic to see me!) so it was hard to know what's what. He gets as many cuddles as he wants (although maybe not for as long as he wants, sometimes, as he wants to be stroked on one of the beds upstairs for about half an hour at a time, and I am afraid I have a job/work to do.) His relationship with his sister seemed to be one of mainly tolerance rather than affection, but cats are complex and strange beings. Part of their attraction. So who knows what is going through his furry little head. I am missing her too horribly. She died the morning before we had to travel to my mother's funeral, so it all felt a bit unreal for a while.
When our tabby had to be put to sleep her sister was lost for ages, even though they had never shown much affection for each other. Finally she settled into a new routine, but bizarrely she started doing some things that her sister had done which were new habits for her.
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That's interesting, @Jacquimcmahon. We had 2 rescue cats who were sisters. One was definitely the boss, and loved playing a game involving chasing pieces of paper pushed under the bathroom door. When we lost her (she had leukaemia) her sister was clearly lonely - plenty of sad yowling at 3am - but after a month or so she started playing her sister's "paper-under-the-door" game, which she'd never done before.
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Our now-elderly cat hardly ever made a sound (except purring) when his sister was alive, but after she died he found his voice and is now very "talkative". She was the noisy one, and definitely the boss (she used to hide behind furniture and ambush him). He never seemed lonely after she died and if he meows in the night it's usually because he's hungry and doesn't want the dry food that's out. He settles down if one of us gets up and feeds him.
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My little dumpling is spending the night in hospital.
Not sure what’s up with her yet. So far they’ve found she has arthritis in her front legs.
Woke up this morning and she wouldn’t move off the spare bed. She never sleeps on there and always gets up with me and tries to trip me up when I’m making my coffee and then sits on my feet while I drink it. None of that this morning.
She tried to stand up to jump off the bed but cried and laid back down.
A good sign is that she’s giving the hospital staff “hell” so she must be feeling a bit better this evening.
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Lyn so sorry to read that your cat got cancer. We do worry about them .When I was living with my parents ,we had a black cat with part white ears . He grew a long horn shaped wart on one ear which turned out to be cancer . It was removed and it never came back .
Pansy I am appalled at the way some animals are treated .There are not enough prosecutions .I hope your new cat settles down quickly . We had a cat called Daisy . Even when she had just been taken to the vets, as soon as we got home she disappeared under a wardrobe and often only came out to eat ,drink and use the litter tray then back she would go under the wardrobe .This behaviour lasted a bout three days . I think she must have forgiven us by then .
REM 33 your lovely cat looks mischievous.
Same here. Rollo, Millie’s father, died in April and Millie wanders round the house yowling, especially at 4.00 am. She is getting more settled now.
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Thats great news to hear youve given a home to a little puss.
My OH used to sit on the floor in the room with Cush when we first brought him home.It took about 2 days before he came out to meet Stig. We propped the door so they could see and smell each other.
They have fisticuffs every day,but its more of a wrestling match.😼
@Obelixx I am sure you are right. I think because he was hissing at her, and we were afraid he was actually going to attack her, in her last week when she was at home dying (acute and incurable kidney failure) we thought he didn't want her around. He as very clingy afterwards, but he also had to have an operation (He was soooo funny when I wen to get him. High still, an ecstatic to see me!) so it was hard to know what's what. He gets as many cuddles as he wants (although maybe not for as long as he wants, sometimes, as he wants to be stroked on one of the beds upstairs for about half an hour at a time, and I am afraid I have a job/work to do.) His relationship with his sister seemed to be one of mainly tolerance rather than affection, but cats are complex and strange beings. Part of their attraction. So who knows what is going through his furry little head.
I am missing her too horribly. She died the morning before we had to travel to my mother's funeral, so it all felt a bit unreal for a while.
Heres a pic of Cushion with his blonde summer coat.