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Welcome to rpca! Very nice stories about the kitties Avery and Kona --
you're so kind to take in the older kitty, too. Looking forward to more stories about them. I'm owned and operated by Midnight, Oreo, Omar, Robin & Tucker and have an outside kitty Pirate right now, too, that I'm trying to find a home for. Christine "CajunPrincess" wrote in message om... We had Prissy for so long (almost 20 yrs) that when she passed away I thought it would be forever before we would be thinking about another cat into our lives. But we decided to take the plunge after only a few months. We recently adopted Kona and Avery from the cats up for adoption at our vet (they keep somewhere around 40-50 cats for adoption there) Avery is a an average/large (12 lb) medium/long haired black cat who was a "door dump"-someone left him at the doorstep of the vet in a carrier. He's about three years old and has his spells where he wants to be picked up and cuddled and times when he wants to "do his own thing". He's not particularly a lap cat (for now), although he wants to be where the people are and sleep on the bed. Pretty playful. We are thinking of another name for him since no one knows what his former owners named him. Kona's picture and also somewhat sad story can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/ttx1 for those interested. Kona was *miserable* at the "orphanage"-having been in a home for 11 years and then dumped by his former owners he just didn't like having to share things with a horde of cats. He's a senior cat and of course we don't know how many years he has left, but he's in good health now and we're happy to give him all the lovin' he can handle for however many years he has left. And he's BIG. The vet says he weighed a little over 16 lbs at the last weigh-in but I think he's closer to 20. Bigbig paws and bigbig eyes. Kona thinks the reason your lap exists is for him to be on it. You have to decide when you sit down that you want to stay sitting for a while because he's kind of a load to dislodge if you want to get up. :-) He's seems a little jealous when we show affection for Avery-he seems to want *all* the attention and kind of glares at us when we give Avery some lovin'. But they seem to tolerate each other fine, even if they are not instant best buddies. Anyway, we are gradually discovering the various aspects of their personalities. Kona likes to jump on the bathroom vanity (it's not too big he has some trouble fitting his entire self on it:-)) and first stick his paw under running water, then stick his entire face under the faucet sideways and drink from the tap, getting his entire face wet in the process. Never saw a cat that liked getting wet like that. But the most curious thing so far is that he apparently was taught or developed a talent for fetching. He was up on the vanity one night when I took out some Q-tips to take off some makeup and his eyes just lit up. I put one in front of him and he began to bat it. On a hunch I tossed one out into the hall. He bounds off the vanity (BIG thump), bats the Q-tip around a bit and then grabs it in his mouth by one end, trots back, lays it at my feet and looks up at me. I thought this was so neat I went out to the living room with him and tossed one to the other end. Well, the living room has hardwood floors and Kona has lots of inertia so when he accellerates he skids like a cartoon cat. He zooms to where the Q-tip lands, sliding and slipping as he decellerates. He proceeds to flip the Q-tip up in the air several times, pounce on it when it lands and bat it around. After he's sure that he's killed it, he picks it up with his mouth, trots back to me with it dangling from his mouth by one end and drops it at my feet. Repeat process five or six times. He *loves* doing this. I find it so charming and quirky. I think I've read about cats bringing things like rolled up socks to their humans but I don't recall anyone mentioning that their cat plays fetch like a dog. I was curious as to whether anyone else had a cat that did this sort of thing. |
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