Meow!, Why do you love your Cats, or Kittens? |
 Nov 10 2006, 10:47 AM
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Wizard Artist  Posts: 2,924 Joined: 1:36pm August 4, 2006 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe   |
I have two wonderful Kittens:
Bear Helyx a black Male cat, and Phoenix Helyx a tiger stripped brown cat.. Yes, I did give them my name. The Vet thought this was unusual. Since they are doing a new Chip System, I felt it was best to give me my name as well, as a way to make it easier to find them if they are located. That way, if they are scanned, they have their name, and my name as well. My adopted family had one relative that wanted to let their cat get pregnant. I told them to tell her I would take a male and female from the batch. So it was about a year, and finally the cat had kittens. They were born Feb 28th 2006. They are brother and sister. There was also another male kitten in the batch that was born, but I wanted to have a male/female pair of cats in my flat. I went through such difficulty in making the choice of which male cat to take. I had no idea what they looked like. I made arrangements to go see them. The woman who owned the cat was a bit stern, but the Dutch are just like that. The kittens were playing in a box in the kitchen. The Black Mama cat was with two of the kittens. One had decided to hide under the kitchen cabinet. Immediately, Phoenix licked my hand, and she just melted my heart. She has this patch on the top of her head that looks like a bit of fire coming out - or a third eye. It's an unusual mark. I feel immediately in love with her. She had bonded more with the bigger male kitten. So I was a bit torn. I did not see the other kitten, because he remained hidden. So my friends took pictures of me holding the kittens. I thought I had made the choice. Then, when I put both of these kittens down to their mother, and they went to feed, the smallest kitten came out from under the cabinet. It went right up to my boot, and put it's head on my shoe. It started to lick my boot. I started to cry. Originally, the woman thought that I would take the bigger ones, and the smaller one would go to the neighbor. However, I felt the smallest one picked me. So we had to mark the kitten with some nail polish to tell which one it was. He looked half starved, actually. I noticed that he was bullied away from the food. I thought I could give this kitten a better start in life. The woman told me to call her when I made a decision. I was torn. Should I get the bigger kitten, because Phoenix had bonded to it, or should I take the chance and get Phoenix and the smallest kitten? I called the women in a few days, and told her I wanted the smallest kitten. My gut instinct told me to get him. So two weeks later - around end June 2006 about 23:00 hrs, I received two very sleepy kittens. My adopted family brought the kittens with them on the way back from seeing all the sisters. They came in a wicker basket. I was up with them most of the night. They were adapting to a rather large play area. They were used to a small part of a kitchen. Now they had a whole room to themselves (1/2 of my unfinished flat). This is the area I have a 510 cm long table, with an Airline Plane Fin at the end (about 3 1/2 meters high) at the end of the table. It doubles as a visual room divider. Then I had some shelves up, and two couches, some chairs. So I ended up sleeping on the floor that night with the kittens till they felt more adjusted. I would have to say the first few days with them I was very touched. Emotional. I was so glad to have cats back in my life. I will say more on this later. I took them for their flu shot injections at the 9-week period. This caused havoc. They were stressed about the visit to the doctor, and we just did the flea medicine. So I could not touch them for several hours. So I went to my Art Classes. When I came back, they had destroyed my leather sofa. I could not get the smell of their pee out of it. They also did no. 2 in it. So I had to put the couch on the street. I think the kittens just smelled the cat smell - the leather couch someone gave me. He had some cats in the past. Strange enough, they did not even mess with the other couch; with I had from my x partner - that had the smell of the cats from upstairs (since I loaned my neighbors my couch for a few years) and the cats I had previously. I had a few days where they marked their territory. Then they stopped completely. I am glad to say I have had no problems with them since. The second injections they handled better. The vet wanted me to get Bear fixed at 5 months, but I refused. I wanted Bear to have more of a chance to grow. Soon I will get Phoenix fixed. I would love to let her be a mom once, but it would be tough on me to give out the kittens. Secretly, I hope she gets pregnant anyway. At this point, I don' mind having a house of kittens. I don't really have the space for them to go outside, so it hurts like hell to fix Phoenix. Bear I will fix if he starts to spray in the house. If he doesn't, I won't The only real problems with Phoenix, is her stealing Bears food. So I normally have to be between both of them when I did some soft can food for them. I leave out the dry. I have them on Science Plan now. At first it took me a bit to re-budget so I could afford to get the Science Plan. I did notice a remarkable difference when I changed them to this cat food. They drank more water, and they grew! BEAR is BIG and STRONG NOW! He's my little Kitten BEAR! Phoenix is still growing, but will remain smaller. Bear likes to stretch out. He likes to have his belly rubbed. He has the most interesting face for a kitten. He's tough, yet sweet. He now can jump from my high cabinets to the table to another cabinet with ease. Phoenix is also quite co-coordinated. I made them some new toys. One is a String Octopus. Its random bits of different string I have. I tied it all together, and made one end long, so I can make whip it in the air, and both Bear and Phoenix chase after it. Lately, we have been doing what I call "Butterflies". That is pieces of Bubble wrap, which I flap up in the air, and then they jump to get it. Bear sometimes will do a back flip when he jumps. I have days where I get my advertisements. That means I put the paper on the floor from what I am not reading. They like those days. They play in the paper for about an hour, before I put it in the bag for recycling. I feel quite blessed to have two fine Kittens! I have them now almost 5 months. Phoenix and Bear usually try to sleep either on my chest, or when I am laying on my side, they like to sleep on between my arms to my leg. Or when I come home, and just rest, they usually curl up in my legs and fall asleep. Bear likes to sit in this one chair I have like a Bear. He has both his paws over the armrest, and he sits up! ______________________________________ So Share some of your stories about your Cats or Kittens! You can also share about Cats or Kittens you had in the past as well. Or Talk about some Cats that you like of your friends or family. ______________________________________ Cheers, Helyx  Until I got my kittens, I had this funny computer program I would put on. It's a purring sound of a cat. I would leave it on at night. Now I have the real Kittens! Phoenix purring is really wonderful to hear! Bear has more of a smooth purr... This is the link: _______________________________________ http://www.iserenity.com/cat/cat.htm _______________________________________ This post has been edited by helyx: Nov 10 2006, 11:02 AM |
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