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[Skinny Ethel]

How do you chose its name? Just by looking at him and thinking yes his a Godfrey?

 

[Epona]

Really pleased for you, and him! You're all going to have so much fun together.

It's what I need, I'm already in love with him.
Some people need a gap between pets, I don't and never have, and it will be good for me to have a new little love in my life.

I woke up today with my eyelids all red and puffy, I don't remember dreaming but I must have been crying in my sleep.
Very hopeful about new kitten though, gives me something to look forward to. Not a replacement, not ever, but a new little being to welcome into my life and lavish with love.

 

[Epona]

How do you chose its name? Just by looking at him and thinking yes his a Godfrey?

Pretty much, yes
He already has an official name, but he's young enough that we can change it (at least in what name we call him, if not "on paper" as he is registered) if we want to.

Jakey's proper name was Jacob, we didn't change it too much as he was older when we got him and answered to his name, Jakey was similar enough that he still recognised it OK.

 

[Eric Jarvis]

Pretty much, yes
He already has an official name, but he's young enough that we can change it (at least in what name we call him, if not "on paper" as he is registered) if we want to.

Jakey's proper name was Jacob, we didn't change it too much as he was older when we got him and answered to his name, Jakey was similar enough that he still recognised it OK.

Basically it doesn't matter. A cat's real name is its scent. The cat knows that. Other cats know that. They are just willing to accept that sense deprived human beings use a strange sound to get their individual attention.

 

[Epona]

Basically it doesn't matter. A cat's real name is its scent. The cat knows that. Other cats know that. They are just willing to accept that sense deprived human beings use a strange sound to get their individual attention.

Helps if they recognise that sound as belonging to them though
I think they sometimes show a preference for being called by a particular odd human sound
Especially very human-orientated attention craving cats like Siams/OSH.

 

[seeformiles]

It's what I need, I'm already in love with him.
Some people need a gap between pets, I don't and never have, and it will be good for me to have a new little love in my life.

I woke up today with my eyelids all red and puffy, I don't remember dreaming but I must have been crying in my sleep.
Very hopeful about new kitten though, gives me something to look forward to. Not a replacement, not ever, but a new little being to welcome into my life and lavish with love.

That’s the spirit. We lasted a month and a half after Buttons before the house was a wee bit too quiet. When we got our current two, it was through Leeds Cat Rescue wanting a home for 2 8-month old brothers. Never had 2 cats together (Buttons being a very territorial female) and did wonder if we’d taken too much on but it’s the best thing we ever did.

 

[stavros]

One of ours took 8 years to stop running away from any physical contact. Now she's a permanent fixture of the settee with us. You'll get there, hopefully faster than us.
Two of the 4 we lost this year used to love snooker. They'd launch themselves at the screen and chase the balls around. Hilarious and thoroughly annoying at the same time.

Oh my former cat devoted so many hours to snooker. One of her greatest loves (that and killing).

 

[Epona]

Sonic and Jakey back in the day (Sonic is the smaller darker one, Jakey is the massive lump):

 

[Mr.Bishie]

So sorry to hear this Epona x

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Sonic and Jakey back in the day (Sonic is the smaller darker one, Jakey is the massive lump):

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So long!

 

[Epona]

So long!

Honestly ridiculous, he could be standing on the sofa and I'd pick him up and by the time I was back standing up straight, his feet would still be on the fecking sofa

Someone I used to talk to on a Siam/OSH message board referred to that as "unfurling" like they're a bloody flag being hoisted or summat

There's a colloquial term for cat breeds with that sort of body type, they're often referred to as "slinkies"

 

[pogofish]

She's getting braver!

 

[Epona]

She's getting braver!

Uh-oh

I have never been brave enough to attempt Xmas Decorations and Pets at the same time
Good luck!

 

[Cloo]

This animal

 

[pogofish]

The old lady's favourite toy. The elastic had gone, so I got a similar new one for the kittens. As a decoration, it will come out every year now.

 

[story]

((Epona ))

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Helps if they recognise that sound as belonging to them though
I think they sometimes show a preference for being called by a particular odd human sound
Especially very human-orientated attention craving cats like Siams/OSH.

Lilith knows her name but she's more likely to respond to "breakfast", "din dins" or "Dreamies".

 

[Epona]

Lilith knows her name but she's more likely to respond to "breakfast", "din dins" or "Dreamies".

Multiple cats is fun because you can get them to snitch on one another if they all know their names and the names of the others.

"Hi Sonic! Where's Radar?"
Sonic hears the word Radar and immediately looks at the top of the bookcase/under the bed
"Thank you Sonic!"

 

[Lotte]

He is gone.

I'll post some photos from happier times later

Thank you again to everyone xx

I'm sorry to hear about your boy, but glad you're getting another cade. Obviously it's not going to replace Jakey, every cat is different, but they do leave a big hole when they die and you get so used to having them around.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

 

[Rompipalle]

Rompipalle that Mia is absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you - and she knows it too!

 

[Rompipalle]

Jocky's been given another course of steroids, allowed back on his dry food (he's wolfed quite a bit down already, had vomited wet food twice at weekend), and once his appetite is definitely established again, we're trying Purina HA (hypoallergenic dry food). I've only ordered a 1.3kg pack in case he hates it. The automatic cat feeder is out once again, to his joy

Our cat is the reverse. She's now on wet food only because she was frequently being sick when we gave her anything dry mixed in with it. She doesn't have any molars now, so she just swallowed her little biscuits whole and I think they got stuck on the way down. She's much happier now with just the wet food and she actually seems much perkier now than she has in a long time.

The only dry stuff she gets now are her various types of treats... and she won't give those up for ANYTHING!

 

[Rompipalle]

OSH similarly involved a lot of outcrossing and are generally robust and healthy cats with a big genepool. The breeder I got mine from is a very good ethical breeder, and although both had health problems when they got old, it was ordinary old cat stuff that is common in all cats, not due to particular weakness from being a certain breed, or not being bred with care - all her cats are DNA tested for the major known genetic disease markers too.

The kitten I am going to go and meet after Xmas is a blue tabby point Siamese & White (I think technically they're called Colourpoint Bicolour Oriental, or Seychelloise depending upon which cat registry they are with, rather than Siamese) which seems to be quite a newfangled colour scheme in the Siam/OSH group of cats - it's given me something to look forward to and he's very pretty. I'll share photos if/when it works out. We both want him and the breeder knows us so should happen, I hope. It just seems like perfect timing that she had a little boy from her last litter that wanted a home, so fingers crossed.

Oh I do hope you and he take to each other. I shall certainly keep fingers crossed for you.

 

[Rompipalle]

Pretty much, yes
He already has an official name, but he's young enough that we can change it (at least in what name we call him, if not "on paper" as he is registered) if we want to.

Jakey's proper name was Jacob, we didn't change it too much as he was older when we got him and answered to his name, Jakey was similar enough that he still recognised it OK.

Mia's breeder very kindly allowed us to choose her registered name - the only proviso being that it had to include the breeder's own prefix. I think there had (unusually) been two large litters born to two of her cats in a short space of time and I think she was running short on ideas for names! It's a bit of a mouthful, so we chose something very simple for her proper name

Mia is the only cat I know who can actually say her own name!

 

[Epona]

Mia's breeder very kindly allowed us to choose her registered name - the only proviso being that it had to include the breeder's own prefix. I think there had (unusually) been two large litters born to two of her cats in a short space of time and I think she was running short on ideas for names! It's a bit of a mouthful, so we chose something very simple for her proper name

Mia is the only cat I know who can actually say her own name!

We chose Sonic's registered name (he was supposed to be Lucien) but we visited him when he was 8 weeks old before the registration papers had been sent so the breeder put our choice of name on the paperwork.
The one we're going to see next week has already been registered, so his papers will be in that name whatever - but we can still call him whatever we think suits him.
If we decided to show him (which I've always quite fancied, but it's a bit tricky without a car!), it would be in his registered name.

 

[Rompipalle]

Honestly ridiculous, he could be standing on the sofa and I'd pick him up and by the time I was back standing up straight, his feet would still be on the fecking sofa

Someone I used to talk to on a Siam/OSH message board referred to that as "unfurling" like they're a bloody flag being hoisted or summat

There's a colloquial term for cat breeds with that sort of body type, they're often referred to as "slinkies"

Mia is like that too. Last time she was at the vet, all the time he was examining her, she was trying to slither off the examination table.

The vet just laughed and said "she's almost like water!"

 

[Epona]

Mia is like that too. Last time she was at the vet, all the time he was examining her, she was trying to slither off the examination table.

The vet just laughed and said "she's almost like water!"

It's like when you've lifted the cat as high as you can get it off the consultation table in the vet surgery but it's still somehow clinging onto the edges of the table

 

[pogofish]

Like every cat I've ever had, they quickly learned the vital importance of extracting a "tax", whenever they catch me making a sandwich!

 

[Epona]

Like every cat I've ever had, they quickly learned the vital importance of extracting a "tax", whenever they catch me making a sandwich!

Rod for your own back, mate

 

[pogofish]

You should see what happens if I don't pay it!