Vintage Paw
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It's hard work being a Peg:
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Vintage Paw - love the way in that second pic she is laying with a sunbeam on her face yet still doing that "FFS turn out the light!!!" pose 
High Voltage
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It's hard work being a Peg:
Is that a round nest she's sleeping in?
Vintage Paw
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It's one of these.
So soft I wish there was a human sized one available. She adores it. She makes cooing and chirping noises and kneads it and dribbles copiously every time she gets in it, which is several times a day. She's in there now.
(I got medium.)
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
pic #1: Charlie how COULD you let them do this to you. It lets the side down.
pic #2: just looking like a bedraggled cat, now, Charlie...
pic #2: just looking like a bedraggled cat, now, Charlie...
Vintage Paw
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Fell asleep this morning with my arm around Peg. Woke up an hour later with her behind my head, terrified, and my hand bleeding.
Vintage Paw
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Whatever had transpired, she'd completely forgotten about it 2 minutes later and shoved herself against my legs and fell asleep again, as I lay there sucking blood from my wounds.
Vintage Paw
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Most likely thing is I twitched in my sleep and my hand moved against her, which, as she was totally zonked out like I was at the time, freaked her out and she lashed out to defend herself before she realised what was going on. I have to be really careful waking her up, if I go to stroke her and she's in asleep it'll scare her. I have to make noise, talk or whatever, first so her consciousness starts to get ready for it.
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Sonic just came up to me and really wailed at me - he wants attention. He is extremely loud about it
my girl wakes me up by yelling outside the back door. she wakes me, the passing trains do not.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
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I think Breeze much prefers Ella to Charlie, not that you can tell by her expression.
Ella's definitely another "cat dog" but very different from Charlie personality wise, bless.
"Soon, furry, yappy leash rats."
"S-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ooooonnnnn."
CRI
Registered Chooser
Brilliant!
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
At least neither of them were eating it. RIP Bob."Cats Are Disgusting" S09 E12:
Cats were asleep together in the large cat bed. I heard a sort of coughing noise and looked around, Sonic had vommed ON Jakey. Jakey hadn't even woken up. Nice cleaning job for me.
Vintage Paw
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Did I mention? Peg went back to the vet for her second round of jabs. She'd lost some weight, despite me being certain she'd put it on. I really am utterly shit at that.
Anyway, down from 6.4kg to 6.1kg. Ted reckons to aim for 5.5kg although he said "I don't know, what do you think? I don't know what would be ideal for a cat her size. I'm not very good at this sort of thing." To which I thought, "Indeed, you with your fat diabetic cat at home."
She's got the same 'floppy' problem Charlie had. When she's stood up and you look down at her, she looks very sleek, almost too skinny around her waist and back end. But her belly is very floppy and wobbles and hangs down, and she has 'curtains' - I don't know why I call them this. When she sits down, the floppy bits create a floppy ring of floppiness around her. So, it's all in her floppy belly. I don't know what to do about that, it's like it's mostly floppy skin more than anything. She certainly doesn't have masses of fat lining under her skin all round. When she rolls onto her back (which is often) she looks massive because all that floppy spreads out and makes her look huge
Anyway, down from 6.4kg to 6.1kg. Ted reckons to aim for 5.5kg although he said "I don't know, what do you think? I don't know what would be ideal for a cat her size. I'm not very good at this sort of thing." To which I thought, "Indeed, you with your fat diabetic cat at home."
She's got the same 'floppy' problem Charlie had. When she's stood up and you look down at her, she looks very sleek, almost too skinny around her waist and back end. But her belly is very floppy and wobbles and hangs down, and she has 'curtains' - I don't know why I call them this. When she sits down, the floppy bits create a floppy ring of floppiness around her. So, it's all in her floppy belly. I don't know what to do about that, it's like it's mostly floppy skin more than anything. She certainly doesn't have masses of fat lining under her skin all round. When she rolls onto her back (which is often) she looks massive because all that floppy spreads out and makes her look huge
Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
Celia Hammond was featured on Inside Out London last night; if anyone fancies watching it, it should be on iPlayer for six more days.
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I think Breeze much prefers Ella to Charlie, not that you can tell by her expression.
Ella's definitely another "cat dog" but very different from Charlie personality wise, bless.
I keep looking at that picture and imagining that line, and it makes me laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Vintage Paw
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I gave Peg her worming treatment last night. She was sitting a bit awkwardly, so not in the ideal position. And because she's officially 'a big cat' she gets the big cat dose. Cue it dribbling all down her shoulder. She looks a state today, poor dignified madam.
Vintage Paw
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Thank goodness for the ginger bits, or I'd lose her!
See, you can see her 'curtain'. Big old floppy flollop of belly roll flolloping along her undercarriage.
See, you can see her 'curtain'. Big old floppy flollop of belly roll flolloping along her undercarriage.
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Did I mention? Peg went back to the vet for her second round of jabs. She'd lost some weight, despite me being certain she'd put it on. I really am utterly shit at that.
Anyway, down from 6.4kg to 6.1kg. Ted reckons to aim for 5.5kg although he said "I don't know, what do you think? I don't know what would be ideal for a cat her size. I'm not very good at this sort of thing." To which I thought, "Indeed, you with your fat diabetic cat at home."
She's got the same 'floppy' problem Charlie had. When she's stood up and you look down at her, she looks very sleek, almost too skinny around her waist and back end. But her belly is very floppy and wobbles and hangs down, and she has 'curtains' - I don't know why I call them this. When she sits down, the floppy bits create a floppy ring of floppiness around her. So, it's all in her floppy belly. I don't know what to do about that, it's like it's mostly floppy skin more than anything. She certainly doesn't have masses of fat lining under her skin all round. When she rolls onto her back (which is often) she looks massive because all that floppy spreads out and makes her look huge
all cats have that. it's normal. and it isn't a function of weight gain, or speying. it's either spare skin to allow them to stretch when they move, or gorge. or something similar to loose skin on a fighting dog, so the back leg scratching of a downed opponant scrabbles at loose skin, and only injures that, not piercing through to the gut.and it gets more obvious in older cats and in cats that have been overweight at some point, but loose skin isn't fat.
best way to judge a cat's weight is to look down at the shape of them when they are standing up. you can then properly see the width of them. and see if they go in a bit just in front of their hips, and that there isn't a noticable belly bulge at the sides.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
A cat came and sat on my knee, unbidden, when I was waiting for my train this morning.
It waited til the train arrived then jumped off my lap, looked back at me, nodded, and left the platform.
It waited til the train arrived then jumped off my lap, looked back at me, nodded, and left the platform.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Vintage Paw - don't worry about her curtain, lots of cats end up with a large amount of floppy skin if they have been overweight. I mean they mostly all end up with a bit of saggy belly skin as they get older, but if they've ever been overweight they just end up with more skin and because a cat's skin is loose gravity takes over, there's not a lot you can do about it and it's nothing to worry about.
Jakey used to be overweight when we got him and he has the same thing (ie. more sag than the other 2 cats), we call it his petticoat for some reason, although curtain is good too! He's very slender these days, it's not fat, just skin.
EDIT: and as toggle rightly points out, the skin is loose so that if they are pinned down when fighting they can twist their body out from under with minimal damage to anything vital. Also to allow very free joint movement so they can twist in mid air to land safely.
Jakey used to be overweight when we got him and he has the same thing (ie. more sag than the other 2 cats), we call it his petticoat for some reason, although curtain is good too! He's very slender these days, it's not fat, just skin.
EDIT: and as toggle rightly points out, the skin is loose so that if they are pinned down when fighting they can twist their body out from under with minimal damage to anything vital. Also to allow very free joint movement so they can twist in mid air to land safely.
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Aye, some cats do have a lot more sag than others for no discernable reason - I suspect genetics plays a part also
