Good for you, and I'm rooting for Murphy.
sxan
joined 3 years ago
I hope he has many years of happy life left.
One of our's is mostly white and we're pretty sure he has some deafness, too. But he can still hear the treat jar as long as we rattle it loudly enough.
Sometimes being trapped is just fine. However, if it's not, my spouse and I have an SOS agreement, where the other will go to the kitchen and rattle the treat jar. Cats get treats, it's their decision to get up, and we can make our escape. Win/win.
What is this from?
Looks like someone wants snoogum woogums.
I've read it's the undercoat. Short hairs have an undercoat, and it sheds a lot. Longhairs don't (or don't have as much a one?) and so don't shed as much.
I don't care; I'd take a bullet for any of them.
Yeah, this one's a lap cat too. I've loved all our cats, but it's great when they're snugglers. Tissot has a thing, though, that we say for him: "Both hands! No devices!" When he's on you, he wants your full attention. It can make getting things done difficult, but it's probably healthy that he forces us to take breaks from our computers.
Does Zoey shed much? We adopted Tissot when he was 5, and I expected him to create a nightmare for the vacuums, but strangely he doesn't really shed much, for all the long hair he has. Loves to be brushed, but we never get anything off him! Is Zoey the same way?
He says thank you, and you're pretty, too.
I love Zoey.
But do not tell my boys. One would probably love Zoey, too - he's a cat's cat, and a white-ish version of Zoey - but the other is fantastically jealous.
Friendly, pretty, outgoing, and wants to be involved in anything anyone is doing:
I do that occasionally; maybe it's me, maybe it's my client. But I also prefer to continue a thread, so I may have done it on purpose. In this case, though, I probably misunderstood you, and thought you were suggesting that the cultural shift was for silly activist reasons, and that it was better back in the good old days. Or that the only reason to keep cats indoors is because of the damage they do to wildlife.
Mea culpa
I'm not even talking about the controversy about cat impact on wildlife; I'm referring to the statistical life expectancy of outdoor cats in the US. If anyone isn't satisfied with the one link I provided, I can find more: outdoor feline life expectancy is statistically drastically shorter than strictly indoor life expectancy. All I did was list the risks - the truth is in the statistics. But everyone who has that one outdoor cat that lived to 27 thinks their anecdotal experience trumps science 🙄.
I can't speak to Norway. Maybe the feline diseases aren't rampant there yet. Maybe the Norwegians have long ago exterminated all of their mid-range predators in populated areas. I doubt grandparent up there lives in a place where wolves are roaming around freely. You have coyotes or something similar there in your rural communities, my Norwegian friend from a couple comments up? Maybe the fact that few, if any, European countries have anything like the US car culture keeps streets safer for loose pets.
But in the US, letting cats outdoors statistically reduces their life expectancies. That's not my opinion; it's in the data.
Years ago, when home web cams were new, there was a documentary that showed what pets get up to when the owners aren't home. The #1 first thing is to get up on all the places that they're not allowed.
They don't learn that they're not allowed certain places; they learn that they're not allowed when you're around.