Somebody With Personality

We got our girl when she was just about ready to turn 8 years old. During those years she had been a breeder cat and had seen many litters throughout her life. This took a little toll on her, she isn't as clingy as some other cats we have had, but we wanted to adopt her and give her a nice retirement home.

You can see that she has had a lot of expereince with kittens, and cat in general. Since she started to mother our 3 year old male, a blue point mitted. What she does is that she constantly tries to clean him. Which would be fine if that is what he wanted, but most of the time he tries to get away until he has had enough, which ends up in fights. If she could take a hint it would be fine, but she tries so hard that he has little other option.

It isn't a all out fight though, more that he feels like teen that is trying to get his space more than anything.

But cats are very adaptable. And the stress level has dropped way down since we first brought her home. I think that as long as they get enough attention from us and have things to play with they do much better. But when we leave them, it has to be with a sitter, or a cattry.

One thing that we noticed right away is that she seems to have been starved for attention, she literally follows us everywhere and will not leave our side once "we" get out of bed. She sleeps in between us. But the same goes for her proxy baby, he sleeps on the foot of the bed. Both of them are absolutely adorable, and though it sounds hard, they are the best cats that I have ever had the pleasure of caring for.