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Peeps is 4. My husband and I have discussed the possibility of another cat. It would have to be a very special kitty. Right now, I'm thinking a young adult male who is laid back/confident with plenty of play in him and wouldn't come in and immediately start trying to dominate everyone would be...

Missy a middle-aged 6 or 7. Since she was former feral who adopted us and decided that she would become a housecat, all we have is an estimate. The vet thought she was about 1 when we brought her in the first time. Peeps is 4 and part Aby.

I started out posting about problems between my ladies, Missy and Peeps. At the time, they were really fighting hard. Since then we have vetted both girls. Aside from Peeps' weight issues which are being slowly, but surely addressed, both have clean bills of health. The house has settled into...

Hmmm, if I'm reading that correctly. Missy spends most of her time in a relaxed/contented state. She walks around with her tail mostly hanging down and curved out away from her gently with a little tip flicking. When she gets me to open doors for her, her tail will go upright for a while. Peeps...

I'm not sure which would be cheaper, but the sitter service is generally less expensive here. The one we have is a service the works with people who are assigned to an area, so you have a regular person for your area. If you use the service regularly, you tend to have the same person. They will...

Our DLH gets poo stuck to her rump about once or twice a year, and since she's the half-feral one who hates to be handled in any firm way, getting her clean again is always a two person challenge. We usually have to shut her in the shower (about the only thing we like the sliding glass doors...

We leave ours for the weekend (leave Friday evening, come back early Sunday), and that's about as long as we'll leave them without someone to check on them. When we go away longer, there is a highly recommended and regarded sitting service that we are lucky enough to have in our area. We have a...

What was her background like? Did she have mother, siblings? A chance to learn some social skills before being weaned? I ask because my sister had one that she bottle-fed that was an only kitten who started to play rougher and rougher as she grew because she'd nver had a mother or siblings to...

Your Bacon sounds like a marvelous cat! And don't let anyone convince you that cats don't do those things because cats can and do. I've had cats who fetch, cats who love belly rubs (that's really the highest sign of affection and trust because the belly is the most vulnerable area the cat can...

Heh, he's not formally trained in stats. He just sort of fell into it. He's always gotten along well with numbers enough to play with them. He had two years of engineering under his belt from university added to dual degrees in biology and microbiology. But, it all adds up to a biostatistician...

They're called painted fish a lot of times or "strawberry" or "blueberry" this or that. They take a fish like a glass fish or maybe an albino oscar, and they hand inject dye under the fish's skin. It kills lots of fish in the process. They sell the ones that live. The dye colors only last for a...

Uh-oh, you posted math. My husband does math for a living. He is a biostatistician. I only had to read two lines before he was intrigued. He worked your formula. However, he informed me that he does not have all our litterboxes downstairs in service. He only has two full downstairs, although...

When it comes to fish, you have to really know what you're looking at. Some few big box stores have employees who know how to run aquariums and fish departments and will do everything they can to take care of the stock and order in good stock from decent sources (or as decent as their store will...

No, never. Missy was a feral and she is an accomplished mooch/forager. If you don't watch her, she will poach food from anywhere and everywhere. If we fed her at the table, I feel like that problem would only get 1,000 times worse. No, like the others, each lady has her own dish and gets her...

At one point, we had five cats: 2 DLHs and 3 DSHs. At that point, we were up about six litterboxes scattered throughout the house. As the three elderly gentlemen passed away, the number of cats dwindled down to two: one DLH (Missy) and 1 DSH (Peeps), but the number of litterboxes hasn't changed...