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That's what I was thinking. The older cat is very much an "alpha" personality. Even tries to boss us around. Of the two kittens, the girl (Annabell Lee, "Annie") yields gladly to her, but the boy (Cactus James, "CJ") seems more intent on following her around but not "yielding". He only seems to...

We've all heard the term "gett'in a lickin", or "you're gonna get a licken". I wonder if it has to do with the way one cat will "groom" another one? I ask because our senior cat (about 4 1/2 years old) sometimes seems to get fed up with one or the other of our two kittens (both under 3 months...

The two little kittens I posted pictures of about a month ago (here->http://www.cgmusic.com/ourcats.htm came to live with us last Saturday. It took them a couple of days, but now they're reallly settling in. The little girl (Annabel Lee - "Annie") is the youngest, and the most adventuresome...

Is learning to purr part of maturing for a kitten? If so, is there some particular age when they might be expected to start? We picked up our 2 Maine Coon kittens last weekend, and by now they are comfortable with their new home and family. The little girl, the younger of the two by about a week...

I was quite blessed recently to find that one of my all time favorites is once again available on the internet.

We're planning to bring them home in about a month. This is earlier than the 12 weeks a lot of breeders wait for, but this breeder says she has found that a few weeks early works just fine for the right kind of home, and they seem to bond with the new family faster and easier. The boy will be...

After some of the responses we got from here re: male spraying not so bad if neutered early, we decided we could get a boy after all, SO... A bit over a week ago we visited a Maine Coon breeder over in Ft. Worth to look over the last 2 kittens she had from two recent litters. They were still...

Wasn't sure which forum to post this, but this one seemed close. My wife and I are having our wills drawn up. Although we hope it will be a lot of years, "time and chance" do happen to all of us, so we want to make sure that if any of our cats survive us, our executor won't put them somewhere...

Our first two, Norbert (a 15 lb gray tiger stripe american shorthair), and Mooch (a 10 lb Siamese, who acted like his name should have been Cedric) were total buddies. Loved to play, roll around kicking each other, etc. etc. Norbert was alpha, but Mooch would only put up with him trying to be...

Thanks to all for the encouraging answers. Actually, my main concern wasn't so much for the alpha behavior, but rather the "big rough teenager" getting on the girl's last nerve. In spite of the alpha mode, she can also be very retiring when she feels threatened. For example, we have a well...

We are a 2-cat house. The motto here is "2 laps, 2 cats". But since last fall, there's only been one kitty to go around. Our older girl, Diva, a sweet little Weegie, crossed the bridge. Now we're ready to fill that empty lap. In the past, our kitties have come to us in a relatively unplanned...

That is one lucky cat. Or maybe it's one of nine down. My stomach did a flip-flop when I saw the title of the thread, and started reading. It's over 11 years ago now, but I still remember how I felt when I saw our precious Norbert under our own garage door, long gone. He was one very, very...

Has anyone here tried the "Pet Boundary" -- that device that sends a signal that's supposed to make a cat 'bug off' when it comes within range? We have a nice, new oriental rug that our cats instantly realized made an excellent scratching spot. My wife is threatening to declaw, I'm saying I'll...

Our "little girl" makes this sound, and she is anything but "feral". In her case, she makes the sound at birds outside of my office window. When the weather permits, I keep a window open in my home office. There's a nice ledge that the cat loves to lay on to look out. There's a dogwood tree...