New to TheCatSite, so I hope this is an appropriate place to post.

eolond

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I've grown up with cats, and I just love them so much.  We currently have 5 kitties.  As with all kitties, each comes with their own personality.  I hope you don't mind me introducing my brood!

Muffin: 


Muffin is very skittish and prone to freaking out randomly.  She's about 10 years old now and such a scruffy little thing.  The picture doesn't do her justice, but her eyes are just lovely.  Her meow sounds like "mow-wow??"  She also loves rubbing her cheeks on things when you pet her.

Domino: 


Domino is a real chatty cat.   He's also quite the attention seeker.  He's Muffin's son, and a total lap hog.  There's nothing wrong with his eye (it looks black, but the iris is just really dark brown, pupil is a normal size).  He has good vision in both eyes.  We're not sure why the pigmentation is different, though.  Domino loves tummy rubs, and is the type of cat to snag your sleeve with his paw if he thinks you're going to walk past him without giving him pets first.

Bandit: 


I adopted Bandit about 4 years ago when my friend found some stray kittens by her house.  Bandit loves eating grass and being out in the yard.  Bandit and Domino constantly play dominance games, despite both of them being neutered.  Bandit is absolutely obsessed with my hair.  He'll get it twisted around his face, purr furiously, and drool all over it (he only drools when in "hair mode," so don't freak out!).  He loves laser pointers, and fwapping me in the face with his tail.

Gandalf: 


Gandalf is bigger than our other kitties, and very floofy.  He looks fantastic now, but such wasn't always the case.  He showed up one day as a stray.  He was so starved that despite all his fur, I could clearly see his ribs.  It was just horrible.  He's a very sweet, gentle little guy.  He loves being hugged and getting his tummy rubbed.  He spends a lot of time in the window and has, I think, the loudest purr in the house.

Tina: 


Tina is 'my' cat.  She loves curling up on my desk and being held when I'm watching things on my computer.  She also loves sleeping next to my pillow, as long as she can snuggle up against my arm.  She's not a lap cat, but she's definitely a people kitty.  She'll follow me from room to room.  She has this weird quirk where she'll meow at me if I cough or sneeze.  Tina is currently on meds for fluid build-up in her chest.  She had an infection and got a steroid shot a little over a week ago.  Unfortunately, she had a bad reaction to the steroid shot they gave her, and it caused fluid to accumulate in her chest.  The pills make her really thirsty, so she'll lead me into the bathroom and squeak at me until I turn the faucet on for her.  She also enjoys sleeping in windows, though she and Gandalf have had a run-in recently over who owned the window.


We're doing some home renovations, and you can see that our cats approve.  Bandit not pictured.

As part of renovations, I got a new bed.  I had a full-size, but switched to a twin-size.  The cats don't care, but I have nights where I think I should just sleep on the floor cause there's no room left.


Thanks for reading!  I'm glad I found this site.  :)
 

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Hello Eoland and welcome to the site..


What a wonderful introduction to your fur family!... it was a lot of fun to read.

We look forward to hearing more from you.

Thank you for sharing, and for introducing me to the word fwapping which I will now use whenever I get the chance. 
 

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Welcome to TCS!   I love  the wonderful photos and descriptions of your beautiful cats!     You sure are making a great start!   

 Muffin does indeed have gorgeous eyes.   Very luminous,  and if they're really the color they look like in the photo ( they look almost aqua! ) ,  that is just WILD!   

Domino sounds like my kind of cat and of course he had to be talking in his photo!

   Was his one iris always dark brown like that ever since he was a kitten?    If not,  if it used to be normal but has changed to dark brown,  I would definitely have a vet take a look.  
 
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Domino's eye didn't start out brown, but slowly turned brown over several years.  It's been fully darkened for 5 or more years now.   I can't remember what the vet said is causing it (it's been a long time since we had him in specifically to have his eye examined).  It's also really hard to tell from the picture, but the white of his eye is completely unaffected by the change in pigmentation, his pupil response is normal and he's had no vision loss.  It's been amusing when he's gone in for vaccination boosters cause all the vet techs find an excuse to come see him.

Muffin's eyes always seem to look different.  The picture where they look really aqua was taken when the room was filled with sunlight.  Sometimes they look greener, other times more yellow seems to come out.  I may try to get a clearer picture of her sometime, but it's hard to do as she's not 'my' cat and she'll randomly skitter away from me, haha.  It's cute and frustrating at the same time.  Her fur is really soft, and she doesn't mind tummy rubs, but it's like she'll enjoy my attention for about 5 seconds before she gets weirded out by it and decides she has to vacate the premises.  I used to be her preferred human (I even helped her birth her kittens years ago), but after I moved away for awhile and came back, she's acted differently towards me. 

Oh!  I forgot to mention that Muffin has asthma.  She gets a monthly injection that really helps keep it under control.  It really scared me when she first started showing symptoms.  I had no idea cats could even get asthma, and at the time, I thought she was dying.  Her little sides were really heaving and she was just gasping for breath...it was terrifying.
 

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Hi,

 I can see that you have been with these lovely creatures and cared very much for them.  Muffin'a story is interesting because of the asthma, Oh, My that must have been scary.  My Awssul , has blue eyes and yes depending on the lighting she appears  yellow, fawn ,blue.. She was clawed in her right eye as a kitten by a cat be fore I got her. she has a cloudy spot on the outer surface but it is only noticable when one looks from the side and she stares forward. I don't think her eye color ( iris) is changing.  It is just transulscent like that.

Adordable Muffin , keep us posted on them  Bye-Bye 
 

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Hi, welcome to TCS!  Your cats are gorgeous.  Please feel free to post pictures of them anytime...we love pictures here. 
 
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