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Hello everyone!
I have two cats who are brother and sister, Jasmine and Samson, although they don't look like it much. My sister and I got the cats a long time ago, when they were just itty bitty kittens from the owner of the farm where we boarded our horses. When miss Jazzy was just a few weeks old, she escaped into a broken heater vent system and spent three of the coldest nights in December (this in Colorado) there. (This was with her previous owner, not with me.) When she was finally rescued, she was in amazingly good health. Jazzy drools (more like drips) when you hold her and she's purring, the vet says it's because she's really happy.
Sammy was the second runt of the litter, and is quite the poofball. He is extremely social, the moment (I mean the exact second) I sit down (on the couch, on the toilet lid, anywhere) he runs over and jumps on my lap, his motor running loudly.
They are now 10 years old, and getting slightly more annoyed when they are ignored when they think they should be getting attention, which is pretty much 24 hours, 7 days a week; excluding naps of course. They have taken to biting (hard as well, not enough to draw blood, but where it freaking hurts) faces, legs, arms, hands, anywhere their mouth tends to be when they feel that they aren't getting enough attention (or that it's time for breakfast). It's not like I ignore or neglect them either, I make time to play with them, hold Jazzy, and let Sammy sit on my lap as much as possible. It's just the moment my hand stops petting, I get a bite.
The main reason I joined this site was to get a little advice on how to discourage the biting, along with some advice on how to build a cat tree for front declawed cats (I plan to post a separate post for the cat tree). (I did not want them declawed, my sister and I fought vehemently about getting them declawed, but my mom gave us the ultimatum, get them laser declawed, or give them away. We tried to rehome the,, but couldn't find anyone to take them. They were only a year old or so when they got declawed. They haven't seem to have any bad health affects, and act like normal cats. When they were living at my step-dads, they would find some way to get onto the wood frame work in the basement and made that their new favorite sleeping spot. So I have no worries that they will have any problems with a cat tree, especially with lots of platforms.
Of course, here's a photo of them! Do they look at all related to you folks? I've always thought Sammy looked like a Maine Coone and my princess like a Blue Somalia.
And yes, I know it's a cat forum...but... I couldn't exclude the 3rd fur child of our family, miss Roxanne. (you can't tell from the pic, but she has a loooonnnng body and short legs)
I have two cats who are brother and sister, Jasmine and Samson, although they don't look like it much. My sister and I got the cats a long time ago, when they were just itty bitty kittens from the owner of the farm where we boarded our horses. When miss Jazzy was just a few weeks old, she escaped into a broken heater vent system and spent three of the coldest nights in December (this in Colorado) there. (This was with her previous owner, not with me.) When she was finally rescued, she was in amazingly good health. Jazzy drools (more like drips) when you hold her and she's purring, the vet says it's because she's really happy.
Sammy was the second runt of the litter, and is quite the poofball. He is extremely social, the moment (I mean the exact second) I sit down (on the couch, on the toilet lid, anywhere) he runs over and jumps on my lap, his motor running loudly.
They are now 10 years old, and getting slightly more annoyed when they are ignored when they think they should be getting attention, which is pretty much 24 hours, 7 days a week; excluding naps of course. They have taken to biting (hard as well, not enough to draw blood, but where it freaking hurts) faces, legs, arms, hands, anywhere their mouth tends to be when they feel that they aren't getting enough attention (or that it's time for breakfast). It's not like I ignore or neglect them either, I make time to play with them, hold Jazzy, and let Sammy sit on my lap as much as possible. It's just the moment my hand stops petting, I get a bite.
The main reason I joined this site was to get a little advice on how to discourage the biting, along with some advice on how to build a cat tree for front declawed cats (I plan to post a separate post for the cat tree). (I did not want them declawed, my sister and I fought vehemently about getting them declawed, but my mom gave us the ultimatum, get them laser declawed, or give them away. We tried to rehome the,, but couldn't find anyone to take them. They were only a year old or so when they got declawed.
They haven't seem to have any bad health affects, and act like normal cats. When they were living at my step-dads, they would find some way to get onto the wood frame work in the basement and made that their new favorite sleeping spot. So I have no worries that they will have any problems with a cat tree, especially with lots of platforms.Of course, here's a photo of them!
Do they look at all related to you folks? I've always thought Sammy looked like a Maine Coone and my princess like a Blue Somalia.
And yes, I know it's a cat forum...but... I couldn't exclude the 3rd fur child of our family, miss Roxanne. (you can't tell from the pic, but she has a loooonnnng body and short legs)
