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This is Stevie Wonder (please ignore the words across the picture, I got bored one day). She is a six (?) year old Cornish Rex. I received her as a gift from a friend in August of 2013. She's a great cat, kind of a jerk when she wants to be, but she's very sweet... kind of.
I've noticed several things about her since I've had her.
1) She loves to groom to the point of licking sores onto herself. I've tried the bitter spray, giving her baths, putting her in sweaters, wiping her down with kitty wipes, everything.
2) When she yawned in my face this afternoon, I noticed that, in addition to needing a tic-tac, most of her teeth are gone. She has the top row of tiny teeth and her incisors, and her top back molars (are they molars?). Her bottom row, from what she will let me see, only has the bottom incisors (now I know that's wrong) and two back molars on the bottom on either side (one looks broken) that she'd let me see. She seems to have no problem with hard food, and goes more for hard food than she does for wet food. I'm trying to turn her completely over to wet food, but because my other two monstrosities, Yoda and Leia, have a barrel of food, she prefers to go there than eating when I tell her she can eat.
In a few weeks, I'll actually be able to focus on going from free feeding all three of them into feeding them at certain times of the day. Due to military obligations, I can't get home long enough to give them lunch (if I get three meals, they should, too, the way I see it).
Now, the reason for the question mark in Stevie's age is because the friend who had her before me wasn't completely sure how old she was. She had assumed she was about four. Stevie had been a show cat before my friend had gotten her, but when she retired, was sold to my friend. I can't help but wonder if she's actually older solely due to her dental problems, or if this is actually breed specific.
Does anyone have any recommendations for Stevie's obsession with grooming? She does have a bit of separation anxiety when I leave the house.
And is the tooth loss a breed specific thing, or is she actually just a geriatric old turd?
This is Stevie Wonder (please ignore the words across the picture, I got bored one day). She is a six (?) year old Cornish Rex. I received her as a gift from a friend in August of 2013. She's a great cat, kind of a jerk when she wants to be, but she's very sweet... kind of.
I've noticed several things about her since I've had her.
1) She loves to groom to the point of licking sores onto herself. I've tried the bitter spray, giving her baths, putting her in sweaters, wiping her down with kitty wipes, everything.
2) When she yawned in my face this afternoon, I noticed that, in addition to needing a tic-tac, most of her teeth are gone. She has the top row of tiny teeth and her incisors, and her top back molars (are they molars?). Her bottom row, from what she will let me see, only has the bottom incisors (now I know that's wrong) and two back molars on the bottom on either side (one looks broken) that she'd let me see. She seems to have no problem with hard food, and goes more for hard food than she does for wet food. I'm trying to turn her completely over to wet food, but because my other two monstrosities, Yoda and Leia, have a barrel of food, she prefers to go there than eating when I tell her she can eat.
In a few weeks, I'll actually be able to focus on going from free feeding all three of them into feeding them at certain times of the day. Due to military obligations, I can't get home long enough to give them lunch (if I get three meals, they should, too, the way I see it).
Now, the reason for the question mark in Stevie's age is because the friend who had her before me wasn't completely sure how old she was. She had assumed she was about four. Stevie had been a show cat before my friend had gotten her, but when she retired, was sold to my friend. I can't help but wonder if she's actually older solely due to her dental problems, or if this is actually breed specific.
Does anyone have any recommendations for Stevie's obsession with grooming? She does have a bit of separation anxiety when I leave the house.
And is the tooth loss a breed specific thing, or is she actually just a geriatric old turd?
