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I've been having a long standing--two week--arguement with my RB (responsible brother) for about a week, and I've decided to post the arguement and see if I can't just get some feedback from people with no personal stake in it.
First, I have to go back in time. About two months ago last year my IB brought home a kitten. (Knowing what I know now, I think she was ten weeks when he brought her home.) We hypothesize that she got pregnant some time last October (I was still getting used to the idea of a cat in the house and, to be bluntly honest, extremely frustrated that no one had listened to me and gotten her fixed before her first heat) and she gave birth February 2. (I marked it on the calendar.) A few weeks after the kittens were born Momma cat got exceptionally frantic. She went to IB, who put down food. She went to AWM, who opened the door. She went to me (there was no point in going to RB, since he was in denial that there WERE kittens), and I followed her. Our house has a crawl space that lifts it up off the ground so that, in summer, air can circulate under it and cool the house. We had an unusually cold winter, so we put the cat and kittens in a doggy bed (just because the cat beds looked far too small for all six of them) to keep them off the cold floor and I put a heating pad under it for early morning when it got REALLY cold.
The reason Momma cat was freaking out was because two of the kittens had fallen off the bed, and gotten trapped between the bed and the wall. (They were slightly colder than normal, but between Momma cat and me we got them warmed up in good time.) They were fine; they were rescued from their predicament before they could get chilled or sick.
Fast forward to now: one of the kittens, Spit (and yes, he was one of the two kittens that fell and got trapped outside of the bed), talks. He mutters to himself when he's in someone's lap, he cries if there's a human around who isn't paying attention to him, he cries at the door when he wants out (but still won't leave unless a human's with him), mutters before he eats (it almost looks like he's praying over his food), and is the single NOISIEST cat in the bunch. I don't think there's anything wrong with that; there are noisy humans, dogs, and birds (compared to the rest of their flock), why NOT noisy cats?
Here's the arguement: RB says that Spot suffered brain damage from the incident where he got trapped behind the wall. I say this is, pardon my language, BS. Asia (the other kitten that got trapped) is just as quiet as the other cats, and is clearly not brain damaged in any way since she can clearly hunt (birds with success, and she's learning how to get the squirrels). I think the fact that Spot is noisy is simply because it's his personality (and honestly, he gets on my nerves less than the lovebirds).
There's the situation, background, and arguement. Please weigh in.
First, I have to go back in time. About two months ago last year my IB brought home a kitten. (Knowing what I know now, I think she was ten weeks when he brought her home.) We hypothesize that she got pregnant some time last October (I was still getting used to the idea of a cat in the house and, to be bluntly honest, extremely frustrated that no one had listened to me and gotten her fixed before her first heat) and she gave birth February 2. (I marked it on the calendar.) A few weeks after the kittens were born Momma cat got exceptionally frantic. She went to IB, who put down food. She went to AWM, who opened the door. She went to me (there was no point in going to RB, since he was in denial that there WERE kittens), and I followed her. Our house has a crawl space that lifts it up off the ground so that, in summer, air can circulate under it and cool the house. We had an unusually cold winter, so we put the cat and kittens in a doggy bed (just because the cat beds looked far too small for all six of them) to keep them off the cold floor and I put a heating pad under it for early morning when it got REALLY cold.
The reason Momma cat was freaking out was because two of the kittens had fallen off the bed, and gotten trapped between the bed and the wall. (They were slightly colder than normal, but between Momma cat and me we got them warmed up in good time.) They were fine; they were rescued from their predicament before they could get chilled or sick.
Fast forward to now: one of the kittens, Spit (and yes, he was one of the two kittens that fell and got trapped outside of the bed), talks. He mutters to himself when he's in someone's lap, he cries if there's a human around who isn't paying attention to him, he cries at the door when he wants out (but still won't leave unless a human's with him), mutters before he eats (it almost looks like he's praying over his food), and is the single NOISIEST cat in the bunch. I don't think there's anything wrong with that; there are noisy humans, dogs, and birds (compared to the rest of their flock), why NOT noisy cats?
Here's the arguement: RB says that Spot suffered brain damage from the incident where he got trapped behind the wall. I say this is, pardon my language, BS. Asia (the other kitten that got trapped) is just as quiet as the other cats, and is clearly not brain damaged in any way since she can clearly hunt (birds with success, and she's learning how to get the squirrels). I think the fact that Spot is noisy is simply because it's his personality (and honestly, he gets on my nerves less than the lovebirds).
There's the situation, background, and arguement. Please weigh in.