The Kitty in the Tree

awwwwww I love it!!!

the scratching post is a great idea as it will help keep Miki's claws at a good length and she can be taught to just scratch that. Both my boys usually only scratch their post (about 95% of the time)

Yea, my mom is really worried about her furniture, so softpaws and scratching post are definatly on the shopping list.

Spay her before her next heat because your mom and grandmother might not like her again....

I don't know when that is. She's 9 months old but I've only had her for almost 3 weeks.

Well I did post about my suspicions that she was possibly pregnant, though those reasons could have been her going into heat. She ate a lot and was highly affectionate. The amount of food she was eating was nuts. She'd get a packet of wet food everyday, and whenever the food bowl was empy, I'd fill it with dry food. The bowl isn't that big. About a handfull of food at a time in there. While that isn't a lot of food, Miki isn't a big cat. She is actually smaller than my fiance's 7 month old, but she would eat two bowls of this. So the equivallent of a days worth of food for this kitty is a packet of wet food and two handfulls of dry. Is that too much, or just right?

Well I'm not sure if she has been in heat or not. She is HIGHLY affectionate, but she hasn't been putting her butt in the air, or had a strong urge to go outside. When I took her out on the leash, she just wanted to explore, and when I took her inside, she hung around the door for a few minutes, wanting me to take her back out, but then she gave up after maybe 5 min and came back to play. She is not a big meower and the only time she meows is if you walk into the room and she wants you to pet her. And the packets of food she gets are the same amount as a can. If you were to pour it into your hand, it'd be a little less than a handfull.

I think you should get her check if in 2 weeks she doesn't go in to heat. By then a vet can help you in either way.

Well I won't be there for another two weeks, so my mom will have to keep an eye out. She'll be going to the vet in two weeks anyway, as soon as I get home. *crosses fingers* I'm really hoping she's not preggers.

A cat's early pregnancy can be safely terminated when she's spayed... of course that would have to be a moral choice on your part, whether you want to do that.

She *is* just nine months old, though; and while most cats are mature at that age, maybe your Miki is just a late bloomer and going into heat irregularly or not at all yet... who knows? Or you may have overestimated her age...

Didn't the vet where you where in collage house her for you for a week or 2... Did they say she was in heat there. If am correct you have been home for 2 weeks right.

When I had boarded at the vet when I first got her (I couldn't take her home just yet since I was at college) I asked the vet how old she was and he said judging by her teeth, she was 9 months old. I'll talk to my mom hopefully within the next few days and tell her to keep an eye on Miki and look out for signs of her going into heat.

As for the food, anytime I go near the bag of dry food, Miki seems to go nuts. She doesn't meow at me all that much, but she tries to stick her head in the opening of the bag and immediatly starts eating when I pour the food into her bowl. I'm not sure how much a 9 month old is supposed to be eating, but she goes through two bowls of dry and a packet and literally cleans her bowl. There was only one time that she didn't finish all her food, and that is when my mom put down a bowl of chicken soup for her and she probably ate all of that, and that was a big bowl.

so a time frame of what a month she has been inside the house or the vet office.

I got her on April 11th. That was the day she was brought down from the tree. She was boarded at a vet till April 21st. She has been inside the house since. So three weeks she has been inside.

Well, I'm still not sure how much I should be feeding her. It seems no matter how much food I put down, she's always ready for some more, well most of the time.

Ok, well I'll ask my mom about the bag next time I talk to her. Miki is in Richmond, while I'm in Wise. I swear, I am so attached to that little cat. I miss her so much. I hated leaving her to come back to college. While Lacey is there, she has her to play with (if they play at all, I'm not sure.)