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Hi I'm Ella and I've been reading advice here for a while but never thought to join!
I have five cats and a dog so I'm very interested in learning as much as I can about my kitties and their changing needs! I don't know if I'm attaching pictures properly but I'll do my best!
Mokes
My oldest cat Mokey or Mokes was born in October 2003 so he is officially 20! He's a very long-haired tabby and he's teeny tiny at only about six pounds. When I adopted him he was only about five weeks old. He's always had frail bones and just had a bad injury to his front leg which is considered a sprain so he's been on painkillers. His eye has always hd the brown spots in it, and he never learned to groom himself so he's always very natty but especially in winter. He's a very loud howler to the point we need earplugs sometimes. We consider him our little old man and baby him with lots of love. I don't know if he's considered a Torbie, which would be rare for a male. The end of his tail is a pure white puff like a cotton ball.
Ouiji
Cat 2 is Ouiji. She's 3.5 years old and black except for a white pelvic triangle. She's very sweet and dainty now despite starting out really hyper. She likes to sleep on my pillow and knead my hair.
Willow
When Ouiji was a year old we got her a kitten. Cat 3 is Willow who is now 2.5 and a big Tortie. They get along OK but never quite bonded the way we'd hoped. Willow spends a lot of time in hiding spots like on top of the dryer or on a dresser in my closet, but she's not ill. She just likes to have her own space. She's the least easy to hold or cuddle but she'll purr up a storm when you pet her.
Macbeth
Last June in 2023 I decided I wanted one more female and I saw an orange tabby kitten who was advertised as being a girl so I brought her home, but lo and behold she was a boy. Lol. Little did I know! Thus, Cat 4 went from being "Lady Macbeth" who was to be called Beth, to simply being "Macbeth" overnight, and we call him Mickey. He's crazy! He gets into everything. He's an Olympic gymnast it seems, and he's sooo much fun. Such a funny and sweet little boy.
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Hester
We loved Mickey but still wanted another girl, so three days later we adopted Hester / Hex from another family. She was three weeks younger than Macbeth. She's a very long-haired Tortie or Calico - I'm not sure how to classify her because she has white but is mostly black and orange. She's so fluffy we sometimes wonder if she has some Maine Coon, Ragdoll or Norwegian in her. As a baby she had really long ear tufts but they aren't as noticeable now. Her mother was a short-hair orange tabby and she was the runt of a litter of eight. All seven others were orange tabbies like Macbeth and their mother. She was born last as the only girl, the only non-orange, and the only long-hair, plus she was half their size. I wish we knew who the father was! Can cats have a litter from two fathers at the same time?
Hester is very aggressive for food and will eat anything so we have to keep unwashed plates in the oven or fridge lol. She pushes everyone else from their food and she's double the size of Macbeth despite being slightly younger. I think she's even bigger than Willow the Tortie now. I'll have to get a better picture to show how big she is now.
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My ongoing question about Hester will be the fact she poops beside the litter box. I think it's behavioural and she just doesn't want to get messy. She does use the box sometimes but about 50% of the time she'll go beside it even if it's clean. When we first got her she used to pee in the bathtub but that seems to have stopped after a round of antibiotics. She's also lost a lot of whiskers on one side and they're growing in really thin and faint, compared to the other side.
Anyway sorry for the long ramble but that's my crew!
I hope the pictures worked!
I have five cats and a dog so I'm very interested in learning as much as I can about my kitties and their changing needs! I don't know if I'm attaching pictures properly but I'll do my best!
Mokes
My oldest cat Mokey or Mokes was born in October 2003 so he is officially 20! He's a very long-haired tabby and he's teeny tiny at only about six pounds. When I adopted him he was only about five weeks old. He's always had frail bones and just had a bad injury to his front leg which is considered a sprain so he's been on painkillers. His eye has always hd the brown spots in it, and he never learned to groom himself so he's always very natty but especially in winter. He's a very loud howler to the point we need earplugs sometimes. We consider him our little old man and baby him with lots of love. I don't know if he's considered a Torbie, which would be rare for a male. The end of his tail is a pure white puff like a cotton ball.
Ouiji
Cat 2 is Ouiji. She's 3.5 years old and black except for a white pelvic triangle. She's very sweet and dainty now despite starting out really hyper. She likes to sleep on my pillow and knead my hair.
Willow
When Ouiji was a year old we got her a kitten. Cat 3 is Willow who is now 2.5 and a big Tortie. They get along OK but never quite bonded the way we'd hoped. Willow spends a lot of time in hiding spots like on top of the dryer or on a dresser in my closet, but she's not ill. She just likes to have her own space. She's the least easy to hold or cuddle but she'll purr up a storm when you pet her.
Macbeth
Last June in 2023 I decided I wanted one more female and I saw an orange tabby kitten who was advertised as being a girl so I brought her home, but lo and behold she was a boy. Lol. Little did I know! Thus, Cat 4 went from being "Lady Macbeth" who was to be called Beth, to simply being "Macbeth" overnight, and we call him Mickey. He's crazy! He gets into everything. He's an Olympic gymnast it seems, and he's sooo much fun. Such a funny and sweet little boy.
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Hester
We loved Mickey but still wanted another girl, so three days later we adopted Hester / Hex from another family. She was three weeks younger than Macbeth. She's a very long-haired Tortie or Calico - I'm not sure how to classify her because she has white but is mostly black and orange. She's so fluffy we sometimes wonder if she has some Maine Coon, Ragdoll or Norwegian in her. As a baby she had really long ear tufts but they aren't as noticeable now. Her mother was a short-hair orange tabby and she was the runt of a litter of eight. All seven others were orange tabbies like Macbeth and their mother. She was born last as the only girl, the only non-orange, and the only long-hair, plus she was half their size. I wish we knew who the father was! Can cats have a litter from two fathers at the same time?
Hester is very aggressive for food and will eat anything so we have to keep unwashed plates in the oven or fridge lol. She pushes everyone else from their food and she's double the size of Macbeth despite being slightly younger. I think she's even bigger than Willow the Tortie now. I'll have to get a better picture to show how big she is now.
My ongoing question about Hester will be the fact she poops beside the litter box. I think it's behavioural and she just doesn't want to get messy. She does use the box sometimes but about 50% of the time she'll go beside it even if it's clean. When we first got her she used to pee in the bathtub but that seems to have stopped after a round of antibiotics. She's also lost a lot of whiskers on one side and they're growing in really thin and faint, compared to the other side.
Anyway sorry for the long ramble but that's my crew!
I hope the pictures worked!
You have a beautiful feline family. 
