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- From: ehp@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ("Didi Pancake")
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: New kitten update
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.000335.29327@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:03:35 GMT
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- Organization: University of Virginia
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- Well, the new kid on the block, Bibs, has finally settled in. She's a
- tuxedo cat (NOT related to Sox Clinton) and is now about 6 months old.
- She went into an early heat which, thank all the odd gods of the galaxy,
- only lasted about 2 or 3 days, so shortly thereafter I began
- contributions toward the "Bibs Pancake" wing of the Albemarle Veterinary
- Hospital. She's doing quite nicely but has a ways to go before her fur is
- grown back completely.
-
- Anyway, several weeks ago my older cat, Cleo (6 yrs, brown/grey tabby,
- about 13 lbs since she's been eating the "high-test" kitten chow),
- finally gave in to Bibs to the extent of washing her ears. Now they have
- progressed to napping in a heap, and the chasing episodes are about equal
- as to who chases whom.
-
- I think this worked so well because Cleo had never really been separated
- from her brother, Correy, and so was used to having another cat around.
- When Correy had to make his last trip to the vet in August, I went away
- with him and came back with Bibs the same afternoon, so all Cleo had to
- do was adjust to a different cat...not to a different number of cats.
-
- Sometimes I think Bibs has a good deal of "water rat" in her background.
- I know all kittens (or at least most kittens) go through a phase of
- fascination with water, but most I've had grew out of it fairly quickly.
- Bibs loves anything that produces a new puddle of water for her to
- investigate...especially the bathroom sink. She is also absolutely mad
- about the drain-hole in the tub...the plug disappeared years ago and I
- seldom take tub-baths, so there is this interesting black hole to stick
- paws into...
-
- Hmmm...have to go...hear a can of cat food calling...
-
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