Anytime we come back home, she'll be really excited. If she hears the garage door open, she knows what window to run and look out. Then once the car is in the garage, she'll run to the door. I never get tired of her excitement.
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Anytime we come back home, she'll be really excited. If she hears the garage door open, she knows what window to run and look out. Then once the car is in the garage, she'll run to the door. I never get tired of her excitement.
StarWarsGirl
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Belle complains. I'm not kidding. For about two hours she walks around doing nothing but meowing. Then, if I'm not home for a few hours or if she doesn't know where I am, she complains some more. She won't play for several days after we've been home. The meows are pretty pitiful too.
englanddg
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12 isn't that old for a cat. I had one live up until 16. Belle is only 5. I got her when she was 10 months old. By that time the poor thing already had emotional issues that still show sometimes. She was taken from her mother too soon as a kitten and then placed in a home with multiple adult cats (not a good situation!), then when she wouldn't warm up her former owners hauled her out from wherever she was, which is counterproductive. Finally they took her back to the shelter, where she was placed into another room with all adult cats before they finally took her to Petsmart where she had her own enclosure and my mom and I adopted her. When we knew we were getting a cat, while we figured while we'd get a sweet one, we'd get one that we'd have to work with because those are the hardest cats to adopt out but they become your best friend.
Anastasia...what a name for a cat. You could get another and name her Drizella...
Cats I've named (not all are still in my life, many are with family, or passed away (some prematurely, and that becomes a very long story)...
1) Robes Pierre (parents named)
2) Musette (parents named)
3) Asparagus (Gus, the theater cat, I got him as a stray at 2 weeks, and nursed him to health...had to go out of town on business, and let him stay with my girlfriend who was still living with her parents at the time...her mother ran him over with a car)
4) Macavity (Mac, I got him at 3 weeks, and nursed him, same as above, except Mac ran away)
My parents cat (which was really my / my sisters cat) Aristophanes (Stophie for short) was put down a few months ago. My mom is keeping his ashes for us to have a quiet ceremony for him in the back yard around Christmas, when the whole family is together. He used to love to play in the small forest in my parents back yard...chasing squirrels and being all catilicious.
Thier current cat is called Sam (Samwise, actually, and he's a huge cat and dumb as a rock. Ana doesn't like him very much...but she and Stophie were close.
My dog used to love to play for a long time. Recently she's done after a few tosses. She still loves her mickey mouse toy we got her at Disney.
StarWarsGirl
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Must bring something home for the dog!
Animals change as they age unfortunately. Remember Buster in Toy Story 3?
englanddg
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That makes me laugh!
He was a short hair tabby...so YES! <grin>
He lived to 15 before we had to put him down (he couldn't keep down food anymore)...Stophie lived to 20...and again, he couldn't keep anything down and was wasting away, so the humane decision (and one the whole family deliberated and voted on) was whether it was right to just help him leave this world...
We decided it was.
Nemo14
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See what happens when you leave us alone?
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
That makes me laugh!
The names are actually based on this (something I didn't know until a few years ago)...
...it actually was a great movie...@StarWarsGirl95 should check it out, I think she'd enjoy it!
Robes Pierre is the kitten. When my parents went to adopt him from the shelter, he was in the cage with (we assume) his sister (a longhair tabby), and he started mewling when they took him out of the cage and making movements towards the cage...which my parents took as a sign, and adopted them both instead.
Though, it is tongue and cheek, my parents (and I) are very aware of the historical reference (and that it's one work historically...in the cartoon, it's not...it's two words, hence the name)...
StarWarsGirl
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Belle has no desire to even go outside. She looks at you like you're crazy for even asking. Nice to be able to open the door and not have to worry about an escape artist. Our other cats we would let out on a leash (that's the other thing...there's a leash law in Baltimore County) to get it out of their systems.
My mom had Mischief and Butterscotch when I was born. Butterscotch , an orange tabby, died when I was 2. He was weird. He had a seizure, and during the seizure, he fell and hit his head which killed him. He liked no one besides my mom and Mischief and trusted no one.
Mischief died at 16 when I was 8. He was a tuxedo, and yes, he lived up to his name. He was a cool cat. Big brute. Slept in my crib when I was asleep, then when I was older slept with me every night. One paw across the chest, always on the left side. Thought everyone who came to the house was there to see him. It was his house and we were allowed to live there. Really gentle cat too. Very good since my mom had two kids in the space of his lifetime.
Moxie we got when I was 3. He was another animal with issues. The owner was in the middle of a nasty divorce, and the husband was threatening to throw him out the door. But he was a nice cat. Really tolerant of me when I picked him up. Liked to be carried on his back. He was attached to Mischief and we didn't realize until after he died that his behavior issues were related to loneliness and health problems. He died at age 10 from kidney failure.
I think because of Moxie my mom and I decided to do better with our next cat, hence why we got the cat who needed the home pretty badly.
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Change one letter in your username and you'll go to the dogs too!
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Nemo14
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Thelma and Louise don't go outside either. We've had coyotes in the neighborhood, and one of our cats disappeared a few years before we got Thelma and Louise, so I just never let them out. They don't seem to mind a bit. They love to sit in the windows and scold the birds though.
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