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His eyes do look troubled, but he is a beautiful brown cat like my Gemini. They are so rare. Gemi and her brother Timo were found on a suburban sidewalk at an estimated age of two days old and bottle fed until they could eat on their own. I was lucky enough to be able to adopt them both...

I have a brother and sister, found on a sidewalk at about two days of age and bottle fed and fostered to the age of about 12 weeks when I was lucky enough to adopt them. They are such wonderful cats with no vices. Timo is a beautiful tabby striped gray and Gemi is an unusual brown. Apologies for...

I suppose I ought to try the low calorie options, but I’ve always been very reluctant to do so because they have a reputation for being less nutritious. It makes more sense to me to feed a high quality food but just a little less. I guess I am open to the comment “how’s that working for...

I had a feeling when I stated the weight of Timo some would logically assume he is overweight. I’m very picky about weight on my animals. Being fat is hard on their joints and hard on their health, so I’m sort of a fanatic about their weight. In spite of my best intentions, Timo is slightly...

Every day! Usually multiple times per day. I try to stick to a schedule of about every four hours during the day, but it doesn’t seem to matter, he bothers me well before feeding time.

When he wants to play, he drags his wand toy to me, an obvious ploy to get me to play with him. So I don’t think he is after me for play. But there is no reason why I couldn’t respond to his begging with play. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have a six year old brother and sister cat which are of unknown parentage. They were found on a sidewalk at an estimated age of 2-3 days old. They were fostered by a mother/daughter team in my town and put up for adoption when they were about 10-12 weeks old. They have been very easy cats...

Good questions. I don’t think the behavior is new, but it is increasingly bossy. I don’t really know which, if any feeding interval results in the most pestering. I’ll have to pay closer attention to that. I feed when I wake up in the morning, usually between 6:30 and 7:30. Then again at 1pm...

I have two cats, a brother and a sister now 5 years old. I’ve had them since they were kittens and I’m still feeding them on a four times a day schedule. Timo is extremely assertive about bugging me for food ahead of his feeding schedule. Both cats are just slightly overweight and since I...

Peaches is very pretty but she does sound, as you say, dominant. Romy is nothing like that. she is very sweet natured. I’ve had her at the vet twice for her annual check up and I always tell the vets to be especially kind and sweet with her because she is feral and I don’t want any bad...

It could also be that she was the dominant cat. Peaches is queen even over me. Her tail is always strait up. I don’t think of her as dominant cat. She is “just right”. Neither dominant nor submissive. She was not part of a colony, just a solo feral cat, so I never observed her in a colony...

Judging from the responses it certainly seems like an extra happy response. I have always been pretty sure it was because all her behaviors following it are very animated and joyful. But none of my other cats have ever exhibited this behavior so it was completely novel to me. ALso I've read...

I had the exquisite pleasure of being picked by a very wild and wary black feral cat to be her friend. Yes, it seems almost as though she regards me as HER pet rather than the other way around. She has the unusual habit of sticking her tail straight up in the air and vibrating it or shaking it...

Here it is almost four years later and I thought I would update this thread. I’m pleased to report that Timo and Gemini continue to use the tub. There has not been one mistake in all this time. Not one. I am very happy without cat litter to deal with so all seems fine. More recently I’ve...

Love this sort of thing! I am going to begin with the photos that captivated me enough that I made the fateful call “I want to adopt the brown one”.lol Well that didn’t work, I was told I had to adopt both of them! Thank goodness, because Timo, the ticked blue tabby kitten, is a major...