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    UPDATE - Hemmingway Cat

    Andrew is starting to really feel at home finally, which is great! He isn't hiding as much as he was! He makes great strides every day and I am certain that the fact that Jo is being nicer to him now also helps him feel more at ease. The three of us had a great morning and I found it...
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    UPDATE - Hemmingway Cat

    Thank you for your post! I've been to Key West several times - growing up my family used to take us there at least once every other month. Andrew is doing MUCH better and has not peed again anywhere except his litter box! I even let him on the bed where he had peed the first night and he has...
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    UPDATE - Hemmingway Cat

    My babies are doing well and actually getting on better! As for the car ride - I agree with you about the safety issue, believe me. As for something spooking him - have any of you ever driven the interstate in FLORIDA?! It is the absolute most BORING stretch of road anywhere! At any rate...
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    UPDATE - Hemmingway Cat

    Andrew is a sweetheart of a cat. I can't wait to come home to my 2 fur-babies. Hopefully they'll be getting on a bit better by then... He and I totally bonded on the drive home. He wanted to be in my lap the entire time. I tried to put him in the back seat at one point, but he wouldn't have...
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    UPDATE - Hemmingway Cat

    Andrew is most definitely a descendant of the Hemmingway cats. Hemmingway bred these 6-toed cats specifically (why, i do not know - perhaps just because it made them look more 'human') and Andrew is a 6-toed cat. it's really cool because it makes him look like he has 'hands' in the front...
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    UPDATE - Hemmingway Cat

    Hello all! Well, I did it! I called in sick yesterday and drove myself 4 hours down to the Key West SPCA to pick up the kitty. He sat on my lap with a paw on either side of me ('hugging' me) the entire drive back home. What a sweetheart! I have changed his name to Andrew (Prince Andrew...
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    can anyone help me get this cat???

    Thank you guys for the encouragement! I'm waiting to hear from the SPCA there to let me know when I can go get Jack. Perhaps this weekend - that would be wonderful, but we shall see. Now, since I haven't introduced a new cat to mine since she was a kitten and I don't know how she will...
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    can anyone help me get this cat???

    I have to wait to pick up "Jack"... He is at the SPCA in Key West and had a slight respiratory infection (the entire kennel had it) and they won't let me adopt him until he is all clear (which is good for me & the kitty I already have!!)... As soon as they give me the green light, I will go...
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    can anyone help me get this cat???

    Thanks for the words of encouragement! I'm waiting to hear back from the lady at the B&B!
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    can anyone help me get this cat???

    thank you! i'll have to try that! the lady and i have corresponded back and forth, but no solution yet, so i may just do that - go down there this weekend!
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    can anyone help me get this cat???

    Two weekends ago, I was in Key West, which is about a 4-hour drive from where I reside. While there, I met a beautiful cat. He is a grey shorthair with large gold eyes, and descendant of the Ernest Hemmingway cats. He has 6-toes on his 2 front paws and his back paws are 'normal'. He took to...
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    Help me sneak the kitties into my new building...

    Well, I could explain it, but then this post would get a little lengthy, so I'll give you the link to the site I bought it from and you can check it out - it shows you with pictures exactly how it works. It's not automated, but it works just as well and is a whole lot cheaper, which was the...
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    Help me sneak the kitties into my new building...

    I hear all of your concerns - believe me, I have gone over all of them myself. That is why I won't be bringing my baby in until after I've been there for about a month or two and my neighbors think I have no animals. As for the maintenance crew and all that, we ARE allowed to have birds and...
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    Help me sneak the kitties into my new building...

    Well, I am determined to sneak the babies in. The complex is brand-spanking new and no one has lived there before. I wish I knew why they don't allow pets, but it is a complex run by a management company which I'm sure is not going to be lenient for one tennant. It isn't a private owner...
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    Help me sneak the kitties into my new building...

    Well normally I would totally agree with you, but I think I can pull it off because I will be on the 2nd story (which is the top floor) and no one can really see in my wondows. Also, I have a private entrance to my apartment, so it's not like there would be a hallway outside my front door where...
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