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    Changing Colour

    Kai has many white hairs showing through the black, is this normal? Mainly above his nose, which was a deep black, and round his legs, as if the white is bleeding into the black. We estimate his age around 3 1/2, the previous 'owner' had him from a kitten but has no idea how old he really is...
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    Dieting Concerns

    looking for a little advice, please. It seems my cats should have 210 calories a day. They have 150 calories of wet food and a small handful of kibble. So... how come they're overweight by about two pounds each? They are house cats but they race around and play. And... with that limited a diet...
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    My first kiss

    for the past three months our Burmese, Kit,  has been giving my daughter wet sloppy kisses. She's been showing off that Kit hasn't kissed me yet. Well, now he has, he was standing on me at the time, ready to turn round and lie down, when he reached up and gave me a soggy kiss. So I'm finally...
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    how to stop/deter Kit from licking the furniture

    we've accepted scratching but our Kit, the Burmese cat, is busy licking anything wooden, table, chairs, ornaments, and we are concerned that the varnish may be damaging, as well as the damage he is doing to our furniture and ornaments. That rough tongue could move concrete, I swear it would! We...
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    Can you teach a cat to play?

    Our Kai was born into a madhouse of 10 cats, dogs, goats, chickens... all of whom got fed as and when the owner could feed them. So, he went hungry a lot. That showed, when my daughter got him, she had to restrain him gently and retrain him to let Kit eat and he could have what was left (not...
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    Cat Punctuality

    how do they do that? From the time Kai and Kit arrived at our home, I've got up at 7 AM exactly to feed them. It didn't take long before they were either jumping off daughter's bed at 6.58 and/or sitting in my bedroom at 6.59 demanding breakfast, very loudly and persistently.  Just how do they...
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    Hi from the island -

    hello new friends. I'm Rose Rivers, I live on the Isle of Wight, just off the south coast of England, in a very long - full of hiding places - two storey flat with two manic cats.  One's a Burmese, the other is a 'domestic cat' according to the vet. They're house cats of necessity, Burmese need...
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