laughingduck
- Congratulations on your wonderful new Family!
21 years wow!!! My last cats only lived to 10 and 12 years. That os amazing all 11 get along. Do the mothers get along best with their offspring, or does that bond gradually lessen?.
My eight former ferals are all related pairs. 21 year-old Lance and Peanut are Brothers, White Tip and Oz are Mother and Son, Black Friday and Clawed-Ya are Mother and Daughter, and Puff and Scottiecat are half siblings. The other three are former throwaways, and once unrelated. Now all eleven are Family in the truest sense.
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laughingduck
- The bond seems unaffected by the passage of time; in fact, more to the point, rather than diminishing, Paternal, Maternal, Fraternal and Sororal bonds seem to intensify as the years pass. Humankind could learn a great deal from cats; sadly, most of us are too simpleminded to transcend our own feelings of superiority long enough to realise that.
1CatOverTheLine
. I never knew that. I believe now that I've watched my cats more that cats, and probably other animals, have the same emotions as people do.
That's so sweet,
DreamerRose
- I often see descriptions here on TCS about cats doing this or that, "randomly." I've lived with more than four dozen cats these last six decades, and have never witnessed a cat doing anything at random. They're eminently logical, given the knowledge base from which they draw, and their actual use of empiricism as a tool is quite thought-provoking. A cat who touches a hot stove burner will never touch a burner again - whether hot or otherwise. Humans fail to teach themselves by the empirical process, and manage to repeat their mistakes ad infinitum.
Ive read on here that some cat families will stop getting along, but I am so happy to hear that wasnt the case with yours. I do think that maybe living in such a large colony probaby helped matters, and they probably learned a lot about social behaviour from each other
