Comments on: Friday Cat Blogging

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:24:11 +0000

You can hope for a small litter, Hipparchia. Two months is normal.

Actually she losing a staring match with the Lone Ranger, the queen of the backyard, although there’s twice as much Ringo as LR.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:38:28 +0000

Wow! Ringo has sure grown into a beauty. Those blue gray cats are so cute. She’s just sitting there looking at you. You must be talking to her while taking her photo.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:32:00 +0000

the two that i can’t catch are females, so i’ve had to focus on getting the males taken care of first. there was a brief overlap between one of the girls suddenly developing an interest in the boys, and getting the last of the boys fixed, so i’ll be holding my breath for a few more weeks. not that the population increase would even be noticeable at this point….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:18:21 +0000

I may have to encourage her to get outside and run more. It’s almost like she swallowed a soccer ball, and for a while I feared that the “operation” hadn’t been a success.

I’ll let you know.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:37:57 +0000

mom cat did the same as ringo, put on a lot of weight after her operation too. i’m going to guess that it has less to do with the operation and more to do with having enough fat to feed kittens. none of my other spayed females [or neutered males] — cats, dogs, or horses — has ever gained huge amounts of weight as a result of being fixed. but i’ll be interested to hear what her vet says.

interesting side note: curmudgeon cat ballooned from his former 12-ish pounds [a healthy weight for him] to his present 15-ish pounds shortly after his older ‘brother’ died a few years ago.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:58:24 +0000

Well, that’s true, Hipparchia.

Yeah, Badtux, I think it’s time to check on the weight thing with with her vet. Some of it is the “operation” but there may be something else going on, like she never scaled back eating after she finished nursing. That was three attempts with a flash. I have made dozens of attempts with a flash to no avail. I think they hear the capacitor charging and cringe.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:33:41 +0000

Took *just* three attempts? Makes you better at cat photography than me, then. Takes me at least a dozen tries to get anything out of my guys.

She looks like she’s becoming a chubby kitteh like The Mighty Fang, seems to me ;-).

– Badtux the Cat-owned Penguin

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:15:32 +0000

if you’re not embellishing your stories, you’re telling them wrong.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:54:07 +0000

The hiding places and food are much better in your place than outside, besides Christopher probably embellished his version of the incident. 😉

She has finally matured and is getting matronly. Her eyes are becoming the truer green of the Korat breed. She can’t claim is all fur, because she’s a single-coat cat.

Yes, LK, without the flash, I can finally take a picture of her eyes. It took three attempts, but I got them.

By: Lab Kat

Lab Kat — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:34:27 +0000

One with her eyes open! Grats! lol