Comments on: Friday Cat Blogging

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:15:26 +0000

In reply to oldwhitelady. It was a truce for a few hours, but I'll take what is offered. Oh, I have to resubmit my comment on Rocky Girl. It appeared when I did it, but then is was missing the next time I dropped by. You should save the cat hair and start spinning it into yarn.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:00:21 +0000

In reply to hipparchia. Well, squirrels are an affront to creation, and should be eliminated, along with gophers and moles. As for the hummingbirds, perhaps they are humming off-key? The ferals generally ignore the doves, while rodents of every variety are dispatched without a thought.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:39:05 +0000

The shadows and kitties make such a pretty picture. I’m glad they got along long enough for you to snap the photo:)

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:16:45 +0000

i don’t know at what age curmudgeon cat had been ‘tutored’, but he was quite mellow about all the mice living with us in the walls and kitchen cabinets. squirrels outdoors, otoh… also, he nearly defenestrated himself a number of times trying to take out the hummingbirds and he was hell on the neighborhood rottweilers.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:42:28 +0000

There are always exceptions, but they will never match a feral female, especially around weaning time, for dead rodents.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:56:02 +0000

Well, one of those “tutored” toms was a ferocious mouser and proud presenter-of-random-wildlife, so clearly “tutoring” doesn’t make *all* toms worthless for rodent control. I think I told you the story about the time he proudly presented the live still-wriggling *snake* to my mother, and the general hilarity that happened *after* that which resulted in me washing the laundry for the next month… for some reason she didn’t appreciate the “gift”. 🙂 🙂 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:58:45 +0000

“Tutored” toms will get along, but female cats are heads of household, and they tolerate toms, but don’t seem to ‘bond’ the way they do with females after the hierarchy is sorted out. If you let a tom go too long before seeing the vet, they tend to want to wander and instinctively dislike other toms.

If you catch them early, neutered toms are the mellowest cat you can have. Usually worthless for rodent control. but easy to live with.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:38:38 +0000

That’s odd, because I had littermates (who looked a lot like TMF and Mencken now that I think about it) who were completely into each other. But they were both fixed males (fixed at an early age). They would even share a cat carrier when I needed to take them to the vet, though getting both of them *into* one cat carrier was somewhat… troublesome :). With Mencken and TMF, who aren’t related by anything other than the fact they both escaped the Humane Society gas chamber due to finding a penguin, Mencken pretty much just tolerates TMF at best (actually he just ran TMF off the futon beside me, there is a couple of clumps of black fur decorating the carpet now 🙂 ), and I wouldn’t dare try putting them both into the same cat carrier — the howling, hissing, screeching, and yowling would make the fur flying out of every orifice of the thing almost seem incidental :).

– Badtux the Cat-owned Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:42:32 +0000

Rather like sibling rivalry, but with natural claws…

By: cookiejill

cookiejill — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:41:41 +0000

ahhhh…yes. the litermate grudges. 😉