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I had a 5-kitty household! Once again,
a prime number. So, when we took our annual cat show trip, my husband
and I thought that another cat might enter our lives. For years
I had talked about getting a British
Shorthair. I love their big, beautiful round faces and their
plush coat. However, I had never seen any Brits for sale at cat
shows. While the cat show we were attending is one of the biggest
on the East Coast, there was only 1 Brit entered in competition,
and there were no kittens available. My husband and I enjoyed the
show, touring the exhibits and admiring the beautiful cats in competition.
As we walked through the benching area, a little black tortoiseshell
Persian caught my eye. She was sooooo cute! I held her, and knew
that her name was Patches. I handed her back to her breeder, Marilyn
"Sunny" Jacobs of Tambourine
Persians, and said I would have to think about it. As we walked
around the hall, in the back of my mind I could hear this little
voice "It's Patches, mom. Come take me home." I told my
husband that "six is a wonderful number. It's divisible by
1, 2, 3 and 6." And, so, Patches became the most recent addition
to our household.
What a sweet, wonderful kitty she is!
I mentioned that Pumpkie Mew was one of the sweetest kitties I ever
met -- Patches is the other. She loves to cuddle, be held and petted
and purr. Sunny breeds for a sweet disposition, which she re-enforces
by handling, petting and loving her kittens from birth. I would
highly recommend Tambourine
Persians to anyone looking to adopt a sweet, healthy Persian.
From day one Patches slept on my pillows
with me. I had learned my difficult lesson, and isolated Patches
from the rest of the cats in the house. I locked her in my bedroom
and den areas where she had her own food and water dishes and litter
box. When it was time for Patches to meet her new sisters, Panyan
Pou greeted and welcomed her as the newest kitty in the household.
The only problem we encountered with Patches was Boo! She wanted
to play with Patches, but outweighed her by more than 4 pounds and
played much too rough for the new baby. They have become great friends,
to the point where we often refer to Patches as Boo's Shadow.
Kittens frequently have digestive problems,
especially when initially introduced to a new home. It's a new environment
with different smells. Even the water is different. While I always
feed a new kitten the same diet she had been getting with her breeder,
I have yet to adopt a kitty who doesn't develop a runny stool. It
is especially important with Persians to keep the fur around their
little butts trimmed. Still, there are times when the only thing
you can do is wash the smelly little things. We began referring
to Patches as a Mewster of the Pooster variety and Boo's Smelly
Little Shadow. One day, when she was sitting in an open window,
my husband referred to her as a room oderizer. I am pleased to report
that she is long over her case of "the poohs" and smells
much better these days.
Patches is so sweet, and so cute, that
just looking at her makes us laugh. She often sits around with her
tongue sticking out. Sometimes it sticks out a little bit, and sometimes
it sticks out a lot. She cracked us up recently when we took her
in for her rabies shot. As Dr. Giles stuck the thermometer in the
back end, the tongue came out the front end.
As sweet as she is, Patchie is no mental
giant. As noted on Pumpkie's page, the process of giving treats
to kitties is called "numming" in our house. Patchie has
never been able to figure out the numming process. She will lick
the nums, but hasn't been able to figure out how to eat them. The
poor little thing is "too dumb to num"!
So, Patches makes 6. Obviously, I can't
get my "blue Brit" because that would be 7, which is a
prime number. My husband joked that, because of my aversion to prime
numbers, I'm going to have to start buying cats by the twos. He
thought he had made a funny joke, but it just got me to thinking.
Stay tuned!
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