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My cat household grew to 3 when I met
The Pets at a cat show in Leesburg, VA. The Pets and Pumpkin were
purchased from the same breeder, Tia Steiner who owns Teah's
Cattery. While my cats are not show quality, Tia's cats have
won tops CFA awards. One of her cats is featured on CFA's Breed
Profile: Persian - Himalayan Division page. She had the Best
Cat in Championship and she had the 4th
best kitten during the 2001-2002 showing season.
Like many cats, The Pets answers to
several names. The Pets, however, is special because she also
has a purrsonality for each of her aliases.
As The Pets, she's a sweet little kitty
who likes to sit on laps. The Pets is afflicted with what
can only be described as the terminal rub-dubs. The
only thing which can help alleviate the terminal rub-dubs is
lots of petting and lots of scritches. She's a tiny
little kitty, weighing in at 7.1 pounds. Hence, the Micro Mew moniker.
Her favorite game is Mew Chase. Mew Chase is played when a kitty
is chased by a human or another cat. Like most cat games, there
is no object to this game. So far as I have been able to determine,
the only rule in Mew Chase is that you are not supposed to catch
the kitty being chased.
When she was less than a year old, The
Pets developed a limp. Over the course of a few days, the
limp got worse. Her back right leg was sore and tender to
the touch. Her veterinarian, the wonderful Dr. Julie
Giles, was unable to pinpoint the problem immediately. X-rays
did not show anything conclusive. After a course of treatment,
including a full leg cast, no improvement was noted. A veterinary
orthopedic surgeon was subsequently called in. He concluded
that The Pets had a dislocated hip. A pin was surgically implanted
in her hip.
The Pets was in a full leg/hip cast
for a long time. It tore my heart out watching this tiny little
kitty try to move around with her huge heavy cast. When I saw that
she was unable to get into the litter box, I turned my spare bedroom
into a litter box. I covered the floor with plastic, collected about
20 of the low cardboard boxes typically used to hold a case of beer,
and covered it all with kitty litter. I held her, petted her, comforted
her and covered her with kisses. She likes to sleep with me, but
I did not want to put her into my bed as I was afraid she might
try to jump down during the course of the night and hurt herself
even more. I ended up putting my comforter on the floor for her
to sleep on. There were many nights when I slept on the comforter
on the floor with her. During the time The Pets was recovering from
her surgery, I purchased a townhouse. The removal of her cast coincided
with my moving into my new house. Dr. Giles told me to keep her
quiet after the cast removal, and to keep her from going up and
down steps. HA! Cats are escape artists and, as one might expect,
MewMar Catdaffi is a master escape artist. She eluded child gates
and closed doors. Once free, she would stick her leg out perpendicular
to her body and zoom up and down the stairs. Still, her recovery
was complete. We never determined what caused the hip dislocation,
but I suspect that it had something to do with the emergence of
the MewMar Catdaffi personality!
Despite her diminutive size, MewMar
Catdalphi is a known cat terrorist. She is the founder and
leader of the Fuzbalah. MerMar is being sought by Interpol
and the FBI for questioning in connection with catnip smuggling.
Sources have confided that quantities of cream-colored fur have
found at the site of broken vases and numerous unexplained disasters.
According to my husband, MewMar is conducting cold fusion experiments
in our basement. I told him that I found this very interesting,
since our house has no basement. He said "that's what MewMar
wants you to think." MewMar's distinguishing feature is a "pissed-off-at-the-world"
expression. She is known to be armed with sharp claws and
should be considered dangerous. MewMar has a slight limp which
is no way hinders her mobility.
When MewMar goes under cover, she is
known as Little Miss Pets. Miss Pets goes under cover every
night when I go to bed and get under the covers. She is apparently
of the opinion that it's only safe to purr under cover, when no
one can see the source of the purr.
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