Ferocious beasts
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brightrosefoxCharlotte came over with her two kittens, to see how Tuesday would react. They're just over two months, but they are so much larger than Tuesday that we're wondering if the vet was wrong when he said she was over three months. She's also malnourished, but that doesn't explain why she's so tiny. We think she's just slightly younger than Shadow's kittens.
Tuesday's personality is really shining through. She's mostly threat and not much action. She growled and hissed at the other kittens, and occasionally swatted at them, but never used claws or teeth. I think she's just saying, "I may be smaller than you, but I'm tough and I can hold my own; don't fuck with me." She growls even when she plays, which was very evident when she and the male kitten actually started playing together, chasing each other around Charlotte's leg and the chair. Tuesday got confused and defensive when both the girl and the boy played with her toys, ate her food and drank her water. But she never attacked. She just growled and made sure they weren't doing anything seriously disruptive. Charlotte and I even dangled the feather-ended plastic rope toy between her and the boy, and they took turns batting at it until he stole it and she got possessive; and then the girl jumped in. That was funny. Tuesday knows the brother and sister are like a single unit, but she still tries to assert her authority even though she knows they could gang up on her. If she had a sibling of her own, she probably wouldn't be so defensive and pissed off.
She's very, very much like a wildcat, a tiger cub; her growls, mews, hisses and purrs are loud and huge for her body and don't sound very kitten-like. She's plainly meowed twice that I know off -- she got shut in the closet and bathroom -- and her cries were less kitten and more tiger cub. She's definitely Main Coon. Still a sweetheart and a loveslut, just incredibly independent and confident and determined to tell the world as such.
I notice that she doesn't like it if I leave the room after being with her for a long period of time. I'll go downstairs and she'll have followed me, and when I stop, she'll pounce my leg and latch on. "No! My human!" and "You're not leaving me, right?"
Adam is getting annoyed because she bites him too often during playtime. But I think she's defined him as the male big-non-furry and some instinct tells her it's okay to play rougher with him than with me. I'm sure she'll grow out of the phase eventually. She's still a baby.
Charlotte has reported that Shadow has gotten restless again; crying as if she's looking for something. We think she wants to see Tuesday; she's convinced Tuesday is either the lost kitten or a good replacement. Apparently, after Adam and I brought Tuesday over there that one time, Shadow jumped on Charlotte's lap and carefully licked her face from forehead to chin and purred, as if to say thank you, please bring it back. And I still remember standing in their kitchen and the little boy coming up to me and looking me straight in the face with this very unusually human expression; and I knew, in that psychic kind of way, that he was thanking me because I made his mother stop crying over his dead brother. That was sweet.
Adam and I will bring Tuesday back over there sometime soon; she's spent enough time with the kittens and Shadow's scent is probably imprinted on her memory. Hopefully she'll let Shadow touch her and maybe more.
Tuesday's personality is really shining through. She's mostly threat and not much action. She growled and hissed at the other kittens, and occasionally swatted at them, but never used claws or teeth. I think she's just saying, "I may be smaller than you, but I'm tough and I can hold my own; don't fuck with me." She growls even when she plays, which was very evident when she and the male kitten actually started playing together, chasing each other around Charlotte's leg and the chair. Tuesday got confused and defensive when both the girl and the boy played with her toys, ate her food and drank her water. But she never attacked. She just growled and made sure they weren't doing anything seriously disruptive. Charlotte and I even dangled the feather-ended plastic rope toy between her and the boy, and they took turns batting at it until he stole it and she got possessive; and then the girl jumped in. That was funny. Tuesday knows the brother and sister are like a single unit, but she still tries to assert her authority even though she knows they could gang up on her. If she had a sibling of her own, she probably wouldn't be so defensive and pissed off.
She's very, very much like a wildcat, a tiger cub; her growls, mews, hisses and purrs are loud and huge for her body and don't sound very kitten-like. She's plainly meowed twice that I know off -- she got shut in the closet and bathroom -- and her cries were less kitten and more tiger cub. She's definitely Main Coon. Still a sweetheart and a loveslut, just incredibly independent and confident and determined to tell the world as such.
I notice that she doesn't like it if I leave the room after being with her for a long period of time. I'll go downstairs and she'll have followed me, and when I stop, she'll pounce my leg and latch on. "No! My human!" and "You're not leaving me, right?"
Adam is getting annoyed because she bites him too often during playtime. But I think she's defined him as the male big-non-furry and some instinct tells her it's okay to play rougher with him than with me. I'm sure she'll grow out of the phase eventually. She's still a baby.
Charlotte has reported that Shadow has gotten restless again; crying as if she's looking for something. We think she wants to see Tuesday; she's convinced Tuesday is either the lost kitten or a good replacement. Apparently, after Adam and I brought Tuesday over there that one time, Shadow jumped on Charlotte's lap and carefully licked her face from forehead to chin and purred, as if to say thank you, please bring it back. And I still remember standing in their kitchen and the little boy coming up to me and looking me straight in the face with this very unusually human expression; and I knew, in that psychic kind of way, that he was thanking me because I made his mother stop crying over his dead brother. That was sweet.
Adam and I will bring Tuesday back over there sometime soon; she's spent enough time with the kittens and Shadow's scent is probably imprinted on her memory. Hopefully she'll let Shadow touch her and maybe more.
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Date: 2004-05-30 10:01 pm (UTC)*shrug*
Not that it's a big deal or anything. Just thought I'd mention it cos I see quite a few main coons at work.
No matter what she is, she's adorable and seems to have a personality that'll shine through her years.
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Date: 2004-05-31 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-31 06:58 pm (UTC)If ya take a picture of her from the side, I could probably tell ya from her markings if she's tabby, coon, or bengal mix.
Her face looks a lil like a bengal/tabby mix from the pictures I've seen. :-)
Bengals are AWESOME...and they make noises similar to a mountain lion/tiger...even tho they look like a lil kitty. And they're fur is softer than satin and velvet combined.
It's hard to tell now, but in a couple of months when she is a lil larger, take a sideview photo and I'll give ya whatever input I can.
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Date: 2004-05-30 10:35 pm (UTC)Of course, it took me six or seven times of looking at your topic and wondering what the relation was before I realized it wasn't "Ferocious breasts". *facepalms and goes to pass out for a while*