When one has pet cats, or is involved with rescuing cats, there are some interesting, funny, surprising, distressing or puzzling things one observes. Here are some vignettes of experiences I have had with cats under my care.
Infant Kittens Returned to Their Mother
March 24, 2003, 2:00 PM
The kittens are still doing fine. They never wake up meowing to eat though, so I wake them after 6 hours. Once I start rubbing them, the get to wiggling and squirming and start mewling. Maybe that is a safety thing in nature with the very young infants whose eyes [...]
Infant Kittens Make Big Cats Tense
March 24, 2003, 1:00 AM
My big cats are tense. I have the kittens in their little nest box inside a large carrier here next to me by the computer. I’ve been hearing hissing, growling and warning whining noises (those are from Simon). I found a little puddle of blood- can’t [...]
Infant Kittens Found
March 23, 2003 8PM
I now now have three kittens, maybe almost 2 weeks old. A gray one and two white ones. They were found in my neighbor’s shed in a plastic pail, under a plastic drop cloth, while she and my husband were cleaning out her junk. The mother cat is the white [...]
I woke up early this morning to the sounds of tussling (but no yelling or screaming), which was Jolie and Sumner in the Catio (like a window air conditioner but all clear for cats to get real good roomy outdoor views). I took Jolie out, who was closest to the opening, but she growled [...]
November 10, 2002
Simon’s been holding Galen down by the neck at least once a day that I know of lately. He holds on for a while and sometimes doesn’t let go when I call to him. I hear cat mewling noises so go to see what’s up. Galen is the one [...]
Sumner, has taken to making loud calling noises in the evenings and in the middle of the night. Every time I go see what’s up, he’s playing with one of his toys. He didn’t used to “yell at” his toys. I don’t know why he does now. I used to think [...]
Sept. 18, 2002
Last night was a bit stressful. My three males are around two years-old, the age of social maturity for cats and there have been tensions. I heard Simon make his scary, guttural moan from hell “urrrerrrrurrr” noise, the one that sounds unearthly that he uses when an intruder cat comes in the yard [...]
Simon dominating
Galen- not sexual in nature
For the past few weeks, every other day or so, I hear Galen squeak, and find Simon on top of him doing the dominating neck hold thing. Galen does not seem to care much, though, [...]
September 16, 2002
There are some changes going on with the cat’s “hierarchy”. This is to be expected as the males are all around two years-old, the age when cats reach social maturity. Jolie has a urinary tract infection (UTI), so she could be getting stressed from the changes, which then led to the UTI. I even get [...]
April 12, 2002
One of the most endearing things is when my cat Minerva is on the enclosed porch and she sees one of us at the door looking at her, she talks to us with that rapid Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah sound cats usually make when they see birds. She started doing it a year ago. She looks straight at [...]
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