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Mimi wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:06pm
revbob wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:02pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 2:09pm
revbob wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 1:59pm


You had them removed?
Ha! Whoops, poor choice of words. No, I meant that they don't claw or bite us (well, gnawing happens sometimes when we play with them, but it's never a proper a bite). All three are fundamentally really good natured.
You wouldn't last a minute with my sister's cat. That fucker will claw and bite you for fun. if it was a person it would probably be a mass murderer.
I've known people with aggressive cats. They're better people than me for living with that kind sudden violence.
I'm grateful that my cats are absolute love bugs. Licorice can be temperamental, but she only gives warning nips and that happens so rarely. Even Kitty, as feral as she was, never bit or scratched. Although she did biff me a good one for no reason while I was doing yoga one day. It was really quite funny. I'm not sure I could keep an aggressive cat. Cats claws are like razors and that shit hurts.
The worst we get is that when the girls decide they want to be put down, they insist on leaping off you with claws extended. Luke is the only one who knows to keep the claws sheathed.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:57pm
Mimi wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:06pm
revbob wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:02pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 2:09pm


Ha! Whoops, poor choice of words. No, I meant that they don't claw or bite us (well, gnawing happens sometimes when we play with them, but it's never a proper a bite). All three are fundamentally really good natured.
You wouldn't last a minute with my sister's cat. That fucker will claw and bite you for fun. if it was a person it would probably be a mass murderer.
I've known people with aggressive cats. They're better people than me for living with that kind sudden violence.
I'm grateful that my cats are absolute love bugs. Licorice can be temperamental, but she only gives warning nips and that happens so rarely. Even Kitty, as feral as she was, never bit or scratched. Although she did biff me a good one for no reason while I was doing yoga one day. It was really quite funny. I'm not sure I could keep an aggressive cat. Cats claws are like razors and that shit hurts.
The worst we get is that when the girls decide they want to be put down, they insist on leaping off you with claws extended. Luke is the only one who knows to keep the claws sheathed.
Butters does that. He doesn't like to be picked up for longer than a minute. Luke sounds like a winner.

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Mimi wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 4:01pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:57pm
Mimi wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:06pm
revbob wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:02pm


You wouldn't last a minute with my sister's cat. That fucker will claw and bite you for fun. if it was a person it would probably be a mass murderer.
I've known people with aggressive cats. They're better people than me for living with that kind sudden violence.
I'm grateful that my cats are absolute love bugs. Licorice can be temperamental, but she only gives warning nips and that happens so rarely. Even Kitty, as feral as she was, never bit or scratched. Although she did biff me a good one for no reason while I was doing yoga one day. It was really quite funny. I'm not sure I could keep an aggressive cat. Cats claws are like razors and that shit hurts.
The worst we get is that when the girls decide they want to be put down, they insist on leaping off you with claws extended. Luke is the only one who knows to keep the claws sheathed.
Butters does that. He doesn't like to be picked up for longer than a minute. Luke sounds like a winner.
Apart from chasing/hassling his sisters, Luke is pretty much perfect. He's just really good at being a cat. Playing, sleeping, talking (he really has a lovely voice), and cuddling, he's just effortlessly good at it. He hops up on your lap and has a snooze. Zoë needs to fuss and wander around and knead and basically ruin it. If you shift in your seat, she's gone. I love the girls, but it's impossible to deny that he's just better at everything than them.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:57pm
Mimi wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:06pm
revbob wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 3:02pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
03 Dec 2022, 2:09pm


Ha! Whoops, poor choice of words. No, I meant that they don't claw or bite us (well, gnawing happens sometimes when we play with them, but it's never a proper a bite). All three are fundamentally really good natured.
You wouldn't last a minute with my sister's cat. That fucker will claw and bite you for fun. if it was a person it would probably be a mass murderer.
I've known people with aggressive cats. They're better people than me for living with that kind sudden violence.
I'm grateful that my cats are absolute love bugs. Licorice can be temperamental, but she only gives warning nips and that happens so rarely. Even Kitty, as feral as she was, never bit or scratched. Although she did biff me a good one for no reason while I was doing yoga one day. It was really quite funny. I'm not sure I could keep an aggressive cat. Cats claws are like razors and that shit hurts.
The worst we get is that when the girls decide they want to be put down, they insist on leaping off you with claws extended. Luke is the only one who knows to keep the claws sheathed.
Yep, that's ours to a T, once they want down, they engage 4 paw drive and start trying to gain traction on us to get away.
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Just dropped off Licorice for dental surgery. With one functioning kidney (hers, mine are fine), I'm a mess with worry. Butters is kind of lost with his sister around.

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Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 9:23am
Just dropped off Licorice for dental surgery. With one functioning kidney (hers, mine are fine), I'm a mess with worry. Butters is kind of lost with his sister around.
Poor kitties and poor you—time spent at the vet is rough on everyone. L will be home soon and everyone's normal will be happy again.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 9:36am
Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 9:23am
Just dropped off Licorice for dental surgery. With one functioning kidney (hers, mine are fine), I'm a mess with worry. Butters is kind of lost with his sister around.
Poor kitties and poor you—time spent at the vet is rough on everyone. L will be home soon and everyone's normal will be happy again.
I take back what I said about Butters. He's downstairs batting his toys around and getting a case of the zoomies.

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Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 9:23am
Just dropped off Licorice for dental surgery. With one functioning kidney (hers, mine are fine), I'm a mess with worry. Butters is kind of lost with his sister around.
I hope everything goes well for Licorice at the vet today, keep us posted.
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Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 9:23am
Just dropped off Licorice for dental surgery. With one functioning kidney (hers, mine are fine), I'm a mess with worry. Butters is kind of lost with his sister around.
Fingers crossed for a successful surgery and recovery!
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She's out and in recovery. Five teeth gone, two fell out on their own. :scared: Now comes the fun part. *cough*

Lic thanks you for the well wishes. :kiss:

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Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:30pm
She's out and in recovery. Five teeth gone, two fell out on their own. :scared: Now comes the fun part. *cough*

Lic thanks you for the well wishes. :kiss:
Poor little girl. So she's a wet food kitty now?
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Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:30pm
She's out and in recovery. Five teeth gone, two fell out on their own. :scared: Now comes the fun part. *cough*

Lic thanks you for the well wishes. :kiss:
Wow, that was quite a bit of dental work, I hope her recovery goes well and Butters is nice to her when she returns home. Ours get weird (hissing & whatnot) with each other after one of them goes to the vet, kind of frustrating.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:35pm
Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:30pm
She's out and in recovery. Five teeth gone, two fell out on their own. :scared: Now comes the fun part. *cough*

Lic thanks you for the well wishes. :kiss:
Poor little girl. So she's a wet food kitty now?
She has been since 2018 because of her kidneys, but yeah, she won't be chewing on anything soon.

I can't imagine what kind of pain she might have been in. If she was in pain, she certainly didn't act like it. Cats are so good at masking. :disshame:

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Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:38pm
Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:30pm
She's out and in recovery. Five teeth gone, two fell out on their own. :scared: Now comes the fun part. *cough*

Lic thanks you for the well wishes. :kiss:
Wow, that was quite a bit of dental work, I hope her recovery goes well and Butters is nice to her when she returns home. Ours get weird (hissing & whatnot) with each other after one of them goes to the vet, kind of frustrating.
Butters is a cool customer: he doesn't hiss at her. He'll just want to smell her. Thank goodness.

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Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:39pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:35pm
Mimi wrote:
05 Dec 2022, 1:30pm
She's out and in recovery. Five teeth gone, two fell out on their own. :scared: Now comes the fun part. *cough*

Lic thanks you for the well wishes. :kiss:
Poor little girl. So she's a wet food kitty now?
She has been since 2018 because of her kidneys, but yeah, she won't be chewing on anything soon.

I can't imagine what kind of pain she might have been in. If she was in pain, she certainly didn't act like it. Cats are so good at masking. :disshame:
They do tend to have a high threshold of pain, but, yeah, they're really good at hiding things.
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