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Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I picked up Roo's remains today..of course i cried all the way home(ha much like roo used to do when i'd take her to the vet's!)

Thursday i am going to go see some more kitties, and saturday i'm going to a place that has around 50 rescued cats..so we'll see if a cat 'chooses' me there..

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 9:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
(((Nancy))) I am so sorry. A new kitty is just what you need though. My new pup did worlds of good for me and recues are the bestest love you can get!! Some cat is going to be very, very lucky.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think a lot of cats might choose you there! Best wishes, Lost is so right, some lucky cat is going to be the proud owner of one wonderful, caring Nancy.

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
( Or you can copy Babyruth and get two! Or one-up her and get three!!! )

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Still crying over losing little Buffy-kitten on August 31, I took the plunge on Monday this week and visited our county's Animal Shelter. Flash flooding a couple of weeks ago left our county and several surrounding ones (in two states) declared as disaster areas, so the pound is overloaded with the pets of people who lost their homes and, therefore, can't keep their beloved cats and dogs.

I brought home an 8-week old female kitten who looks remarkably like Buffy, a tiny white polydactyl darling that my kids are calling "Mittens" because of the oven-mitt-like appearance of her little front paws. I'm calling her 'Lina, short for Thumbelina. My digital camera is at the cottage, so I can't post a photo yet, but will do so ASAP.

I can't get over how like the kitten we lost little 'Lina is. She has a small patch of pink/grey on top of her head and she sleeps where Buffy did and snuggles on my shoulder just as Buffy did. It still makes me cry to remember losing Buffy, and I'll always love her, but it does make me feel good having a new baby to cuddle and love and raise. She needed a home and my entire family just adores her.

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Speaking of the Animal Shelter, I began to cry when I was filling out the paperwork at the front desk because I overheard the conversation of one of the shelter volunteers as she took info about dead animals found in a flooded home. She also took a call about a rescue that was needed for a neglected dog (which was going to result in prosecution of the neglectful owner), and it was just heart-wrenching to think of how many animals must have perished in the flood waters. There were no human deaths in this latest flooding, thank God, but 14 years ago there were 14 or 15 people drowned in flash flooding in this area.

Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sia, I am so glad that you got another kitten. I know she will never "replace" Buffy, but I also know she will make your heart feel better. I can't wait to see a picture!

Of yours, too, Nancy. I'm with Half. I think you should get 2 or 3!

Ketchuplover
Member

08-30-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
(((Sia))) :-)

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sia how cool, i haven't gotten a kitten(or two) yet but i definitely will soon, it was a yucky day today so i went to a movie and it got too late to go to the shelter i wanted to go to(1 hour away and its only open limited hours on saturdays) so i'm probably wait til i get back from new york(although i'm going to a smaller closer shelter tomorrow just to "look" )

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nancy, if ya wanna windowshop, try petfinder.org

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, you guys, look at the "thumbs" on my kitten 'Lina. It just cracks me up to see her walk. We've gone through a slew of names to try and find something that fits. Any new suggestions are very welcome. Here's the picture:
'Lina

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 12:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I very much like your choice of Thumbelina. I love pink-nosed cats. I've alway had Siamese with their black noses, so the pink ones strike me a so unique and pretty. Pink lips too, I notice. My cats have black lips.

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a better shot of the thumbs:
Thumbs

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The kids were divided on whether or not to name her Buffy for the kitten we lost. I mentioned that her front paws look like she is wearing oven mitts on them, so the kids call her Mittens sometimes. Of course, oven mitts make me think of Julia Child, so "Julia" would be cute.

I've never seen eyes like this kitten's eyes. They're not gold and they're not yellow. They're actually sort of brown. She's such a lovable, affectionate thing. She sleeps with me all night long in my bed and she is all over whenever she finds me sitting still. I just love her!!! (Can you see why?)

Since she's a Polydactyl, I could call her Polly, but I don't especially like that name, as I went to school with a girl by that name and she was very stuck-up and mean to me.

I seem to be calling her 'Lina, short for Thumbelina whenever I don't slip and call her Buffy. She's just a cutie-pie and she's so tiny.


Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sia, is she six toed? Or, her thumbs are just xtra large. LOL!

How about Fluffy, in honor of Buffy?

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good name, Wendo. That would honor Buffy.

She has six toes on each front "hand" and just five toes on each back foot. The extra toe is small and is between the "thumb" and the other four "fingers," which is what makes me think she looks like she has little bitty hands.

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought she was a six toed cat. The scientific name is plolydactyl cat. They are also known as "Hemingway" cats because he had 50 cats with him in Key West and about six were polydactyl. They've continued to breed and the genetic anomoly is common there now.

In fact, there are tons of cats living in the Hemingway house and on the grounds to this day. They are continually bred to keep the "breed" alive and the cat population at about 60. (I visited it several years ago while on vacation in Key West.)

Here's a link:

Hemingway's Home and cats in Key West

Check it out, it's interesting.

You're new kitty is quite unique! :-)

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Wendo. I think she's unique and definitely a keeper. She is the most loving little kitten.

I read about the polydactyl cats and Hemingway's cats a bit a couple days after I brought her home. I found it disturbing, however, that some people have been in-breeding polydactyls in an effort to achieve polydactyl BACK paws and have succeeded in creating deformed "Twisty-Cats" instead of what they were aiming for. The Twisty-cat has foreshortened front arms (because the long bone of the arm is missing) and their little paws--if they have them--are stuck onto the ends of the upper arms. It's like Thalidamide kittens (spelling?) and I don't agree with in-breeding any animals because breeders are looking to produce certain features in the animals. It's just wrong. The twisty-cats have to hop on their back legs like kangaroos, but some pull themselves along with their little short arms.

Cliotheleo
Member

03-13-2002

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 5:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Someone just posed an interesting question to me. All cats have an extra pad about half way up there front legs. Any guesses on what that's for?

I think it's to help them climb trees. (Or climb the back of a couch, whichever applies! LOL!)

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 9:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HUSSY - here is the cat thread! lol

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 10:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I re-counted the baby's toes, and she has a total of 23!!!! All my other cats have only 18 toes total. 'Lina has seven on one front paw, six on the other front one, and five on each of her back paws. My "normal" cats have only four rear toes and five front ones per paw. Any other polydactyl owners out there?


Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 12:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Clio, I think the extra pad does have something to do with climbing and jumping. But don't quote me on it.

Sia, I read those sites about the "twisted cats." Ugh. Just disgusting. That woman should be ashamed.

Never realized, though, that there were so called midget cats and they're considered a breed; they have the small legs.

It definitely sounds like your new baby is polydactyl. I don't know anyone with that type of kitty, unfortunately. First time I had ever heard of them or seen them was in Key West.

More pics! :-)

Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sia: Your new kitten is darling! I've never heard of "Twisty-Cats". Have to echo Wendo here...that just disgusts me. I very much object to treating animals as vanity items and am also opposed to tail & ear docking with dogs. Breed standard, my foot. It's cruel and deliberate maiming and disfigurement.


Happy news...One of my cousins has adopted the little orange tiger kitten & the calico kitten who've been hanging out at my dad's. I'm so glad they'll get to stay together. And there's a woman who does cat rescues who said she will take the male adult cat who's also been hanging out at my dad's.

Cliotheleo
Member

03-13-2002

Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had heard/seen the website about the "twisty" cats years ago ........ had no idea they were still around.

And hope I don't step on anyone's toes here, but the idea of breeding/selling/buying those type of cats just falls in line with how I feel in general about exotic breeds. I just can't justify in my mind spending a large sum of money for a pure bred cat when so many are put down every day simply for lack of space, ESPECIALLY not those twisty cats!. But to each their own I guess

.......... however, if anyone wanted to just GIVE me a Bombay, I certainly wouldn't turn them down. ALways wanted one!

Cliotheleo
Member

03-13-2002

Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and my apologies, I suppose an introduction is in order......

The Ineffable Marshmallo Cream and Graham aka "Effie"

(bonus points if you know where the "Ineffable" part comes from)

and.....

Daniel Quorum Petrushka
..... getting his exercise of course.