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Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Beautiful kitty and yes, very stately. Sitting in the middle of the hallway of course!

Rosie
Member

11-12-2003

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great story GAL. Beautiful cat. Definitely a TVCH cat because he knows how to pose already.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gina, what kind of kitties do you have? Their fur is absolutely luscious. They grow up so fast!!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, so far not so hot LOLOL - lots of really dramatic hissing going on, but PussPuss hasn't attacked Max yet. Really, it's been just damned symphony of bigkitty sounds I'd never heard out of PussPuss before. Max could care less, a rottweiler could be yapping in his face and he'd just stare him down. But PussPuss has his feelings hurt now, I think. Hopefully he'll learn to get along with Max after a bit and he's just sort of shocked right now. .

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maximus is just beautiful, GAL. Hope they are both spayed? If not, sometimes males can get into pissing contests. Uhhhhh ... literally. Well, spraying things to mark their territory.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's a beautiful boy, GAL!!

I've been visiting the cats at Petco almost every time I workout at Curves.. I always take a walk around the area and include Petco on my route and they have a lovely, talkative orange tabby boy names Oscar .. if I lived in your area, I would have long ago lured you over to meet Oscar, but it looks like you found a good one.

Your Max looks quite regal, or perhaps his appearance is even more significant... if you examine your photo, he has posed himself directly under that cross!! This cannot be a simple coincidence?!!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey, we figured he was probably lobbying to be named "Benedict" after the new pope, but neither of us could handle having a cat named Benny so Maximus he is. Juju, they are both neutered but Max just got neutered a few days ago so I'm wondering if there's some residual guy-funk he's got to get out of his system before PussPuss accepts him.

It seems I'm bound to live in a world of hissing and growling (not so strange for a lawyer if you think about it) - PussPuss's eyes are about to bulge out of his head and his tail is the size of a mop right now. He is putting on a virtuoso display of feline temper (I think this could righteously be called a hissy-fit) - he just can't figure out why Max doesn't care and isn't cowering. PussPuss had positioned himself between the food and Max, so Max just walked around him and whizzed in PussPuss's litterbox. You KNOW that didn't go over well. LOLOL!

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hahahaha! Fantastic GAL!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Benedetto, perhaps!! My brother's cat is named Ben and called Benny.. he is a quiet gray cat and my brother named him after Ben Hogan, who was quiet and I guess wore gray.. one might think my brother was a golfer and one would be correct.. he even owns homes in California and Hawaii.. each on a golf course.

He could qualify for the name "Ratzinger" if he catches any rodents for you.. but I wouldn't wish that on such a cute boy.

Oh those puffed up tails.. cats are so amazing!!

Conventional wisdom when adding a second dog or cat is to pay much more attention to the original, so you be giving PussPuss losta lovin;, ya hear??

Froggiegirl621
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02-14-2003

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What a GREAT name for a cat!

He is a looker, GAL, and you and BigC are wonderful!!! My Max says meow


Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL - My kitties are just ordinary humane society kittens.

Maximus (yup!) is a brown short hair tabby with the swirl markings ("zero" on the side as opposed to stripes).

Miss Cutie Boots is also a short hair and a combo of everything. Sorta a tabby with swirl markings, sorta a calico, sorta a tortie, with base colors of deep orange and black and she also has a white blaze, bib, and four white paws. Everything but the kitchen sink on this gal!

They are most likely brother and sister, but I'm not positive since my shelter occasionally combines litters when space is tight. But, they have the same head shape, so I think they are...

Speaking of of the name "Max", I read somewhere that it is in the Top 10 favorite pet names for both cats and dogs. Reading this thread that sure has been proven true for cats! LOL!!!

And, I named my Max after a very sweet black lab I baby sat many years ago.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 2:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, I love Max! He's gorgeous! I would love to see some pics of pusspuss getting P.O'd. LOL

Colossus
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05-24-2004

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Puss Puss
Here's our little stoner, Puss Puss, after his first taste of catnip. He could have used some today but he was too angry about the little one.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He actually is laying in front of the News and Views Popewatch Thread covering his eyes. LOLOL - I was feeling his pain. PS - PussPuss was just flopped in the hallway with the thousand-yard-stare going. I could just hear the music . . . "Try to remember the time in September . . ." He is so mad LOL.

Froggiegirl621
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02-14-2003

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is priceless!!!

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 5:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL He is so cute!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh that is sooo cute!!!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, it will settle down after a while. Don't worry.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, Pamy - you have alot of experience with mixing cats. Do you have any tips for making them a little more comfortable with each other? Colossus is really unhappy that PussPuss is feeling so disenfranchised, and he doesn't really want to try bringing Max down to the shop anymore to see if they might make friends. I think they'll be fine after awhile, but PussPuss is feeling really threatened and ran off a couple of times today (and came stomping back to see if THAT CAT was still in his space). Poor little baby - he just decided on a safe home and a little fluff ball who isn't afraid of him had the nerve to invade. We've both been trying really hard to pay extra attention to PussPuss, but he gets very upset with just even smelling Max on our hands. They both go to the vet tomorrow (oh, joy - fun and games with 40 unhappy claws), so we'll ask for tips there, but I thought you might have some practical advice that we could work on with the two princes. Please? I think Colossus is worried PussPuss might run off and not come back if he has to share his space.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eventually they just get used to each other, we feed them all together. I would give it a week before you start worrying.

Are they around the same age?

Are they both fixed?? that seems to help.

Please don't declaw them.

Good luck, wish I could be more help!!

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, are they both indoor/outdoor?

I'm slightly confused at their living arrangements. Do they both live at the house? Both at the shop? One at each? If they don't spend at least a week together, most likely they won't become 'buddies'.

You'll get hissing and growling, but that should diminish in time. PussPuss is just trying to show who's boss.

The best thing you can do, imo, is put them both in the house and go about your business. They'll work it out.

Or not.


ETA: I was typing while Pamy was posting and I see we agree about the WEEK thing.


Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Pamy - no, we won't declaw them. If they can't learn to get along, Max will stay at the house and PussPuss will stay at the shop (which is where he's always been). But I would really like both to have companions. Both are fixed - PussPuss is just now about a year old - Max is just a baby about 3-4 months. I'll tell Colossus we need to keep trying for at least a week before keeping them separated. PussPuss has just hissed and growled, he hasn't even made a swipe at actually attacking Max so I personally think this is a good sign. PussPuss has had to fight his entire life, so I think just about any unknown quantity is going to get the treatment from him up front, but he was neutered very young so he has very little real male aggression in him (or Max would be toast by now). Knees and eyes crossed for the best!!

ETA Hi, Half!! Max goes back and forth from the house to the shop for now. PussPuss stays at the shop. We were hoping to keep both at the shop (to keep each other company when the shop isn't busy), but we'll have to see. Max will stay at home and PussPuss at the shop if they can't learn to get along.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well don't keep your knees crossed, that would be no fun and won;t help the cats!! LOL

I think it is a good sign he hasn't swatted the other cat...I think the hissing is to let him know who is the boss!! Once that is established they should be fine





Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Half, LOL we also agree about being the boss!

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks guys - I'll be sure to show Colossus your answers tomorrow so he doesn't worry so much. He's very attached to PussPuss (and Max too, even in such a short time) - he just wants to make sure crown prince number one doesn't get his feelings hurt. If you could have seen the look on that poor kitty's face today. He'd put on the snarl when he knew we were looking, but when he thought he was alone he would just look so forlorn and forsaken. Man, do they know how to work it or what?