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Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Saturday, September 01, 2007 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Here is Phoenix being my monitor lizard I mean monitor kitty. One of her fave spots to sleep!!!!!!!!! I love this pic. My friend Kellie took it when she came for a visit last week!!!!!!!!!!



Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, September 01, 2007 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
LOL.. I bet Phoenix would be heartbroken if you were to get a nice flat panel monitor..

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Saturday, September 01, 2007 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Yup definitely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Saturday, September 01, 2007 - 10:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Hey Rablake's cat Gino and Phoenix have very similar markings.....Phoenix is part Tabby and part Siamese.....

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Sorry, I don't remember which one of you it was, but I was just wondering how the kitty who had the swelling in its ears is doing?

Lalagoboomboom
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08-30-2006

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 11:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lalagoboomboom a private message Print Post    
Here is a recent photograph of my Teddy. He's wearing the dog's shirt that says "Good Dog" on it. As you can see, Teddy is very petite.

TeddyCheddy

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 5:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Pom? Also sort of looks like a mini Schipperke.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, September 17, 2007 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
LOL looks like Critter, but she refuses to wear glasses..

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Go to stuffonmycat.com. Dopey has a twin. I tried to post the pix, but it was too large.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Nala63
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09-20-2005

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nala63 a private message Print Post    
im telling u mom, play this card!<br>ur turn<?br>

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
These are my adorable babies...




Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
OK so contrary to my prior thinking, my cats aren't fat. *L*

They are adorable.

Is that your kitty Nala? Looks like my Zippy.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 6:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
So cute, Beckie, makes me want to grab a hand-full of their tummys and feel the 'jello'. Love fat kitty tum-tums.

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
Yeah...she hates when I do that too...she always lays down on my hand so I stop LOL

Karen
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09-07-2004

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
I love stuffonmycat.com. I'm always trying to put stuff on my cats but it never stays long enough to get a picture.

Cute babies, Beckie!

I have a question about moving long-distance with my kitties. It looks like I'll be moving about four hours away, and DH will be following about a month behind me. We have two cats, who *tolerate* each other. One is very much MY cat, the other is very much HIS cat (both in the way we love them, and also in the way they love us).

The options are:

1. I leave both cats here and DH brings them both when he comes a month after me.

2. I take both cats with me and leave DH kittyless for a month.

3. I take Sofie when I go, and he brings Holly with him when he comes.

I'm worried that if we separate the girls for a month, six weeks, that we'll have issues when we try to reunite them, because they already barely tolerate each other. But I also worry about the separation anxiety of the girls only having one of us... Sofie would be SO mad at me if I left her with Daddy for six weeks...

Has anyone ever been in a similar situation? I guess I'm really just thinking out loud here, seems every option I think of is a catch-22.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
If they already have problems with each other, I wouldn't separate them. Who knows they might come to like each other better if there's only one parent around.

As far as who should keep the kitties. Who would be the most upset do you think? Sophie or Holly? Also which one gets along better with the opposite parent? And which parent tolerates the opposite kitty better?

When my husband got his job in Kentucky he had to move but I kept the house in Iowa for 2 1/2 months. Eddie is totally in love with hubby. I kept Eddie with me for 8 weeks. And he was home alone alot of the time because I was at my folks house taking care of my mom and brother. He had spent extra time with my hubby as hubby was unemployed. I could tell he missed hubby but I don't think there was any separation anxiety. Just show love to both kitties and try not to favor one of the other. It's 6 - 8 weeks at the most. They kitties should be fine. But I would keep them together.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Another thought. I think it is important to keep the kitties together because if you take one to the new house and not the other, that kitty will consider it her turf and the other kitty will be the intruder.
If they both go to the new house at the same time they will be equals.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Another thought. If you must separate them, switch cats. He keeps "yours" and you keep "his".

Karen
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09-07-2004

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Wow, Serate, I never even thought of the turf wars that could ensue. That's an excellent point. I was only thinking maybe they'd regard each other as 'new kitties', not 'long lost sister friend', LOL.

He does better with my cat than I do with his. Holly doesnt' like me often. But Sofie goes absolutely mad when I'm not around. If I go home to my Mum's for two days, I'm told Sofie spends most of her time at the front door, meowing, looking back at Don, meowing, back to the door. Where's Mommy??

I dunno... I think it'll suck either way, but only for a couple of weeks. Suck it up and deal. :-)

Karen
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09-07-2004

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
I should add, it's not like we absolutely cannot deal with each other's cats. It's not a clearcut MINE vs. HIS. They are both technically 'our' kitties. But you know how persnippity cats can be.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 11:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I knew you liked each others cats. We had - before the puppy - his cat and my cat basically. I tried to back away from Zippy some so he could bond with hubby. [Eddie blamed me for over 2 years for HUBBY bringing Zippy home, even tho Eddie and Zippy are best of friends and have been from day 1. The puppy has Eddie acting like his old self with me.] And me being home with Jack [puppy] all day, I'm trying to back away a little at night to give hubby and Jack one on one time. He'll sit with his nose to the floor if I go downstairs and not even pay attention to hubby. So Wed I went down and stayed downstairs doing laundry and messing around on the computer until he went and laid at hubby's feet. He LOVES my hubby, but he wants ME all the time. So I'm trying to curve his needs to include daddy too.

After reading more, I think you should take both kitties with you. First it seems Sofie has more anxiety. Second, it's new turf, and maybe Sofie and Holly will bond more because they are familiar and their surroundings will be new.

Whatever you decide to do, good luck and best wishes in your move.

Beckie03
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07-05-2007

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beckie03 a private message Print Post    
My boyfriend moved out about two months and I kept the cat, Karen. He doesn't come over much but when she does...she knows who he is...but isn't a lovely dovey as she used to be...unless he spends the night and he around for a lot then she starts to really warm up again.

I would keep them together...whether you or the hubby keep them is up to you, but I would defintely keep them together....

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I must confess whenever hubby travels alone or I travel alone the one at home puts the phone on speaker and we talk to the babies. Hubby did this EVERY night when Eddie was with me for so long w/o seeing him. Eddie would just purrrr and rub against the phone.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, September 21, 2007 - 10:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Don't really know. I would have said each take your cat, since they are more bonded to you than to each other. I think they will recognize the other when they are reunited, may hiss a bit, but will settle down when life returns to normal. Ignore the hissing. Or give it a firm NO. Once they learn that the bad behavior (if any) will not be tolerated, much less catered to, they will settle down.