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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Andi looks like my sister's cat, Baby Kitty.
Our first cat Poncho only lived to be 8. He was a beautiful black & white, very regal. I had him before we got married, and he hated my husband at first, and would torment him whenever possible. He would sit in the window above our headboard at night, and jump down, hitting the mattress right beside hubby's head. He would jump up and swat the light switch to turn the hallway light on in the middle of the night.
Once our first child came along, Poncho made friends with T. He developed epilepsy, and Valium was the only treatment at the time. A dose high enough to prevent seizures made him sluggish so much he wouldn't do anything but sit under a chair. Lower doses and the seizures came back. He started to get crazy mean after a seizure, so we had to let him go.
We love cats, but can't say goodbye again. And I don't miss the hair or litter boxes.
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My first cat in 1981 was a short-hair black one. The person who rescued her said it was a male, but a little while after i got her, she started crooning in the night. Took her to the vet, who confirmed she was female, so I had her spayed. She was an only cat for a few years and hated other people. Would hiss at them. If someone came over, she went into the bathroom and sat on the ledge of the tub between the curtain and the liner. She especially hated any men (she was right, as it turned out). I got another cat. A man who moved in with me later brought in a cat that was his ex-wife's and the two cats co-existed. The black cat (Bates, who I named after my mother's maiden name) died at 8 during a heat wave. I found her when I got home late after a day of work and going to a Mets baseball game. It was traumatic for me. Took the body to the Animal Medical Center on the east side the next morning for cremation. I don't know what caused her to get sick. She didn't eat for a couple of days. Felt guilt for not taking her to a vet sooner. A couple of months later I got two kittens from my hometown in NJ, so I had three cats for quite a while.