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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2007A new nighttime habit
Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a rather sad condition back there, and the TED told me I needed to groom her every night. So we made a new routine - when I go into the bedroom to watch tv in the evening I pick up the brush and call Scouty and she comes RUNNING for her lovings... she's always been a very sweet kitty, even if a big chicken, and she adores being brushed - she's even willing to come into the same room as the daddy monster if it means having meowmie brush her fur! For the first few weeks her fur was very dry and brittle and quite a bit of it broke off when I brushed it, so I was worried that it was a more serious problem than just lack of personal hygeine and we'd have to take her back to the TED... then she managed to get some tomato soup on her back so I wiped her off with a wet cloth, and when she dried off the dry brittle patch of fur was as sleek and glossy as the rest of her - just shorter! > Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she > doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > willing to come into the same room as the daddy monster if it means > having meowmie brush her fur! But isn't she quite a young cat? Why can't she reach her back to groom it? Has she become disabled in some way? This is a difficulty I would only expect in an old cat. Tweed >> Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she >> doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Has she become disabled in some way? >This is a difficulty I would only expect in an old cat. Her neck isn't very long and her muzzle isn't very long and she's HUGELY chunky (remember she's 16 pounds of muscle)... she just plain can't bend that far. She washes herself plenty and keeps her tummy and tail and legs and front part gleaming, but she can't reach the middle of her back (and every time her sissifur washes her, she does her head and then Scouty says 'enough' and it turns into a wrestling match :P ) >>> Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she >>> doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Her neck isn't very long and her muzzle isn't very long and she's > HUGELY chunky (remember she's 16 pounds of muscle)... Ah. Therein lies your problem. She's too chunky to reach her back. she just plain > can't bend that far. She washes herself plenty and keeps her tummy and > tail and legs and front part gleaming, but she can't reach the middle > of her back (and every time her sissifur washes her, she does her head > and then Scouty says 'enough' and it turns into a wrestling match :P ) Can I be frank without you killfiling me? ah, well I will do it anyway. She is too fat. She is not 16lbs of muscle at all. She is 6 lbs of fat. I've decided not to buy into euphemisms any more since just now. Fluffy, big built etc. The word is fat. Overfed for the amount of exercise available. Now I will await the flack, I don't care really. If cats have to be kept inside their food has to be controlled to allow their weight not to spiral. Sorry, Karen. Tweed >>>> Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she >>>> doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >inside their food has to be controlled to allow their weight not to spiral. >Sorry, Karen. Fine... you come over and just TRY to hold her and see just how flabby she is... even John has trouble restraining her because she's hugely strong. If it's six pounds of fat it's evenly distributed over her entire body from her tail tip to her nose. The vet didn't say anything about her needing to lose weight and she only just had her vet check for the year. She doesn't get treats because she won't eat them. She walks away from her dinnerbowl leaving it half full and she doesn't even TRY to steal food from our plates - if you offer a treat Silver and Tessie come RUNNING and Scouty follows behind, but she never eats the treat. She'll sniff it and walk away without even licking it unless it is a little bit of chicken breast. She IS lazy, I'll give you that - she prefers to lie in her box rather than run around. >>>>> Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she >>>>> doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > she is... even John has trouble restraining her because she's hugely > strong. Mmm, I don't like messages to start "fine.." it means it's not fine. I don't think I mentioned the word flabby at all. The point I am trying to make (not very well, it seems) is that 16lbs seems to be very heavy for a domestic shorthair. Domestic cats are pretty much the same all over the world and the only time I knew of them getting to this sort of weight is when they eat too much against the exercise available to them. I understand that it very difficult for most Americans to let their cats out like most of us in the UK are able to. It keeps our cats trim and they burn off the calories they eat. Were they not able to go outside their food would have to be reduced so their weight didn't increase. I am digging an even bigger hole for myself here, so that's enuff said. Sometimes I should just shut up.. but then again.. Tweed > Can I be frank without you killfiling me? ah, well I will do it > anyway. She is too fat. She is not 16lbs of muscle at all. She is 6 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Tweed The euphemisms are for our enjoyment; we all know what "fluffy" means. I know Persia is fat. She weighs 16 pounds and as an old commercial for used to say, I can pinch more than an inch. But she only gets 1/2 cup (120 ml) of her r/x kibble a day and absolutely NO treats. I suppose I could try cutting back to 1/3 cup (80 ml) but my goodness, that just doesn't sound like very much food per day to me. The difference, however, is Persia is at least 8 years old, not a senior cat but well past the kitten stage. I try to encourage her to play; she loves the laser pointer. But she loses interest after just a few minutes. She's very sedentary. Jill > Since Scouty apparantly can't reach her own back to wash it (and she > doesn't like to let the other cats do it for her) her fur was in a [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > dried off the dry brittle patch of fur was as sleek and glossy as the > rest of her - just shorter! Even Molly, tiny contortionist that she is, has a spot about the size of a dime on the back of her neck she misses. Jo
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