Hi Marina! Thanks for asking! Biskit gets overlooked a lot, that's
probably why I never mention her much. Remember she's the "polite"
kitty like Betty was. The other cats don't like her, and I've never
figured out why. But there is never any
real aggression toward her, simply because she *is* is passive. If all
the cats are in the living room with us, Biskit is in the den. If
she's on the cat tree, and any other cat looks up at her, she bolts
and runs, and lets them have it. It's really only when she's the only
cat in the room that her true personality comes out. And she is so
sweet. She cries at my feet to be picked up like a baby, grabs onto my
shoulder, and will ride there on my arm until I get tired and put her
down. Or you can look down at her and say "Bikkie's cuuuute"....and
she'll twirl twice, then stretch her pretty back leg out as far as it
will go, then FALL on her side and roll. Every time.
You can even say "Bikkie's cuuute" from across the room and she does
that.
She is just a joy. She would be the *perfect, perfect* cat for an
older person with
no cats.
The only bad habit Biskit has, was peeing in the bathroom sink. It was
weird, she would hit the drain perfectly, and the only clue I'd ever
have is the odor, that she had been doing that, until I caught her.
Even weirder, lately I've caught her trying to
pee in the toilet in there. I think this is *also* part of the extreme
passiveness. She doesn't want to get caught on the litterbox by
another cat, or she just doesn't want to use it because it smells like
the other cats and she is afraid. And again, nobody terrorizes her
physically. She's just so timid.
We got a handle on the messy coat problem and don't have to shave her
anymore! A newsgroup friend sent me a Furmnator. I've heard a lot of
people who didn't like that tool becuase it tends to cut the hair. But
that's what she needed on hers. She isn't keen on long groomin
sessions, but little bits here and there and I can get the old hair
off. That's what made her mat and look so scraggly. In the spring, her
old coat just didn't shed completely away.
Too long of a post! I don't have any pictures that everybody hasn't
already seen. I've
been very remiss about cat-photogrphy!

Sherry