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Cats and Accidents

I have had many cats get run over by cars throughout the years. Most of the time, it has been young kittens. Kittens will sit on a car’s tires shortly after the vehicle has been driven. The tires on the vehicle are still warm, and the kitten thinks it has a warm area to take a long nap. I have also had cats sleep on the motor of a car.

We had a tenant run over four of our lovely kittens simultaneously. There was a kitten on each one of his tires. My Mother gathered the dead kittens, and my Father gave them a burial service.

An older or sickly cat will also sleep on tires or in the engine compartment of a car. The engine is warm, and they are cold from an illness. When someone starts the car, the unfortunate cat will suffer the consequences.

Several outdoor cats were run over shortly after I had them neutered. They got run over about three months after they were fixed. I never had another outdoor Tom sterilized again after that experience.

I had a Mother cat by the name of Trisha. Trisha was a perfect and intelligent Mother cat. All of the kittens Trisha had in her life never got run over. Before Trisha crossed to the other side of the road, she would look both ways at least three times and then cross over to the other side. Trisha taught all of her kittens her road-crossing skills.

I watched Elite, one of Trisha’s kittens, crossing the road. She used all of the skills of road crossing that her Mother had taught her.

Several generations later, I gave Trisha’s kittens to a friend who lives on a busy highway. I am glad to say they also have learned Great Grandma Trisha’s road-crossing skills.

I hope none of your cats ever get run over by a car.

Tags Kittens, Signs of a Sick Cat

Memorable Kittens in My Life

Post author By Laura Weers
Post date October 5, 2016
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I have had many kittens born on my farm in my lifetime. Particular kittens have stood out more than others because of their character and actions.

I had a tiny black female kitten born on my farm in the early summer. She was bright around cars and avoided them at all costs. She would always walk under your feet, and I feared I would step on her and kill her. She remained tiny for her age. I placed an ad under giveaways in my local newspaper, and a lovely young couple came and adopted her. I called them about a year after they had adopted her to see how she was doing. They said they loved her so much they had adopted another cat to keep her company. I also inquired about her size. They told me she has fully grown and is the size of most female cats. I was thrilled my kitten got a loving and caring home.

Blacknose was a beautiful tortoiseshell kitten. She would follow me around the farm and wait for the school bus to take me to school. In her adult life, she would catch and kill garter snakes.

One of my tortoise shell kittens would sit on my shoulder while I painted the farm buildings. She was a very loving and affectionate kitten. When she was about a year old, she got run over by a pickup truck. I missed her dearly.

Midnight was a black kitten. He liked to follow my Father around the farm when he was feeding our pigs. One day Midnight, he jumped on my Father’s shoulder at five in the morning. My Father jumped, and to his relief, he discovered Midnight had jumped on his shoulder and not some wild animal.

One Himalayan kitten was born on my farm; she was very gentle and kind. All the kittens on my farm are part Siamese, Himalayan, Maine Coon, and domestic short hair.

I have had so many memorable kittens born on my farm throughout the years that there are too many to mention. My kittens have given me great joy in my life. My kittens have pleasured those who have adopted them over the years. I am very thankful for my kittens, who have become wonderful and loving adult cats to share my life with.

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Genetics and Your Cat

Your cat may be born with an excellent genetic makeup by the luck of the draw. Some cats are born with a fantastic ability to cross the road without getting run over. Several generations of kittens will inherit the ability to cross the road without any problems for generations to come. After five to ten years, this remarkable trait will slowly disappear due to a new Tomcat on the scene or too much inbreeding.

Genetic mutations will generally show up as your cat becomes more mature. I have had cats that inherited lung, anemia, breast, eye, ear, and liver cancers. Sometimes it does not matter that you diligently take your cat for his yearly checkups. The best taken-care cat in the world can inherit some genetic mutation that has kept quiet in his body for years until something stimulates it to rear its ugly head.

I had a Maine Coon cat given to me by one of my cousins years ago. She lived to be about ten years old. I had not had a Maine Coon cat born on my farm for almost thirty-five years, and then one of my pregnant female cats gave birth to a male Maine Coon cat. I gave him to one of my cousins for a house cat. She is delighted to have him as one of her pet cats.

Rex cats or hairless cats are a result of a genetic mutation. A farmwife discovered two furless kittens in her barn one day. She decided to keep the skinless kittens, and now we have a new breed of house cats that do not shed any coats in our homes.

We never know when some horrible genetic mutation might pop up and take the life of our beloved house cat or pet.

Tags Kittens, Picking Out A Kitten, Signs of a Sick Cat

Is Your Cat Extra Shy Or Very Outgoing ?

Is Your Cat Extra Shy Or very Outgoing ?

Post author By Laura Weers
Post date September 6, 2016
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Kohl is a very outgoing cat and loves to be around other people. He loves to play with a fish on the end of a stick with anyone visiting my house. He loves to eat string cheese out of a cat snack dispenser. Kohl ensures people are watching him get his string cheese out of the cat snack dispenser.

Garfunkel and Conrad are my cats only. They love to be held and petted by me and me alone. Conrad’s Mother was very shy and very cautious of all human beings. I do not know about Conrad’s father, as he was a feral cat that came to my farm.

Maggie is an amiable, outgoing cat and the opposite of her sister. She loves to be held and petted by people she has gotten to know for some time.

Cali and Russ are very outgoing and can hardly wait for someone to come to the house to hold and pet them. They both purr and purr away while they are being held and petted. Peter is shy beyond shy and likes to hide behind a board most of the day. Addi, the Mother of Peter’s kittens, is semi-shy. Addi’s children, Hilford, Mr. Gray, and Sherlock, do not want to be held or petted. Peter and Nicole are Conrad’s brother and sister. Conrad likes to be held and petted by me only.

I think it is part genetics in the fact that some cats like to be held and make a fuss over where other cats instead be left alone. In most cases, the kittens act as their parents do around people. Some cats can come around and become utterly tame with their human caregiver. Cat snacks and tuna canned in water can change your cat’s personality for the better. Good food and extra love can sometimes make the feral cat extra tame over time and with lots of patience.

Tags cat treats, Introducing a New Cat Into Your Home, Kittens, Picking Out A Kitten

Cats and Games

Your kitten’s first game is playing with its Mother’s tail. Young kittens like to pounce and jump on leaves that have fallen to the ground. Kittens want to throw a dead mouse in the air and carry it in their mouth before they throw it up in the air again. Kittens watch their Mother play games and learn by watching their Mother.

Mother cats will play with a cat toy ball, and their kittens will also chase after the ball and roll it around on the floor. My young cats love to bat a ball in a circle toy. My kittens watch their Mother play with whatever games I bring into the house for them to play with. My young cats perfect their skills in the various games by watching their siblings play the games. Toy mice are always my favorite toy cats who love throwing up in the air and pouncing on them. My young cats also like to carry the toy mice through the house as if to say look what we caught for you today, Mother.

I have a couple of toy birds stuffed with catnip, and they also sing like a live birds when my cats grab onto them. They love playing with the cat toy and singing birds. My cats also love to play with other cat toys stuffed with fresh catnip.

Cats like to play with cat treat dispensers. My cats keep rolling the dispenser around on the floor until a delicious treat comes out for them to eat and enjoy. I have a cat, frisks, and a temptations cat treat dispenser.

My cats also like playing with giant toy bugs, green plastic frogs, and other cat toys. A cat that plays games will be happy and content and psychically fit.

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Blackie

Blackie was a pure black cat born and raised on our farm. Her father was a beautiful chocolate point Himalayan cat. A tenant that we had had on our farm left him at our farm when he moved. He trained our Samoyed dog never to chase cats again. Bandit leaped into our Samoyed dog’s nose as she chased him around our house. Polly, our dog, let out a little scream, and that was the end of her ever bothering another cat again on our farm.

Blackie’s Mother was born and raised on our farm. She was an excellent huntress. She would catch and kill many mice. We had pigs on our farm then, and many mice would hang out under the pig feeders. She kept busy riding our farm of field mice.

Blackie would follow me all over our farm. The minute I left the house in the morning, she was there to outstanding me. She was an excellent lap cat. Blackie would sit on my lap in the summer months on our front porch and purr away contentedly as I patted her on her head. Blackie also loved to be held on my Grandmother’s lap as she wore a large apron that she could snuggle up in and be cozy as a bug in a rug. She loved the homemade Gravy my Grandmother made for my cats when she visited us.

Blackie had many kittens over the years. She had a beautiful black kitten that I named Midnight. I would let Midnight in our house now and then. He loved to sleep in a nice cozy chair that we had in our house. She had many kittens that we adopted out to good and loving homes. Blackie lived to be about eleven years old before she died. She was a very loving and caring cat.

Tags Benefits of Having a Cat, Kittens

Why I Should Deworm My Cat

Post author By Laura Weers
Post date June 3, 2016
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You should always deworm your cat, even if he is an indoor cat. Worm your cat preventatively according to your vet’s instructions.

Your cat can get different worms: tapeworms, roundworms, and hookworms.

Heavy infestations of worms can cause intestinal bleeding and anemia. In a kitten, many parasites in its body can be fatal. Roundworms are more common in kittens than in adult cats. Adult cats are pretty often infested with tapeworms. If a cat is stressed by trauma or disease, she is more likely to get worms. Fleas can cause your cat to get worms.

Your cat can get worms by eating infested mice and infested raw meat. Your cat may develop Toxoplasma. Toxoplasmosis can be spread from the mother cat to her kitten.

Pregnant women should not clean out litter boxes. It is straightforward for them to get toxoplasmosis from the infested bowel movements in the cat litter.

Here are some signs to look for that your cat may have worms. Your cat’s fur will look dull and unkempt. Your cat may start sliding its bottom across your floor. Your cat will become lethargic. You will notice that he is losing weight. Your cat will want to nap more than usual.

Try to worm your cats twice a year or more if you suspect they may have worms. You can buy a liquid dewormer to pour over your cat food if you have a farm cat that is hard to catch. You can also mix some dewormer in tuna with water for a cat that is hard to administer.

Your cat will be much healthier if you always remember to have him dewormed. He will also have a shiny and healthy-looking coat of fur. I hope your cat is feeling well.

Tags Kittens, Litter Box issues, Signs of a Sick Cat, Whats Upsetting My Cat ?

Funny Things My Cats Have Done

Post author By Laura Weers
Post date May 13, 2016
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One of my cats, Blacknose, would catch garter snakes and bring them to the house dead. She managed to do this on a regular schedule. She must have known that I do not care much for snakes.

A cat I had and later gave to my Grandmother hid in her shoe box for almost a full day. My Grandmother was frantic that she could not find her cat. She had searched every nook and cranny in her house for her cat. She called her neighbor up to help her look for her missing cat. Her neighbor saw her cat getting out of a shoe box. She had brought the lid back on when she entered the shoe box.

My Siamese cat Sugar once got into a small jacket I had lying on a chair. When I got home from getting groceries, I noticed her sleeping in my coat with her head sticking out of the same area where my head would stick out if I wore the coat.

When my cat Red was a kitten, he went to our Christmas tree, took a gold-colored bird out, and de-winged it. My older Chocolate Point Siamese cat looked at him like what is your problem? Don’t you know that that is an artificial bird? I think Red was a bit embarrassed later on.

I had an older cat named Trisha who tried to catch a rabbit when she was 16. She was very successful at it in her youth. Trisha ran for about an eighth mile at full speed and was entirely out of breath. That was the only time a rabbit ever outdid her. I was amazed that she would even try to catch a rabbit at age 16. She was an awesome cat and lived to be 18 years old.

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Do Kitten's Remember Their Mother's When They Are Grown Cats ?

Do Kitten’s Remember Their Mother’s When They Are Grown Cats ?

Post author By Laura Weers
Post date May 6, 2016
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My cat Addi gave birth to five kittens one year ago. I found an excellent home for two of her five kittens. The party that adopted two of Addi’s kittens named the kittens Leo and Cleo. I still have three of Addi’s kittens: Sherlock, Mr. Gray, and Hilford. I observed Hilford licking his Mother on the face one day. Mr. Gray came up next to his Mother and rubbed up against her face.

Addi lets her grown-up kittens eat all of her cat’s treats yet. She is a loving Mother to all of her grown-up kittens. She always thinks of her kittens before thinking of her well-being. Addi never touches any cat food until her kittens have eaten all they want of that particular cat food.

My outdoor cat Trisha had one kitten in December when she was fifteen. She stayed with him constantly to keep him warm. I had a little electric heater plugged into the building they were in. I named her kitten Tinker. Tinker was a beautiful creme-colored kitten. Tinker and his Mother always got along well.

I had a calico cat that had a long-haired kitten. When her kitten was fully grown, she did not remember her Mother. The two of them got into a big catfight. My calico cat was always very protective of her kittens throughout the years.

I had a female Himalayan cat at one time. She gave birth to one female kitten. She and her kitten always got along fine. They would lick each other’s hair and rub it against each other.

Mother cats never forget their grown-up kittens, and most of my grown-up kittens always remembered their Mother and thought of the kindness she would always give to them.

Tags Kittens, Picking Out A Kitten

Sebastian's Story

Sebastian’s Story

Sebastian was born and raised on my farm. He would always walk under your feet when you would walk outdoors. Luckily no one ever stepped on him. One day he kept meowing right outside of my back door. I felt sorry for him, and he became my third house cat.

Sebastian was knowledgeable. The first night Sebastian was in my house, I heard quite a racket from my living room. Sebastian had been busy gathering all the missing toy mice and placing them in a neat little row. Sebastian also let me bathe him. He seemed to enjoy his bath, and he made no fuss whatsoever.

Sebastian did not respect my older house cats, to begin with. He liked to wrestle with them, but they did not greatly appreciate it. As Sebastian matured, he acted much better with my other house cats.

Sebastian loved to balance on the window valances, and he would walk across them to the other side. Sebastian was quite the acrobat. As Sebastian matured, he could no longer perform this feat.

Sebastian loved to sleep on my bed at night. It was a three-cat night in the winter instead of a three-dog night. I always would end up with three cats sleeping peacefully in my bed.

Sebastian’s favorite toys were always toy mice. He had quite an assortment of them to play with. He also liked to bat away at a mouse in a circle toy.

Sebastian was about twelve when I discovered lung cancer from an X-Ray that my vet had taken off his chest. I thought he just had asthma. My vet put him on a steroid treatment. The steroids worked for about one year. Sebastian kept losing weight and had more difficulty walking up and down the steps in my house. He was thirteen years old when I had my vet put him to sleep. I never want to see one of my beloved pets suffer.

Tags Introducing a New Cat Into Your Home, Kittens, Signs of a Sick Cat