Looks like when Theo rolls over to show off his belly, he's addicted to belly rubs and is constantly flipping over when I get near him and he suspects pets are coming
Black cats do have some interesting colors and patterns that can appear in strong lighting. My mostly-black boy has stripes that show up in strong direct sunlight
Gotta stay cool! Mine are of course spoiled housecats so they're pampered with air conditioning and have been doing the opposite, sitting in the afternoon sun (when I don't close the curtains)
Mine will take anything fabric or anything vaguely box/basket shaped. So the couch, the basket of throws, baskets of laundry, a random shipping box, a plastic storage box I just surrendered to them (and the fabric that was supposed to be a blanket and is now just their bed)...
@JourneymanGeek I was looking at a post on Reddit from someone who was asking about if they should get a cat and listing off the expenses. Almost every reply was someone telling them "don't waste your money on cat beds, they'll use anything but"
good news, the vet was able to call Saturday and got a prescription ordered for him that I was able to pick up at a nearby pharmacy same-day. So we're into the two-week initial period with it, after which I'll give him a "grace period" again and see how we're doing
Sadly I was supposed to have a "virtual visit" with his vet yesterday to get him on some meds to hopefully help fix things, but she got sick and had to go home so it's pushed out to Saturday :(
I thought he was doing better so I gave him a little "morning grace period" this morning as a test. He immediately lost it by spraying my desk chair when I took him off the desk.
I'm kind of reaching my wits' end with one of these cats. The older boy has been spraying (anxiety) for a while, I've been trying to work him out of it but nothing has helped yet.
My "special" orange cat kept me up very late a couple of nights ago when he decided to help himself to the other cat's "special treats" and downed at least four times the other cat's normal dose of a prescription medication.
Polydactyl, oddly, is a dominant trait! So once you get one you start to get more of them. We introduced a polydactyl female who wasn't fixed, and were a little late doing so, so she had three kittens. Two poly, one male calico
Then of course torties/calicos need one red and one black gene, both on X, so a male calico will be XXY (or chimeric), giving them a very low rate of occurrence
As far as cats go, we did get some of the nice "weird" options. We had a few ginger females, a small run of polydactyl, and my previous cat was a male calico born in our basement
Yeah, we just oddly attracted a bunch all at once. The cats were from a litter dropped off by my aunt to be barn cats (one got sick, came into the house to recover, and refused to leave), and then I think we just specifically went for the dog that had it too
I had a perception that heterochromia was more common than it is at the time, we had the housecat, another outdoor cat, and then the dog, all at the same time
supposedly, if a Dalmatian (maybe dog in general?) has a blue eye, they're blind in that eye, and Dalmatian-specific if they have an all-black ear they're deaf in that ear. Ours had both those things, so the breeder tested both before selling him
True, the breeder did sell for show dogs afaik (I was ~10-11 when we got him), did lots of testing on his breeding dogs, and our dog's litter was the first one off a brand-new sire
Meanwhile our actual-breeder but unpapered Dalmatian was one of the smartest dogs I've known, had his eyesight and hearing tested before we bought him, and even with the arthritis he developed due to being caught in an illegal fox trap overnight still lived a good long life
We actually tried for months to keep that idiot dog alive, he had a pin in his leg and deteriorating issues with his jaw that ultimately reached a point where we had to put him down because he just had no quality of life
That litter had the weirdest "genetic anomaly" I've ever encountered: Every single one of them (including ultimately the parents, and surprisingly it took a couple of times for each of them) died by being hit by a car
Reading the question that got bumped up by a spammer about "adopting a purebred dog" and it reminded me of the backyard breeder lab we had when I was roughly a pre-teen
we did at least have one more orange kitten in the fosters last year who did get adopted out, but we each ended up keeping one of the three total there
Fatty's jaw also shifted, but he's got less range of motion (he also didn't pop his jaw partially open before the vets could do it), the hope is now that it's no longer wired up he'll slowly regain range
The button boys got their buttons removed Monday and have been recovering well. Hamster's jaw shifted and his nose is crooked now but he has a good range of motion (and most important, he's alive)