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My three marvellous moggies and Mini's new collarJun 01 '01 (Updated Jun 03 '01) Write an essay on this topic.
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I have three wonderful but daft cats. The oldest cats are called Max, who is a beautiful black and white cat and Tatum who is a grey and black tabby with the most gorgeous markings you will ever see. They have been part of our family for just over two years now. They are not brother and sister but have been raised together like they are. We took them in when their original owners moved to a small one bedroomed flat and did not have the room for them anymore. Prior to this they had been rescued from an uncaring environment. They were both very timid, under-nourished and would not let us anywhere near them for quite some time. This led us to believe that they had also been mistreated at the home we had taken them from. We nurtured, fed and cared for them as much as any cat lovers would and eventually they began to trust us more and more. I have been around cats since before I can remember and would never dream of hurting them. Having this knowledge of owning cats made me all the more determined to love them as much as possible. Max and Tatum are now very loving cats but more importantly they have not been too disturbed by their sad past. I believe that they still have some memory of their bad treatment because they occasionally flinch and move away of you make a sudden movement but other than that they are brilliant, oh, and did I forget to mention totally mad! They play around in what we call their mad half-hour every day, fighting and growling and hissing at each other. It’s not as bad as it sounds because as soon as their playtime is over they will cuddle up together on their cosy cat couch, clean each other’s faces and then go to sleep very contentedly. When our son was born last June we were very worried at how they would react as they were used to our undivided attention. Max is by far the most laid back of the two cats and our new little bundle of joy (I use the term little very lightly since Matthew was in fact 8 pounds 10 ounces when he was born) proved not to bother him at all. Tatum, however, was a completely different kettle of fish. She was the most traumatised by the abuse she received and it took us much longer to accustom her to Matthew. She never did anything to hurt him but was very jealous of all the attention he received and must have felt like she was being replaced. However, this did not stop her from being Matthew’s guardian angel. She would be the one who would either sit behind or in front of his bouncer chair as if she was protecting him. This just made us love her all the more and I never for one moment worried about either of our beautiful cats climbing into the Moses basket with Matthew and suffocating him or any other baby/pet horror stories you may hear. We decided to extend our family in February when we took in one more cat, this time a lovely tortoiseshell female from a local pet shop. We named her Sydney and she is by far the most troublesome and playful one of them all. To our great surprise Max took to her straight away as we had been anticipating problems. Tatum wasn’t so easy, at first she would not go anywhere near Sydney but that didn’t last long because she got jealous of how well she got on with Max and didn’t want to be left out. So they all live happily together, even though Syd torments the hell out of the two adults. Sydney is a complete nutter and is probably more in keeping with the silly pets theme of the write-off this opinion has been penned for. We have vinyl blown wallpaper which is great for cats claws to sink into and she loves nothing more than to literally dive up the wall and cling on right up at the top. This is not something we encourage and there has been many a time that my husband has had to pluck her from the ceiling (I am so small that there is no way I would reach) and give her a tap for being naughty. This by no means deters her from doing it again and again, much to my amusement and my husband’s annoyance. Sydney has certainly breathed an extra bit of life into this family and has worked very effectively in bringing Tatum that little bit further out of her shell. She probably plays with Sydney much more than max does now because he is so laid back that Sydney can jump on him in an attempt to torment and he will simply extend a paw, bat her away and then go back to sleep. My son loves her and she loves him back, so much so that we have decided, even though he cannot look after her himself yet, that Sydney is Matthew first pet. She loves him so much that she once sneaked into his nursery without us seeing her; we found her a few hours later curled up fast asleep behind his legs in the cot bed. We know the dangers, especially since she is just a kitten, but they looked so sweet lay there asleep together that we felt awful because we had to move her. They all have affectionate nicknames (well, Tatum has several actually). Max is Maxey-mog, Tatum was overweight once, I think we fattened her up a bit too much after she first came to live with us and had to go on a diet. She is affectionately known as Tatey fat, meaty moggy or fatty cat because of it (if cats could get complex’s, she would have been a prime candidate, LOL) and our little Sydney is known mainly as Mini-mog because she is the smallest of them all. Sydney recently came due for her injections and we took all three cats at the same time as Max and Tatum were also due for their boosters. Once the injections had been done we decided to look at collars. Max and Tatum's were getting worn out and we needed a first collar for Sydney. I have always preferred collars that are elasticated and have a buckle. This way the cats are not at risk of being strangled if they get caught on a tree as they can just slide out of it because of the elastic, but the buckle also means that they cannot get the collar off under normal circumstances. Tatum is the worst for this because she chews the end of the collar as if she is trying to work her way through it and get it off. Sydney, however, didn't quite know what to make of having a collar on and spent a few hours afterwards playing with the end of the collar as it was quite long even after being fed through the ring. Watching this was very funny because she was leaping around as if the collar was a toy mouse to catch. Luckily enough though, she is very much accustomed to wearing the collar and no longer fights with the end. Buying a collar is not difficult and each cat owner will have different ideas about the right one for their pet. However, you do not have to spend a fortune on a collar, there are some fancy and extremely expensive collars out there that are largely useless. The collars we recently purchased were the cheapest yet the most practical because they had the two features we consider most important for a cat. Which, as mentioned previously, are elasticity and a fastening buckle. We have yet to purchase new identity discs for our moggies and have decided to wait until Sydney has receive her second round of injections next week before getting them. Besides, we are still trying to figure out how we will fit all of their names into that tiny space, LOL; +) We won’t be getting anymore cats after Sydney because we have enough on our plate with the three cats and Matthew but one thing I will say, however, is this, I have had cats in my life for so long that I wouldn’t know what to do if I didn’t have a cat walking around my legs when they know food is coming or snuggling up on my lap when I settled down to watch TV. Although I love dogs too my moggies will always be my favourite pets. This write-off is in honour of "bluehawq's" first. She has decided to call it "My Silly Pet". Though we may not all have silly pets, we may know someone who does. Below is a list of participants, please be sure to check all these fine people out. And always remember to spay or neuter your pet! bluehawq | surferdude7 | nikjdog | catladyfromnpt AngelaBar | CJsMommy | jro26 | Whitty viper1963 | KittyOKC | Third_Man | thom413 debbie26 | Cartman_2K | GinaHill | AinsleyJo marytara | susiewho | caleo | fostrmom2mny disartain | djsplendid | mom2girlz | sarahlynn nwinston | frazzledspice | pmills1210 | Ali78 ggrimes1221 | HazelWebster | char.mike altaloma | jo.com | Presleysmama nanct | micheich | sherrywilliam bpotter1 | Sephiroth2000 | Macresarf1 PalmerLD | Patch3boys | manky | sherrylee  |
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