Gisele
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We adopted Alaska from a local shelter in May, she is coming up to 6 years old and came with significant eye problems due to herpes virus being left untreated. Since we've had her she's had to have her eye removed due to the state it was in. She's also partially sighted in the remaining eye, but this doesn't stop her from climbing on doors and killing bugs. Honestly, I think i'd be a little scared if she could fully see!
Alaska has quickly become my best friend, she cries for me when i'm not home and spends most of her time snuggled up to me when I am around. It's a good thing too because she has also been single handedly responsible for the destruction of 90% of my glassware and holding us hostage in our own home.
Alaska does this brilliant trick at food time that she came to us with; if she is crying for food for more than 10 minutes without human cooperation, she smashes things. I've watched her smash drinking glasses, glass bottles, she has thrown a jar of oats across our kitchen like a poltergeist, playstation controllers and the playstation (while i was sat on the toilet helpless!). I have even watched her attempt to murder my mother when she came to stay by throwing a glass candle onto her pillow while she was sleeping. This behaviour means that I lay in bed in the middle of the night weighing up the risks of going to the bathroom and disturbing her sleep! She's a loveable dictator.
All this to say, prior to Alaska we were on a waiting list for a kitten with a brilliant breeder. The kittens were born on the 4th of July and we are due to collect our new child in October. Part of me thinks this may help keep her company and get some of her energy out. The other part of me fears that I will have no home left and all our guests will be drinking out of sippy cups.
Is 4 pets in a one bedroom apartment insane? (We have a catio built and cat trees and shelves for them to get around), We also have two house rabbits, that are very tolerant and unbothered by the cats. (They are locked in the kitchen when we are not here to supervise).
Am I crazy for getting another one?
is anyone else being held hostage in their own homes?
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Alaska has quickly become my best friend, she cries for me when i'm not home and spends most of her time snuggled up to me when I am around. It's a good thing too because she has also been single handedly responsible for the destruction of 90% of my glassware and holding us hostage in our own home.
Alaska does this brilliant trick at food time that she came to us with; if she is crying for food for more than 10 minutes without human cooperation, she smashes things. I've watched her smash drinking glasses, glass bottles, she has thrown a jar of oats across our kitchen like a poltergeist, playstation controllers and the playstation (while i was sat on the toilet helpless!). I have even watched her attempt to murder my mother when she came to stay by throwing a glass candle onto her pillow while she was sleeping. This behaviour means that I lay in bed in the middle of the night weighing up the risks of going to the bathroom and disturbing her sleep! She's a loveable dictator.
All this to say, prior to Alaska we were on a waiting list for a kitten with a brilliant breeder. The kittens were born on the 4th of July and we are due to collect our new child in October. Part of me thinks this may help keep her company and get some of her energy out. The other part of me fears that I will have no home left and all our guests will be drinking out of sippy cups.
Is 4 pets in a one bedroom apartment insane? (We have a catio built and cat trees and shelves for them to get around), We also have two house rabbits, that are very tolerant and unbothered by the cats. (They are locked in the kitchen when we are not here to supervise).
Am I crazy for getting another one?
is anyone else being held hostage in their own homes?
This is the perpetrator in question:
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