Our fuzzballs

**Todash** · December 6th, 2012

So my niece atomicinchworm posted a pic of her very poorly behaved cats in another thread, and I started thinking (I know right?) that we should share pics of our fuzzballs. Or they don't have to be fuzzy, actually. Here are ours.

The little black guy is Ozzy. My husband's sister found him as a tiny flea-bitten kitten at the side of the road, too young to be weaned, trying to eat gravel. She and my MIL nursed him back to health, and then she basically abandoned him at our house, so we've had him since he was about five months old. He's our smallest, about six pounds. Ozzy is kind of a turd but very, very sweet and cuddly. It's hard to get a good picture of him because he's completely black--fur, whiskers, pads, gums, nose--and usually in motion. The second one is Whitey. He is Ozzy's son, believe it or not. He's my favorite. At 16 pounds, he's our biggest, but he's not as bad as he looks. He's big-boned! I swear he's never eaten any of the others. The third one is Whitey's sister, Little Miss. She is sweet but a little neurotic and drama queen-y and the only one with any potential whatsoever to actually, if it came right down to it, catch a mouse. And in the last pic, Skittles, our tall tabby, is looking kind of stoned while Ace sleeps in the background. This was taken last year, a few months before we had Ace euthanized. He was grumpy his whole life, but he thoroughly enjoyed all 18 crabby years, except perhaps the last few days, when he couldn't walk anymore.

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Okay, that's my kitties. Just consider yourselves fortunate that we don't have any fish right now.

**Moderator** · December 7th, 2012

Awwww....almost makes me want to adopt another cat. I don't think Thumper would appreciate the patter of little paws in his space (it's all his space

), though. Even though my dog, Cindy, was there first, he only puts up with her living there because he knows he has no choice. No pics I can share on this computer.

**Todash** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by Moderator

Awwww....almost makes me want to adopt another cat. I don't think Thumper would appreciate the patter of little paws in his space (it's all his space

), though. Even though my dog, Cindy, was there first, he only puts up with her living there because he knows he has no choice. No pics I can share on this computer.

Ace was our first cat as a newly married couple. We took him because my husband's uncle had just discovered he was allergic, so they decided to cut down (but not eliminate

) the number of cats they had. Originally they had rescued him as a kitten from a recreation area (I believe he was actually ON a rock in the lake), but he was five when we got him. After a while we realized he couldn't tolerate being alone--if he thought no one else was in the house he would sit in the middle of the biggest room and yowl/cry pathetically, and also he was over-grooming himself--so the next few cats we got were really for him, not for us. That's right: we got our pet his own pets.

After that it just sorta snowballed.

**heismyking** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by Todash

Ace was our first cat as a newly married couple. We took him because my husband's uncle had just discovered he was allergic, so they decided to cut down (but not eliminate

) the number of cats they had. Originally they had rescued him as a kitten from a recreation area (I believe he was actually ON a rock in the lake), but he was five when we got him. After a while we realized he couldn't tolerate being alone--if he thought no one else was in the house he would sit in the middle of the biggest room and yowl/cry pathetically, and also he was over-grooming himself--so the next few cats we got were really for him, not for us. That's right: we got our pet his own pets.

After that it just sorta snowballed.

You are not the only one that got a pet for your pet. The one that came home from the shelter where my daughter works, is now pals with our Mr Snuggles and I am not sure is she thinks the guinea pig is food or a poor kitty(?) trapped in one of the cages like at the shelter.

**mjs9153** · December 7th, 2012

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Ozzy is kind of a turd but very, very sweet and cuddly

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Haha that had me chucklin Todash..very nice furry critters!

**blunthead** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by Todash

...we don't have any fish right now.

I wonder why...

**gniknehpets** · December 7th, 2012

Beautiful cats! Don't worry Todash, no one here thinks it's weird that you got your pet his own pet. I think most of us understand perfectly!

**Todash** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by gniknehpets

Beautiful cats! Don't worry Todash, no one here thinks it's weird that you got your pet his own pet. I think most of us understand perfectly!

Thanks! Speaking of beautiful cats, I would like to give a brief little shout-out to the Petsmart cat food, Authority. I have watched food after food change their ingredients to crap ("corn meal, chicken byproducts, metal shavings we swept up off the floor"), but Authority continues to have chicken as their first ingredient. And the cost is reasonable, especially if you buy the bigger bags. (I buy a 20 lb. bag about once a month or so and typically pay just a little over a dollar a pound.) It's a great, economical choice. And a healthy cat is a beautiful cat.

So ... I need to see some fuzzy pictures, people.

**blunthead** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by Todash

Thanks! Speaking of beautiful cats, I would like to give a brief little shout-out to the Petsmart cat food, Authority. I have watched food after food change their ingredients to crap ("corn meal, chicken byproducts, metal shavings we swept up off the floor"), but Authority continues to have chicken as their first ingredient. And the cost is reasonable, especially if you buy the bigger bags. (I buy a 20 lb. bag about once a month or so and typically pay just a little over a dollar a pound.) It's a great, economical choice. And a healthy cat is a beautiful cat.

So ... I need to see some fuzzy pictures, people.

That's good to know, Todash, thankee!

**Neesy** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by Todash

Thanks! Speaking of beautiful cats, I would like to give a brief little shout-out to the Petsmart cat food, Authority. I have watched food after food change their ingredients to crap ("corn meal, chicken byproducts, metal shavings we swept up off the floor"), but Authority continues to have chicken as their first ingredient. And the cost is reasonable, especially if you buy the bigger bags. (I buy a 20 lb. bag about once a month or so and typically pay just a little over a dollar a pound.) It's a great, economical choice. And a healthy cat is a beautiful cat.

So ... I need to see some fuzzy pictures, people.

Thanks for the tip on the cat food. My older cat barfs occasionally and it seems like he usually does it on the rug so maybe the food you mention will help eliminate that problem. I will try to post pics of my two Siamese but sometimes it comes up as saying the pictures are too big and I am unsure how to resize them smaller. I think the biggest allowed here is 1042 x 1042. Can you help with that (since you are very computer savvy)?