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Hi Selina Kyle / Nina / Ninotchka!
How old are you? How did you come to live with RivkahChaya?
Do you think the humans are very funny for discussing whether you exist? I’m sure you have no doubts about it.
Hello,
My human-given name is Nina. I am about 2 & 1/2 years old, the vet says, but my age is actually a bit of a mystery. I have white teeth that look like they are very new, and I was not spayed when the shelter people found me, but I have not had any litters, and I am at least 2, from my teeth also, the vet says.
I was picked up as a stray, and was very skinny, with a few parasites. The vet says if I had ever had a litter, she would guess my age a little older. It is very hard to age a cat over 1 year.
I had to gain a little weight to reach the 5 pounds needed to be spayed, but I sailed through the surgery-- I didn’t even take the pain medicine Rivkah tried to give me-- at that point, I didn’t trust her yet.
I had medication at the shelter to increase my appetite, but once I was home with Rivkah, I had a good appetite, and she gave me a little kitten food to help me gain weight (I miss that stuff!) I now weight 7lbs 9oz, which the vet says is perfect for me. Rivkah says my fur is shiny and beautiful.
The vet wonders if I lived indoors somewhere before, because she isn’t sure how I managed to go so long without being spayed or having a litter. But she also wonders why, if I had a place to live before, I wasn’t spayed. I like it here. I’m allowed on the bed at night, I have a cat tree, my box is always clean, my water is always fresh, and I get canned food for breakfast. And lots of snuggles. So I’m keeping my secrets.
I am bad at posting pix when it isn’t an easy 2 or 3 step process.
There are still some people who are really opposed to spaying/neutering; maybe she was an indoor-only cat living with such humans.
Or, I suppose, there must be an occasional cat who’s sterile. Some reasons for this would have been obvious at the spaying, but not all of them.
If she’s happy indoors, then she’s probably been indoors before; though if she was at the shelter for a while, she might just have gotten used to it there.
In any case, it certainly seems that she’s happy now!