We lost our oldest cat, Snowball, in December. And we vowed that we wouldn’t get another cat. Three was more than enough. Well, that lasted until someone in my office threatened to take her cat to the pound because of allergies.
Meet Lucy. (She’s the cat - Just ignore the family pics.) Her expression in this photo clearly says, “You’re going to give me away now, aren’t you?” We are her third family in 3 years, poor thing. She’s a very sweet cat but she’s a biter. We think she may be deaf in one ear, so when she’s startled on one side she nips quickly with her teeth. If you’re slow, you get scratched by her teeth. We got all her paper work and she’s healthy and up to date on all her shots. She just shows her fear with her teeth.
It was so sad the first time she bit at me; she flinched like she expected me to hit her. She calmed down and is learning that biting will only make the big monkeys ignore you and walk away, not give you more attention. So the bites are getting fewer and far between. The other cats have come to an uneasy truce with her, so all is well.
Casa DeVena - saving declawed cats from the pound since 1993.
“The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer…”
Gotta wait for the hourly limit to recycle. Damnit, I want kitty pics!
If you like, DeVena, once I can view the pic I’d be happy to mirror it on my non-bandwith-restricted site. Stop this kinda thing from happening to others…
No problem at all, DeVena. Lucy has a new online home here.
And wow! What a cutie! She looks like a more streamlined version of our Powder (another “bounced from home to home” kitty who, after seven years with us, is starting to come around to the fact that we won’t chop him up and put him in the soup the first chance we get).
Yes. keep on encouraging Lucy. She’ll relax eventually. I think she is basically afraid of being abandoned. Bless you for giving her a permanent home with lots of love!
She was 4 when we got her from the pound 4 years ago.
We were her third owner (at least). The last owner gave her up because she could jump fences. She did this to us twice before she realized she didn’t want to go anywhere.
When we first got her, if you went to pet her, she would shy away. We think she had been abused before. Luckily, she quickly came to learn that she wasn’t going to get that treatment at our house.
Very pretty kitty. And you’re right, her expression does sort of say, “I know it’s inevitable that you’re going to break my heart because everyone else has and I wish there were something I could do to stop it but I know I can’t.”
This pisses me off. I’ll try, very hard, not to get too soap-box-y and hijack this thread, but…
So poor Lucy’s first family decides to declaw her, probably without doing research about the after-effects. Namely: declawed cats are more prone to biting than clawed cats because they’ve lost their first line of defense, so they move right to the teeth. Good on you for saving her and loving her despite her quirks.
Poor sweet Lucy-puss! What a beautiful kitty she is.
And please tell her I said so. They like to hear that kind of stuff, I’ve noticed.
Dung Beetle, Cat Whisperer
Coincidence. I also have a 3-4 year old dog named Jasmine who is very skittish. She’s never been abused at MY house, and has stopped being AS jumpy as she was, but she’s still instinctively afraid of sudden movements, loud noises, or anything shaped like a stick (fishing poles, brooms).
