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Fruit of thy loins:

--- Quote from: Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim on March 18, 2007, 03:18:35 AM ---I don't like the fancy breed of cats. I like the regular tabby and domestic short-haired cats.

The only male cat we had was white but it got hit by a car when it was a year and a few months old. We didn't remove its testicles because that is cruel. My mom said that if would have had its testicles removed, then it wouldn't have died because it always stayed out long periods of time looking for female cats. It got hit far from our house. Someone called us when they saw the number on the collar on its neck.



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How upset were you at the time when you learned about your cat dying?  There is only one cat I really miss, the one I grew up with.  We got him 'by accident', he wandered into our house one day and stayed.  He was a ginger and white Maine Coon.  Maine Coons are usually expensive to buy but we got this one free.  :)  He was absolutely gorgeous, a splendour to look upon.  As he grew old he became thin, frail, lost his eyesight, fell to pieces really.  But he was the same old cat I always used to know, as friendly as he always was.  In his advanced old age he still surprised us, for example one night we came downstairs to find he had knockered over a dish with left-over chicken onto the kitchen floor and ate the chicken.  He did this by smell because he was blind at this stage.  After him I have made a resolve to never get too attached to a pet again.

Fruit of thy loins:

--- Quote from: Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim on March 18, 2007, 03:42:05 AM ---How did he die? Did he still have his testicles?

I think it is also cruel to lethally inject cats to kill them if they are sick. My female cats died of natural causes. One when it was 19 and I was 18 and the other when it was 15 when I was 19.

When the male cat and the 15 year old female cat died, I was in Israel. I was sad when the 19 year old died because I had her since I was a baby. My parents found her in a grocery store in Chinatown. She just wandered in so they took her home. Her name was Wanty, short for Wanton (As in wanton soup.) because  she was from Chinatown. She was black with grey stripes. There was a picture of a cat that looks like her in last week's Ask JTF. The 15 year old cat looks like the one I posted that looks like the rabbit in the beginning of this thread. The male one was all white. One of his eyes was blue and the other one was green. I also cried when it got hit by the car.

The old ones were sick so it was expected they would die but I didn't know that the 15 year old one was sick because my parents didn't tell me on the phone to Israel. The sick cats used to urinate on the floor when they were sick so now we don't have any rugs in the house because we had to throw them all away.



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Yes, all of my family's cats have been, as we say, neutered.  It is a cultural thing I suppose.  But it's funny you mention sick cats urinating.  We had an old female cat who was very ill for a long time and she used to urinate sometimes even when she was sitting on someone.  I had that happen to me, it was beyond disgusting.  That was my earliest experience of cats, too.  As I was growing up we had her and another cat who had an antisocial personality.  So I grew up almost not liking cats until we got Hermie, the one I mentioned before.  He was like a little angel ushered into my life.  He used to wander far and wide and luckily  he never got harmed, even when he wandered the streets of London!  But for most of his life he was with us in the rural places we lived in.  (My flat is in a city but my family all live in rural locations now.) 

And yes, all of our cats got 'put down' by injection when they were very sick.

My family have new cats, and some dogs which I like (although they smell bad), and some of my family have rabbits, fish, and even gerbils/hamsters, which in my opinion are like little rats.  There is even someone who is married to my uncle who rides horses.

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