I don't want to lop off my dogs balls!

She IS cute.....looks like a seal point?

No way she's Siamese...way too cobby and fluffy...but way prettier (by my lights) than I had thought.

Apparently, breeding wise, the doll faces were an intermediate stage between the Siamese and the full Persians (they just get called long hairs here) with Himalayan points. To my mind, they are a much nicer looking cat than the squashed in faces ones. They seem to have become their own breed in some places, since they seem to be bred especially NOT to have the squashed faces.

I do wonder if the doll-faces are more S-like because they have not been bred back to the normal long-hair as much?

It seems they have a sweeter, softer and less intense personality than the Siamese, but are more playful and affectionate than the normal fluffy bugger.

I love the full-on, over the top, passionate Siamese nature....but I can see the appeal of a softened version.

I have had a lilac....he was an absolute delight, but I will be going back to full seals from now on....the darker the point, the more "Siamese" the personality seems to be, and the tougher, mentally and physically, the cat.

Never knew that but it seems to make sense. I think, but am not sure, the Seals were the original color and the others bred in, which would lend credence to the theory.

I agree with Robert. However, for dlowan's benefit, I feel compelled to point out that cats - at least the queens - reach puberty by the time of year as well as by age. Cats are seasonally spontaneously polyestrus, which means that they pop in and out of heat early in the spring. At my latitude of 45 degrees north, that usually means they start in late January or early February. Interestingly, I began to notice more than twenty-five years ago that they tended to predict the onset of spring pretty damned accurately. The earlier they came into heat, the earlier spring arrived. I started planting my greenhouse according to the hot cats, and I quit getting my transplants frozen. Who needs wooly bear caterpillars when you get to spay cats every day? And by the way, patiodog, I never noticed complications from castrations of older dogs, even when prostate hyperplasia or testicular tumors were the reason for the procedure.

Cute cat, RG.

Poor Harry. He lost his balls on Monday and still doesn't wanna be friends. He just hides under the couch all day every day and each time we get him out to give him his medicine he starts to avoid us more.

I hope that as he heals, he becomes happy again. Because he's miserable right now and scared of everyone. Hopefully his personality will come back.

Now I have to try to figure out how to catch the cat and give her her medicine.... she's avoiding us as well.

He'll forgive. He's not mad at us, and wags his tail under the couch when we try to reach him but that he scuttles away shows he's not comfortable with us even though he likes us. Somehow it's sadder to see him this way.

But today he showed a good sign. We'd tried to lure him out from the couch a few times pretending we were going out the door, as he always tries to join us. But he knew my girlfriend wasn't ready to go out and didn't fall for it.

When we did get ready and were heading out he came out for the first time and insisted on going for a ride. We took him along (we were picking up a friend who was coming over) but when we came back he began hiding again. In any case, it was nice to have him back for a bit.

He's not that smart. Today he made a deal with us to be friends again if we don't lop off his balls when they grow back (he doesn't know).

Anywho, glad he's back to being himself.

What a good boy!