The kittens are coming!

Will Have money late this week. Keyboards cost ore here.

Prolly less so if they go outside.

but I think they are

Like Siamese they're pretty high reward too.

Yes, it sounds that way to me, too, Deb.

But then, it sounds like one can have a very different type of relationship with them.

Than with moggies, or that every cat is different?

I think some moggies have the characteristics I love in Siamese and these two....and indeed every cat within any particular breed is different....but I think overall the kind of cat I want is to be found pretty reliably within Siamese, orientals and the Rexes.

Than with moggies.

What in the world is a "moggie?"

Deb, your babies must be very attached to you. I think mine would be very hard to round up when it cam time to go home. Do you have them leashed or do they just roam free?

This is an explanation of "moggie" in song, by my favorite Scots-turned-Aussie folksinger, Eric Bogle.

WARNING: it is a VERY graphic, tho funny, in a dark way,description of the dangers of letting cats run loose in Oz. I think you've been keeping yours leashed, and holding the leash, Deb. PLEASE never let them loose, You and they have fans who'd be devastated if anything happened to them.

Oh my, LEASHED!

My first Siamese would walk miles unleashed and stay very close, just of her own choice. I should have had her leashed for her own protection, though. If anything scary happens and they panic, you can't protect them and they could run onto a road or something.

Moggies are the normal cats of no particular breed you find everywhere.

And a damn fine cat they are!

I guess I have six moggies, although one of them looks very much like a Maine Coon. All either were born under bushes or walked out of the woods.

Indeed they are.
I say that because moggies have been my only cats.
I have a big soft spot for the most common moggie of all, the grey tabby:



I've lost count of how many I've lived with now, but lately I've had a run of tuxedo cats, which are also wonderful critters!

Tabbies are divine!!!

I think the US has kind of made the moggy a breed of its own....I think you guys call it the American shorthair or something. I honestly don't know if the UK has also done this, or, come to think of it, Oz.

I just googled it and "American shorthair" is definitelythe no-breed-at-all breed.Yes, on the basic principle of "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade" I'm not at all surprised that we made generic cat intlo a breed of its own. Little did I know that one day when I was in third grade, a purebred American Shorthair cat we'd never seen before would come walking down the sidewalk on our street, make a sharp lefthand turn at the walk up to our front porch, walk between my sister and me, who were sitting on the steps, walk into the house, and not leave for six years. We thought it was just a stray. Two months later, there was a picture of our cat in "My WeeklyReader", which was published in Chicago, which was something like 400 miles away. My sister and I couldn't figure out how our cat had gotten from Chicago to us. We were not familiar with the concept of generic cat/American Shorthair. We called it "Kitcat Kitty", we weren't really very creative namewise. After awhile, god help us, it would answer to that. I don't think it ever occurred to me to determine whether it was male or female. I was kind of unaware then. Whichever it was, it was a pretty good cat.

Of course, I'd like a Tabby Oriental



or the Cornish Rex version.






Miranda was a blue tabby point.

Moggies are kind of THE cat, I guess.....although I think they may have originated in the Middle East somewhere, and looked a bit more oriental, as we think of it now, than the good old Mog does.

Have you got a picture of your "tube cats"? I suspect they may have some Siamese or something in them.

Woollies on diet. Especially viola

This will be hard

Will check with vet re kitten fat.

Hey, bunny. I'm gonna call animal control. "Da bunny is starving dem woolly babies."

So nu. What's new?