I think it was more she was like 'look what I made!'
Honestly, the orange and white tom that brought her actually stepped up (and she wasn't a bad momma) and I think tried to teach them to hunt (I remember an incident where one of them, my little heart kitten, was playing with a mouse while the other cats were eating dry food, and he threw the mouse up and it landed in the bowl of dry food. I have a picture of the other cats looking at that mouse like 'what is this doing in my food?'), he was also protective.
We had another cat that was moving in at the time (we had no say, he said I live here now and he meant it), and he was trying to chase off the other cats (he is a velcro kitty and VERY jealous), and Timmy, the orange and white, put a stop to that *quick*.
Yeah, I was just thinking today that I wouldn't really want to adopt from a shelter, I know they can have some great cats, but it is so hard to tell what their personalities are like, and so far I have had good luck with cats that *want* to live with me.
I see on the internet all the time about how 'animals just want to be free' 'keeping pets is like slavery!' and they bring up all the pets that run away from home.
I then look at my cats and my current batch can all go outside without a leash, and they will let me catch them (often it is the other way around, I am running from them because they want attention), and my heart kitten would come when I called him.
Because these cats chose to live with me, so I know they want to be here.
To me, getting a shelter cat, it would be difficult to guarantee that, because their personalities can be drastically different in the shelter vs a home where they feel safe (or at least not like they do in the shelter).
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I think it was more she was like 'look what I made!'
Honestly, the orange and white tom that brought her actually stepped up (and she wasn't a bad momma) and I think tried to teach them to hunt (I remember an incident where one of them, my little heart kitten, was playing with a mouse while the other cats were eating dry food, and he threw the mouse up and it landed in the bowl of dry food. I have a picture of the other cats looking at that mouse like 'what is this doing in my food?'), he was also protective.
We had another cat that was moving in at the time (we had no say, he said I live here now and he meant it), and he was trying to chase off the other cats (he is a velcro kitty and VERY jealous), and Timmy, the orange and white, put a stop to that *quick*.
Yeah, I was just thinking today that I wouldn't really want to adopt from a shelter, I know they can have some great cats, but it is so hard to tell what their personalities are like, and so far I have had good luck with cats that *want* to live with me.
I see on the internet all the time about how 'animals just want to be free' 'keeping pets is like slavery!' and they bring up all the pets that run away from home.
I then look at my cats and my current batch can all go outside without a leash, and they will let me catch them (often it is the other way around, I am running from them because they want attention), and my heart kitten would come when I called him.
Because these cats chose to live with me, so I know they want to be here.
To me, getting a shelter cat, it would be difficult to guarantee that, because their personalities can be drastically different in the shelter vs a home where they feel safe (or at least not like they do in the shelter).