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cimoreneWe got another cat!
This is Tristana's first cousin Anubis, born in October 2021 (Tristana was born at the turn of the year to 2021).
His mother, Eris, was Tristana's mother Shyvana's littermate (a League of Legends litter, like Tristana's, apparently) and was intended to be the cattery's new primary queen because she had such perfect genes, but she had to be fixed for her health after only one litter. Anubis was the most handsome, so our goth cattery-owning lesbian pals are planning to use him as a stud a few times and attempt to get a daughter who can be their new queen.
Anubis has achieved universal acclaim at catshows. He's incredibly handsome, healthy and lithe and muscular for a Cornish Rex with perfect conformation, and he's a real sweetheart, although he's a little nervous about being manhandled by strangers at shows (he doesn't resist, he just tenses up). However, he's a wee bit too young to be a stud cat yet - he's still not 100% finished growing, but his teenaged hormones have started to act up and were making him miserable. They got him a hormone-blocker implant to allow him to finish growing and gain adult confidence without being horny, pimply, smelly, and starting to lose his fur in the meanwhile (and also not a sex pest), so he is back to himself.
We had been talking with the goth cattery lesbians about adopting Anubis after his stud turns, when he got fixed, because we lowkey were on the lookout for another young cat to be a more high-energy playtime companion for Tristana (to avoid her getting bored and pestering Snookums for attention when the poor old diabetic guy's just trying to sleep), but they suggested we could try introducing him already since he's got the implant and is doing fine with it.
Yesterday we picked him up, and his Long Nightmare began!
Anubis has spent his whole life in their household being the baby, most recently with his grandmother, uncle, and his best friend. He also got carsick on the long ride (~45 min), the poor little bean, and because he's significantly bigger than Snookums he's confined initially to the diningroom with the bunny gate in between. He's alarmed to be meeting new cats who aren't thrilled about it, and he's terrified of the bunnies, who aren't afraid at all of cats and are peacefully hopping around on the other side of the gate. Every time he sees one, he's like "What the FUCK is that!"
He's a sweetheart, though. There have been lots of noisy complaints - yesterday he stayed awake and restless, yelling and moaning about it in a hilarious little rusty hinge yowl combined with a piteous little baby-mewl ("I am babey to any and all humans but if any cats are listening I'm a big scary adult MAN and also what the fuck is all this????"), pretty much non-stop until he tired himself out and fell asleep. Wax slept on a mattress in the dining room because he panics when left alone, lol. In between she was sitting in the papasan chair watching tv on the chromebook with headphones on and he came and snuggled on her lap but he just sat there being hugged and continued yelling from her lap for several hours.
Also he is crazy about The Fish, a stuffed goldfish on a string on a stick that Wax got like 20 years ago for free with a box of grocery store catfood. It was also the Crazy's favorite toy too.
This is Tristana's first cousin Anubis, born in October 2021 (Tristana was born at the turn of the year to 2021).
His mother, Eris, was Tristana's mother Shyvana's littermate (a League of Legends litter, like Tristana's, apparently) and was intended to be the cattery's new primary queen because she had such perfect genes, but she had to be fixed for her health after only one litter. Anubis was the most handsome, so our goth cattery-owning lesbian pals are planning to use him as a stud a few times and attempt to get a daughter who can be their new queen.
Anubis has achieved universal acclaim at catshows. He's incredibly handsome, healthy and lithe and muscular for a Cornish Rex with perfect conformation, and he's a real sweetheart, although he's a little nervous about being manhandled by strangers at shows (he doesn't resist, he just tenses up). However, he's a wee bit too young to be a stud cat yet - he's still not 100% finished growing, but his teenaged hormones have started to act up and were making him miserable. They got him a hormone-blocker implant to allow him to finish growing and gain adult confidence without being horny, pimply, smelly, and starting to lose his fur in the meanwhile (and also not a sex pest), so he is back to himself.
We had been talking with the goth cattery lesbians about adopting Anubis after his stud turns, when he got fixed, because we lowkey were on the lookout for another young cat to be a more high-energy playtime companion for Tristana (to avoid her getting bored and pestering Snookums for attention when the poor old diabetic guy's just trying to sleep), but they suggested we could try introducing him already since he's got the implant and is doing fine with it.
Yesterday we picked him up, and his Long Nightmare began!
Anubis has spent his whole life in their household being the baby, most recently with his grandmother, uncle, and his best friend. He also got carsick on the long ride (~45 min), the poor little bean, and because he's significantly bigger than Snookums he's confined initially to the diningroom with the bunny gate in between. He's alarmed to be meeting new cats who aren't thrilled about it, and he's terrified of the bunnies, who aren't afraid at all of cats and are peacefully hopping around on the other side of the gate. Every time he sees one, he's like "What the FUCK is that!"
He's a sweetheart, though. There have been lots of noisy complaints - yesterday he stayed awake and restless, yelling and moaning about it in a hilarious little rusty hinge yowl combined with a piteous little baby-mewl ("I am babey to any and all humans but if any cats are listening I'm a big scary adult MAN and also what the fuck is all this????"), pretty much non-stop until he tired himself out and fell asleep. Wax slept on a mattress in the dining room because he panics when left alone, lol. In between she was sitting in the papasan chair watching tv on the chromebook with headphones on and he came and snuggled on her lap but he just sat there being hugged and continued yelling from her lap for several hours.
Also he is crazy about The Fish, a stuffed goldfish on a string on a stick that Wax got like 20 years ago for free with a box of grocery store catfood. It was also the Crazy's favorite toy too.
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Date: 8 Jan 2023 02:49 am (UTC)Callum had a contraceptive implant as well, basically Implanon for dogs. Super interesting that the options are opening up as the research about the importance of hormones to health and temperament emerges.
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Date: 8 Jan 2023 10:19 am (UTC)His litter mates are Horus and Osiris!
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Date: 9 Jan 2023 01:40 pm (UTC)Poor baby (that visual did make me laugh)