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| Name: |
Princess
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Age: |
Four years old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Short Hair Domestic, Tuxedo
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| Home: |
San Jose, California, USA
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Our
kitty Princess is small, only about five pounds full grown, but stands
her ground even with our big fourteen-pound cat Hunter. Princess was a
rescue from being a stray, and has been with us most of her life. She
believes she is part billy goat, and part meercat (which this picture shows).
Princess has a great personality. As a very small cat that was originally
a stray, she is a little bit afraid and will run for cover if she gets
spooked. When we first got her from the shelter she was quite ill, and
took a few weeks to recover and put on some weight. She had a pretty bad
virus, and spent the first few weeks with us shuttling back and forth
between home and the vet. She is still a little spooked about getting into
the carrier and the car. She did make a full recovery, and is very
rambunctious.
She is affectionate, and likes to be petted, but on her own terms. When
she wants attention, she will come into the room and repeat her demands
for attention until she gets it. It's surprising that such a small cat can
make such a loud meow. When she gets your attention, she will run into the
bedroom and jump on the end of the bed, where she waits for you to come
and pet her. If you don't, she'll repeat her performance of the loud
serenade until you do. When you follow her into the room she will stand up
on her back legs and head-butt your outstretched hand, then roll over so
you can pet her. She repeats this until she has had enough, which is hard
to do. She sleeps at the foot of our bed, with our other cat Hunter.
Hunter is a male (also a rescue), about 14.5 pounds, and the alpha cat in the
house. Even though he is much larger than Princess, she will stand on her
back legs and lunge at his neck, trying to drag him down to play. They
play together well, the usual games of cat tag, hide and seek and "attack"
from the hiding places.
Princess (and Hunter too) both sit on command. Princess learned this trick
very quickly, she loves to get treats, but will now sit even without a
reward.
Princess is fearless, and will jump off of the bed, windowsill, etc., and
even for a cat that is so small she can cover a long distance with her
jumps, we believe she thinks she can fly.
She sits up on her back legs for very long periods of time (like the
picture shows). We think she learned this because being so small she needs
to sit-up to see outside (the screen door on the house has a kick-plate at
the bottom and she can't see over the kick-plate if she sits down, she has
to sit up).
Both Princess and Hunter are inside only cats, we don't want anything to
happen to them outside. They get plenty of exercise chasing each other
around the house, and both have their favorite spots to perch and look
outside. Princess likes to jump up to the top of a storage cabinet in the
closed garage, and from there climb into the storage platform in the
rafters in the garage. There are vents in the front of the house such that
she can lie down on the storage platform and look right out of the vents.
She spends a lot of the daytime snoozing and looking a the birds through
the vent.
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