-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 08-31-19  17:08 <=-

 >  >  RH> Bottle kitties don't hunt.  
 >  > At least not usually... nor do they do a number of other 
 >  > things...
 >  RH> Like cat mice indoors.  Chase them maybe.  
 > I've been trying to figure out if that is 'eat' mice, or 'catch' 
 > mice there... but either could be true... (G)  Chase them maybe,
 > true... lovely live toys....  ;)
 > 
 RH> I have idea.  Covfefe, I think...(LOL)  Thump only chases mice and 
 RH> occasionally catches them. She never learned to kill except by 
 RH> accident.

Making up words now, are we...?  (G)  Unless some foolish mice try to
move in this fall, we appear to be totally out of mice in the house
now... the cats have seen to that...  :)
 
 >  >  RH> My littermate cats didn't share too well once they got 
 >  >  RH> older.
 >  > Were they the same sex...?  These two are both female... 
 >  RH> Yep. Females.
 > Hmm.... maybe ours are more unique than we even thought they 
 > were...

 RH> It goes both ways.  

I suppose... :)
 
 >  RH> I've had more than one set of littermates. The first ones were 
 >  RH> a tuxedo and a calico. The last two were a gray tabby and a 
 >  RH> tabby and white.
 > These are the first set we've had... all the other cats we've taken 
 > in over the years were one at a time, and from all sorts of
 > different sources... So Richard put their odd behaviour at being
 > littermates... perhaps they just are more connected than most....

 RH> Or already sick of each other?  Or both?

They spend a lot of time being together and tag-teaming him... so not
likely sick of each other... Don't usually curl up together to sleep,
though, at least not where we can see them do it...  :)

ttyl        neb

... Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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