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to: RUTH HANSCHKA
from: NANCY BACKUS
date: 2019-08-24 20:48:00
subject: Re: 389 shambolic was san

-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 08-22-19  00:24 <=-

 >  > other one came to us as an adult, and we hadn't known the family
 >  > all that well even... :)
 >  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....  ;)

 >  > share a small space together quietly... and they do tend to 
 >  > share other things as well... just very interesting to watch 
 >  > sometimes.. :)
 >  RH> My littermate cats didn't share too well once they got older.
 > Were they the same sex...?  These two are both female... they were 

 RH> Yep. Females.

Hmm.... maybe ours are more unique than we even thought they were...
 
 > taken in as feral cats by a (probably) crazy cat lady... there were
 > six cats there that needed to be rehomed when she died... and there
 > had been at least a couple of dogs in the house, too...  We just
 > brought home the two littermates... You can't really tell by looking
 > at them, one is almost totally black (Shadow) and the other is a
 > tuxedo cat with very even markings (Spook)... (We renamed them after
 > we got them here...)  But we were also given their paperwork from the
 > vet, so we did get confirmation of what we'd been told about them...
 > 
 RH> I've had more than one set of littermates. The first ones were a 
 RH> tuxedo and a calico. The last two were a gray tabby and a tabby and 
 RH> 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....

ttyl      neb

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