Re: [pyrnet] re Whiskers!!

["kdbooth" <kdbooth@mindspring.com>]

Jan,

Speaking of old cats,  my old Kitty died two years ago at age 13.  She was
stone deaf by then and mostly just slept.  Many times we would come home in
the evening and she would be sleeping on the sofa, unaware that we were
home.  If someone sat down on the sofa or reached over to pat her, she'd
literally jump out of her skin with fright!  It was hilarious to watch but I
wonder how many of her nine lives we went through doing that.  Kitty only
had one or two whiskers left on either side.  She'd been sick with feline
leukemia for a long time and we didn't know it.  She'd always been an indoor
cat and an only cat so we're not sure where and when she became infected.  I
got her when she was 3.

Nothing about pyrs but the mention of a deaf, crusty, old cat made me
nostalgic.

Kim

----- Original Message -----
From: ARIEGE <ARIEGE@xtra.co.nz>
To: Pyrnet Pyrnet <Pyrnet-l@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 5:03 PM
Subject: [pyrnet] re Whiskers!!


> Have never taken the whiskers off either but did catch a friend doing it
one
> day!! I asked why and she said because we had an American Judge. She then
> got my standard lecture re my 17 year old cat who went deaf and then blind
> and he used his whiskers to know when he was touching something (like a
> couple of Pyreneans!!). The whiskers acted as a form of atennae for the
poor
> old critter. It's something we've never forgotten seeing this old cat
using
> his whiskers, bit like a white stick. he wasn't with us for much longer
> after his sight had gone but long enough to note what he was doing.
> Kind Regards, Jan,
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