Posted on 06/07/2015 7:53:39 AM PDT by Perdogg
It’s true that Siamese cats are very fun loving and adventurous, they also have a reputation for being very chatty.
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What a handsome looking guy!
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It was interesting watching the interaction between the two. The slightly smaller cat tapped his paw a few times on the larger cat and then made a few nips on the larger cat's neck and nape. Those are classic cat moves with many different meanings.
From watching my cats over the years, I believe the smaller cat was either the older cat or if not older, the cat more senior to that household. The paw pat and nips appeared to be the smaller cat's attempt to pull back and quiet the larger cat, a sort of "now cut that out!" cat communication.
Pet cats do love to play fight and sometimes will also engage their owner, gently biting or nipping their owner's hands. If no skin is broken in a cat bite, that's more likely a cat attempting to communicate, rather than it being a rage or fear bite.
But it's important that the cat owner always gently pull their hand away when a kitten or cat nips or play bites, so that the cat learns to never do that to any human. Out of fear they'd do it to someone else, I always trained my cats not to nip or play bite humans.
Great video, Perdogg, thanks for posting it!
Oh, that's a precious kitty!
Watch your local news for any word of coyote, racoon or opossum sightings. Cats and dogs as large as beagles are favorite meals for coyotes. Raccoons carry rabies and opossum are ferocious when defending turf or babies.
Cats are smart but coyotes work in pairs and sadly have outwitted and dined on some of the smartest, most ferocious pet cats and dogs in our area for years.
When local authorities warn people not to feed coyotes, with the exception of a few crazy people who left dog food out for the coyotes, Wildlife Control officials are asking people to keep their pet dogs and cats inside, and to walk their dogs only on a leash.
I know that sung well.
We live on the Big island of Hawaii. Wild pigs about the only danger, and no way they catch a cat. Mongoose too small. No rabies here either. Draconian laws about bringing pets in give you headache about that.
Cars and loose dogs, but our cats are not allowed even off the tile or pool deck in back. Hell to pay if they sneak off on the grass when we are not looking.
Hawaii is so cat friendly, there is a large feral cat problem. No predators, so they breed freely. And starve, get sick, etc. A lot of spay and neuter after trapping goes on.
We have two semi-feral boys that hang out on our property and earn their keep by killing rats.
Oh lucky you! One of my lifelong dreams is to visit Hawaii someday. Wonderful hearing that Hawaii has no rabies. It also sounds unlikely that humaniacs will be allowed to import any wildlife from the continental States.
Growing up I remember thinking how cool it would be to live close to wildlife. When I first moved to California, wildlife was found mostly in the mountains and there, if you were lucky enough to see a bear rummaging through a garbage can, you would have already heard the warning yells from other campers down the road a ways and you’d already be safely locked in your car by the time the bear was close.
Now in local off-ramp shrubbery of one of California’s busiest highways we have mountain lions giving birth, all sizes of coyotes loping through the local sports park, opossums challenging folks taking out their garbage, and racoons living in ornamental shrubbery along busy sidewalks and in storm drains.
I grew up loving the great outdoors, went camping with my family and sloshed through snake filled creeks, slept under the open stars with no tent, no cabin available in the middle of nowhere while at Church Camp.
Now I don’t even want to chance becoming some starved mountain lion’s next meal from hiking in any of our woodsier parks. A full grown California mountain lion carrying a 140 pound deer in his mouth can clear a 7 foot fence. They say carry a big stick, and try to look big if you encounter a mountain lion on any of the many hiking paths in local parks. However, according to a local park ranger, you’ll only get to see a mountain lion shortly before the first bite, when the mountain lion is upon you.
There have been a few rare sightings seen by large groups of hiking elementary school kids. The local park rangers said that those sightings were “probably a rabid lion or a fierce Momma lion guarding her nest.”
Oh yes, we also have lovely insect eating, rabies carrying swarms of bats nesting in the roofs of local city buildings.
Late one hot Summer evening I was watering our mini-garden on our balcony when I suddenly heard high-pitched screeching, felt a whoosh of air just as I noticed the huge black mass of bats zooming by.
Back to your lovely cat, I want one just like him, now. He looks like one of the older appleheads, maybe he has a bit of Russian Blue in his line. :D
my Siamese will drink out of the tap at the kitchen sink if put it on a slow drip for him . . .
he’s a good boy
I know the critters you speak of well. We lived in Thousand Oaks/Newbury Park for decades before moving here. Wife has stories about the rattlers she came on unexpectedly. I like no snakes here.
That’s a very lovely area, imho, still!
Before a local Park Ranger shared that there had been sightings of three mountain lions running around the area, we went on a full moon hike in one of the local parks.
Rattlesnakes have also shown up in local city parks where kids play.
No snakes in Hawaii? That’s another plus for Hawaii! :)
Several years ago while looking for something else, I stumbled across a Hawaiian singer on YouTube and became an instant fan.
Keali’i Reichel - E O Mai
https://youtu.be/koQqT0dnq9c?list=PLooeW7EzXxkX-1_ppow4J6X2VGPZCR1To
Keali’i Reichel - If I had words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti5Dwu2uIK0
First moved there in the late 70's.
Wife and I still debate whether we dodged a bullet getting out of SoCal in 2006 when we had the chance or not. Was tough, being both born in SoCal and not knowing much else other than my few excursions.
Our neighbors had proved impossible to live next to; SF Valley white trash that brought along their hard partying lifestyle. Me, being me, I pushed back and ended up with them getting a restraining order.
Luckily for us, I had a job offer from a new company in Hawaii and we said to hell with California. As things worked out, we surfed the real estate price curves rather well. Poor people that bought out house ended up selling for over a $200k loss. Would have loved to find out if it involved the lowlife rednecks next door and the constant parties.
Events since then have only convinced us that staying would have been more and more miserable watching our native state swirl the toilet bowl.
Not to beat a thread to death, but no, our Miki ( I originally named him Sassy Mickey, in honor of my Irish Grandfather's favorite name for a sassy sprite).
We were devastated when our Loco (a Siamese kitten we adopted that had been abandoned) died and wife insisted on getting another Siamese. He is a pedigreed Chocolate Point Wedge Head, whatever the hell that means.
I tend toward mongrels, they appeal to the Irish-French in me..............
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