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To: TMN78247

Thank you for sharing that.

“NOTE: There is LITTLE or NO difference in the behavior of common housecats & bobcats. See the book, THE KILLER IN MY BACK GARDEN for more on commonplace behavior of both domestic & wild felines.

(Domestic cats do virtually ALL of the SAME behaviors that TIGERS, LEOPARDS, JAGUARS & other wild felines do. The main difference between you beloved housecat & its wild cousins is SIZE.)”

Yep, absolutely... :)


90 posted on 09/26/2019 7:33:22 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

WELCOME.

Fyi, “my big ‘ole boy” was a half-Siamese & half- Charming Texan, who could easily sit in my hand when my late wife & I “fostered” him at 4 weeks old (His mother weighed about 8#.) to keep the 2 from being put-down.

My kid sister, for some reason known only to her, named him “TIMMY”. - When I asked her WHY, she said, “He looks like a Timmy”.

Once Timmy was weaned, his mother was QUICKLY adopted but NOBODY wanted Timmy, as he was thought to be “funny looking”.
(He looked like an “old school apple-head” Seal-point Siamese with 4 snow white feet & a while blaze down his face.)

Cat people here will understand that within a month-6 weeks that we had “gotten attached to” him.

Timmy kept getting BIGGER & BIGGER & BIGGER until he was over 20 well-muscled pounds at just a few months over a year old.

When he was 3YO, our vet weighed & measured him & found that he was 45.5” from tip of nose to tip of tail, rippled with muscles & weighed 33#.
(Dr. B said, “I’m not at all sure what he is exactly but he’s the BIGGEST !@#$! housecat that I’ve seen in 30 years of practice & he’s healthy as a horse.”)

People, who saw him when shown as a “Household Pet”, started offering us handfuls of cash for Timmy. = Vickie turned down a thousand bucks one afternoon in Ft Worth for him. - She simply said, “NO SALE.” & returned to brushing him.
(Timmy lived to be just over 17YO.)

Yours, TMN78247


91 posted on 09/26/2019 8:36:11 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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