feline pattern baldness

[brokenblossom]

Oh dear. Edna has never liked wearing collars. When a collar was first put on her, when she lived with her previous owner, she apparently scratched at it so much that within days she'd pulled a tuft of fur out, and had to be decollared. Since she's lived here, she's noticeably scratched at her collars far more than Branwell does, though without

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[brokenblossom]

I've always kept Bran and Edna in at night whenever possible - ie, excepting a few occasions where they haven't come home by their curfew, and after fretfully waiting up for them for hours, I've had to go to bed leaving the catflap open for the errant wandering kitties in case they roll home in the small hours! They've both been pretty good over the last few months, though, I must say (though maybe that's more to do with the wintry nights than it is to do with wanting to save my nerves!).

To be honest though, a reflective collar helps me keep tabs on Edna even when she's indoors, in the day time - if I need to ensure she's in the house, for example, and she's enjoying a nap under the bed, it can be terribly hard to spot her without a glint of light bouncing off the reflective collar! Even with a collar on, many's the time I've sat down in my comfy black computer chair without realising that it's already occupied by a comfy black sleeping cat... oops, sorry Eds! I expect you're all too familiar with these sorts of situations, though, what with having two lovely black pusscats to keep track of!

Ooh, I didn't realise Emma was a veterinary nurse! How lovely (and, er, how useful to have someone in the know to consult on minor matters of catcare :D teehee).

I live in hope that before I pop my clogs, technology will have evolved to the point of manufacturing some sort of Babelfish device to incorporate into the cat microchip, for better feline-human understanding! It wouldn't have to be a sophisticated simultaneous translating thingamajig, just something by which a cat could communicate to its owner that it's miaowing because it's HUNGRY, not because it wants you to throw a squeaky ball to it; or by which an owner could let the cat know that s/he's squirting the nasty wet stuff on the back of its neck in order to keep the nasty itchy bitey fleas at bay, not out of pure malice...

[shepline]

Cheap food, and the best 'pill giver' in the business! :-)

These professionals, they make it look so easy...