Messy cats! *Updated with cat pictures!*

paddypaws101

What beautiful cats.
I think i would forgive them most things.....:p

TeamLowe

gosh they're gorgeous! love the names, even if it is a bit wrong for siblings! lol
i was once told that to imagine the heat your cat feels is if you was naked but wearing a fluffy dressing gown, a thought i find especially helpful in the winter trying to decide if it'd get too cold for his majesty x x

gunsandbanjos

Beautiful kitties!!!

abcdefghijklmnop

Thanks for posting the proper links. I think they're very pretty but it wasn't until they actually settled in that we got to see them! In the rescue they hid at the back so I just chose them on their 'story'! Didn't realise he was such a big cat!

We didn't name them... their foster home had a dog called Frasier and named them **** and ****e as they came in called BooBoo and Stormy... I intended to rename them but well after a few days **** just seems like a ****? and ***** seems to suit being called ****!

I like the idea of them being in dressing gowns... very comfy!

Fire_Fox

Butter wouldn't melt! We need the back story that hooked you, please. Is it possible their history could explain their eating habits? Dirty bowls, too many sharing?

marmiterulesok

What beautiful cats,thanks for the pix.I like their names!

I would love to know what the story is with these two please.

My kitty is quite small and ladylike.In fact,she has a title:HRF (Her Royal Furriness).

She does make very unladylike slurpy noises when she eats wet food.

abcdefghijklmnop

Ah well we went to see a few rescues... I was absolutely set on getting a little tiny kitten but couldn't decide which one as I wanted to take them all home...

Gave our local cat protection a ring about a kitten on their website and he'd already gone but she said she did have 2 cats that were pretty desperate and she'd be so happy if I'd go and see them...

Went to their foster home which was lovely... gorgeous ginger cat greeted us on the doorstep... the foster parents were super heroes... had several rescue cats... a rescued dog and somehow all with very busy baby who was throwing cereal at the ginger cat (who loved it!)!

They were living in one of the pens in their garden - their foster dad groomed them every evening and made sure he spent time with them (and all the other fosters in pens in the garden!) and I can honestly say it did look the nicest kept foster home we've seen. We were told that they'd been in that foster home about a year... and in another foster home a year before that :-(

The story was that they belonged to someone who went off to uni and when they left their dad put em in a box and threw the box at the lady who runs the local CPL. She said he was a terrifying bloke and both were in an awful state - had to be fully shaved as they were covered in all sorts of infestations. He was still all funny looking as his fluff hadn't grown back properly!

The problem being that as they were so shy, black, a pair and 10 ish years old they were really struggling with rehoming! So I just had to! Not that they would come out of their box at the back of their pen to say hello! I'd rung the CPL lady to say can we have them before we'd even made it home from seeing them.

Now they are settled it turns out they do NEED each other but I don't think she likes him much... in a sort of "you're so daft and irritating get out of my way" then she swipes at his nose if he pesters! But... they can't be in different rooms or he cries and they have conversations! It's brilliant. I honestly cannot believe that they are the same cats.

To be honest... I thought they'd probably just live a quiet and comfy life out with us and not be too bothered by us but they are total attention seekers. I was just hoping that it'd be comfier than a pen...

We've still got a few issues - they find the house quite overwhelming still and it's taken months for them to leave their room. I'm hoping as they gain confidence that eventually they might get out into the garden!

We shut them out of the living room / kitchen and bathroom when we're out to try and let them explore gradually. When Niles first got here he ran downstairs one night and got lost... we found a very unhappy cat crying under the sofa having lost his sister and then not been able to find his litter trays. The stress upset him so much he got a urinary tract infection... So since then we're expanding their play area very gradually!

Gosh I've written you an essay... but honestly they are so rewarding I wish I could convince everyone to adopt some older cats! The moral of the story is also that I am far too soppy to ever be let near rescue animals...

(next plan... more cats and a dog... currently I want the Weimaraner in Battersea called Bow but it wouldn't be fair with us both working long hours)

marmiterulesok

Thanks for sharing with us their journey.How fortuanate they are to have 'found' you.They certainly seem to be making slow but sure progress.

There are some awful people around,to treat animals so badly.

How long have you had them now?

vl2588

It's perfectly normal cat behaviour so I wouldn't worry about it (within reason!) - it depends just how much mess they make I suppose

Very beautiful, in fact similar to mine; same mischievious look!