So, we’ve got two cats.\u00a0 There’s Tangee (we didn’t change his name when we got him), who we adopted from the Humane Society the August after we got the house.\u00a0 He’s odd.\u00a0 He was about twelve when we got him and he made these odd noises at the shelter, so we grabbed him up.\u00a0 Because anything that makes odd noises is sure to attract us.\u00a0 He was very timid at first, and he sure didn’t trust us fully for a good six months.\u00a0 One time, a few months after we brought him home, he bit my nose because I was too close to him for too long.\u00a0 I’ve still got a little tiny scar to prove it.\u00a0 But he’s calmed down now.\u00a0 And only uses his teeth to nibble affectionately.\u00a0 But he weighs a ton and seems to think that anytime we’re on the couch (or doing anything for that matter) he should be a part of it.\u00a0 It’s like he believes he’s a human or something.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And he’s so timid.\u00a0 We got a couple of cat\u00a0harnesses to take the cats\u00a0outside because they both seemed to yearn for that so badly.\u00a0 So we hooked up the cats and opened the door.\u00a0 The other cat, Isaac, just loved the idea of being outside.\u00a0 Tangee, however, does not.\u00a0 You try to take him outside and he starts to cry like you are killing him or something.\u00a0 The poor cat.\u00a0 Before we got him, the cat had been at the shelter twice in the same year.\u00a0 The people who worked there theorized that the previous owners just kind of kicked him out.\u00a0 And being in the wild without your front claws has got to suck.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Tangee’s highly emotional and can’t stand it if you don’t give him attention.\u00a0 And he loves it when Jerry plays the acoustic guitar.\u00a0 He hears Jerry playing and comes over to sit near the sound and (it appears) to bask in it.\u00a0 I’ve never seen another animal do this when a human is playing an instrument.\u00a0 I have seen them run or howl, but not enjoy it like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Tangee’s funny about his food.\u00a0 He can’t seem o defend his food against a cat half his size.\u00a0 If Isaac really wants Tangee’s food, all he has to do is take it and Tangee will let him.\u00a0 So I spent some time today watching Tangee eat and making sure Isaac stayed away from his food.\u00a0 Tangee sure is a special needs cat.<\/p>\n
And then there’s Isaac.\u00a0 The poor little hyperthyroid guy.\u00a0 If he could get any smaller, I think I’d cry.\u00a0 Isaac needs to have some radioactive iodine therapy to cure his hyperthyroidism, and then maybe he can be big and strong like Tangee.\u00a0 Isaac’s got this cute little high-pitched mew (and I mean “mew”, not “meow”) that’s much more “classic cat” than Tangee’s weird duck-like quacks.\u00a0 But, for the most part, they get along.\u00a0 And sometimes I even see them cuddled up together.\u00a0 That’s when you know they’re like brothers.\u00a0 They care for each other, yet at times they fight fiercely over stupid things.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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