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Moggies |
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09/11/06 (68 review reads) |
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Advantages: EVERYTHING
Disadvantages: nothing
Well. Most of my reviews with regards to animals are very educational and full of interesting facts. This one is slightly more from the heart from the experience I have had with my two moggies. The first moggie I had I got just over three years ago. When I went to see her as a kitten I fell in love with her. She was nothing too special to most people I am sure, but with her individual tortoise shell markings I fell in love almost instantly. She had a blonde patch over one eye and the rest of her was black and brown all over. Her eyes were the most cystal blue I have ever seen and had a mischeivious sparkle to them. Within around a minute of seeing the litter I had decided I had to have her. I called her sparkle and took her home when she was 8 weeks old.
Now all cats are cute when they are kittens but she was something else! Right from the start her indipendance and rebellion shone from every inch of her body. Climbing curtains, hanging from my leg as I walked, dangling from my dog Sophie's tail, anything she saw she would jump on. She had this sort of energy to her, reminded me of a small child. As she grew up her rebellion continued! She had an odd habbit of putting her paws over peoples mouths when they were talking and managing to do everything in such a sly way so you never expected her to come flying out at you.
Sparkle was also very independent. She would spend all day out and about, coming home with numerous "treats" for us to dispose of (her speciality was mice heads or tails without the body) and then she would come to my room when I went to bed, climb up onto me and sleep partly or fully on me.
Tortoise shells in general seem to have this habbit of being naughty. I worked in a vets for a period of time and you know when a toirty comes in from the noices like you have never heard before and the look of exhaustion on everyones faces after they have finished working with them! It's not that they are visious, or at least sparkle wasn't, or that they are scared, again sparkle wasn't... but they just seem to want to get there own way, they want to be handled when they are ready, not when you want!
Unfortunately Sparkle died in October 2005. My world sort of fell apart when that happened. It sounds stupid and I work with animals so I know that animals die and I have gained quite a hard shell to it, but she was my baby. Everything about her seemed to be perfect to me, like a best friend and companion that you could never find in a real person. She was hit down by a car, probably chasing some poor animal accross a road and was brought to us around three days after she went missing in a responce to all the flyers we posted and posters we put up.
I didn't want to see her like that so my parents dealt with her body and the next I saw of her was in a box. We buried her and planted a tree over her body. The tree has grown well and is known to all as the sparkle tree! a rogue tree in our generally overly manicured garden! It looks rather out of place and the branches spray out in odd directions giving it a rather strange appearance! I wouldn't have it any other way. It almost seems like fate that the tree reminds me of her in the way it is so different, so rebellious etc.
On a happier note... I spent months unable to even mention her name until around december when I came to terms with it, again I know it sounds stupid but I truely felt like I had lost one of the closest members of my family I have. I promised myself I would not have another cat as no cat could replace sparkle and she was to special to try... but alas I fell in love again!
Pixie was born in feburary of this year and we took her in late March when she was 6 weeks old. There was absolutely nothing extra-ordinary about this kitten, pure black she was rather plain to me. For a few weeks I wondered if I had made a mistake whenever she did something which reminded me of sparkle. It almost made sparkle feel less special, then she started to grow up and turned out to be as different to sparkle as can be!
The first thing about pixie is that she is weak in a way. She needs caring for and as a kitten had trouble eating food and was in and out of the vets a few times from tumbles. She is clumsy as anything, walks into doors, people, falls off ledges etc. She could also sleep just about anywhere! She will sit perched on the window sill trying to look alert and you see her head dropping and then, unlike normal cats which curl up, she just falls off the window sill! I love this about her though. The difference between her and sparkle is huge! Pixie is not so independent, she is utterly obsessed with me and extremely affectionate as well as being very clumsy.
Pixie also runs around playing like an idiot, but her play tends to involve me. She will play with my hands, my hair, my face, anything on me, cling to me and dangle from my clothes etc. She loves women, not so keen on men, and not keen on people who hold onto her when she doesn't want to be held. I never restrain her, I always let her come to me and always let her go as soon as she wants to go, and she seems to come to me all the more for that, I wouldn't want to go to someone if I didn't know if I could get away again would you??!
Moggies seem to live longer natural lives and have stronger personalities and are more individual. I have found that so many pure bred animals I have come accross seem to have the same personality traits, the same appearance, so similar. I like my animals to be one of a kind, I would know if my cat went missing and someone put a lookalike in my cats place! Pure breds I think can easily be replaced.
Both of my cats were beautiful, stunning, elegant, individual and have so much personality its unreal and I just don't see that in pure breds, they seem so similar to each other, not many of thier looks appeal to me and to add to that I am more a fan of natural selection than of structured selections were an animals breeding is concerned.
I loved sparkle and I love pixie and I would not have them any other way. I think that them being moggies helped and that there will never be another cat the exact same as mine. That makes them both special and perfect and it makes a cheap ole' moggie a brill choice!
Summary: get the moggie, not the snob!
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