Too exalted for cockroach-hunting
Koosi my eldest cat used to be quite scrawny. Here she is in 2006, aged 7, with our voodoo doll for World Cup. She was finicky about her food, rejecting several brands of kibble outright. We asked our vet Mayem (at Pendragon Veterinary Clinic in QC) what we could give Koosi to improve her appetite; she recommended any children’s vitamins that contain Zinc. Every day for months I put 1 ml of vitamin syrup into a dropper, held Koosi by the scruff of her neck, and when she protested, squeezed the vitamins between her fangs. She hated it, but her appetite did improve.
Cats usually put on weight after they get spayed or neutered; the photo above was taken a year after she had her hysteria taken out. (Saffy and Mat have never been skinny. Even when Mat was a street cat he was regularly mistaken for a dog.)
This is Koosi today, aged 12. As you can see, she is assuming Garfieldian proportions. She’s so heavy, she now jumps up from my work table to the top of the bookshelf in two stages—first she leaps onto the books (the spines of the top row have been shredded by her claws), then she pulls herself up over the edge.
Recently I noticed a cockroach in the kitchen. It was skittering about three feet away from Koosi, who ignored it completely.
Aren’t you going to catch that? I asked her.
You want me to touch a cockroach? she said. It’s vermin! Disgusting!
But you used to catch and kill every insect that strayed into the house.
The idea of me touching a cockroach! With these paws, that I have licked for hours so they are immaculate. The nerve!
We never used to have roaches!
This stress is making me hungry. Fetch me some kibble and be quick about it.
So I went out in the pouring rain (after I had served Her Majesty), bought a dozen cockroach traps and planted them all over the kitchen. There will be no ipis in my apartment.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
June 25th, 2011 at 16:24
I just remembered someone asked a few posts back about catnip.
There is a pet store in Tiendesitas (the sosyal tiangge located at Ortigas Avenue corner E. Rodriguez Avenue) that sells catnip. If I remember correctly it was priced at P280. The store is across the only shop in Tiendesitas that sells spiders and other reptiles.
June 25th, 2011 at 20:20
Max is the same,too. And also, Kelsey can kick Max’ behind anytime of the day, you should see them. It’s like the Fight Club in here.
Oohhh, catnip in Tiendesitas ^_^ Thanks for the tip, scheherazade.
June 25th, 2011 at 23:36
that was me! :) Thanks scheherazade! mwah mwah
June 26th, 2011 at 09:15
My Prince shares the same disposition, although he has nothing against attacking the neighborhood strays whenever he feels like it. He does it in a heartbeat, too. He doesn’t do rats, though.