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Date: 23 November 2006 09:24:10
i simply can't face it just quite right now. i haven't had nearly enough tea yet this morning, nor breakfast. one of the proplems with having a beautiful, long haired, pedigreed persian cat, is that the coat is a lot of work. there are entire rescue shelters devoted to persian cats because people like the look of the cats, but have no idea of the responsibility, so they find out that they have to put a bit of effort into a coat like that and simply give them up to a shelter.
i would never ever do that.
which is why i went ahead and got myself a beautiful, long haired, pedigreed persian cat. i knew what was involved and anticipated the knots in the fur and the messy 'bloomers' (sorry, more info than necessary, but have you ever tried using a litter box with that much fur round your backside?). I didn't anticipate just how much we'd have to bathe her, because of how much stuff she picks up in her fur and that it starts to smell (ok, well, maybe i did anticipate it a little, as i spent a lot of time on various persian web sites before bringing her home, but i think i've just always been a bit in denial, since she wasn't ever going to be a show cat, i thought we wouldn't need to - i was wrong), and i didn't anticipate that she'd get slugs caught in her fur in the spring - autumn months (but to be fair, heathcliff brings home just as many and he's only semi-longhaired).
i didn't anticipate just how delicate her little genetically undiverse and slightly inbread tummy tummy would be and how difficult it would be to find a food she could eat. we've run out of her special food and the pet store no longer stocks it (doh!), so until we can get it shipped from the internet site in germany, she has to make do with an everyday brand. . . which means bad tummy, bad bloomers again. grr.
but i love her dearly, for all her madness and paper chewing (apparantly an oriental cat trait), and her sudden bouncing off the walls (they had told me persians were calm!), and even despite her campaigns against heathcliff (although he would certainly not agree that we should love her unconditionally in this way).
and now she has fallen asleep on the loft floor and is snoring a little bit because of her cute little indented nose and looks very cute. i couldn't possibly wake her up to give her a bath now!