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Potential new inmate at Toddler Towers.

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Toddlerteaplease · 24/08/2023 11:43

Keep your paws crossed that Penelope (also to be known as Pickle) will be right for Cheddar and arrive soon.
I'm a bit confused by her story, but she's an ex show cat. So hopefully will be healthy.
She's not yet in the rescue so we do t k ow her personality. But from what I've seen as show cats. They are pretty docile.

The rescue told me about her when O told them of Magic's death. And when I got to work that night. We had a patient called Penelope. So I take it as a sign!

I'm trying to speed it up a bit but the rescue is busy.

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Toddlerteaplease · 30/09/2023 18:54

Vest!

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Toddlerteaplease · 30/09/2023 18:54

I can't find one small enough for her.

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/10/2023 09:01

So it would appear that her hiding place is no longer behind the sofa. Need to track it down before tomorrow morning. Or we won't get to the vet!

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OccasionalHope · 01/10/2023 10:51

I’m getting the impression she’s a bit cleverer than the other Persians you’ve had…

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/10/2023 11:23

@OccasionalHope yes. I'm getting that impression as well. I found her in the one place I hadn't thought to look. She's stared growling at Cheddar so tomorrow can't come soon enough! Hopefully she'll calm down and become the mini version of Cheddar that I suspect she may be; ridiculously cuddly and vocal.

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SequentialAnalyst · 01/10/2023 14:24

Cats are like DC. They never turn out like you expect when you first get them Grin

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/10/2023 14:33

It's different this time. When I got the first two, I had no idea what Persians were like. With cheddar, I knew what she was like within 30 seconds of picking her up for a cuddle. Penelope is proving trickier to get to know, as I'm not seeing much of her. But hopefully she'll be calmer when she's spayed. I have no idea how she coped as a show cat.

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SequentialAnalyst · 01/10/2023 22:08

I know very little about cat breeds. Am old, nearly all the cats I've known have been moggiess, which I believe are now called Britsh Shorthairs and, I suppose, British Longhairs, though there were hardly any fluffy-type cats when I were a lass. In my young day, there were the occasional Persian, and the occasional Siamese, but they were the only breeds I knew of, apart from Manx, which everyone had heard of and few had seen (1950s=60s)

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/10/2023 22:54

British short hairs are a specific breed. I think you mean a Domestic short/ long haired. I had absolutely no clue. Until I got my PFP's (precious first Persians) that the breeds all had different personality traits. Or that there were so many breeds!

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SequentialAnalyst · 01/10/2023 23:57

Well, I mean moggies Wink
I had never heard of a Bengal till recently, but I know not to get one Grin

SequentialAnalyst · 01/10/2023 23:59

Or do I mean Main Coon? <wanders off lost in a senior moment>

Bagpuss1200 · 02/10/2023 08:15

Good luck today at the vet Penelope and be a good girl for mum!

LostCats · 02/10/2023 08:44

@SequentialAnalyst 🤣🤣🤣 definitely think hard about getting a Bengal. They are a ‘vibrant’ breed. I do love my 1/4 Bengal so so much. But he’s not got much going on upstairs other than ‘kill-chat-kisses-eat-sleep-scratch’.

Best wishes little Penelope Pickle!!

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Toddlerteaplease · 02/10/2023 09:05

Bagpuss1200 · 02/10/2023 08:15

Good luck today at the vet Penelope and be a good girl for mum!

Thought I'd have to ring and tell them we were going to be late. I couldn't find her! She was in the closed wardrobe.🤔 Alsi need to be careful about opening the small hatch on the carrier, as Houdini can fit through it. 🤣

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LostCats · 02/10/2023 09:07

Ah. She is so pretty isn’t she

YetAnotherSpartacus · 02/10/2023 09:14

She knows.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 02/10/2023 09:16

Am old, nearly all the cats I've known have been moggiess, which I believe are now called Britsh Shorthairs

I think you might mean domestic shorthairs (or longhairs).

As opposed to foreign or alien shorthairs, lions, tigers and Bengals.

Bagpuss1200 · 02/10/2023 09:32

Oh Penelope!! You are keeping your mum on her toes!!!

TokyoSushi · 02/10/2023 09:41

Good luck today lovely Penelope, and Mum!

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 02/10/2023 09:41

As opposed to foreign or alien shorthairs ... and Bengals.

Don't say this within earshot of Suella Braverman - she'll ship them all off to Rwanda (mind you, considering Bengals 😹)

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Toddlerteaplease · 02/10/2023 09:48

Still has a high temperature. But she was quite cross this morning. So hopefully that's all it is. Vet happy to go ahead as she's otherwise well.

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Scampuss · 02/10/2023 10:09

Hope it all goes well for her today.

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Toddlerteaplease · 02/10/2023 11:49

All fine and she's just going into recovery. I'm relived it's out of the way. Now hit teeth to sort.

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nettie434 · 02/10/2023 12:03

That's great news. Well done Penelope!

Scampuss · 02/10/2023 12:06

Oh excellent. Wishing her a speedy recovery Flowers