Dear friends:
I must confess I hated cats, I always afraid of them, of their tongue and specially nails and the bite. We always had dogs, cats were too up nose for me, and in Puerto Rico you dont usually see cats on the streets.
Well I moved to Istanbul Turkey and here dogs in the house are not well seen (most for the religion) they are considered not clean animals for living in an apartment. Well the thing is here on the streets you can see lotsss of cats and I mean lots. Then I started to like them from far. One day my sister in law adopted a street cat and she went on vacations to Egypt and I had to take care of the baby. It was wonderfull that week, the cat really made me love him in just few hours. Then I wanted a cat, this time we found out that a woman was giving for free a 2 year Turkish Van cat , this cats are very special breed, they call them the swiming cats because they like water. They are mostly white silky furr and green eyes or one eye green and the other blue. Anyway, we got the cat and here comes our cry for help.
1- The cat is 2.5 years she doesnt know us at all.
2- In the beggining she didnt let us touch her or carry her.
3- she reccently started her matting season, and we were crazy because we didnt know why she was crying.
I am trying to make her bath, but is imposible to get hold of her I know is not necesary to make her bath, she is always cleaning herself, but i wish to give her at least one bath. Ah one question to all of you, she is doing something veryyy strange. When my husband is laying on the sofa and he calls her she comes sometimes and starts to "massage" his belly, she starts pushing his belly with her front legs, left then right, and keeps doing that for even 3 or more minutes, then she laids down to sleep on his belly. Is she making soft her pillow or something?
I really need help with this cat I dont know anything about cats, and I really wish to take good care of her and start to be loved from her.
Ah I forgot to say, I took her to vet for her vaccinations and he asked me if I wanted to breed her with another Van cat and now she is there with her boyfriend is being 5 days without her and the silly girl doesnt miss me she is soo happy there making God knows what and me here suffering for her. I really miss her, even she is up nose, just looking at her keeps me company.
Thanks for letting me vent
A bigg warm hello from Istanbul
P.D. You really should see all the street cats in Istanbul they are gorgeous
Maybe I will make a site just for street cats heheheh.
Have a nice day
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