What should I say: This is my favorite thread. Neko1: Tama is one of the most beautiful cats I've ever seen.
Sallyanne: thanx for sharing Mango: Isn't he a true brofur of ours?
So much fun:) :D :) :D
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What should I say: This is my favorite thread. Neko1: Tama is one of the most beautiful cats I've ever seen.
Sallyanne: thanx for sharing Mango: Isn't he a true brofur of ours?
So much fun:) :D :) :D
Bastet comes from a multi-cat household but prefers human company to that of another cat - so I have just kept her instead of taking her fur brother with me when I left a multi cat household - Prattly - another aby - attached himself to my (now ex) partner of mine so I didn't want him fretting for him. I thought it was best for both of them to have company. Bastet only used to sleep beside prattly but shied away from any other contact with him. Aby's in a multicat household are great! provided they have someone to attach themselves to. However, it also depends on their personalities as well. Each aby as his/her own personality so it is strongly dependent on that.
Thankyou so much for the Mango website! What a gorgeous aby! I know how that owner feels! :D
Loved that Mango website!!
Here is Dune: dad to Miley and Graemer
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...3/fd068d45.jpg
This is LLBean: one of their grandfathers
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I have photos of their mother, but need to scan it.
Maybe I will remember to do it tomorrow, at work!
I have seen Dune before when I was looking for Abys at the internet. He's one of the most beautiful Abys I've ever seen. This regal pose! I am looking forward to see more of Miley's and Graemer's ancestors!
Wow! Dune is beautiful! I wish I had pictures of Bastet's ancestory.
I took this picture of Miley two summer's ago, so she was just 9 months old at the time. I just now noticed that there seems to be another cat on the chair with her. I suspect it was Graemer!
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I wished bastet never grew into her ears .... *laughs* She is gorgeous!
SAS you should send that picture of Miley in for COTD. She is stunning.
Thank you so much for posting about your abys!!! I absolutely love the breed! Although I have 12 non-breed specific kitties...one day I WILL have an Aby!!!! Keep the pics coming, PLEASE!http://www.kimlovescats.com/files/ChocoTux.gif
http://www.loxly.com/clarion/grand_showcase.htm
Look at this link! You'll find Dune and some other exceptional beauties!
barbara, what a lovely site....such alert, intelligent expressions on their faces, such a lovely carriage!!!!
Hey Everybody!
I love Abys. Yep, they're one of my favorite breeds. The kittens are sooo adorable! I may not have one, but I sure wish I did! :D
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Today, as Bodhi and Maya are cats of the day I thought I need another look at the PT aby community.
On the pic above, Filou was younger than 1 year -and look at these eyes :)
I want to first of all thank Barbara for inviting me to this wonderful group. I think Aby's are the best!!!! My first Aby was a Ruddy and her name was Irksome Royal Abagail. Abby was the Cat of the Day in Feb. 2001, shortly after she had passed, so I felt it was wonderful tribute to her.Abby's Glory I decided after that I did not want any more pets because it hurt so bad when I lost abby. However, as fate would have it, I was at work working on a client's website, and I found a link to a breeder in our area. So on a whim, I emailed him asking him if he had any Aby's for sale as a pet. He did have one and he sent me her picture. She was beautiful and I fell in love instantly, but this is not the end of the story. As I found out how old this Aby baby was, I discovered from her breeder that she was born on the same day that my beloved Abagail. I felt it was fate. I had to have her. So after scrimping and saving, my husband bought her for me for Christmas. Babblin Revenge is my precious baby and is so much like her big sister, that it is like Miss Abby is looking over me in her very special way. She is spoilt and is just like our child. I love being owned by an Aby and god bless all of us who own Aby's. Aby owners are a special breed because you never do know what you baby will do.:D
I thought I would share a picture of Babs with you all....
Wow Babs, what a chic sweater you have.
We have been talking a lot these days about how horrible it is to loose a companion because in the last weeks some special kitties passed away.
We feel very close here to the kitties that are around often and this week, Gabe, brother of Miley and Graemer, went to the rainbow bridge. We still are very sad. So we understand how you felt after Abby's death.
Edwina's Secretary and Mom had a wonderful phrase for that saying: "It's better to have loved and lost love than not to have loved."
So we hope to see you here more often. If you look at the many Valentine's card and kitty Valentine couples at Cat General you will also see the crazier part of us:D
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You know, I don't know which cat of mine this is....I always thought it was Miley, but now, looking a bit closer, it looks more like Graemer!
Such a face!
To me it looks like -oh I don't know. Which one of yours looks more like Filou? It's this one :D
I have to scan a pic that shows Filou like that "In between the sheets"
*Sigh* another beautiful Abby! :)
WOW :D I didnt know here on PT are so many abyssinians :) I think they are really great cats :) And those photos are gorgeos :)
I have a few pictures of an Ruddy Aby in Switzerland named Faramir who also likes to play in the bathtub. He prefers warm water, of course. When we visited there Helena wanted to demonstrate his love for water. She ran some water in the tub and Faramir jumped right in!
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Also, there's a women's clothing chain that has stores all around the world (even in Bejing!) but absolutely none in North America so we were initially surprised to see a store named Mango on the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich:
http://www.geocities.com/[email protected]/Mango_Store.jpg
Randy, we have that store in Munich too- but unfortunately they only sell clothes- no Abyssinians;)
Can you imagine a store full of Abys!!
Makes me laugh just to think about it. It would be a very well organized store:D :D :D
In the morning when I'm getting ready for work, this is what I see when I get out of the shower. He has the better idea!
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The few times I have been to the breeder, it has been simply heaven. I am not sure I could stand a steady diet of Abys fighting and destroying things. The breeder I use usually has one resident male stud and three females. Most times there is at least one litter wandering around. Sometimes two litters. Since Abys don't have large litters, you can expect two or three kittens each time! Sometimes the breeder keeps the females in different parts of their house, so they don't get in to fights. Three Abys is a bit much for me sometimes, other times, they are all off on their own and I don't even see them!
I am downloading a few photos right now and if I can get that accomplished, I will post the latest photo of JuniRose, the wanna be rabbit.
Is it Mango or Peaches who shows us how to spend a working day in dignity?
And Sallyanne: I couldn't breed Abys maybe (and at the end of the day I don't wanna be a breeder;) ) but I could spend my life with your three.:D
Peaches is a tiny little cat weighing in at almost 6 pounds / 2.68 kg. A new vet recently thought she was a kitten although she's two years old! She sleeps the day away in a little cat bed in the window. Bubbles, the grey & white Tabby, sleeps in a cat bed on the couch. Mango, however, loves his flannel sheet on the bed. No spoiled cats here!
Filou being a boy is heavier. He is 3,2 kilo. Sallyanne's are like Peaches- the sweetest little girls.
Filou is small! Mango is 8.5 lbs / 3.9 kg. Our Squid (who passed away in 2001) was 11 lbs / 5 kg most of his life. I know another 9 year old male Ruddy who weighs in at 14lbs / 6.3 kg but he's really active and plays a lot. He's just a big cat.
Peaches behaves more like a male Aby. Most females I have met are affectionate but not necessarity gregarious like the males. Squid used to "work the crowd" when guests were over making sure everyone petted him and paid attention to him... and maybe slipped him a snack. He created quite an awareness of the Abyssinian behavior among our friends.
Peaches competes with Mango for attention and she will single out someone new to her to become best friends with. It's fun to watch people not familiar with Abys deal with being swarmed by them. Fortunately no one is ever upset with the closeness and are forewarned about the cats. Mango even jumped on the shoulders of a plumber a few seconds after he walked in the door and started grooming him. The plumber was entertained by the attention.
I guess Tama is small too, because he's only about 6.5 pounds.:)
We have seen that around here too:DQuote:
Originally posted by Randy_K
Mango even jumped on the shoulders of a plumber a few seconds after he walked in the door and started grooming him. The plumber was entertained by the attention.
Filou always says hello to everyone coming in- even to a dog. If it's a lady and she wears lipstick, he has to sniff the lipstick very close- but he doesn't lick:D
After his first meet and greet he usually leaves people alone.
When I was at Sallyanne's place, her three girls were over us all the time. Two of them (Juni Rose and Chloe) even slept with us in different layers of the bedding.
Filou only sleeps with us- never with guests.
I think I have never seen a 13 lb Aby. My Tigris (Aby x Siberian) is like that and he has double the frame of Filou. But he is all muscles- the vet is happy with him and doesn't think he's overweight.
Mango's breeder seems to manage living with about a dozen Abys of all ages quite well. Their "problem" is that they end up keeping a kitten from a litter every few years - simply because they become attached to the cat and can't let go. It was fun seeing all those Ruddys and Blues... and one Oriental... running around the house playing or snoozing in the sun or watching the birds in the backyard. Oriental cats seem to mix well with Abys but they are so much more vocal.
I wasn't able to get Imagestation to accept the photo for some reason....so here it is as an attachment.
Sas, I love the photo of Juni Bunny!:D
Give her a big hug from me!
Oh no! The dreaded bunny gene has mutated Juni! Can she wiggle her nose?
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Oh Juni, I think you're ears are starting to grow:)
Have to kiss them- at least on the screen:)
Here's another beautiful Abyssinian, named Cleo. We saw him at our house and took him inside until his owner came to get him and bring him home.