Is there any such thing as a "tortietude"...

[rosethecopycat]

My Siamese Tortie girl, Bella has no Tortitude at all!

Unless you count the fact that she is easily insulted, and can hold a grudge.

[rbrowne222]

I'm almost 50 and have had cats all my life. I'm a total "cat person." I thought that I knew all there is to know about cats. Then I got hoodwinked into adopting this pitiful little tortie. Best thing that ever happened to me!! What a lesson in humility! She owns the house, and I live to serve her! She loves me fiercely -- she even jumped on the one other cat in the world that she tolerates because she thought the other cat was trying to hurt me. But she does hold a grudge. Several months ago, I accidentally stepped on her paw while I was filling her food dish. She put me on her poop-list for weeks! She still runs when she hears me get the container out to fill her dish again. I don't think that a tortie should be someone's first cat. But she was a God-send to me. I needed fierce love and laughter and puzzlement -- and it all came in a little black and orange package. She was a foundling - skinny and burned paws from the pavement of the back road she was found on. She was past pitiful...so I searched for a name for her to grow into. I found it online: Sonsy. It's a Scottish world for buxom and healthy. She's still kinda small, but her tortitude is "sonsy" enough to carry her.

[GILL]

YESTortitude is real. We have almost every color andhair length and the TOTIE'S are thier own breed. It seems that the darker the colors the more the attitude. Penny is the talk to the paw girl, Boots is "yo can pet when I want you too, Precious is I will sit on your shoulder when I want to and you WILL PET, Sweety "don't come near me", and Dobi " stop I'm here too be petted - now"
When ET was with us she was the pinical of Tortitude and she was big enough too enforce it.
If I sit to watch TV Demetri, MIts or Egypt will come up for some loving. But when Prcious comes evryone must go or get growled at and/or get wacked.

[smokey the elder]

In the Cat dictionary next to the word "tortietude" one might find a picture of Bosun! She can be a b.... at times...well, most of the time!

[slave2kitty]

OOOOOOOHHHH yes, there sure is... the stories I could tell you about kitty! :/. On the other hand we have found owning her very rewarding and love her to bits.

What I'm currently freaking out a little bit about is our first baby (human baby!) is due in a couple of weeks and I DON'T think kitty is going to take it well at all. She had been acting uber clingy and bipolar since I got pregnant, and aggressively destroys pretty much every new baby item/box she can get her claws onto. She will keep us awake all night if we don't let her sleep in bed with us, but we can't have her in our room once baby is born for safety reasons, and I really don't want to lock her outside in the middle of winter. She is like our baby- as soon as my partner or I get home she needs food, cuddle, toys, then more cuddles, more food, then bed, in that EXACT order or there will be hell to pay, she will ONLY eat food in our room, and ONLY drink water out of a human cup you fill in front of her etc etc. I'm actually really scared she is going to try to hurt or smother our child when it is born or just pull out her ultimate punishment and run away for weeks and get adopted by some suckers several kms away (this happens a few times a year).

Help! Any suggestions for how to avoid the inevitable catpocalypse?

[Vik121]

Just want to add, my tortie Melody has exhibited the classic symptoms of tortietude since I got her at the age of four months! However, times it by TEN an that's my Melody... I call it "Melytude"!