Teen/senior kitties please check in

[jazzcat]

Lori, didn't know Ripley was "so" senior. What OCD stand for?

Iuri is gorgeous - what beautiful blue eyes!

OCD stands for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Here's a link I found quickly that describes it. I haven't done a lot of research online so I'm not sure how great this website is but at least it covers the basis of the problem.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

[koxka]

Thank you for the link, interesting. Do you think Ripley is stressed or bored?

[Sonia59]

Great thread! I love seeing all your senior kitties

[Pawla]

Ellie would have been seventeen in May, but passed on to the bridge in March due to contaminated pet food. I guess Squeak is a senior at age ten, although she thinks she's a princess. She has a REAL cattitude, as she likes me MOST of the time, but as for anyone or anything else she's not so nice! She's my girl though, and I LOVE HER!

[jazzcat]

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Oh my gosh Pawla, are you sure you didn't catnap my Dad's cat? This is Miss Kitty. She's around 11-12 years old and is a stray that showed up at his house about 10-11 years ago.




Those pictures are probably four years old and she's a bit thinner these days. Also, she was almost named Squeaky because she doesn't have a loud meow, just a little squeak that is adorable.

[Pawla]

Oh my gosh Pawla, are you sure you didn't catnap my Dad's cat? This is Miss Kitty. She's around 11-12 years old and is a stray that showed up at his house about 10-11 years ago.




Those pictures are probably four years old and she's a bit thinner these days. Also, she was almost named Squeaky because she doesn't have a loud meow, just a little squeak that is adorable.

They do look A LOT alike! I think Miss Kitty has a little darker area on her nose, but that's about the only difference.

Squeak was a stray also. She was found around the age of four weeks in an abandoned car, in the pouring rain, soaking wet, and screaming her head off. I do have to give the ex credit for that, since he did bring her home.

Her original name was Lucy, but her whiny, high pitched meow quickly got her name changed.

[jazzcat]

Thank you for the link, interesting. Do you think Ripley is stressed or bored?

Definitely now it's stress. As he's aged he's become so easily stressed and sweaty paws is a sign he is stressing. It's amazing to see how bad his paws sweat at the vet. He leaves big wet paw prints all over the exam table. When he gets stressed here you can see his sweaty paw prints on the hardwood floor. Usually I find paw prints and wads of his hair where he starts pulling it out. He also tries to eat the broom when he stresses.

He did strange and quirky things when he was young and back then I believe most of it was boredom. He was an only kitty for the first 10 years of his life.