Maya and Inka's mommy:
I wanted to answer your questions about Magoo. He was brought into the shelter where I was volunteering. Someone found him wondering around in a wooded area with one eye already gone and the other was a huge a ball of infection. It wasn't really an eye anymore and it was gross! Nobody knows how long this guy was out on his own with out his eyesight. He was also still a Tom cat so that made it even harder to imagine how he made it. He was thin, dirty and a heart breaker. Thank God this was a no-kill shelter!
He fought off infection, a bad URI, and shelter depression. Finally after four months hubby and I brought him home. Then all hell broke loose and that is another story in itself! He was a viscious, nasty little boy! He bit me so severly that I had to go to the emergency room, he savagely attacked the other cats, and caused me more mental anquish then I have ever experienced! I almost took him back to the shelter so many times!
We ended up medicating him and I set my goal that he would be able to be cage free by this Christmas. Of course you can see that goal was met way early! The medication helped calm him and get him through the adjustment of a new home and his blindness and kept me from losing my mind. He is no longer medicated and has free roam of house and has turned into my best buddy!
That is one of the reasons he is so loved here on PT. Everyone traveled that long road with me and I would not have Magoo today if it hadn't been for PT. The support, love, and advice that I got is the only reason I got through it. That is why I say that Magoo belongs to all of PT. I'm just the lucky one who gets to be the caretaker. Which of course only seems fitting since I had to take the bite!
If you are really interested in following the whole story you can do a search for Ocular (the stupid name from the shelter) Ocky (what we called him here on PT) and then Magoo. I did a search one day just to look back and I felt it all come back to me and I can't believe I kept him!

Leslie:
No he does not keep his claws in! He usually uses them to hold on with and doesn't really hurt me. Mostly small surface scratches. He gives the back bunny feet too and usually won't have his nails out but on occasion when he is really frisky he will let me have it good! I currently have nasty 6 inch long scratch on my wrist because I didn't see it coming. It's so funny when he does it though that I can't get mad at him. I'm glad it's long sleeve season because my coworkers think I'm insane. He doesn't do any of it with that nasty aggression anymore.
Belly rubs will get you bit every single time! Love/play bites but he won't let you linger there. I'm dying to bury my face in that belly but I decided that one blind occupant per household is enough!