Abyssinians are the best

[lailamara]

Thanks SAS. And to think I'm one of the more computer literate at my school.
That was Bodhi you posted. I'll try one of the both of them. They are both annoyed right now that I'm mucking about on the computer instead of playing with them .

[Barbara]

Oh Lailamara, what cuties you have! A pity we can't meet. Cataholic: Yes they are silky and slim -and they always want to be on top of it all. Filou is the same. When he says hello, he jumps on people's shoulders. When he is on my shoulder and my husband comes he jumps on his, because he is taller than me and if there is a cupboard he will jump to the cupboard......
There is no cat that you see so often on shoulders like the Abys.
Sas: Filou will be 7 next February (4th of February to be precise) and I do not see that he calms down. Of course it's not the same as he has been with 10 months but he can still run through the house like a dust devil. If you throw mousies or furballs for him he will run after it and jump on it with all 4 paws getting really mad.
Oh I love him so.
(His brofur Tigris is half Abyssinian and has the proportions and face of an Aby but the size of a small Maine Coon (his mother was Siberian) -he does not jump on shoulders which is fine because he has 13 lb and if he plays he tries much more to hunt and kill -it's a pity he only can catch flies)

[sasvermont]

lailamara, what a great picture. Now that you know how to post them, I hope we will see many, many more. I should carry my camera with me all the time. I could probably take better and more pictures of things they have broken to bits rather than pictures of the cats. I am constantly finding things moved, removed, broken, attacked, distmantled or in general ruined.

Last night I was awakened by a cat playing in bed with several toys. In MY bed - at 3 AM. It was not a live toy - which is a big fear of mine, that one day they will find a mouse and bring it to bed.

Off to work. I am late. I could go on and on.

[Barbara]

My friend's Aby Xeline brings moss from the roof (they have a roof garden where the cats can go out). So she finds herself in the morning in a moss bed.
Filou likes live toys in the night: us

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by sasvermont

Oh, oh.....looks like an attic of the mini blinds might be iminent here. Better watch out SAS.

That Graemer is such a goofball. I think it would be a riot to have him around. Never a dull moment I'm sure.

[sasvermont]

It is right here, above where the cat is, that Graemer found out how to push the tile up and walk throughout the ceiling, then finally fell through. I had to reinforce the tiles from above, with plywood so they cannot push it up and get in anymore. They still try. I say they, because now Miley hangs out on door tops as well. For quite some time it was just Graemer.

[Cataholic]

I think it is just amazing how height crazed they are!!!! And, I seem to see more pictures of Abbys loving all over one another than I do of anything else..unless you count me and the tuxies..he he he

[lailamara]

Maya, like Graemer likes to spend her time in high places
Bodhi on the other hand loves to spend hours playing in the kitchen sink. He's
always wet!

[neko1]

My aby loves the kitchen sink too!! He is always up on the counter! He also loves to sleep on the stove because the pilot lights keep him warm. I've never seen a cat so addicted to anything warm!

[sasvermont]

This is Miley. She loves water. Excuse the awful caulking job. I did it myself, not knowing before I started, that I needed a caulking GUN. Someday soon, I will do it the correct way!

Graemer likes water - just not knee deep!

[wayne0214]

last week or so, Jenlukenback took a picture of my Fawn and put in on line. Fawn is part Abyssinian. Not only because of his color (fawn) but also, when he was a kitten, he definitely had Aby habits.

........wayne

[Barbara]

Originally posted by sasvermont

This is Miley. She loves water. Excuse the awful caulking job. I did it myself, not knowing before I started, that I needed a caulking GUN. Someday soon, I will do it the correct way!

Graemer likes water - just not knee deep!

Filou sits in the sink or the bath tub and asks me to turn the faucet on -but he would never accept wet feet as Miley does -incredible. But it's really funny how similar they are. I also have picture of young Filou and young Tigris on top of one door, (unfortunately I have no scanner) -sometimes here I feel I have to buy a scanner but I am still pushing my husband to a digital camera. (I am technically 100% stupid -I'm a word person)

[BastetsMum]

*laughs* wow! Abby's that love water. Bastet hates water with a passion! But her passion is boxes. I can put any old box down and she will try to fit, sit,squeeze her way into it!

[lailamara]

SAS you have good reason to worry about live (or once live prey) in your bed or elsewhere. I once had a big beautiful tabby boy who put a dead pigeon on the pillow next to me while I was sleeping. I was groping around in the dark to turn on the light and put my hand on the dead bird. The blood curding yell was heard by all my neighbours. After disposing of the bird and locking the cat out of the bedroom for the night next morning I opened the door and stepped on another dead pigeon that he left outside just outside the door.

I also had another very intelligent black female cat who put a dead mouse in my shoe after she tried to get my attention to show me her hunting skills and I just ignored her chirupps. In the early morning I slipped my shoes on and felt something in my shoe....
yup the dead mouse. I threw those shoes out immediatley.

So all in all the Abys have been pretty good . They only bring toy mice and garbage to the bed.

[wayne0214]

The problem with loooking at all these Abys, is that it makes me want one (or two) along with my other furkids. If I didn't have so many kids to care for, both inside and outside, I would definitely get a pair of Abys.

.......wayne