New to cat side

[Barbara]

Welcome on the cat side.
Toby sounds like a typical cat to me!

The behavior of cats depends strongly on how they live. If they live the semi-feral life of a barn cat they are not very emotional towards humans.

When they live with humans and are picked up often when they are kitties they learn to be the friendly affectionate purrsons we all love here

Filou and Tigris follow us around in the house and like to be where we are.

And that litterbox odor does come either from a litterbox that is not cleaned -then most kitties will not use it but pee somewhere outside- or from an unnneutered male who will spray.

In my house like in all the others here at PT there is no litterbox odor (but many people who are not used to cats come in and say: Oh, there is no litterbox odor here)

Now we would like to see pictures of Toby and hear more stories about him.

[jazzcat]

Hi and Welcome.

I too would like to see pictures of your kitty!

I came from a dog only family but then I married a cat man. I now have three of them plus my little doggie. In fact my first cat, Ripley, convinced my mom that cats aren't so bad. She shocked us all when I persuaded her to start feeding a stray at their house and now, 6 years later, Ms. Kitty has taken over the house. This is a major thing because my mother totally disliked cats (one ate the baby birds outside her window as a child). I guess old age softens the heart.

[ScantyNebula]

Another Toby in the house! yay! Lets see some pics of him! Welcome to the cat side ... its rather entertaining here

[RedHedd]

Originally posted by krazyaboutkatz
I've read that Maine Coons and Abys tend to be more social so sometimes people consider this to be more dog like. My cat Storm is a Maine Coon mix and he's a very social cat. I call him my grey doggie.

Oh yeah about Maine Coons! Someone on PT described them as the St. Bernards of the cat world. My Mishi is definitely in that category -- very social, vocal and loves to be in the middle of everything. I love my big Mishi boy aka my Main Goon!

[stacwase]

Well I guess Toby's not so unusual! I thought he was a rarity and that most other cats were not affectionate. You're right about them not being time-consuming. Toby doesn't take any effort at all, except to put food in his bowl twice a day and try to keep the dogs out of it! When we go on vacation we have to board the dogs, but we just have somebody come over twice a day to check on Toby and feed him.

Krazyboutcats' cat, Storm, looks very, very much like Toby - except Toby is black. As soon as I get my cord to my digital camera replaced, I'll post some pictures of him!

One problem we had with previous cats (one who died of congestive heart failure and one who moved out with my stepdaughter when she got her own place) is that they thought our damp basement was just one huge litter box. Toby's the only one who never did that. Is there a reason for that, and is there any way to prevent it?

[jenluckenbach]

Since you count on Toby going outside to potty, I assume you have NO litter box. If this is the case, the cats might simply have needed a box for the times they could not make it outside. My parents had an indoor/outdoor cat who did most of his business outside, but he liked the box for those days when outside was not favorable. (and also as he got older and wanted out less).

[krazyaboutkatz]

Originally posted by stacwase


Krazyboutcats' cat, Storm, looks very, very much like Toby - except Toby is black. As soon as I get my cord to my digital camera replaced, I'll post some pictures of him!

Does he look something like this?


This is my RB Pepper. Everyone thought that he and Storm were brothers even though they weren't related.