Hey Merk, as I told you in the other thread, the risk can be worth the reward.
Ours (Black/white siamese cross, now 16, was nearly a year old and on death row when we found him)...he got cranky and scratchy, and a $400 operation with a few teeth pulled, and he was child friendly again...I was going to have him euthenaised when he started hurting the children, better half talked me out, and getting his teeth fixed was absolutely the right thing to do.
In his prime, he was 22lb of muscle (36" tip of tail to tip of nose, so he wasn't a tubber), lost probably 1/3 of that, now he just chases warm sunny spots, and keeps his skills up on sparrows and starlings (if only I could get him onto the Indian Mynas)
I'm not a cat person by nature, but the children love him, and having a cat in this district means that I don't have funnelweb spiders...that's benefit enough to always have a cat IMO.
Ours (Black/white siamese cross, now 16, was nearly a year old and on death row when we found him)...he got cranky and scratchy, and a $400 operation with a few teeth pulled, and he was child friendly again...I was going to have him euthenaised when he started hurting the children, better half talked me out, and getting his teeth fixed was absolutely the right thing to do.
In his prime, he was 22lb of muscle (36" tip of tail to tip of nose, so he wasn't a tubber), lost probably 1/3 of that, now he just chases warm sunny spots, and keeps his skills up on sparrows and starlings (if only I could get him onto the Indian Mynas)
I'm not a cat person by nature, but the children love him, and having a cat in this district means that I don't have funnelweb spiders...that's benefit enough to always have a cat IMO.
