"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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On 7/4/2012 5:39 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
I hope your brother eventually accepts Tigger as he is. Rhett isn't a
lap cat, neither is Bonnie. You just have to accept them as they are.
Shamrock is one of those arrogant cats. LOL He was a stray for I don't
know how long before the caretaker had to move and she called a rescue
group to come get him because she was afraid no one else would take care
of him and he got dependent upon her but she couldn't take him. She was
just feeding a stray. He's the most social of my cats and no one bothers
or scares him. He has to get in everyone's business who comes into his
house. I just love this boy so much.

I'm sure you do!
Yes, my brother has accepted that he is not Tigger's favourite person, but
as Joy says, it hurts a bit. My brother is very fond of animals, has
Tigger and a Cavalier KS spaniel - Maisie, who adores him. He has a sense
of humour about it - I have heard him say to Tigger when he is ignoring
him "remember when you were 4 months old and you played with a moving car
wheel which broke your jaw and took your eyebrow off? Who paid loads of
money for your operation?" and it was loads of money, Sundays are bit more
expensive here.
It's only a joke, but he would just like Tigger to love him more than he
does. Fat chance of that but I don't know why. Who knows why cats love
one of a family more than the others?

Boyfie doesn't have a choice. It's me or no-one, although he does seem
more than happy to be my cat. I try to give him as good a life as a
domestic cat can have. Opportunity to hunt within big gardens, his
bedroom & duvet to retire to, and hardly any traffic.
If he did get run over - very unlikely, but not impossible (as a black
cat got killed here in front of my house must be couple of years ago now,
an un-neutered boy) I would really not regret letting him out to have a
cat's life although I love him like crazy and I would be devastated if I
lost him.
I am not trying to set up an outside/inside debate so please, no-one do
it. I know it is very different in America.

I don't know that it's particularly different in America. Different people
have different ideas. I fully understand what you're saying, and agree.
I've lost a couple of indoor-outdoor cats, but my preference for myself
would be a short but happy life, rather than a long, miserable one, and I
can't give less to my cats than I would want. I'd let these guys out in a
heartbeat if they had ever been outdoors, or even if I'd had an outdoor cat
to show them the ropes when I got them.

Joy