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Pixie bob cats
I was looking through the local for sale and wanted and there was a pixie
bob cat wanting a new home. I'd never heard of them before, have you? so I looked them up online. They cost up to a thousand pounds! It seems important that they have poly claws and a tail like an American bobcat in a size we can cope with. Actually, they sound like very nice cats, like a cross between cat/dog in temperament, which would suit me very well ;-) I've found that some people who have Pixie bob kittens for sale describe them as "cubs" No. They are kittens. They have been DNA'd as having no wild genes so they are domestic cats. I kind of would like one but not while Boyfie is here, obviously, so unlikely ever to happen. Tweed |
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Christina Websell wrote: I kind of would like one but not while Boyfie is here, obviously, so unlikely ever to happen. Tweed I would dearly love to have a Sphinx, with all those wrinkles and the downy skin, but even if I could afford one, I cannot justify buying an expensive thoroughbred when there are so many cats being euthanized because the shelters have no room for them. |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: I kind of would like one but not while Boyfie is here, obviously, so unlikely ever to happen. Tweed I would dearly love to have a Sphinx, with all those wrinkles and the downy skin, but even if I could afford one, I cannot justify buying an expensive thoroughbred when there are so many cats being euthanized because the shelters have no room for them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That's how I feel about it. Years ago, when I was in grad school and got my first cat, I dreamed of getting a purebred Persian. I could not afford one at that time. As years passed and I became more and more aware of perfectly healthy cats being euthanized, I began to feel just as you described. I also began to learn that shelter cats are often just as nice, beautiful and healthy as purebreds--often *more* healthy because of genetic defects that have been bred into many "pure" cats. MaryL |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... I was looking through the local for sale and wanted and there was a pixie bob cat wanting a new home. I'd never heard of them before, have you? so I looked them up online. They cost up to a thousand pounds! It seems important that they have poly claws and a tail like an American bobcat in a size we can cope with. Actually, they sound like very nice cats, like a cross between cat/dog in temperament, which would suit me very well ;-) I've found that some people who have Pixie bob kittens for sale describe them as "cubs" No. They are kittens. They have been DNA'd as having no wild genes so they are domestic cats. I kind of would like one but not while Boyfie is here, obviously, so unlikely ever to happen. I saw some at a cat show and the kittens available (not at the show) were about $400-500 US . They were extremely adorable and very friendly! I certainly wanted one! |
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"news" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... I was looking through the local for sale and wanted and there was a pixie bob cat wanting a new home. I'd never heard of them before, have you? so I looked them up online. They cost up to a thousand pounds! It seems important that they have poly claws and a tail like an American bobcat in a size we can cope with. Actually, they sound like very nice cats, like a cross between cat/dog in temperament, which would suit me very well ;-) I've found that some people who have Pixie bob kittens for sale describe them as "cubs" No. They are kittens. They have been DNA'd as having no wild genes so they are domestic cats. I kind of would like one but not while Boyfie is here, obviously, so unlikely ever to happen. I saw some at a cat show and the kittens available (not at the show) were about $400-500 US . They were extremely adorable and very friendly! I certainly wanted one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie-bob As I said, I'd never heard of them until a few days ago. I won't get one of course, but for someone who is used to dogs (like myself) it wouldn't be such a culture shock to have a cat with that temperament ;-) Besides that, it would panic the neighbours to see what looked like a small lynx passing through their garden and I think they would call the police. A work colleague had a big (very big) Bengal boy - she kept him in for ages, two years ISTR but he was so destructive in the house and vocal about going out that she eventually let him do it. Within a few days the police were out looking for an escaped leopard. The neighbours settled down eventually, as the police tracked him down without harming him and told them he was just a domestic cat that looked like a zoo escapee. Aramis continues to go out in his local neighbourhood without a police alert and he has stopped destroying the house. |
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Christina Websell wrote:
As I said, I'd never heard of them until a few days ago. I won't get one of course, but for someone who is used to dogs (like myself) it wouldn't be such a culture shock to have a cat with that temperament ;-) I wonder about that. Not for you, but for me. One thing I like about cats is the way they come and go, and don't focus on me all. the. time. I think that might drive me a little crazy. A friend of mine had a cat like that (regular old moggie, he just had a very needy personality), and he never let her get anything done. He was constantly on her for attention. Needy dogs might sit there and whine, but at least they can't jump on the desk. You can't get away from a needy cat. Roxy is a very affectionate cat. When she's in the mood for a cuddle, she throws her whole self into it - sitting on me, near my face so she can rub noses with me frequently, purring, sometimes kneading (a lot less than she used to), giving me head rubs and just generally being adorable. And she'll hang with me like that for quite a while. (Sometimes she falls asleep in my arms, and can stay like that for an hour or two.) But when she's done, she gets up and leaves. She has a life. And so, it turns out, do I. Licky is a little more needy, but I attribute that to the fact that he's often so skittish and suspicious that he's chronically deprived of pettings and cuddles. Not that I don't give them to him whenever I can! But if he weren't such a scaredy cat, I think he'd be like Roxy - come, get his pets, and then go off to attend to other cat business. Besides that, it would panic the neighbours to see what looked like a small lynx passing through their garden and I think they would call the police. A work colleague had a big (very big) Bengal boy - she kept him in for ages, two years ISTR but he was so destructive in the house and vocal about going out that she eventually let him do it. Within a few days the police were out looking for an escaped leopard. LOL! I find that amazing. Maybe a bengal cat has markings that are vaguely like a leopard's, especially if you're not looking too closely or you don't quite know what a leopard's fur looks like. But I don't understand how someone can mistake an animal's *size*. Surely you can tell the difference between a 130-lb/59 kg leopard and even a large domestic cat, which probably doesn't weigh more than 20 lbs (about 9 kg). People make that mistake all the time and it always puzzles me. -- Joyce audiophile, n: Someone who listens to the equipment instead of the music. |
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