She was a chewer. She chewed through brand new head phones (not even a day old.) She chewed through an answering machine cord (only about a week old.) She chewed on the "twinkies" on Hubs' weight equipment. She ate a diamond earring. (No, we were never able to recover that one.)
She was not snuggly. Every now and then, she'd lay on the couch with me and hip scoot just so that her kittyness would be touching my humanness. Never one to climb into your lap though.
She was a biter.
She could be nasty.
She was a peeper. (As in the sound.)
She was afraid of people. She would hide around things and attack Mike when he came to take care of her when we were on vacation.
She hated K.
She was a park dump and adopted by Hubs when volunteers reported that they saw her scooped up by a hawk and dropped back down.
She is a climber.
She will squirrel away in tiny places.
Curiosity will, in fact, get the best of her. We blame her polydactalness. ;) Those THUMBS! She uses them for good and for bad. (Not evil, of course.)
She knows no, but will not always put it into practice. (She's only 1 1/2 after all.)
She is snuggly.
She loves scratches.
She's a lover.
She's a talker.
She thinks that K is better than sliced bread and would follow her off the edge of a cliff.
She will hide from people. Mike never saw her once when he was taking care of her when we were gone camping. We found her hiding in the joists of the basement ceiling.
So a chewer or a climber? We loved Smudge because she was ours, but we often said that if other people owned her, they probably would have put her to sleep. Yes, she could be that nasty.
Leia is a different kitty altogether. A rescue up for adoption, she was labeled as "wild/feral" at the pet store. No wonder why she was kitty-in-a-box for 4 1/2 months before we came along. The food that they were giving her gave her a bellyache and awful digestive result. A quick switch of food and months and months of trust building allowed us to have a kitty who is happy to live with her humans.
She is a vacuum cleaner, though. We swear that she is a dog in a cat body. Boy, after dinner she is under the table hoovering anything she can find. (Hubs and K can sometimes lose control of their crumbs and whatnot.) Sadly, Leia has moved to wanting to hoover the counter and after kitty drunkenness over the mama's cereal milk, I've been put my foot down. She never was counter kitty until now. I will not have a cat on my counters. I will not have a cat on my table. She hasn't tried the fridge yet, but I'll tell you that I won't have that, either. She will have to abide by those rules. A few kitty rules, but those are not flexible ones.
So, kitty owners, have you had cats so completely different? If you've had counter kitties and chosen to resolve that issue, how did you do it?
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