Who Knew Guilty Daddy Carried Over
To pets! We have two cats now (the Siamese Snowshoe reverted to barn cat feraldom this past late July). We have a female Bengal who is overweight and a male DSH who is having 3rd eyelid issues in one eye. I bought the Bengal a food puzzle a she tends to eat when she is bored or nervous.
She grazes all day long. Chef saw the food puzzle and immediately demanded I put the bowl back just as she was starting to "get" the puzzle.
Aaarrgh! I explained what the purpose of the puzzle was and he thought it was mean/cruel! Shades of when his ferals were visiting and how it was "mean" that they do their homework!
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Tell him that if the cat was
Tell him that if the cat was underweight it would be mean. It isn't mean for a fatty catty.
That's hilarious. An
That's hilarious. An overweight cat is much more cruel.
A bop upside the head for your DH.
Cats actually do get bored
Cats actually do get bored and eat out of boredom, just like humans. The cat prolly enjoyed the puzzle.
My DH had a miniwife dog when we first started dating, I wish I had time to tell the story, maybe later.
The Bengal
Is definitely a miniwife cat! She bolts to the door when she thinks Chef has come home. She follows him into the bathroom in the morning. She will only sit on his lap.
How does one go about buying a bengal cat?
My teen brought home a kitten last summer that she found by the dumpsters and now I have my first cat, the Baroness Kitty Von Witty. I love her so much. I think she needs a play mate though and I want a bengal but I don't know how to get one. Do you just find a breeder?
Our Bengal
Was a rescue from a failed breeder. She was at a kill shelter in Bowling Green Kentucky and a private cat rescue lady from downstate New York swooped in and got her.
We live a good 5 to 6 hours away from downstate so I drove down to pick her up. She is more of a dilute Bengal but you can definitely see the stripes and spots. She also makes more grunting sounds and almost a barking noise instead of a plain meow which sounds like a squeak when she is trying her best to meow.
I believe our DSH has some Asian in him as well because he is very vocal and has long extended meows. I also bought a cat wheel for her to exercise on although she gets on it for a very small time and runs like crazy but then stops.
One of my now past cats was a Bombay that was also rescued from a failed breeder.
I don't think it's so much
I don't think it's so much guilty daddy as just the personality profile. My DH was a disney dad to SD. But even though DD is raised differently, I can see how hard it is for him when she's unhappy. He wants to fix it right away whereas I don't mind DD suffering a bit from the consequences of her actions. I'll never say it out loud to him but I think this is why his relationship with SD ended up the way it did.
Yep
He also wants everyone to be happy ( Although he barely shows this attitude when it comes to dealing with me).
In the early years, he tried to please everyone including the Girhippo, Battleaxe Galactica, skids and myself at the same time. Not happening.
You certainly hit the nail on
You certainly hit the nail on the head there. Same here, in the early days we were all like balls he was juggling in the air. He couldn't be the bad guy. He'd say or do whatever he thought we wanted but sooner or later all the stuff comes crashing down and no one is happy. Rather than pick a boundary and stick to it so at least one party comes away happy. It took half a year of personal counselling for him to realise he couldn't control everything.