More about my cats

My Manx Cats

I am a cat lover as well as a dog lover, at this point I only have cats though. What I think is special about my particular cats is that they are part Manx Cat, in that they have no tails. Part Manx because their mother has a very short stub of a tail.

When I first saw the mother cat, I assumed that someone had cut off most of her tail, it was only when she gave birth to kittens on my patio did I realize that she must have ben born that way as two of her kittens had no tails and one of them had a short stub like her with the two others having normal tails.

I adopted the two with no tails, one male and one female and I like to refer to them as my “Gift Kitties”, as I think they are a gift from my Goddess, Rhiannon of the Birds.

I have named them Miss Kitty and Festus after the Gunsmoke characters; because I call all cats kitty, I thought it was a witty sort of joke to name my female cat Miss Kitty and so I decided to name the male Festus to keep it all Gunsmoke.

When they were kittens, they liked to play and they would chase each other around my bedroom at night when I was in bed,  and since I have a house with raised wood floors they would make a lot of noise, when they were doing that.  I call it thundering paws. I never minded though and they didn’t keep me awake either.

I miss being able to watch my cats play like that as now when they are both 4 years old they no longer play like they did when they were kittens.

Festus my male cat does like to attack wadded up paper balls and so sometimes I will wad up some notes that I no longer need and throw it on the floor for him to play with.

Now days my cats just like to be in the room that I am in, so as I am typing this in my office at home, Festus is in an open window snoozing and Miss Kitty is sitting on a near by chair grooming herself.

I am always glad of their company and I just enjoy having them with me whether it is my office or in bed with me or when they are elsewhere in my bedroom

My Kitties are very special as, I consider them to be my Gift Kitties since I feel that they were a gift from Rhiannon my personal Goddess.

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9 Responses to “More about my cats”

  1. h3athrow says:

    How did you realize that Rhiannon of the Birds was your goddess?

  2. Get one of those cat toys where there’s a stick and a jingling toy dangling on the end and tease the cats with it. It’s a near guarantee that they’ll start acting like kittens again.

  3. S.T. Rosebot says:

    My landlord and landlady have a similar cat with a very short tale, but it has grown longer in the past year. It may part manx.

  4. It was a gradual thing, I spent something like 22 years from when I was 18 until I was 40 studying Celtic History, most especially Irish, Scots and Welsh History and Culture and as part of that I read what myths and stories I could find. At some point I read the Evangeline Walton novelization of the stories in the Mabinogion, and then from there I just kept on reading and studying and then I eventually read the Mabinogion it self and by this time I had decided that i took it all quite seriously and that I was now a follower of Rhiannon. Partly it was a mystical sort of thought as I came to believe that She had been calling me and trying to get my attention for years. I hope that I am making sense to you.

  5. it is funny but my male cat loves to play with wadded up balls of paper. Sometimes they do play with each other something like they did as kittens and they will run from my bedroom through the hall to my office chasing each other.

  6. My cats mother had a stub of a tail, something like what a Bob Cat would have and she had a litter of 5 kittens on my patio, two of the kittens had no tails, two of the kittens had regular tails and one of the kittens had a stubby tail like his mom.

    I adopted the two with no tails. None of the cats ever grew their tail longer once they were born.

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