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danceswithelvis
2008-04-25 05:30 pm UTC (link)

That actually sounds like my mother's poodle. He was obese, but it was mainly due to is medication for epilepsy. He passed away due to heart failure this year, but surprisingly...the heart failure wasn't due to his weight, it was due to the massive epileptic fits he'd had when he was a puppy.

Anyway, when people would make rude remarks about his weight, we'd just tell them he was 15 and if he wanted KFC...he could have it.

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	airie 2008-04-25 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	I have a siamese right now that is the size of a baby walrus. She was hit by a car as a kitten and had her leg and 2 ribs broken. I'd feed her my neighbor's kids if it made her happy, but it wouldn't. Her personality ranks midway between Veruca Salt and Hannibal Lector. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2008-04-25 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, well... Siamese. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

trollprincess
2008-04-26 11:59 am UTC (link)

I feel obligated to butt in and point out that not all Siamese are bad-tempered. My mom's had Siamese cats ever since she first got married and she's never raised a mean one.

(I particularly love when people come into my apartment, see my Siamese, and immediately assume that he bites. Yes, he and his three teeth will gum you to death. Right after he's stopped purring and rubbing up against your legs for two straight hours.)

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chibikaijuu
2008-04-27 03:55 am UTC (link)

It *is* my experience, however, that Siamese and Siamese mixes, no matter how sweet, are always somewhat *odd*. My neighbor had an applehead who was about as smart as a package of her name (Skittles) and rather fond of rolling around in the gutter. (To be fair, she was a rescue from a Cairo alleyway, and who the hell knows what had happened to her before my neighbor found her.) We had a yowly brown tabby Meezer mix who was the sweetest little dude ever - and outrageously dumb. He loved to be picked up, and would stick his nose in you ear and purr when he was - while sticking his claws into your shoulder. He also really liked peanuts and cantaloupe seeds.

I miss him.

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trollprincess
2008-04-27 06:16 pm UTC (link)

Oh, yes, if there's one thing I've learned it's that Siamese are barrels of personality. My parents have two who will politely use my dad as a seat, one across his shoulders and one on his knee, as he eats dinner waiting for dinner. I used to have a spoiled Himalayan who caught a bat in my parents' living room. And they have one right now, Tucker, who is also sweet as could be and completely stupid -- he's totally obsessed with this string on a stick that my parents have had forever, and I'm pretty sure that if a robber ever broke into the house, he'd walk right up to the guy and drop the toy in front of him all, "Oh, good, someone new is here to play with me."

My mother haaaaaates that "Siamese cats are mean" stereotype. Every time she talks about it up at the house, she says, "Oh, yeah, they're horribly evil," usually while she's lying on the couch covered in purring happy cats. :)

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airie
2008-04-28 03:15 pm UTC (link)

I am currently in posession of 2 Siamese. One isn't necessarily mean, she's just skittish and a bit arrogant. The other is my baby. Sleeps with me, loves me, plays all cute and innocent. Not the least bitchy to anyone about anything.

It's all dependent on the cat. I hadn't intended to criticize the bitchy one earlier for being Siamese, it's just with the coloring, she looks like a baby seal with her fat butt.

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	selene_avis 2008-04-29 12:38 am UTC (link)
	My dad had a Siamese mix named Abby who was utterly affectionate to people...and would take on any cat or dog that got within fifty feet of her, no matter how big or how many of them there were. She was, at her largest, eight pounds. The people who gave her to my dad had two great danes. They were terrified of Abby. (She mellowed out a bit when she got older, though.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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