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Sabini ~ F1 Safari Cat ~ 3 Months
Sabini is a kitten who LOVES to eat. If his chattering "meow" doesn't wake me up in the morning, he will find my ear lobe to suck on until I get him his breakfast. Then during breakfast (and every meal) he alternates between burying his face in his food to suckle, and gnawing his food off the plate, as if it were meat on a bone. Once he has cleaned his plate he proceeds to the nearest human, usually me, but sometimes Brad, and "thanks" them for his meal. I used to think he was just climbing in my lap to try to be affectionate and give me kisses, but I've learned that his ulterior motive is to use me as a human napkin to clean his face and whiskers.
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He's also a very bright kitten. My husband and I were discarding the crust of a pizza in a pizza box. Sabini decided that he wanted to eat the leftovers, so he proceeded to try all different ways of opening the box. I was amazed that he quickly learned to open the box, and he would have succeeded in eating the scraps if it weren't for us meddling people. We quickly carted the box to a cabinet out of his reach...for now.
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Sabini at 4 Months
We love him dearly, and I think he loves us just as much. He often lets us hold him like a baby, and he'll reach his paws up and touch our faces to pull them closer. Then he purrs really loudly and will sometimes kiss our noses.
A lot of times when we sit down to watch a DVD, I will sit in the recliner. He always likes to perch on the back of the chair behind me, and a lot of the time he'll rest his head on top of mine.
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His appetite has returned to normal (anywhere from 3 - 5 cans/day.) Maybe he was just going through a growth spurt when he was eating 10 cans/day. Who knows? He is still rather finicky though. If I get too much dry mixed in, he looks at the plate and looks up at me as if to say "This isn't MY food."
I've trained him rather well as far as table manners though. I won't give him his food until he's sitting nicely. So, he's learned the command "Sit." And he sits patiently without prompting when Brad and I are eating something he wants. (i.e. chicken, beef etc.) I try to reward him for good behavior every now and then. It's a lot better than the first week when we had a friend over and he jumped into her plate!
Please be patient as the slide show of Sabini loads
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Sabini ~ 6 Months |
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Sabini likes to perch up high, maybe it's due to his Geoffrey's cat ancestry. One of his favorite places to perch is on my shoulders or Brad's. He's quite content to lay across our shoulders as we walk around the house....until he spies some place higher where he'd like to jump. It's kind of a nice shoulder massage for us since he's constantly purring when he's around us.
He doesn't always have to be up high though, often he's quite content to just relax with the other cats on the floor.
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The little toy mice are some of his favorite toys. He'll play fetch for 30 minutes at a stretch. You can pretty much tell when he's about to give up playing fetch because he starts panting pretty heavily from all the running, jumping, and leaping to get the mouse in a timely manner and bring it back. We have to buy the little mice more than we used to, because he tends to strip them of their hides when we're not around to play fetch. I'm wondering if this is because he needs to chew on things for his new teeth coming in, or if it's something that will continue or not. We'll see.
Bini's also become quite adept at jumping from counter to counter. Which is fine when we're playing with toys, but I've had to learn to growl at him or spray him with a pet deodorizer to keep him down when I'm preparing food. Either that, or I give him something to eat first to keep him occupied.
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