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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

I am spending my Sunday afternoon carrying boxes out of 18 DS bedroom. He moved out over a month ago...has not communicated with us, not talked to us, ignores us at football practice. Totally snubbing us. So middle DS is taking over his bedroom and middle son's bedroom is becoming a family exercise room. I am right now takng a break. Everything is packed...it is just moving it out and into a storage shed. I'm tired. Physically and emotionally. DH is not good about talking to me so it is you guys that I am sharing my feelings with.

 

[Ogress]

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[hallerlake]

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Look up rag dolls on the internet. My experience is they look like a long haired siamese. I am not sure if they are a true breed or not...but they are super friendly and tolerable cats. But I don't know if they are hypoallergenic.

My sister is an allergist. There are a couple of lines of cats that were bred to have no dander. They are VERY expensive. Otherwise, individual cats (and dogs) are more allergenic or less allergenic, not breeds.

These are genetically modified. http://www.allerca.com/html/pricingreserve.html

http://cats.about.com/od/allergiesandcats/tp/CatAllergies_Breeds.htm

 

[hallerlake]

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I'm sorry. I hope when grows more mature, he'll get over it.

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Look up rag dolls on the internet. My experience is they look like a long haired siamese. I am not sure if they are a true breed or not...but they are super friendly and tolerable cats. But I don't know if they are hypoallergenic.

We have a Cornish Rex and he's so funny. He's really old now but I have allergies and can do just fine with him

 

[Zgoatlady]

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Oh Im so sorry, kids can be such S==== some times. You know he will grow up and than come and say sorry, but it does hurt a lot until than.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Im sorry honey. Stay strong, and vent away whenever you need too.

 

[Kaneke]

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nope, not a Manx

bobcats have been known to breed with domestic cats -- some of those are the foundation stock behind the cats being bred as "pixie bobs" ... the breeders call the crosses "Legend Cats" since apparently no one has actually SEEN the matings, merely the offspring

(one strain of which originated right around here --- and that breeder really wanted Rug for her breeding program but he had already been neutered before he adopted us ... just showed up during a storm one night; one of our neighbors had been feeding him but quit because Rug sprayed on everything)

am sure this one was part bobcat because of his very large and muscular hind legs, his "chops", and his personality -- he walked like a wild cat (not a feral but a true wild), was intensely devoted to two of us and would not speak to anyone else (hid in the brambles when he wasn't right with us in the house) --- and his coloration was unusual, basic orange tabby BUT with aquamarine eyes --- not Siamese type blue, not white housecat type blue -- only other cat I ever saw with eyes like that was a cougar

There has now beeen genetic testing done on pixie-bobs and they contain no DNA from bobcats.

the pixie bobs don't have "wild" DNA because for some reason even the first generation crosses don't DNA-test as wild

this was extensively researched by the breeders because it's illegal to own a cat with "wild" DNA without all sorts of licenses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie-bob

 

[cheryl98117]

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It's one of those things that I remember and then think "that sounds like something out of a horror movie." The dogs belonged to some people who had just moved into a McMansion up on the ridge (I've taken Hallerlake through there to look at the ridiculous lack of landscape design and distinguished architecture) in a neighborhood with covenants against building fences or kennels, who'd "moved to the country so their dogs would have room to roam." My way of looking at it, if you want your dogs to roam the countryside, use your money to buy a good chunk of countryside and fence your dogs in, don't buy a 5000 sq ft three bedroom four car garage house on a half-acre lot with no fences and let them roam land you don't own.

Amen....totally agree.

X2!!! I have 3 dogs, and 3 acres. My dogs dont leave the fenced in yard unless they are with me or my DH! My mother, "who is my neighbor," will let my dogs out, and then imediately get her rear end chewed out for it! I don't agree with loose dogs. Let them run in a fully properly fence pasture, but not out where they can get to other people's property.

 

[Kaneke]

Ragdolls do have considerable Siamese background in their lineage; I believe there is also some Turkish Angora --- their fur is fine and soft but does not mat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragdoll

but hypoallergenic? no way ...

it depends also on what the allergy is triggered by ... the dried saliva on the cat's fur, the fur itself, or the dead skin cells shed by the cat (all are components of "dander") --- and it can also have a psychological component

some people have found they can tolerate cats if the cats are bathed and brushed often (by someone else) and their preferred bedding is changed daily --- many cats hate to get wet but some actually like it --- I have pictures of Caitie-cat standing in a deep puddle playing in the water ... and she is the one who chose to get into it ... (she was 3/4 Russian Blue)