couple of questions
do you brush your cats teeth? How often?
Do you bathe your cat? How often?
Which gender of cat is calmer and more affectionate?
I have never brushed my cats teeth, but my newest adoption does have some tartar and he's only a bit over a year old. Since he is a bit confused over boundaries I might get away with brushing his.
I have never bathed any of my current cats. I used to bathe on arrival, to get mites and fleas off, and establish dominance. I'm actually fairly good at bathing a cat, but the oldest of my current cats is Cuchulainn. A pound kitty, he arrived with the name Cupcake, no fur from flea allergy and having been neglected by my neighbor, he tried to remove her thumb when she caught him to give to me. I had to trap him, and this was 2016. He spent 3 months in the fish room, the first 2 in a giant dog crate, while he learned that humans were ok and he didn't need to bite them. He acquired the name Cuchulainn when he was regularly swatting my giant GSD foster as the dog walked past in 2018. Cuchulainn is a Celtic warrior god and the name fits. While he is extremely affectionate now, he appears to be part Maine Coon, and is a master snuggler at 12 or 13 lbs, I do good to get flea drops on him if he sees the tube. If he ever needs medication he will probably die before allowing me to pill him. Forget the toothbrush.
Jackson arrived in November 2020, having been at a friend's rural house when I was working on their pond in August, they said he was dumped. In November I had time to trap him. His ear is tipped because I thought he was feral. After he was fixed he rubbed up against my hand and purred. A year later he got crystals in his bladder so he became a housecat. He highly approves of air conditioning and the new mattress was claimed immediately by him and Cuchulainn.
In June 2022 I got a call about a kitten that needed fostered. He got lost in the rescue system and stuck in a cage by himself with minimal care for a few months. The rescue delivered him, and Mike was quickly renamed Whiskers by my granddaughter. Took me about 6 months and removing the bedframe to get him out of the box springs in the fish room. But now he is a sweet confused boy who might let me brush his teeth. And he might need them brushed.