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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

1035.0. "Like Mother/Father, Like Daughter/Son" by FIDDLE::GERRY (Go ahead, make me PURRR...) Tue Jan 12 1988 15:59

    I'm wondering if any Feliners here, especially the breeders, notice
    that kittens take on many of the personality/character traites of
    their parents.  I have noticed this with kitties I have raised,
    but figured it was more because of how I raised them and the closeness
    they have to both mother and father kitty than the personalities
    actually being handed down genetically.  
    
    But, after seeing a litter of Fire's babies by an outside queen
    (female I don't own or whom doesn't live with me) it was like watching
    a bunch of mini-Fire's!!!  And not so much by their looks, although
    that was apparent, but more by the gestures they made, the looks
    on their faces, and some of the personal habits I have been told
    about.  
    
    Any comments...
    
    purrs
    cin
    
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1035.1BUSY::MAXMIS11Serendipity 'R' usTue Jan 12 1988 16:1915
    My Aby Toastie has a funny habit.  She likes nothing better than
    to lie on her back in a soft chair and hang her head and sholders
    backwards off the edge of the seat.  She then has a full panoramic
    view of the room *upside-down*, and her front paws are stretched
    upward and outward at an odd looking angle.  Sometimes she falls 
    asleep this way and when she's half asleep she'll start to stretch 
    and before she realizes it - she falls off the chair head first 
    (and upside-down)!  WELLLLL, a woman to whom I sold one of Toasties 
    kittens sent me a picture of him (wow! is he beautiful!) doing the 
    very same trick off the edge of their sofa.  I got a big laugh out of
    it.  The woman also indicated that her cat often will fall off the
    sofa while asleep that way. 
    
    Marion
         
1035.2VIDEO::TEBAYNatural phenomena invented to orderTue Jan 12 1988 18:199
    When breeding I did noticed that indeed some things were from
    the genes-voices in particular. I also noticed that kittens
    did mimic their moms(and sometimes dad when he was around).
    
    I have two boys from the same litter and they share many of the
    same traits but very different personalites. Hard to decide which
    is learned and which is truly gentic.
    
    
1035.3Good NoteTOXMAN::MECLERFRANKTue Jan 12 1988 18:3910
    Witch has always played soccer with me using a plastic golf ball.
    Witch didn't play with her kittens (too exhausted).  Her daughter,
    Banshee, has "inherited" the soccer habit.  When I'm shaving, I'll
    feel a golf ball hit my foot. When I kick it back toward Banshee,
    she'll catch it and send it back toward my feet.  This game goes
    on until I get tired of it.
    
    She has inherited her father's love of tummy rubs.
    
    Frank 
1035.4personalities, plusGEMVAX::GRANTWed Jan 13 1988 15:5413
    Yes, yes, yes! All three kittens have taken on some of the traits
    of Mom/Dad. Some kittens have taken more from Mom, some have taken
    more from Dad. And this is all while they keep their own individual
    personalities.
    
    The funniest thing is to see Sly (Dad) sitting in his "tank" 
    position -- front legs curved in and tucked against his chest, back
    legs totally under his belly -- with Paws (daughter) sitting next
    to him, in exactly the same position.  
    
    Marleen 
    
     
1035.5Runs in the family I guess!JULIET::CORDESBRO_JOFri Jun 24 1988 22:169
    I have my own male Birman now and I have noticed that he keeps his
    tail moving even when he is asleep.  At first I thought that he
    was agitated or something because he never would stop moving his
    tail.  I talked to his breeder and she says his father is like that.
    
    Last month I went to Salt Lake City for a show and ran into a half
    sister of Kalliste.  She didn't stop twitching her tail all weekend!
    
    Jo