Siamese vs regular cats

[Orang Utan]

mine

 

[Bakunin]

mine

Hmmm, excellent pic, methinks.

 

[Orang Utan]

my flatmate has an expensive camera and is rather good at taking photos

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

mine

Quality

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

my flatmate has an expensive camera and is rather good at taking photos

How does he put up with the 900 decibel yowling, though?

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Ha! What a little poser!

 

[Orang Utan]

How does he put up with the 900 decibel yowling, though?

you get used to it. it's rather charming. she has about 17 different miaows that all mean specific things.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

They are definitely more vocal than other cats, they indeed almost have a sort of mini vocabulary. I just dunno if I'd inflict one on a flatmate

When I was a kid the neighbours used to complain about them just miaowing outside our back door in the morning...

 

[Orang Utan]

it's our cat, not just mine

 

[Orang Utan]

anyway, it's the deafening purring and the licking that are annoying, not the miaowing.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh, and if you shave a siamese, its fur will grow back darker (this is why, when spaying a siamese, the vet will go in through the underneath of the cat, rather than its side).

Through careful and regular use of clippers, it may be possible to get monogrammed siamese.

that's not true ime. it grows back normal.

 

[geminisnake]

Selectively-bred Siamese:

My pal's mum has had several of these and to a cat they have been mental. One was wound up by my pal and his mates though (They were young)

Demi was solid and you knew when he sat on your lap The current one is apparently just as stoopid, I've not met him though.

I like siamese cats, not fussed if they're modern or not. We have a normal tortoiseshell though. She was free.

OU's cat is gorgeous. I'm glad I wondered where he's been and checked his posts and found this thread.

 

[DotCommunist]

cats are shit anyway.

 

[Louloubelle]

Cornish Rex

Seal Point Cornish Rex

 

[northernhord]

Siamese cats are truelly the work of the Devil, moaning tempramental fuckers.

 

[Sootysoots]

Siamese cats are butt fugly. Bog standard cats are pure bags of cuggles.

 

[pennimania]

Voted fancy because when I was looking for a Siamese we could only find breeders near us who bred the 'typy' ones.

She is the funniest, most intelligent cat I have ever owned.
But I love my moggies too

 

[fogbat]

that's not true ime. it grows back normal.

Really? I've been lied to by a vet

Boo

I was really excited about the thought of a monogrammed kitty, too

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Voted fancy because when I was looking for a Siamese we could only find breeders near us who bred the 'typy' ones.

She is the funniest, most intelligent cat I have ever owned.
But I love my moggies too

They are so intelligent and funny aren't they? I think you have to own them to appreciate them - just look at the answers to this poll.

 

[Epona]

Really? I've been lied to by a vet

Boo

No you haven't. The colour the body fur grows back after shaving depends on skin temperature - in hot weather/central heating the bald patch of skin will stay warm and the fur will grow back pale, in cold weather the bald patch will be much cooler than the surrounding insulated furry areas and will grow in darker. It isn't permanent though.

ETA: Here's a reputable link (with photo) showing the opposite - a partially shaved Siamese living in a cold climate where the shaved area was kept warm so it grew back paler than the surrounding fur, and an explanation as to why it happens:

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF8/836.html

 

[pengaleng]

ahhhhh

 

[Biddlybee]

That's not a bad looking cat, and I don't like cats... what is it?

Got a really nice shaped nose and huge ears

 

[pengaleng]

If they live somewhere cold they are likely to be a bit darker all over.

my mams one goes lighter in the summer and darker in the winter

 

[pengaleng]

That's not a bad looking cat, and I don't like cats... what is it?

Got a really nice shaped nose and huge ears

lol the clue is in the title of the thread

 

[Biddlybee]

lol the clue is in the title of the thread

yer, but it doesn't look like any of the other pics of siameses that've been posted

Maybe just older and wiser?

 

[pengaleng]

nah hes only a couple of years old now I think, he deffo aint very wise

 

[fogbat]

No you haven't. The colour the body fur grows back after shaving depends on skin temperature - in hot weather/central heating the bald patch of skin will stay warm and the fur will grow back pale, in cold weather the bald patch will be much cooler than the surrounding insulated furry areas and will grow in darker. It isn't permanent though.

ETA: Here's a reputable link (with photo) showing the opposite - a partially shaved Siamese living in a cold climate where the shaved area was kept warm so it grew back paler than the surrounding fur, and an explanation as to why it happens:

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF8/836.html

My faith in vets has been redeemed!

Thank you

 

[fogbat]

ahhhhh

That is one smug-looking cat

 

[teuchter]

My faith in vets has been redeemed!

Thank you

One of the siamese-owners on this thread needs to do some kind of experiment and post pictures of the results.

 

[trabuquera]

One of the siamese-owners on this thread needs to do some kind of experiment and post pictures of the results.

Extra points for whoever manages to produce an accurate reproduction of the U75 logo on a Siamese.