I am all that is Dom.

[graceanne]

Wow, now that is just sad.

Yeah. I had this cat, a huge torty, who we got from my sisters neighbor. She'd been hit by a car (the cat - not the neighbor), and the neighbor was going to have her put down because she didn't want to deal with nursing her back to health. I agreed to take her because the vet said that the damage was so great that she couldn't get pregnant again (we couldn't afford to get a cat fixed). HA! She had three litters of eight kittens each over the next few years. All healthy, and she was a wonderful mother. However, the first time she got pregnant after her accident she miscarried one of the kittens (she had the other seven just fine). In the hallway. In the middle of the night. And I found the dead kitten. With. My. Foot.

 

[Betticus]

Ok, so far I'm still alive and that cat still knows that she's not the alpha in this house. No weird "gifts" left for me to find, no clawing or biting...

Of course I'm not going to just pretend like this whole life thing can stagnate because I know in a few months or years I'll have gained more experience and won't be exactly the person I am today. It's an ongoing kind of a thing and if you stop learning and declare yourself done you'll never be more than that and rob yourself of your full potential.

Cat domming aside.