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"My name's Shamrock. It was my 'adopt me' name, & I think it's because of my lovely green eyes. I'm a lucky, loving Turkish Angora! I'm deaf, but I love to purr when my Meowmy cuddles with me. I love to spend time in Meowmy's music studio, looking out "
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"I'm a traveling cat! Meowmy & Purrdaddy took me - just ME! - to the beach for New Year's 2009! I enjoyed watching squirrels through the windows and, of course, taking peaceful only-cat-catnaps. Purrrrr...."
Coloration: White
Likes: Cuddling, being stroked and giving head butts - just being wherever his Meowmy is. He follows me from room to room. If I'm on the computer, he sleeps on the desk beside me. He just loves being with people!
Pet-Peeves: Not knowing where Meowmy is; the other cats not wanting to play with him.
Favorite Toy: Anything he can bat with his front paws - it doesn't have to be a toy - pieces of paper work just fine.
Favorite Nap Spot: Wherever the sun happens to be shining and it's warm! If there's no sun to be found, he'll nap as close to one of his humans as he can get.
Favorite Food: Anything that comes from a can...he just gobbles it down. He also loves Pounce treats.
Skills: Shamrock is the world's champion of headbutts! He is very intense when he rubs against my hair, purring loudly.
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: We adopted Shamrock as a rescue cat. He needed a home, and we needed him! Shamrock was rescued from a pound after being picked up as a stray. Can you imagine such a gorgeous kitty being out in the big world, all alone? Shivers! But he has a loving, forever home now!
Bio: Shamrock is a large cat, the biggest we have, if not the heaviest in weight. His eyes are mesmerizing - the most gorgeous green I've seen in man or beast! His white fur is so soft that you can barely feel it when you're petting him. His fur reminds me of a chinchilla I held once.
Shammy is very loving cat! He likes nothing better than to be stroked and petted. I've read that Turkish Angoras are very affectionate, and Shamrock definitely has that trait! I've never had a more loving kitty. Shamrock asks only to be with his mommy. He follows me from room to room, like a big fuzzy puppy dog. He'll sit beside me for hours while I'm reading or watching TV, content just to be with me.
Update:
The first week we had Shammy, we noticed that he never noticed when we called and that he slept right through loud noises and our calling him. We began to wonder if he might be deaf. We took him back to the vet.
The vet had his assistant distract Shamrock while he dropped all sort of things on the metal table where Shammy was sitting. Shammy didn't react to anything until he dropped a metal container on the floor. He heard that!
The vet told me that Shamrock has some hearing but probably not much.
Of course, he'll always be an indoor kitty so it really doesn't matter much to us! We'll just be extra careful with this very special cat.
The longer we've had Shammy, the more we love him. He's very unique, partly due to his deafness, we think. He's extremely vocal - I say he talks to himself! He's always muttering, mewing, or crying loudly. He cries mostly when he doesn't know where I am. He loves to play, but the other kitties - mainly Sheba, the cat he's with most of the time - don't always share his goal of playing chase. They hiss, which of course, he can't hear. Shammy continues to play chase, and often we have much flying of fur as a consequence. So Shammy's mommy and daddy play with him as much as we possibly can.
Lives Remaining: 8 of 9
Forums Motto: White is Beautiful!
The Groups I'm In: !!!!!!!Rescued Pets!!!!!!!!!, !!!The group for disabled and/or cat rescue cats!!!, "Cats Raised In The South", ♥White as snow♥, ♥ Love that Pet ♥, ADOPTED....from a No-Kill Animal Rescue League, Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary Group, Catservatives, Deaf Cats, Deaf Kitties of America (D.K.A.), Flower Felines, Friends of the Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, I HELPED JASPER AND JILLIAN GET TO THEIR FURR-EVER HOME 21-22/7/07, Pen Paws, Special Needs Cats, The Catster and Dogster Railroad, Turkish Angoras
The Last Forum I Posted In: Purrs would be great right now.
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I's so very 'cited! It's my birthday today - July 24!!!!! Hooray!!!
Truthfully, we doesn't know my REAL birthday. This is just the day Meowmy picked fur my birthday. I don't care 'cause a birthday's wonderful no matter what!!
I has a new sisfur, too. Her name is Majik. She's very opposite from me. Here's why:
Majik is black all over. I's white all over 'cept fur my black spot on the tip-top of my head.
Majik can hear and I's deaf.
Majik is little. I's a big kitty!
Majik is quiet and shy. I's very outgoing.
I thinks I likes her though. She seems kind of scared of me. She opens her mouth and stares at me a lot. I think she's doing somethin' called 'hissing' but I doesn't know what that means. You has to open your mouth to do it, though. Maybe she's scared of me 'cause I's so much bigger. I'd never hurt her, though. She's a very pretty sisfur.
I have some birthday wishes. Here they are:
1. I wishes for lots and lots of cat treats! Salmon flavor!
2. I wishes for my angel sisfur Darcy to be happy there at the Bridge. I misses her lots and lots and lots.
3. I wishes for my new sisfur Majik to like me. Maybe by my next birthday, she will!
4. I wishes to go on another trip with Meowmy soon. I loves bein' a travelin' cat!!
5. For all my Catster furriends, I wishes 9+ lives and much health and happiness...and a furever home for California cat Charley and all the other kitties needing furever homes. Charley is here:
www.catster.com/cats/1015030
Last week, Meowmy woke me up early one morning and coaxed me in the cat carrier.
At first, I thought we wuz goin' to the vet's office, 'cause that's usually why us kitties gets put in the carriers. But after all the doors wuz closed, she opened the carrier door and I knew we wuzn't goin' to the vet's. We wuz goin' on a trip!!!! (I's a very good travelin' cat. I lies in my carrier and sleeps, even with the door open. Meowmy just leaves it open 'cause I's a very big Turkish Angora and it's a little cramped in there!)
I loves to travel and this time, it wuz just ME AND MEOWMY!!! I had her all to myself!!!
We rode a long time. I dozed and slept fur a LONG time. When Meowmy stopped, I woke up a little, but before long I was catnappin' again. She fed me cat treats and gave me water and even a bit of ice cream. Mmmmmm!!!! That's GOOD!
Finally, the car stopped and I knew we wuz there. It smelled familiar, and I knew right away where we wuz. Meowmy and Purrdaddy have a small condo on an island called Jekyll Island. It's a wonderful place!
For three whole days, Meowmy and I wuz together! She read her books and I cuddled beside her on the couch. Meowmy fed the squirrels and birdies and I gots to watch them through the sliding glass door. There are lots and lots of live oak trees around our condo and that's good news fur me 'cause it means LOTS of squirrels and birdies to watch!
Best of all, any time I wanted Meowmy to love on me - give me headbonks or scratch my face and ears - she was right there! No brofurs and sisfurs needing her, too. Just ME!!!!!!
Of course, all good things ends, and too soon, we wuz headin' home. But even though I's a deaf white cat, I heard Meowmy sayin' we's goin' back soon!!! Just us!!!
I's been thinkin' a lot this week 'cause it's gettin' close to my favorite holiday - St. Patrick's Day!!!!
(With a name like SHAMROCK, how could it not be my favorite??)
There's sayings about havin' the 'luck of the Irish' and finding lucky four-leaf-clovers.
I don't think I need a four-leaf-clover for luck 'cause I's already the luckiest cat in the world!
Want to know why?
I's a deaf cat, but I thinks I's lucky. I don't hear scary sounds like the roar of the monster machine Meowmy uses to pick up dust and dirt from the carpet. (Brofur Bo Cat sez it's a fearsome sound! He runs for safety in the basement whenever it rears its ugly head.) I also doesn't hear scary sounds like thunder and the doorbell. (My sisfur Seven hates the doorbell 'cause it means a stranger might be comin' inside!)
I's also lucky 'cause even tho I's deaf, I found the best furever home! Meowmy found me online on a rescue website then came to Petsmart to visit me. She sez she fell in love with me right away!!!! Isn't that lucky?? (Yes, I hears Meowmy even tho I's deaf.)
In my family, I have lots of brofurs and sisfurs and I loves them! Well, sometimes we fusses, but there's seldom any fur flying. I loves my sisfur Darcy so much. She's such a sweet kitten and loves to cuddle up with me. I grooms the tip top of her head where she can't reach. When I wuz an unloved stray, I dreamed of having a real furever family, and now I do!!!! Isn't that lucky????
We has our own screen porch! It looks out over the woods and the hills out back. I loves to sit there in the sunshine and watch the birds fly across the blue sky. There's a big hawk that sometimes darts down and catches a mousie! I can watch bugs fly, too, and deer wander down to drink at the creek. So I's an indoor kitty who can go outside - almost! That's definitely lucky!
I has plenty of food to eat and fresh clean water to drink. I'm warm at night and safe and loved. Meowmy brushes my fur and keeps it shining and pretty. I know I'm in my furever home...furever!
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