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Nov 25, 2006 at 3:47 PM
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The Twins recommend CATNIP.
Catnip is a nutritous and non-addictive addition to your feline diet. Be happy and stay healthy with as little as 45 minutes of catnipping per day.

Prince Tantra rolls in catnip on luxurious Oriental carpet

Tashi takes his daily dose of inspiration

Catnip-flavored naps

Even their BROTHERS love it.

Ping snuggles with a catnip-infused footie.

Ping Snuggles with Little Footie

Merlin guards his catnip scratcher.

Guardian of catnip scratcher and kitty toys

Catnip will bring you closer to PERFECTION.

Prince Tantra is Perfect already but he loves catnip anyway.

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argh - just when I talked myself *out* of a nap! ;-)

Ping recommends at 18-20 hours of napping per day, and 22 hours of napping on vacations and weekends.

should be "at least 18-20 hours of napping" - Lotus was doing the typing, not me.

sweet.. i could use some of that, too.. :P

one of my friends would get along great with the cats.. we would sleep all the time if he had the chance.. lol.

The Merlin picture is priceless! Love his expression.

mariser replied to Lurkertype’s comment:
Nov 25, 2006
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heh. I agree on Merlin's expression. priceless. and woe be them who try to break in!
littlem, a stupid question, but one that has bothered me for awhile: how can P. Tantra and P. Tashi be twins? they cannot be from the same litter, can they? I'm all confuseshizzled and stuff...

Tashi and Tantra are indeed littermates, so Mama Miao tells me. They must have one Himmie parent and another Siamese parent. Tantra does have some Siamese traits, I think - he has long legs and a sharp nose. I'm no expert, though, so that's my guessing.

Tantra also has a kink in his tail that his floof hides. It's at quite a sharp angle and begins about one inch from his tailtip. Maybe that's part of his Siamese pedigree? I'm making things up now... But they are in truth littermates.

mariser replied to little miao’s comment:
Nov 25, 2006
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thanks for the reply! it is possible, then. is just that P. Tashi is such an exemplar Siamese, and P. Tantra is such...Tantraness, I found it hard to believe. I'd have expected that with a Siamese parent and a Himalayan parent, the kittens would have been more... mixed, perhaps?

Tashi absorbed all the Siameseness, and Tantra got the leftovers. ;) Tantra looked more similar to Tashi until he was a few months old. Before that, his fur was short and he didn't have much of a tail. Tantra was the runt of the litter, I'm told. He was hand-fed a lot of the time, and he looked so homely that no one else wanted him (this is second or third-hand gossip, mind you, I've never seen a kitten that I don't want). I think that explains a lot of Tantra's insecurities, poor thing.

Maybe they have different daddies, one Siameses and one Himmie? But with the tail kink, pointy nose, long legs, and coloring, Tantra's got meezer in him.

Poor Tantroll. He has overcome his early troubles so magnificently, though.

Tantra's like the ugly duckling.

And there's Tantra's plot!

The hand-feeding probably prepared him for being royalty... waited on by his minions...

Time to set the record straight - Tashi insists that I banish the uncertainties in his illustrious history. I spent a good many hours in the house where Tashi and Tantra were born, so I am reporting by direct observation - and correction from Tashi whenever my impressions are a little off. Tashi and Tantra were born to a Himalayan mother and Siamese father. The only adult male cat in that house was the Siamese - he had a harem of 3 Himalayan females. The litter was unusually large - 11 kittens. I visited them, and one of them, a little Boy named Raffi, asked to come home with me (well, they all did, but he was the most insistent). He died two days later. We were all devastated, and the other People wanted to give me another kitten immediately, but I needed to wait 2 months, to be sure that none of my other Boys had been infected, and none of the other kittens were sick. I went to the kittens house, put a little red collar on Tashi, and then returned often to play with him. Gradually, all the other kittens went to new homes except for the runt of the litter, who was called 'the Gizmo' (because when people first saw him they asked ;what is that?'). This is Tantra's darkest secret, and no doubt the source of all his insecurities. He was bottle-fed, and as a small kitten he had short hair with random long tufts sticking out in all directions, and a skinny little bent wire for a tail. By the time the two months were over, he and Tashi were inseparable. I could not bear to leave him alone, and since no one else wanted him, his People gave him to me together with Tashi. All it took was a little love to show him that he was free to become The Most Beautiful Himalayan in the World. (sorry for the length of this, but Tashi insisted)

Awwww, thank you for sharing, Mama Miao! *purry hugs*

i think i'll make your narrative a post soon, if you don't mind :)

what a sweet story about Tantra and Tashi!

Oh, now we see where Little Miao gets her writing talent and love for kitties!

Thanks, Mama Miao, for telling us of the childhood of Prof. Tashi and Prince Tantra. Truly inspirational. Awwww.

[this is good]

Thank you SO much for sharing Tashi and Tantra's tale...and tails (haha, sorry about that).

It's happy and sad all at the same time. Keep up these wonderful stories! :)

They are all so beautiful and each one a perfect little Miao. Cattails. Our two are from the same litter but look so different. It's starting to look like Valley of the Dolls with all the kitty nip,lol. You need to get a Miao sister and name her Neely O'hara like the movie.

lol, DancingBear, they really are leading quite the life aren't they? (I'd love to see more pictures of the kitty-sisters...)

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