Trans Cat

[Bruce H]

A member of my household has gone trans. It is my cat, Sage. She has rejected her birth assignment species and has transitioned to human. She refuses to live out under the carport with the other cats. Instead she insists on living in the house and sleeping in a real bed, under the covers even.She won't eat cat food. And never catches a mouse. Instead she jumps on the table and eats human food. She does not want to stay out all night and fight with the neighborhood cats like my other cats do. But when one of the carport cats comes in the house she will stalk it and attack it. I have realized that it is better not to try to change her, but instead to accept her for who she is.

[floyd]

Hopefully she won't be allowed to vote until she is 18 years old.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by floyd

Hopefully she won't be allowed to vote until she is 18 years old.

I’m sure a cat that smart would cast an informed ballot. Course she’ll need an ID here in Iowa to make sure she was born in the USA.
Iowa Dave

[Justus C]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

I’m sure a cat that smart would cast an informed ballot. Course she’ll need an ID here in Iowa to make sure she was born in the USA.
Iowa Dave

Your naturalized cats can't vote in Iowa?

[Iowa Dave]

They can as long as they bring their voter ID card to the polls.
Dave

[Glenn Baglo]

Is that cat yet another billionaire?

[Jim G. - Ohio]

What you have is a "spoiled" cat. It may be hard to retrain it to be a normal cat, but you could try.

[Dave Fish]

Originally Posted by Jim G. - Ohio

What you have is a "spoiled" cat. It may be hard to retrain it to be a normal cat, but you could try.

"Normal cat" is an oxymoron. If you don't think so, drop by our sticks & bricks. We have taken a couple on road trips.

[Justus C]

Originally Posted by Jim G. - Ohio

What you have is a "spoiled" cat. It may be hard to retrain it to be a normal cat, but you could try.

In such situations, ask yourself "Is the juice worth the squeeze?"

If you've ever squeezed a cat, you know the answer.

[mgfreeman]

I'm 81 years old. Raised on a farm. Brought a barn cat into the house when I was about three years old and said, "This is my cat". In retrospect, I should have learned right then how much my mother really loved me, because animals of any sort, in that era, were simply not permitted in a German household. She let me keep the cat as a house pet.

Ultimately, I've been priviledged to have many, many cats live in our household. I was even put in charge of a colony of cats who were working for the U.S. Air Force at one location in the 1960s.

Bruce H: A member of my household has gone trans. It is my cat, Sage. She has rejected her birth assignment species and has transitioned to human. She refuses to live out under the carport with the other cats. Instead she insists on living in the house and sleeping in a real bed, under the covers even.She won't eat cat food. And never catches a mouse. Instead she jumps on the table and eats human food. She does not want to stay out all night and fight with the neighborhood cats like my other cats do. But when one of the carport cats comes in the house she will stalk it and attack it. I have realized that it is better not to try to change her, but instead to accept her for who she is.

mgfreema: I'm not sure why you raised this issue. Our cats have, and still do, travel all over the U.S. with us. Because I traveled a lot for business in the past as a bachelor, I limited myself to two cats at a time. (Traveling with two cats is roughly equivelent of traveling with two one-year-old humans.) YOu apparently only have one cat, Sage, who will travel with you.

It sounds to me as though you have a dedicated house cat. (I could even say you have a "devoted" house cat, but "devoted" to a cat is much different then we thnk of it). What are you asking? Do you not like some or all of the things Sage is doing?

[Doctor Harold]

Originally Posted by Bruce H

A member of my household has gone trans. It is my cat, Sage. ......

I think you named Sage appropriately. She sounds wise.

I have a Jack Russell Terrier that I'm sure thinks she's human. She also sleeps on my bed under the covers, and eats mostly people food because I share. She loves brie but won't eat mozzarella, go figure.

I think she believes she's telepathic and I'm defective because I don't always understand the thoughts she is beaming at me.

We all adapt.

--Harold