oh, heheheh.... Weezie is named for two reasons.
1) I was reading a book at the time with a character Weezy, short for Louise BTW....
2) when we got her home last January, she was the only kitten left in her litter, because she was very timid. Tippy had suddenly died, not long after Sheba (24) passed in Oct 2010... and I was so upset, and there were NO kittens anywhere....etc etc. Well, Weez never meows... when we brought her home, she went ...
Weeeeeeoooooo instead. If I asked to play she'd squeal and go wheeeeee... She still does this, but a bit less. It took a week to name her. So in effect she named herself. She only weighed one pound and a half, and was the second smallest runt in that litter.
I wanted to call her Teeny... but hubby said NOPE... "think ahead" And now a year later she is ginormously huge... She is all black and shiny with huge eyes...just like a Bombay breed. She is quite spectacular now. She is semi feral, with a outside daddy and inside kitty Mom. She is less demonstrative than Houdini, but she seems very devoted, and comes when called, etc. She is more independent now, but when little and younger was very attached to me. Now she has Houdini, and both seem happy and enjoy each other! Took him 2 weeks to make friends.
We have discovered a new dry food....My son recommended it.
Weez has lost a bit of her "fundamental back end" on it too.
It is Blue Buffalo Wilderness for cats... grain free. The formula is reflective of new research coming out which you can now find on the net from Vet schools. Cats develop intestinal inflammation from grains and carbs in general they can't digest them. This formula uses sweet potatoes instead and not in high amounts. It is 40% or so protein.
All 3 of ours, including the mysterious ill Oreo, who is outliving the cancer diagnosis, (which we now wonder if it is legitimate), eat this new kibble heartily. It is not the main food, as they get chicken, shrimp, turkey on occasion, and canned food too.
To raise a cat to be the best they can be, they have to have a kernel of tameness. I won't adopt a wild cat. I want a pet who can learn and participate in our home, play, and manage our vacation home on the island. So they have to enjoy being held, not be hissy spitty, over little things, things like that. Weez was very very timid, and no one wanted her. But timid is okay, may not get into scrapes outside or upNorth, so I don't mind timid.
She took endless attention and rewarding for doing a "good job" at anything. She does fetch but doesn't jump much. Houdini jumps runs, climbs, and fetchs a little, but is the exact opposite.
Weez does like to hunt but we have not seen her kill anything, and does not eat the prey either (unlike Oreo is known to do).
They all have very different personalities, and some of that core behavior appears inherited IMO. So don't feel like a failure with your last cat. It was probably a core thing going on there.
Cats love to be paid attention to...even if you don't realize it.
The more you put into them, the more you get back that might surprise you. I don't know why Houdini is so different from his litter mates... they all lived outside in a dog house with straw on the owners back deck. Each time I get a new cat (ours tend to live a LONG time--so it is not often), I get the feeling, it was predestined in some way. A woman preceded me at Houdini's house, and she took a cute female and disdained him. And really he was the "special one"...so it seemed we were destined too. Each situation was involved with pain, or grief, or changing one's mind, or whatever. But in the end, that cat always turned out "special".
