[Sca-cooks] Re: calling female cats

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 Devra at aol.com wrote:

> Isn't it usually fruitless to call cats anything except "Dinner's here"?
>
> OTOH, I believe that high-class female cats kept for breeding are often
> referred to as 'queens'.
>
> Devra (running for lunch, if not the rock)
>

Actually, 'queen' is the term for any female cat of kittenbearing years
who is capable of the process. An intact boy cat of kittensiring years is
a tom. I don't think there's a specific term for a neutered or spayed cat,
except maybe 'cat'.

OB Food content: I bought some "natural" cat food this weekend including a
small can of what the label informs me is "Seafood Platter". The
ingredients are "Four different kinds of seafood, vegetable jelly (various
gums including guar gum, I think), vitamin #1, vitamin#2." I had a
cheeseburger and a salad for dinner. My cats had fish in aspic.

My cats are spoiled.

Margaret