Living With The Cat - Chapter 5

Under all possible domestic cats, the race of the Maine Coon is without any doubt the biggest! There are Maine Coons with a weight of over 15 kilograms and a length over all including the bushy tail of more than one meter. Whenever people visit me, they are impressed with my cat Gino. And he is not fat at all. He is just big and full of mussels. I can leave the front door wide open. Nobody would come into my patio. Even the dogs of our street respect him and stay away.

It was a big change for Gino, when we came from Middle Europe to Brazil six years ago, but now he got very well acclimatized. As there is no winter time, he doesn't show this wonderful winter coat and the very impressive mane, but he is still a semi longhair with a very different coat to all other cats here around. It was not at all the first time, we moved. I always had a life like a gypsy. This kind of life only a Maine Coon can accept.

Because there is something very special about Maine Coons. Normally cats have their territory and they really do not mind that much, who opens the tins for them. Maine Coons are different, they don't grow any deeper connection to the territory, but they have a firm connection to their owner. By the way, I never had the impression to be the owner of my cat. He is staying with me, because he likes the way I am treating him. I can take my cat, visit a friend or go out for fishing, he loves to travel or go by car. Whatever we do, it is all right, when we are together. He is not depending on me, but he is the kind of an adventurous cat. Of course I can leave him at home, but I always tell him: "I'll be back in some hours." ... or tomorrow.

I had heard about a woman, who had a Maine Coon in Germany and after five years she gave the cat away to another neighbor, because she had to move to another city. Just fourteen days later, the Maine Coon died. Reason was a broken heard.

Another thing special I experienced is that people suffering from cat allergies never had problems with Gino. Maine Coons have special oil, which coats their fur.

So if you are interested to buy a Maine Coon, be aware what you are going to do. This race lives almost twenty years. When your kids are grown up, the cat is still there and still trying to be your good friend.

Regine Hehn is a cats enthusiast and practitioner. She owns and maintains New Cat Care.

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Living With The Cat - Chapter 4

In reality I think there is no such choice like. Do I buy a rabbit or am I going to buy a chicken. Am I interested in a cat or a dog? You should feel deep inside of you, what attracts you. Many people have both, as well the cat and the dog. It works fine, takes some time, but they learn to live with each other.

I always hear people say, yes cat and dog can live together, but only when they get accustomed to it, when they are still young. This is not so! My cat for example is nine years old, 15 kilogram and a real big Maine Coon male. Just two month ago my wife and I married and we moved together. Her pet was a dachshund. Almost 10 years old and it was said, he doesn't like cats at all. My wife thought, we might have a big problem lying ahead.

Well I can tell everybody interested, only two month have passed, and they cannot live one without the other, they are lying in the sun together, they are having their meals together, they run about in the green grass around the swimming pool and are having a lot of fun.

Of course it was not all like that in the first days. First the dog thought, there was the cat, he always wanted to hunt. But the cat thought: This is my territory and I am not going to run away from this dog. They both had to learn a lesson. As hunting the cat did not work, the dog, his name is Dundee ate all the cat food, what made the cat very angry, but he still showed a lot of patience. Then Dundee put his entire body odor in the cats cushion. Now the Maine Coon, his name is Gino thought, enough is enough.

At the next attack of Dundee, Gino did not move one centimeter. Dundee started barking, but Gino only put himself in an upright position to defense himself better. Dundee approached more and still barking a little bit more. Then he was to close and Gino, the cat attacked very quick and very effective. The dachshund's nose was bleeding a little bit. Dundee was more than only surprised. The next days he went around the cat in a respectful distance. Then day by day the cat got used to the dog. The distances diminished more and more. Dundee came little by little so close; he finally could put his nose in the bushy tail of the cat.

Dundee never again attacked Gino and Gino allowed the dog to smell at him. One morning, when I woke up early, they both were laying one aside the other on my terrace in front of my living room.

Regine Hehn is a cat care enthusiast and practitioner. She owns and maintains New Cat care.

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Dr. Suess and the Cat in the Hat Story

Born Theodor Suess Geisel in March 1904 in Massachusetts, America; Dr Suess never earned a Ph.D rather he simply took the title 'Dr' in acknowledgement of his family's unfulfilled hopes of him earning a doctorate in literature during his time at Oxford University. It was during his time at Oxford that he wed and it was later that same year 1927, that he and his new wife Helen returned to America.

On his return to the States he began to develop his career by writing and illustrating humorous articles and cartoons which were published by various magazine titles. It is on his return from a vacation in Europe that Geisel gets the idea for his first poem 'And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street', the tempo of which was set whilst he listened to the beat of the ships engines.

This poem was to become his first book but was repeatedly rejected by publishers and was only printed when a friend finally stepped in to help. The war years saw Dr Suess turn his attention back to political cartoons producing over 400 in a two year period. Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood where he wrote a number of propaganda films winning an Academy Award for best Documentary in 1947 for the film Design for Death. Away from military propaganda his short animated movie 'Gerald McBoing-Boing' also won him an Oscar.

His popular childrens works evolved principally from an article which appeared in Life magazine in May 1954. The article was a report on literacy standards of school children and identified that the low levels of literacy attainment were primarily as a direct result of their books being boring. Spurred by the article, Geisel's publisher created a list of 400 words which he forwarded to Geisel with the challenge to reduce the list to 250 and then create a work that would retain the interest of the reader. Despite disliking the fact that the words included in the list were based on the sight vocabulary learning method commonly used in schools (and not supported by Geisel); nearly a year later, he completed The Cat in the Hat, a masterpiece that used only 223 of the words provided yet displayed all of the imaginative prowess of his earlier works.

The book became an instant success due not only to it's simplified vocabulary but also to Geisel's simple drawing style. The Cat in the Hat story is about two children and their talking goldfish who are left alone in the house when their parents go out. As it is raining, they are left inside with nothing to do. Enter The Cat in the Hat with Thing One and Thing Two and whilst attempting to amuse and cheer the children up all manner of chaos results.

This is the first appearance of the Cat in the Hat character who appeared again in four further books: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The Cat in the Hat Song Book, The Cat’s Quizzer, and I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!.

The Cat in the Hat books have become treasured children’s stories that have retained their popularity for more than five decades. This popularity has been boosted further by the release of a major motion picture in 2003 which starred Mike Myers cast in the title character and the adoption of the Dr Seuss characters and settings by Universal Studios in its Orlando amusement park. The movie of the Cat in the Hat followed the 2000 release of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas', which starred Jim Carey as The Grinch. Due to its unending popularity, and the large amount of material available; The Cat in the Hat and the other Dr Seuss characters are great choices for the theme of a children’s party.

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