The misunderstood Siamese cat
I’ve had many Siamese cats, they come in many colors,
but are born white. I have been blessed enough to have had
a Seal Point, Chocolate Point, Blue Point and the beautiful Lilac
Point.
They all squint in the sunlight, but because their eyes are so light
that it hurts their eyes. They also had a kink in their tails.
This breed has been misslabeled High maintenance, not so. Keep plenty of toys
around. Bored cat, Naughtiness may occur.
These lovely animals have been accused of aggressiveness and
difficult to train. They are smart, too smart and easily trained to
play fetch.
They are assertive, not aggressive. We had a 110 lb doberman
who sat at the side of my baby’s crib. He would whine and whine
because my 10 lb Lilac Siamese cat kept backing him down. David
and Goliath much?
They are too noisy. Wrong. They are verbal and like to chatter
to you. They get lonely if they don’t know where you are and call to you.
They like and demand attention but you will never find a more
loving and devoted friend.
The myth I was told was:
Once upon a time in the ancient kingdom of Siam (Now Thailand)
there was a terrible war. When all the men of went off to defend their
country, they left behind a male and a female Siamese cat to guard
a sacred golden goblet. it was legend that it had once been used by
the Buddha.
After a romantic few days of doing as cats do when left to
their own devices, the male, bored of his guard duties, wandered off
to look for further pleasures. The female, who was now pregnant,
was left alone to guard the goblet. Overwhelmed with this responsibility,
she wrapped her tail around the goblet’s stem and fixed her eyes on
it so that she wouldn’t lose sight of it. She waited and stared,
stared and waited, and hoped that the men would return before
her kittens were due. With all that staring, her eyes developed
a squint and her tail became permanently bent from holding on
to the goblet stem. The men didn’t return, and eventually, of
course, the kittens could wait no longer. They were finally born.
And all of them had inherited their mother’s crossed eyes and
kinked tail. And to this very day, there are still some Siamese
cats born with crossed eyes and kinked tails.
(Those traits have mostly been bred out of them.)
That’s the way I heard it.
Blessed be
Garnet
