Thread: Hi there

Hello Pieface and welcome. I'm a new MC owner too and I've found all these guys to be very helpful. Mickey looks very cute! Yes you're right about the cat tower! You need something that starts on the ground floor of your house, goes through the ceiling then finishes (with a bed on top) on the first floor!! To mirror what's been mentioned Tigga towers are awesome, but they are a small fortune. I have purchased one of their beds which sits on top of a wide diameter scratching post purchased from a different site on the the web. If I ever get more money I'll upgrade to one of Tigga Towers scratching posts and bases too.... Unless my make shift creation stands the test of time. X

That Tigga Tower looks very good!

I picked up a cat tree thing off gumtree (craigslist type thing) and Mickey seems to have taken to it well. Not in the same league construction wise as the TT though I suspect

Yes, to a cat tree. Miss Ce-Ce would run through the apartment and run up one of the columns. Everyone would ask, "why does she do that?" I kept telling my husband that she needed a cat tree. So he finally ordered one. When it came it, she knew that it was for her. She would entwine herself around dh's legs as he was assembling it. It is her most favorite place ever. Honey, our non-coonie, is not allowed on it (not that she could climb up it - too fat and old). DH agrees that we should have gotten one much, much sooner. The next one will be even taller.

Mickey weighed in at 2.71kg at 16 weeks.

Another board has a small database and looks like Mickey falls slap bang in the middle of the small sample size for 16 weeks.

He is voraciously hungry at the moment so I expect to see his weight climbing steadily for now.

3.06kg at 17 weeks.

We have had him out in the backyard a few times now. He loves it outside! It is great to see him tearing around and having fun chasing anything that moves.

welcome to the forum, he's certainly gaining weight!

He was a bit slow with his tummy troubles and us not understanding how much food he needed at the start so it is a relief to see him gaining weight now!

All the eating and playing tuckers him out though...

hahaha that's a really nice pic! poor little thing looks shattered! :-D

Hi there,

Thought I would post a little update. Mickey is up to 3.7kg at 20 weeks so he has put on almost exactly 1kg in the past 4 weeks. He has been on Whiskas pouches the past couple weeks and I don't think it is very good food. His growth rate has definitely dipped a bit since going to that so we will suck up the extra $10 or so a week to feed the better foods. I could be wrong and it is just a normal ebb and flow in growth rate but his poo definitely got stinkier and more volume on the whiskas too A few days back on nicer food and the poo seems to be more normal which is nice!




Hard to believe at 5 months he is almost as big, in length, as our old shorthair! The build is obviously much slighter at this stage but it really is quite a marvel. Parental bias no doubt but he is looking very handsome