UConnNick
from Vince Lombardi's home town
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I have a Siamese and he's perfectly fine to leave alone, but I will agree there are some that are highly active and need some stimulation or they'll wreak havoc in your house. You'll come home to toilet paper unrolled and who knows what else? There are also some individual cats of other breeds that will be bored being alone for any extended lengths of time. Mine will only sleep more than he already does, which doesn't seem possible but he manages. You can leave the house for work in the a.m., come back 11 or 12 hours later and he's still sleeping in the exact same spot where he was when you left the house in the a.m., Admittedly this is unusual for many Siamese. I repeatedly tell him he should get off his lazy ass and get a job. The least he could do is star in a cat food commercial or something. He's a world class eater.
We once had a Siamese cat we named "Nipper". She was totally psychotic. Loved people, but that cat would bounce off the walls. A vet said the best thing to do would be to let her out, so we did. She became somewhat calmer inside, but was still pretty wild in the house. Once we took her on a halfway cross country trip by van to CT for Christmas. We asked the vet to give us tranquilizers, preferably a full dose Quaalude or something. Instead he misunderstood and gave us Dramamene for motion sickness. Imagine being with this cat for 32 straight hours in a van. It was not a barrel of laughs. Cat had also never seen snow in her life, and wanted no part of it. A friend of ours would spend hours playing with that cat, to the point he'd have blood flowing out of bites and scratches on his hands. He had some of the toughest skin I've ever seen on a person...didn't hurt him at all. That cat loved to play and he loved to play with her. Unfortunately Nipper didn't last too long. She ate something outside that poisoned her to death when she was only two or three years old.
