They say if you are a cat lover, then you probably have a soft heart. Cats are the look alikes of the tigers, they belong to the same family, but their activities are completely different and are interesting. A woman and a cat will get attached to each other so easily due to the similarities in the interests. Cats are animals which portrayed luxury in the past. Taking care of a cat is a ten times more challenging than taking care of a dog. Shaistha kauser , a regular college girl living in Bangalore is called as “The Cat Woman” by her friends because of her interest towards cats .She is living with nine cats out of which seven are Persian and two are Indian breed. She eats with them, sleeps with them and live with them. She is giving them comfort and is taking care of them in all the possible ways. Shaistha explains her story with her cats over a chat with The Women News.
Shaistha has been a cat woman ever since she was born. She was surrounded by cats when she was a baby and then grew up with them, adopting their state of mind. Her fantasy is to be surrounded by a hundred cute looking cats. She loves dogs as well, though dogs are cute and intelligent she is tricked by the cats with their mesmerizing eyes. Shaistha’s eighteen months cute little sister too loves cats, she has a cute little cat best friend named Mickey.
“Cats can understand many things as humans can and are intended to teach us things around. It is easy for me to get into their emotions just with tone of their ‘Meow’ ”she says . The Persian cat according to her is the laziest and on an average day they sleep for almost 18 hours. Food habits differs that of Persian cats and Indian cats. Persian cats eat only properly cooked foods where as Indian cats would even eat the bones and half cooked food .They are well fed as they eat five times a day . She roughly spends more than eight thousand rupees a month for Royal Canin as it is the favorite food of all the cats and sometimes depend on meow and Whiskas.
All her cats are extremely healthy and are good looking with the shiny fur. It is mandate to brushes the cats everyday and clean their nails once in two weeks. Out of all the hardest is to take the cats for shower according to her. Male and female cats are equally aggressive. The males usually to fight for food and the females fight because of ego issues. The only thing she admits to hate the most is about her cats is their toilet habits. She says that the cats has to be trained at first by rubbing their paws onto the floor of the litter box. This is to makes them understand where their toilet is. All the cats were given the Distemper Vaccination in two months after their birth. Comparatively Indian cats are aggressive and harder o bring them under control. It can be recognized easily if they are sick from looking at the behavior . Fever, cold and food poison being the common cat diseases would make the cats puke or lead to an irregular food habit. She sadly mourns for her lost cat due to kidney failure. Persian cats are divided into two categories naming punch and doll face, punch cost around forty to forty five thousand rupees and doll face cost around ten to fifteen thousand rupees. Our She has even sold a cat for fifteen thousand rupees due to lack of accommodative space at her house .She hopes to continue this as a business in the future.
