Inner eyelid showing in pregnant/nursing cats?
I noticed yesterday when visiting Bella and her kittens that Bella’s inner eyelids were showing a bit in both her eyes. My knee-jerk response to seeing that in any cat is to worry because under normal circumstances you can’t see more than a tiny bit of the inner eyelid, except maybe briefly when the cat is falling asleep or just waking up. Often it goes along with injury or illness.
That said, it occurred to me last night that, Rosie (the only other feral mom-cat I’ve seen up close nursing her kittens) had her eyelid membranes showing a lot too. And she wasn’t sick or anything. So now I am wondering whether this is just something that happens to a lot of nursing mothers, perhaps because they’re so tired? Or is it an immune response thing perhaps? I’ve just never heard of anyone mentioning it before so was curious.
![[You know you’re a cat lover when…you wear cat ears everywhere]
Well, not EVERYWHERE. Though I have several crocheted/knitted hats with ears that I wear a lot in the winter, and a headband thingy with cat ears I put on every so often just for the heck of it (usually because I’ve lost it in the house for a while and then found it, and whenever I find it I stick it on my head and promptly forget it’s there.) All that said, I don’t actually have any really awesome or realistic cat ears, but you can bet I would wear them if I did. :P Mainly because I think it would be seriously cool to be able to communicate with my cats via ear movements. I always feel kind of bad when Brodie (who has incredibly mobile, expressive ears) is doing his rapid-fire hyperdirectional flicky things in my direction and I can’t do anything like it back!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32yepSRXF1robr6eo1_500.png)
![[you know you’re a cat lover if….you don’t think it’s weird to heat up your cat’s cold food]
Not weird at all. Is this really that extreme of an idea to most people? I mean I know some cats don’t care, but seeing as in the wild they’re generally eating fresh, body-temperature prey, it seems to me that a preference for warmer food would be a pretty straightforward thing for a lot of cats.
All that said, my younger cats really don’t seem to care all that much about food temperature and seem to even have a slight preference for fridge-temperature meat. Probably because they’re used to it. Nikki, on the other hand, very very much prefers her wet food to be warm so I mix it with a bit of hot water before serving it to her. Which has the added bonus, in her case, of slowing down her eating because she has a tendency to wolf everything down in big chunks if it’s one of the three things on earth she actually likes.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ha81BUVC1robr6eo1_500.png)
