All about Astro
Hi everyone! I’m pretty busy recently so I’ve decided to write an easy post. This time, it’s about my cat Astro, AKA Big Boy, and about the Siamese breed in general. I just thought I’d share some of his infinite cuteness with the website.
As an introduction: Astro is Siamese, half seal-point, half chocolate point. He’s more oriental-looking than the applehead Siamese, but I heard he was bred to be more bulky, so he doesn’t have the health problems oriental shorthair cats can sometimes get. We got him in December 2021 but he was born that year on the 29th of September, which means he’s currently two years old.
He’s an extremely active boy and his favourite thing to play with is his “chicken”, which is literally just a rubber chicken tied to the cord which fell out from the pants I used to wear. He loves to chase and jump after it… he also likes to chew it so every once in a while we need to replace the chicken with a fresh one like we did yesterday.
Astro is always on high-alert. Though he’s cuddly, he’s often in the mood to play, meaning if I make one tiny move towards him he’ll bolt away. He loves scaring himself. Once I chase him into another room, he finds a hiding spot that I sometimes can’t find and other times can, but I always pretend not to notice him. As soon as he hears me walking out of the room, he comes out of his hiding spot, hits the back of my foot with his paws and then runs out in front of me, like he’s teasing me for not finding him!
Siamese are very smart, one of the smartest cat breeds of all time. Even within the very first days of having him, when he was a little kitten, he’d already learnt how to play fetch with his rubber chicken.
He likes plotting ways to get onto high places, namely the roof. It’s his first task whenever we move house. He can get down by himself but he prefers crying at us to help him down because he knows we’ll eventually get sick of it and force him down by shaking a treats packet. Though, in previous houses, we used to lift up random items like chairs and blocks for him to jump on and be lowered onto the ground. But he’d get treats after that as well.
In the morning at around 8-9 a.m. he meows for me at my door. Once I let him in, he gets really fluffy, not in the intimidating way, and walks around in circles, kind of shrinking into himself like a slinky or caterpillar. During this time he rubs his head on my legs, sometimes licks me, and jumps up on my shoulder while I get everything ready for the day, it’s just the cutest thing ever. Once, I carried him to the lounge room to play, but I had to get a drink of water first. I put him down and started walking to my room to get my water bottle and he ran after me, and tried multiple times to jump at my face like he was saying, “Where are you going? COME BACK NOW!!!” That’s another thing he does: watch out when he locks eyes with you, because this means he’s about to jump at you, which is more terrifying than you can imagine. I’m pretty sure he loves scaring us and hearing our reactions. He hates you looking at him from high places like this:
Overall, I LOVE Siamese cats. As long as you have enough time on your hands, they’re an incredible breed, best temperament, and of course stunning appearance. They need at least twenty minutes of play every day but they reward you with a lot of snuggling and being cute in every situation. They do need to be trained to go to sleep at night and not wake you up early, but this means you need to wear them out during the day. Having a favourite toy helps a lot. I do wish we had got him another Siamese to play with while we still lived near his breeder, so if you’re thinking of getting one, get two! Once you have one cat, it’s barely any different to have another.
That concludes this post! See you soon!