Yes, sarameg! Cats and Anarachs at TT. Devi and TC must be the same age, roughly.

Dev's gonna be 14 this year. Yikes!

I got Devi at 16 weeks or so, she'd been in the shelter since birth. Not a white undercoat, more milk with coffee, but the grey is grey, not brown. Mister Kitty, I can't speak to, he was probably a couple years old when adopted from a shelter by the owners I know. He did have a rough time of it, got sick within a month (I have the records) that require hospitalization, but he pulled through with the side effect of cloudy eyes.

Loki...well, he was a product of Ms. Louise's caretaker's undfixed girlcat, not her first litter. But he probably had an ok go of it.

But the markings and grey and brown are different enough, I suspect just parentage.

Beverly I have an orange (oz) and a brown (clio) tabby too: [link]

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For now.

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It's rare, but you CAN bleed to death slowly -- the wife of a friend of mine nearly died from a nosebleed that wouldn't stop

Ack! How long? I get drastic awful nosebleeds all the time, and I'm often home alone when it happens.

I've had a life-threatening nosebleed. None of this slow bleed nonsense, this was quite the gusher. It was post-sinus surgery - they hadn't realised I have a blood vessel tumour up there, and had cut it during the surgery. Way impressive.

How drastic is a drastic nosebleed? Mine are rare, but messy, and don't stop well. How many tissues/towels/bedsheets does it take to staunch a regular nosebleed?

Sue, that picture is so sweet! And your cats are pretty. TC hates all other cats--he has displaced aggression and will attack the closest human, he gets so agitated when he sees another cat. He lives upstairs and Punkin lives downstairs. Punkin doesn't get what all the fuss about. He'd have no problem being buddies and probably snuggling, but TC just won't have it.

I had a gusher as a kid. My dad nearly took me to the ER after I soaked about four tea towels. It eventually stopped, though.

He taught me a trick where I could fold a tiny piece of cardboard and wedge it up under my upper lip. This often cut off the blood flow and stopped even my most severe nosebleeds.

This is only anecdotal, though. Not sure what the medical science is behind it.

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How drastic is a drastic nosebleed?

Pretty much pouring down my face. Stopping it involved packing my sinuses with gauze. After the surgery to remove the fibroma, they packed it with antiseptic-soaked ribbon. They removed a metre of ribbon each day over six days (which left me feeling nauseous the entire week, thanks to the smell - hospital food didn't help).