Originally Posted by meaganola /img/forum/go_quote.gif
It has been my experience that black kitties have a genetic permanent case of the batshits until they hit about nine or ten years of age. My own -- the Dread Kitten Edgar -- is almost two years old, and he still acts just as crazed as he should have acted when he was two months old (he was very sick and probably close to dying when he was two months old, so he got a bit of a delayed kittenhood). His predecessor -- Hunter -- very abruptly went from CRAAAAAZEEEEE to Mister Mellow when he was nine. I had to put his sister to sleep (a giant growth in her chest was suffocating her, and there was no treatment for it) shortly before this, so I was more than a bit afraid he was sick with something, but, nope, he just turned into my bestest buddy very suddenly. He became so laid back that I started calling The Dude and El Duderino after a rewatch of _The Big Lebowski_. But it takes almost a decade. It's worth the zoom zoom to get there.