[FattyBoomBatty]

My family had two siamese cats of specific breeds - Cream point and Lilac Point both came from specialized breeders and were expensive cats, but in order to get those colors they were basically inbred and that creates somewhat unnatural traits in cats. The first one, the cream point was almost like a mentally retarded child, he would "talk" to us and could get his point accross clearly, but he would suck on and try to swallow his tail and eat your shoelaces with the shoes still on your feet. He killed himself when he ate a rope that was too large to pass through his intestines. Blood poisening. I was most attatched to that cat. The Lilac point was the runt of the litter and when we got him he couldn't maintain his own body temperature yet so he really liked the electric blanket. But he liked to chew on wires (like solder and paper clips and crap) and he died from what we think was heart failure. But those strange breeds only have a life span of about 5 years, and they both lived only about 5 years.

JustROLLIN - you are lucky, but I would assume you have a traditional siamese. They are pretty normal.