BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 09:59 AM

Ella, well-described,, I can just *see* her pouncing and digging!

My cats are completely spoiled, utterly devoid of any initiative at all. Either that, or as my son says, they've adopted my buddhistic tendencies to do no harm to others...I saw a second mouse yesterday!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: John P
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 10:12 AM

. . . . lays around on her back looking too cute, almost begging to have her belly rubbed. But everything pointy is up . . .

JP

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: John P
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 10:15 AM

My Cat Hates You Dot Com

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: GUEST,Ron Davies
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 10:15 PM

One day at rehearsal a soprano who worked for Alley Cat Allies stood up and said she desperately needed a home for a cat which otherwise would be euthanized in a very few days. My wife Jan had always lived with cats and I am also very much a cat person. So Lucy, the black cat in question, came to live with us.

She has a very strong and not totally predictable personality, so much so that we have since acquired 2 black kittens to try to stimulate hoped-for maternal instincts (to curb tendencies of activities like chasing other cats off their own porches). After a rocky introduction, it worked like a charm. But (actually this could possibly be in a musical thread) Lucy also has several musical connections.

First of all, she is an extremely opinionated critic. When I start playing the piano (I'm not spectacularly wonderful but I can play some Beethoven, Joplin, 19th century parlor songs etc.) she jumps up onto the top of the piano and listens to the music. But I am not allowed to practice. If I play a piece through, that's fine with her. But if I'm trying to learn a new piece and go over a passage slowly or several times to try to iron it out, she comes right down and sits on the keys. I'm not making much progress.

Scondly, she has proven to be my muse. Two parodies based on her behavior have come to me while lying in bed.

The first is to "I'll Be Seeing You"

I'll be seeing you
In every closet full of bags
In every pile of dirty rags
I love the way your stomach sags
I'll see you on Jan's head again
And when the night is through
I'll be trying to read my book
But I'll be seeing you.


The second is to the tune of Tom Lehrer's "The Old Dope Peddler"

As the dawn outside is breaking
Comes a feline everyone knows
It's our old friend Lucy
Making noise wherever she goes
She rips the carpet daily
She scratches on the stair
She makes the choice real easy
"Feed me now or lose all your hair"
Here's a cure for too much sleep-time
Here's our daily pal----and pest
It's our old friend Lucy
Our beloved pet-------------more or less

Never a dull moment with Lucy, Fern and Avery

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 10:54 PM

BRAVO, Ron!!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Phot
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 05:33 PM

Drive me to distraction, Clyde, of Mudchat typing fame, has just lost a third of his tail to a Lurcher. Hello £200 vets bill!
But he's still laying on the keyboard as I type!
We don't keep cats, they keep us!

Wassail! Chris. ^. .^
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Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: LilyFestre
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:44 PM

You've got that right! My husband and I are priviledged to be allowed to reside within the same abode as King Festre!!!!!

Michellle   =^..^=

PS. While we are talking about cats here....do any of your cats insist on waking you up by nibbling on your eyelashes or licking your nose???????   Mine does!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 08:26 PM

I'm glad Claude is alright, Chris, even if it did cost serious money... what are we for but to spend our life's earnings on our cats anyway...( pssssst, that's what mine told me to say)?

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: MAG
Date: 04 Oct 03 - 12:26 AM

Beg and beg and beg, and then walk away when I (inevitably) relent and give them bits.

Do absolutely function as my best ever alarm clock, since they get fed in the morning -- well, the good stuff anyway. They will crunch away on the dry stuff in the middle of the night.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Oct 03 - 11:04 AM

Merlyn the Mogificent thinks she is an Olympic swimmer and joins me the bath...especially if its got lavender oil in it.

She thinks she is a feline sky-diver and kamakazi's off the top of the wardrobe onto the bed ...of which I am normally sleeping in......at about 4am landing very heavily onto my back inserting the full set of cat flick knives into my flesh!

If Merlyn thinks I have been well behaved and a good girl she will bring me live spiders or mice (allbeit slightly stunned mice and spiders) again this is normally when I am in bed. Sits on my chest purring loudly so I wake and turn on the light to come face to face with a mog with a live creature in its mouth....at this point I am thinking about how I move the cat WITHOUT it dropping the contents of its mouth into my face. If the mission is successfully completed the mog will sit on the end of the bed and crunch the spider and eat it. If a mouse I dispose of it but I aint touch no spids!

Oh and there was the time when she fell down the toilet..!!!............

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Oct 03 - 02:01 PM

There was a web site with pictures about training your cat to use the toilet, even flush it! Great for taking your cat travelling with you to motel rooms...

Only real problem is that occassionally, Moggies get the bright idea to flush the thing several time in succession at 3am...

"cause it's fun & I'm curious & bored!"

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Phot
Date: 04 Oct 03 - 02:07 PM

Mort, Clyde is about to lose a bit more of his tail, he kept on chewing the end! So back to the vet on Monday! (Send your donation to.................!!)
His tail is now totally covered with a red bandage, the kids next door think he looks really cool!
And Gizmo still wakes me up by licking me eyes and nose! Smudge is still falling asleep on the window sill,......and then falling off!
I'm starting to think Oliver is the only sane cat we have.............For the time being!

Wassail! Chris ^. .^
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Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 10:51 AM

Foolestroupe, I had a cat that trained himself to use the toilet, but he always waited for me to flush it!

Sometimes my cats receive new names. My Ms. Lovee has a new one: Fluff'erupagus. Every morning, after I wash my hair in the sink, it hangs in front of my face, while I pick out the snarls with a "pic comb." Lovee jumps up into the chair beside me and begins to purr up a storm until I am done, then I have to run the comb over her forehead and down her back, with short little strokes over her rump region, as I "fluff" her up. She loves it and gets really out of sorts if I fail in my duty, so she is now Ms. Fluff'erupagus.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Phot
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 05:59 PM

Latest idea from the vet, use 15mm foam pipe lagging to stop the daft bugger attacking his tail, then dope him up with Valium! Well it seems to have worked so far, the lagging comes off tommrow, watch this space!


WASSIAL! (And just a bit skint!)
Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 12:40 PM

Akula is my son's cat, really, but she lives with us. From the time he has left home he has taken responsibility for all her care, even tho he is on board a sub, and based in Pearl Harbor.

Here's the latest.


Hi Dave--

Akula really is a strange cat.

We have a new juvenile pup in the house, probably temporary as we get him ready for adoption at SPCA (he arrived on our doorstep one day, crying, ignorant, and very thin.)   Akula is not real happy-- she just got Ruby (#1 dog) under control!

In the last few days she's done two really funny things.


Ruby and Faulkner (pup) were playing and wrestling, growling, in the living room. It turned just a tad nasty (a chewbone being involved), but they were working it out-- till Akula decided it was too much. She flew out from behind a sheer curtain covering the windowledge behind me, jumping over my shoulder. She landed in the middle of them, spitting, with her fur all blown up, and then from that landing took off in flight again to land at the other end of the long room, on a dresser. They didn't follow her, and they chilled the hell out!

Then, in another incident, she was watching them through the glass of the door that divides the kitchen from the laundry room (where I have moved her food and water. She didn't like drinking slobberied dogwater, and they were eating her expensive food.). When they are on the loose in the house, I put her in there and she is usually quite glad to go. Well, they were playing in the kitchen, ignoring her completely, and she was watching with her paws up on the door, looking very not-amused. Faulkner caught sight of her and rushed the glass, stopping before hitting the door. But by the time he got there, she had brought a paw up to smack him, and she smacked the glass so hard it sounded like a gunshot! She was as startled as the dogs, and the action paused as all parties tried to think this over in their little animal-brains. They all simultaneously backed away and got back to their own business!

Come to think of it, she thought having my sister Carol's dog here for a few weeks over the summer was an outrage, too, and as I recall she threw a few punches, then, as well!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 01:04 PM

I have my cats pretty well figured out... except one thing that the youngest does...

After feeding she wanders over to this one specific water bowl... has herself a drink... and then makes scratching motions in the carpet around the bowl with her front feet as if she's trying to cover the water over... anything nearby will end up in the bowl... Cat toys mostly... occasionally the chord from the nearby lamp...

And it's just the one bowl... I don't get it...

The water is fresh... and changed 2 or 3 times a day (once a day at the very least)...

I just don't grock this at all....

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 01:18 PM

CH, I've got one that does that, too, and it makes no sense at all...never have figured it out. The only thing I can think of is mine doesn't like sharing the bowl, so maybe she's trying to cover up the others' scents, or she's trying to spread her own to keep them away?

I had twin male cats, one of whom has passed on. They both would scoop their dry food out, one kibble at a time, as though the bowl just wasn't good enough to eat from; made them seem so dainty for being such big fellahs!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 01:22 PM

"scoop their dry food out, one kibble at a time"

That likely meant the bowl was too small... If their whiskers touch the side while they're eating, it bothers some cats...   We tend to feed on stuff that more resembles a saucer... even with dry kibble...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:03 PM

One of my 5 cats also likes to scoop his food out with his paw and then eat it. The food bowl may be too small for his taste, but the others like it just fine! He has eaten this way for all of his 12 years....even before we had any other cats! He also drinks his water in this manner! He sits back from the bowl and very gingerly sticks his paw in (almost like he's testing to see that it's water and not something icky) and then scoops out 3 or 4 licks! Meanwhile, one of the others can't wait to get to the water. Each time the big bowl (we're talking popcorn bowl size) is picked up, Miss Ellie comes running. She can't wait to get at that water. She always sticks her head in while the water is still sloshing around and she almost always gets her nose wet which causes her to quickly draw her head back and shake her head in disgust...LOL...one of these days she might figure it out! And then there's Goose. He's the baby of the house and also THE Troublemaker! Most of the time, at least when the weater is nice, he likes to poke around outside. When he's in....he's usually into something! His latest trick is to stretch his upper body across the top of his water dish, placing his front paws on the farthest outer edge and then he PUSHES to water bowl over. He then watches in amusement as the unsuspecting humans walk through his big giant puddle of water!   I think I can almost hear him squeak out an evil little chuckle as he watches with delight...........

Michelle   =^..^=

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:08 PM

LOL...wonder what he'd do with a heavier water dish?! I have a couple of ones who dip their paws for drinking, too.

CH, I thought that was it, too, but since they were kittens they'd had a fish-shaped platter, very flat, to eat off of, and now a flattish, large pasta bowl, so I think it's just their preference. Silly things, really.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:20 PM

"Silly things, really..."

Well, ya but isn't that one of the main reasons we have 'em?

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 03:35 PM

Why, soy-ten-lee! I don't know what we'd do without the giggles they provide!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: maire-aine
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 12:38 PM

Momma Cat has to take medication for an overactive thyroid now, half-pill in am & half-pill in pm. I used to give her the morning one upstairs in the bedroom, and the evening one in the kitchen where she got a cat-treat for taking it nicely. Well now in the morning, she races down to the kitchen and waits there for her pill, because she knows she'll get another treat in the kitchen. I love it. And I'm just glad that what turned out to be wrong with her is something that can be fixed with a pill. It's worth it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: freda underhill
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 08:52 AM

a funny cat moment..

Tonight i went for a walk with my daughter (Bugface, who is visiting while we all await the birth of her older sister's baby). We left the house and wandered down the end of the street, and looked back to find my cat Delly was walking along behind us. When we crossed the main street, she sat and waited.

An hour and a half later we came back, after having walked a huge loop along King St, having a meal, and there she was outside the house, still waiting. I had to wander down the street (to the pub, where members of Ecopella choir were having a meal after their practise) and who should follow me down the street but Delly. I went inside to chat for a bit, and to pick up a CD, and Delly walked up the steps of the pub and sat in the doorway until i had finished, peeking her head through the door and watching with interest. When i came out, she walked down the stairs again and then followed me back home. Melody from Ecopella gave me the offcuts from her steak.. a fine reward on return home!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: freda underhill
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 09:22 AM

ps.. those scraps were for Delly!


freda (dedicated veg)

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 01:56 PM

Well, Boudicca, the new kitten really does believe that she is a dog....and last night about 8:30 we were sitting in the swing beside the pool. The rim is about half deflated, and she jumped up on it and got to watching the leaves floating in the pool. Mr said...go get your cat....well, I sure didn't want to startle her; then she WOULD have fallen in. She started doing the 'wriggle bum' thing....just prior to attacking the leaves......oh lordy, I didn't want to have to jump in the pool with jeans on. Besides, it's getting chilly after dark now! She won't come when called (of course), but I finally managed to distract her by throwing grapes at the side of the pool. She FINALLY jumped down to attack the grapes instead.....huge sigh of relief.

Kitten would have been fine, (she doesn't seem to mind water but she would have shredded the rim of the pool getting out.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Wesley S
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 05:16 PM

Our two cats have to wait until all of the lights are out when we go to bed before they start talking and crying their eyes out. Or chewing on a box. Or playing Kitty soccer. Luckily our three year old is a heavy enough sleeper that it doesn't wake him up. But it drives Mom and Dad batty.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Hawker
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 05:37 PM

....is the bravest cat in the world! ~ Tipsy (on account of the white tip on his tail and tips of his toes otherwise completely black)had his rear right leg amputated 10 days ago. Had half the stitches out today, rest out Friday.

....reminds me of a puppy when he suckles our Staffy Dog ~ Shadow who is blind and follows his brother Tipsy or the dog like a shadow really believes that Hawker the dog is his Mum! (Hawker is a boy)


....do the football thing too! though not since the operation!

Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 05:56 PM

My Lizzie is a confused little kittie who cannot comprehend corners. She will sit facing a corner and cry and cry until I come and get her. She has a similar reaction to mirrors sometimes.

Alice as most of you know is a slut. She loves men. Her most recent conquest is the mailman. He never smiled for two years. Then one day Alice happened to be on the front steps when he arrived. She followed him. He tried to shoo her away. She continued to follow until he finally came back to the house to tell me that my cat was following him. He was so pleased to hear that she was in love with him. Now at mail time Alice sits at the front door and watches for him. But don't tell Micca.

Ed has taken to pulling my hair at night when my breathing gets too loud. NO, I don't snore! His morning routine includes having his ears cleaned with Q-tips. Then a big fat kitty hug - he is huge. I get scratched if I forget.

And Fred brings me voles every day along with an occasional bird. Unfortunately he sometimes slips them by me when he comes in and I have to track them down by smell days later. My neighbor has birdfeeders. She occasionally lets her two little yippy dogs loose in her yard to chase off Fred who sits patiently under the bird feeder waiting for a careless bird.

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 07:43 PM

When the food comes out they appear like magic and set up a chorus to rival the best of Beijing Opera.

When we arrive home they know the sound of the car and again appear from different directions.

Bring us wee presents of the nieghbours fish.....

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 04:39 AM

Sometimes my cat tries to type with his head. Other times he uses his paws, on my hands, as if to guide me to a different letter. He likes to lick my wrists as I scroll down.....

Sometime he just sits here and farts.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Micca
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 07:36 AM

Sins, I bet she dosn't piss on his coat!!!!, Little Morgana takes great delight in trying to catch the cursor on the screen while tap-dancing on the keyboard, she then farts with amazing nastiness(I dont know what she eats that produces such VILE smells) and goes off to the other end of the room with a sly grin!

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Bert
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:09 AM

Hey Squeaks, remember this old thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 03:29 PM

Ah, an old friend......

returning like an old stench.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 03:39 PM

... can't decide whether to allow the brush to relieve the AWFUL facial/neck/forehead itches or whether to box with the brush as a worthy sibling-opponent or whether to love-bite the brush as a worthy potential sex partner!

But he always jumps on me as soon as he hears me flick the bristles!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Sometimes my cat(s).....
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 03:57 AM

My (ex)cat now long gone would sit pariently at the door of a room to be let out, other times she would stand on her hind legs reach for the round door knob grab it with her claws, turn it and let herself out.
I sat for weeks on end with my camera waiting for her to do it. I am sure she would look at me and think ..not this time buddy you want a photo ..you open the door for me.
Eventualy she gave in and I got three photos.