How many cats live with you?

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:13 pm

brewerpaul wrote:We have 3-- Josie, Sadie, and Izzy.

I knew Izzarina was really a cat!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:14 pm

One time my best friend's cat mildy attacked me and I got Cat Scratch Fever. It had given her cat scratch fever the previous month, so I couldn't go to the doctor because they would've notified the health department and could have taken her cat because I made the second (mabey third, I can't remember) person it'd given CSF.

It sucked.

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:25 pm

I have one wonderful kitty named Ceili. I adopted her from the local animal shelter. She's a little cross-eyed, which is cute. She has a very obnoxious, whiney meow, which is not cute. She loves to play with the laser light toy, which is cute. She has a fetish for anything plastic - she licks the shower curtain liner, plastic shopping bags, artificial flowers, etc, etc, which is not cute. She's very cute when she's sleeping, not so cute when she is scooping all her food from her bowl onto the floor before she eats it (and of course leaves all the crumbs behind).

So, in short, she's a cat. I love her.

Beth

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:34 pm

What is it with cats and making a point of sitting on things like bags, coats, books, or newspapers lying on the floor or bed? Any anomalous item becomes a throne, like.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:41 pm

jsluder wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:We have 3-- Josie, Sadie, and Izzy.
I knew Izzarina was really a cat!

Meow!

I don't have any cats....we have allergies here. But FlyDood loves kittens

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:42 pm

Nanohedron wrote:What is it with cats and making a point of sitting on things like bags, coats, books, or newspapers lying on the floor or bed? Any anomalous item becomes a throne, like.

Female cats are technically called queens, are they not?

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:48 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:What is it with cats and making a point of sitting on things like bags, coats, books, or newspapers lying on the floor or bed? Any anomalous item becomes a throne, like.
Female cats are technically called queens, are they not?

We call ours The Queen of The House. And she regards her scratching post as her throne - it makes her look like she's up on a pedestal.

She's particularly keen on climbing into my lap when I'm playing the whistle - then she'll try to investigate the whistle to see where the sound's coming from. I don't even want to think about what she'd do if I ever took up the pipes.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:50 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:What is it with cats and making a point of sitting on things like bags, coats, books, or newspapers lying on the floor or bed? Any anomalous item becomes a throne, like.
Female cats are technically called queens, are they not?

Only when they've kittled. I think.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:51 pm

Presently at double my maximum cat allowance (of 2).

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:53 pm

Nanohedron wrote:What is it with cats and making a point of sitting on things like bags, coats, books, or newspapers lying on the floor or bed? Any anomalous item becomes a throne, like.

Some friends of ours used to have a cat that they had "trained" to stay off of their dining table. The cat would not set foot on the table... unless there was a piece of paper or other object to stand on; then it would very carefully sit completely on the paper, never touching the wood of the table.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:55 pm

I seem to remember JessieK having some cats....

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:56 pm

jsluder wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:What is it with cats and making a point of sitting on things like bags, coats, books, or newspapers lying on the floor or bed? Any anomalous item becomes a throne, like.
Some friends of ours used to have a cat that they had "trained" to stay off of their dining table. The cat would not set foot on the table... unless there was a piece of paper or other object to stand on; then it would very carefully sit completely on the paper, never touching the wood of the table.

How like a cat! "I'm not, like, really ON the table. *cat smile*"

I'm sure cats get reincarnated into lawyers.

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:53 pm

We all were tested for allergies recently. My wife and I both came up positive for cats. The doc proceeded to lecture us on "cat avoidance," which basically consists of no physical contact, or at the very least washing if you accidentally pet one or something.) I just about split a gut. This was probably the thousandth such lecture she'd given to cat lovers, so she knew enough to relent and say something like "well, at least vacuum a little more often."

Cats are just way cool.

Prrr. . .Prrr. . .

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:15 pm

Nanohedron wrote:One. She's enough, and a real cutie-pie. Sweet and wild, like Irish music.

Had four at one time, and they'd follow me on walkies to the park arrayed in an orderly line. People would freak out to see it.

None, at present. (Arleen's allergic). However, I was adopted by a black cat when I was four. At that time, I also had a beagle named Harry (I've never written his name until this day, but I requested that he be named Harry because he had hair all over) and a duck named Steven. The three of them would go for walks around the yard. The cat, being the smartest, would lead, the beagle, being of less intelligence than the cat, would take up the middle, and the duck, having no intelligence whatever, would follow the beagle. Once in awhile, you would hear brakes screech and someone exclaim, "Hermaaaan!!!! Would you look at THAT!!!!"

Best wishes,
Jerry

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:29 pm

Nanohedron wrote:I'm sure cats get reincarnated into lawyers.

Wives :roll:

Slan,
D.