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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/16/2008 1:53:28 PM

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One of my fondest memories is of the wee furball that's no longer with me. He had been feeling pretty sick, enough that his front legs weren't really doing what he wanted of them. Well one day he's feeling good enough to walk around, all proud of himself. It was full of cuteness.

Well the other cat we had at the time was our siamese, who hadn't really decided what she thought of this new intruder to the house. So she's up there on the couch, watching the little guy as he slowly walks by. He stops a few paces past her, turns and looks as if to go 'oh hey, you're up there!'. Then next thing I know he's airborn like a spring loaded toy, flips around mid air and lands on the couch facing the other cat. Who is by now sporting the universal cat posture of 'what the F*** was THAT?!' No wind up, no waiting. Just pause, glance, *SPROING*. And he was so proud of himself too. I fell over laughing so hard at the sight.

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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/16/2008 1:59:41 PM

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These stories are cracking me up - thanks for sharing! Viktor was at it again last night. I heard a big crash from the other room at 4am. I went in there and didn't see him anywhere...but my iron was on the floor.

And then I looked up. He had managed to jump onto the ironing board...and from the ironing board onto the top of my closet door. You know, that 1 1/2 inch width door top? Yeah, he was sitting up there, trying to figure out how to get down. Apparently after knocking the iron over, when he landed up there the door slammed against the wall, causing the loud bang (my neighbor upstairs must hate me right now).

He couldn't get down and I couldn't reach him, so I pulled out my step stool and got him...not before taking a picture of him way up there. Ha. This is the best free entertainment I've ever had.

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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/16/2008 4:48:55 PM

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(FR) I think I've hurt myself laughing. :D

My parents used to own a orangeish cat named Garfield who LOVED to take baths. In fact, we still have some pictures of him in the tub with my then-toddler older brother. :D

In Nevada, our family owned another orangeish cat whom we named Albert. He would refuse to chase rats and mice inside; in fact, I remember once he just *sat there* while this little mouse kept running across the hall opening less than two feet away from him. Outside, I guess everything was fair game, since he liked to battle with the town's dogs and probably ran afoul of a few coyotes. I think he was a masochistic kitteh. xD

Currently, we have six cats - one mama kitty, and her five kittens that were born back in March. The mama has a taste for breads and cheeses, which has earned her the nickname of "Mouse". The kittens are... well, batshit insane covers it pretty well. If someone's walking somewhere, one or more just HAS to go zooming through at that moment - I've lost count of how many times I've accidently kicked or stepped on one of them, or almost tripped while they've gone on completely unconcernedly. They all like going on the roof (which, according to family members who hear better than I do, has resulted in psuedo-thunder more than a few times), but they seemed to have some issues coming back *down* after they started following their mama up there: for a couple weeks, they'd go up, and then start meowing up a storm when they wanted down, so my mom (mostly, I think) would go out and climb up onto the front porch's railing, and lift them down one by one. We had to coax one of the girls into jumping down off it a few times - this was after her sibs had already begun to figure out the fact that if they could climb a tree to get up, then the same tree could be used to get down.

When they were younger, the couch was THE toy of choice. Run, climb, jump... Several of them mastered a sort-of spider-like crawl, and took to climbing the sides like that. It looked reeeaally weird. And if someone was laying/sleeping on it, they just became part of the jungle gym. Funny as heck to see, though probably not very funny to feel!

And lately, all of the kittens have decided that my desk is the Mecca of cat-dom. I think I've actually had all five kittens up on it at one point, and I edited my signature with the cat-lounge comment after four of them decided to spend all day on it. For the record, cat-tails on keyboards make typing interesting! In fact, Charon is lounging on it right now.

They also like to follow my sibs and I when we go away from the house... we had a kitten-escort earlier this afternoon when we walked over to our grandparents'. And Charon once tried to accompany us on a several-mile walk. According to my mom, a few days ago Pollux climbed a short distance up the roof-accessing tree and then just stayed right there, sort of hugging the tree, for several moments. My mom gave him a Look, and said, "Pol, you look like a baby koala!" Pollux gave her an "I have *no* idea what you're talking about" look and got out of the tree. Speculation has resulted as to whether he was insulted - or just pretending he didn't agree with the comparison!

And tales of yarn being cat-attractors are entirely true! One of my sisters and I have recently taken up crochet...nothing like trying to keep cats out of the yarn while trying to keep count of stitches! I think shiny things have a similar attraction, as I have a shirt with a flamingo on it, picked out in pink sequins - Charon and Eris like to try and eat it! I've tried telling them that, since we don't live somewhere with a native flamingo population, they shouldn't be chasing flamingoes. I think it goes in one ear and out the other, lol.

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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/17/2008 5:07:21 AM

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In Nevada, our family owned another orangeish cat whom we named Albert. He would refuse to chase rats and mice inside; in fact, I remember once he just *sat there* while this little mouse kept running across the hall opening less than two feet away from him. Outside, I guess everything was fair game, since he liked to battle with the town's dogs and probably ran afoul of a few coyotes. I think he was a masochistic kitteh. xD
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This part reminded me of 2 cats that I used to have 21 years ago. *sighs*

Kidders and Freckles were 2 of the neatest cats I ever had, Freckles being one of the largest cats I ever had as well. He was so big, he had to wear a dog collar. The largest cat collars were too small. I had to take him to the pet store to prove to them that the cat collars were too small.

Anyway, I had just married my first husband and our apartment was near a large field. One day, a poor little field mouse found it's way into our apartment and was in the kitchen. Now with 2 cats, one of them very large, you would think "no problem, cats catch mice", right? WRONG! That itty bitty mouse had those 2 cats so scared and confused! They were all poofed out and hissing in fright, jumping up on the counter looking down at it, and then finally calming down to just sit there looking at it, watching it run around the kitchen then look at me as if to say "Mom, Mom..... hey Mom! What is it?!?" Finally, when it was obvious they had no clue what it was, we trapped it humanely and put it back in the field only to come inside to get a disgusted look from the cats. I guess we had taken away their entertainment.....

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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/17/2008 8:23:03 AM

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Fantastic thread! It's cracking me up.

I have three cats myself. A giant and very pervy main coon, a short fat cat who should have a wide load sticker on his tail, and a small white cate with blue eyes who I rescued from my crawl space the winter before last. Actually, all are rescues of one form or another, and all three crazy in their own way. As I like to say, "I've got a lot of bad pussy around here."

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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/17/2008 9:51:12 AM

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Fantastic thread! It's cracking me up.

I have three cats myself. A giant and very pervy main coon, a short fat cat who should have a wide load sticker on his tail, and a small white cate with blue eyes who I rescued from my crawl space the winter before last. Actually, all are rescues of one form or another, and all three crazy in their own way. As I like to say, "I've got a lot of bad pussy around here."

Viktor is small, white and has one blue eye (the other is yellowish brown). I'm told that's a sign of being albino (if he had 2 blue eyes he would be considered completely albino).

True to form, 4am was when he got his energy blast this morning. Nothing broken or crashing this time; he just spontaneously attacked my pillow (what fun to wake up to!).

Right now he's batting poodle around the living room. I can see acrobatic leaps and flips out of the corner of my eye.

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RE: That Darn Cat (and other crazy pet stories) - 7/17/2008 7:30:32 PM

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KB is currently hanging out on my monitor.....now that he's chased all the screws off the desk. He usually comes down and tries to sit on the keyboard shelf......yep, typing is really interesting!

My parents have 2 cats, Lacey and Tabby. Their favorite pasttime was to hightail it throught the kitchen, build up a good head of steam and then sliiiiiiiide across the Deacon's bench to my mom's good dining room set. They also discovered that if the tablecloth was on the table, that it was great fun to hit that.....the first few times they didn't realize they had to stop, because the table ended.....all of a sudden, they'd just drop out of sight. So now, the dining room set has all these scratches and dings, and knicks......looks really great...Mom was sayingone day how she was bummed that it was "all banged up", and I told her that it was great...folks pay good money for the "distressed" look on furniture! She failed to see the humor.

They replaced the linoleum in the kitchen and hallway with cermaic tile.....Tabby has this bed, fake sheep's fur on one side, cotton on the other....well, he likes to run fom the living room to the kitchen, slide under it and play "turtle". Well, apparently, cermaic tile has a far greater "slide" than linoleum...Mom said for about the first 2 weeks, she'd hear Tabby running hell bent for leather, and then "swooooosh" and inevitably, "THUNK!" from where Tabby hit either the walls or cabinets. He learns slow......

They also have a lab mix dog....Jade. She never walks anywhere....it's always at a dead run. She's never touched the back steps when she goes outside...she launches herself out about 10 feet, and hits the ground running. My parents plant a garden each spring...strawberries, all sorts of veggies, and they have a few fruit trees. Well, Jade seems to think that the garden is her own personal salad bar! She even dug up an onion and took a huge bite out of it. She'd start with the strawberries, and work her way thru the ripe veggies. It was always a dash for my mom to get to the ripe stuff before Jade does. I think they get about half of the stuff from the garden each year.

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