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pahunkboy -> My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 2:54:08 PM)

As you know my close friend Jim passed away a month ago.    A few days before he died- he dropped off his cat. 

For various reasons I have come to keep his cat. Even when I say the cat is going up to live with Jenny, something happens that it doesn't.

The past 3-4 days my cat has been purring alot.  I mean he acts like he is the happiest cat on earth.   Mind you, I usually am a guy who can take or leave cats.  I neither like or dislike them, as a rule.

So- I looked up some purring sites.   It is amazing- how this cat can trance into his own happy world- and he doesnt let anything get in his way to be blissfully content and exuberantly happy.

With the 4th there are booms and all kinds of noise.   It seems if the house was bombed the cat would casually say- "so?" and go about his happy blissful day.

I can be having a bad day and tho I can plan it- I look and there is this happy azz cat purring like he has the buzz of a lifetime, all content and happy. I look at him- pet him, hold him, talk to him, he lets nothing much get in the way of his quest to be king of his domain.  

As advanced as humans are...  we could learn some from cats, dogs and parrots.    (a few to start with)

Something in the cats makeup- his brain- does this.  So- then the question becomes is happy contagious? 

If so- learn from pets how to be happy- and with little in the way to make it happen.

My parrot can stand on a perch for 80 years.  He never gets sick, needs no rxs, and when he is happy he stands on one leg and puffs his feathers out.

I have no trouble with the cat bothering the parrot.  Another awesome commentary of the world as it can be.

So- comments, one translating the bliss of a pet onto the owner?

??




GreedyTop -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 3:05:43 PM)

Hunky.. my cats invariably make me smile (well, except when Amos is terrorizing Gracious..LOL).  When I am stressed or upset, they calm me.

I'd be lost without my Girls.



marie2 -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 3:12:22 PM)

I've had a kitten for about 3 weeks now.  He's so damn cute, but he lives to terrorize us.  He is about 12 weeks old now and is just starting to let us hold him for a little while and is really purring up a storm, but he loves to bite us. :(



Lorr47 -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 3:15:20 PM)

I am not sure that the traits of cats can be translated to human beings.  Cats usually act as if they have morals and ethics.

Be happy that you have been trapped by a cat and enjoy.



GreedyTop -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 3:51:30 PM)

MArie... I broke a kitten of biting by each time he did, I'd tap his nose with a finger.. not HARD, but enough to make him let go.  



Irishknight -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 4:00:28 PM)

A happy pussy is a wonderful thing.  Enjoy the fact that you have one.



GreedyTop -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 4:32:18 PM)

*snort*

(btw, IK.. did ya ever find pics of the colt?)



marie2 -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 4:54:05 PM)

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

MArie... I broke a kitten of biting by each time he did, I'd tap his nose with a finger.. not HARD, but enough to make him let go.  


Someone suggested I try a spray bottle with water.  I used it a couple times, but now he turns it into a game.  If I pick up the bottle when he bites,  he starts playing hide and seek with me as if to dare me.  lol.  Maybe I'll give the nose-tap method a try.  His bites are getting painful at this point.



DesFIP -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 5:02:32 PM)

Having a pet is a known stress relief. That's why there are therapy animals, dogs who are taken through nursing homes. People who have given up interacting are known to wake up when there's a furry creature rubbing against their leg.

I've got a kid with multiple mood disorders. During the really bad days in the beginning, often all she could do was lie on the bed hugging the dog or sit in a corner of the horse's stall with his head in her lap. Animals reach out to us with unconditional love. PA - keep the cat.



GreedyTop -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 5:14:24 PM)

critters rule. 

There is no unconditional love like the love of an animal. 



Aneirin -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 5:39:52 PM)

I  just posted elsewhere about a cat I had with me, some fifteen minutes ago. The cat, a neighbour's cat out in the rain, was very keen to know me, stumbing back from the pub, all puras and worming around the legs. Being drunk, I sat down in the road and attended to the cat, it then came in, it in my kitchen seeking food. It got fed and as soon as it had stuffed it's neck, it wanted out, no loving from it was to be had.

My thoughts are, those creatures that are domesticated, cats, dogs etc, they know they can manipulate us, to get what they want.



GreedyTop -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 5:43:25 PM)

<-Owned and operated by the cats



SavageFaerie -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 6:35:36 PM)

For the record cats are also known to purr when they are hurting or afraid.

But its generally obvious if its a happy purr.

And yes I tend to let kittehs Dom me LOL

eta:   Also I find it interesting that cats sometimes prefer one person to another.  While I was back in nyc getting my stuff for the move to FL, my sister got a 9 month old kitteh.  He took right to me and even now that Im gone my sister refers to him as Your cat.  LOL she sent a pic text showing 7 holes in her chest...from trying to clip his nails. She didnt caption it so I texted her back and said what the hell is that...her reply was "Your damn cat did it" LOL



lizi -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 6:37:12 PM)

Pets are awesome. We've always had cats in the house and love them to death. The 2 younger ums will come home from college and after walking in the door their first thing to do is seek out the cats because they 'missed them so much'. Eh....thanks guys. The oldest has been deployed twice now and I wrote him almost daily to give him support. That's a lot of writing. When I ran out of the usual things to say I could always rely on reporting something about the cats to get him laughing. He says it kept him going on quite a few occasions. Last but not least my guy says he is the luckiest man alive because he has a bed full of pussy - the cats come running to pile in whenever they see me head off to bed. I kind of think pets bring out the best in us...



Irishknight -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 6:41:12 PM)

Gotta take some new ones.  I keep forgetting.  So much to do and so little memory....



ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 7:40:13 PM)

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
I have no trouble with the cat bothering the parrot.  Another awesome commentary of the world as it can be.

So- comments, one translating the bliss of a pet onto the owner?



I think we can learn a lot from the way animals live their lives, and one of the most valuable lessons they can teach us is how to find contentment, satisfaction, and even sheer joy from simply living in the moment. And if any animal can teach us lessons based on living in the moment, it would definitely be cats.

Keep that kitty, PA. He's had a tough month, and he deserves to have a terrific guy like you for his new human companion.



GreedyTop -> RE: My profusely happy cat! Purrs alot! (7/4/2009 8:07:38 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Irishknight

Gotta take some new ones.  I keep forgetting.  So much to do and so little memory....


senile or blonde? 


*snort*



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