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Julip
Member
09-28-2005
| Monday, December 19, 2005 - 5:21 pm
Mame - that photo of Scooter caught in the act of posting is a hoot - and what beautiful pictures of both Scooter's and Bandit's markings! Thanks for sharing! 
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Monday, December 19, 2005 - 9:22 pm
Serate, Fred and Barney are adorable... odd, but adorable. I mean that's how my dh and I sometimes sleep, but hey, we're married. (wink) And Whoami, That's a great story! I came home from a trip once and discovered one of them had pee'd in one of my very expensive brand new party shoes. (The guilty party was one of my previous two kitties, Pitzy-Mitzy or her sister Georgie-Girl). It was hard to be mad, as I didn't know which of them did the deed. And neither was talkin'... I never did get that lovely aroma out of my shoe, and I rinsed it, trying to save it. I ended up tossing 'em. The shoes not the kitties. LOL. Bandit (great name btw!) I'm rofling at the kitty's name Fatovich. Too funny!
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Monday, December 19, 2005 - 9:30 pm
Jinksy, Bonza, and Julip, so glad you liked the pix. I really impressed myself this a.m. I took the pix, and then in a flash (pun intended) I had the pix uploaded and posted. Its the first time I did it without checking the written instructions a friend game me. Very pleased with myself... (GRIN)
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:43 pm
Mame, I love that you have a rotary dial telephone, and it looks like it's in a high-traffic area, so you must even still USE it!! I LOVE Bandit's markings!! So handsome!!
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 12:03 am
Eeyore... I was WAITING for someone to notice/comment on the rotary dial phone. LOL. Here's the true story. To the left of it, on my desk I have a proper phone with all the bells and whistles. That old rotary is what I use for my celebrity interviews when I am on a writing assignment. Many, many moons ago, an old boyfriend hooked it up with a wire inside its guts, that comes out and plugs into my tape-recorder. The dialer part doesn't even work anymore. So what I do, is I dial the number on the regular speaker-phone, and then when the interview subject answers, I turn on the taperecorder, and pick up the rotary-phone receiver to conduct the interview. Yes, I have screwed up on rare occassions and forgotten to pick up that phone to speak. And then the tape just records - nothing. So I have to scramble and jot down the main points and best quotes. So I try not to screw up too often. Now I have tried other 'modern' setups, and have found them lame and not nearly as clear as this so I stick with this setup. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it. LOL SO thanks for noticing Eeyore! 
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Redstar
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 9:43 am
Mame, I just clicked on your profile (never had before): I LOVED Louisa May Alcott books as a child. I've read Little Women oh, probably 20 times - even now I pick it up every two or three years and read it. Just last year I read all the LMA books I had from childhood - Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories, and An Old-Fashioned Girl. I especially love the full title of "Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill." My childhood edition is the same as yours, not surprising since I'm about the same age as you. Gosh, now I may have to treat myself to a LMA read-through during the holiday break! My favorite quote is a variation of yours: If you look for what you've always looked for and do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Bandit is one gorgeous kitty!
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 4:55 pm
right now my cat Marble is going crazy playing with a straw--LOL gotta love it when then choose things like that over their 'real toys'...
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 5:03 pm
nancy, that is so true. i found out a few weeks ago that my kitty LOVES pine cones. i put a couple around my little Christmas tree. i finally had to hide them because she would wake me up at 3:30 am playing all over the house, smacking them against the walls. she made so much noise! now, i only put them out during the day. lol
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Taterheadtwo
Member
09-29-2005
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 5:11 pm
sigh , once again i got a couple big fat pine cones, put them on the floor, even tied a string and draged it around the floor, even got down and pushed it around with my nose, the whole time my cats would only watch, well i thew them back outside, when i came back, i found the cats on my bed laughing at me, just not right,lol
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 5:16 pm
tater, lol. i would love to see a photo of you pushing it around with your nose! i used to have a cat like that. nothing worked on her (toys, catnip...nothing). maybe, because i have a "city cat" and pine cones are around only when i decorate? is it okay i'm laughing at you too? :>)
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Redstar
Member
07-08-2005
| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 7:51 pm
Voila! I have found my copy of "French for Cats" by Henri de la Barbe (Henry Beard)! So for all of you who would like to be able to communicate with your cat in the language that George Carlin once described as sounding like two cats fighting, here are some basic words and phrases: The Major Cat Parts and The Basic Cat Wardrobe Les Parties Importantes du Chat et Les Vetements Essentials du Chat The Whiskers - Les Moustaches The Paws - Les Pattes The Tail - La Queue The Flea and Tick Collar - La Collier Contre les Puces et les Tiques The Name Tag - La Plaque d'Identite The Bell - La Clochette Of course, your cat must be able to describe her/his basic activities: I meow: Je miaule I sleep: Je dors I sit and stare at nothing for hours on end: Je reste asses et je regarde fixement dans le vide pendant des heures I run rapidly from room to room for no apparent reason: Je cours rapidement d'une piece a l'autre sans aucune raison apparente (I don't know why "I eat" and "I urinate in inappropriate places" weren't included. Perhaps someone could translate those phrases for us?) Of course, your cat must also firmly state what s/he will NOT do: I do not "fetch": Je ne "rapporte" pas I do not chase cars: Je ne cours pas apres les voitures I do not guard houses: Je ne garde pas la maison That is Lesson One. Should I post more lessons?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 7:47 am
Here's a closeup of some of the ornaments on my tree. Both cats have been most well-behaved, and have stayed out of the tree (although there are pretty interested in some of the presents). Front and center in this pic is an ornament that I had made of Kassie (you can barely see Costa's towards the top of the tree on the right).

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 9:18 am
I'd recognize either one of them in a second.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 9:23 am
You are so creative!! I love that tree....and I am envious!
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 10:11 am
that is a great tree!! Thank you for sharing! 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 11:22 am
Great cat-tree! I think the trick, with pine-cones or other items, is that the kitties cannot see or realize that you consider them a toy. They'd rather repurpose the item on their own. Of course sometimes once they love a toy, then it is okay with them if you throw it for them..
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 1:43 am
Nice tree Costa! I went with a small tree this year, maybe three feet. I was going to put on ornaments, but decided against them the other day; only lights and roping. The tree closed up quickly and just a brush causes needles to drop everywhere. So, no ornaments (because I just don't want to deal with the needle droppage. LOL!) Ok, I have a question about Boo and her behavior. For some reason, Boo absolutely FREAKS out when she smells her fur in my hand. Like, say a clump comes off as she rubs my pant leg. I pull it off and she turns around and sniffs it. She sniff and then she freaks, hissing loudly with her ears falling back. I have done nothing other than pick her hair off and yet, somehow, she hates me. What is up with that? Why does she freak? It's not like I pulled her hair out in some masochistic clump to torture her? Is it her scent that she smells on me that pisses her off? It's just so bizarre, psycho and sybilesque. I just can't figure it out. Wondering if any other cat owners experience this type of thing? Or, am I the owner of a weird and psycho kitty who has "issues" with her fur?
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 5:55 am
Wendo, my Samantha freaks when she smells the brush after I brush her. I don't know why either. She gets really hissy! However, she'll pick Holly's white fur clumps up and walk around with it her mouth with no problem. She's all black, and looks like she has a white beard then. lol
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 5:58 am
Wow Wendo, that's a new one to me! How old is Boo and when did her behavior get weird? Has she stopped peeing on the bed? I could see her hissing at another cat's hair, but her own? Hmmmm... verrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting!! Misha is so nosey she just crawled all over my kids when they'd come home from work with other kitty fur on them. Once she sniffed them thoroughly, they were allowed to go. LOL Mame - I love love LOVE calico kitties! They are the first kitties I had when I was young and my most precious one was a stray who adopted us we ended up calling Punkin. There's something about computer chairs and cats. We used to joke with Jade when we were going out not to be chatting w/strangers while we were gone and sometimes when I can't "find" Misha, I turn around the high-back computer chair, and there she is! Who - loved your take on the kitty "thoughts on travel." LOL Tater - Sorry, but I'm cracking up picturing you and your cats and the cats looking at you with some sarcastic remark in their heads! lol Ok, so I'm actually thinking of the times when I TRIED to show either a cat or dog HOW to do something. I know they think we're idiots when we do it! ROFL! Costa - Awesome tree!! Ours is always just a mismash of things and it's still not much of anything because Misha is still having so much fun knocking things off and well, I've just been busy w/other things - as I told my DD when she came in and snarked about no one having done much with the tree since she was here last! LOL
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 6:08 am
Hyper - We must have been posting at the same time. So you have a kitty who doesn't like her own hair either. It must be funny to see her looking like she has a beard! My brother does have a cat who hissed at just about everything and I could never get too near her until the last few years. When my brother travels I go down and feed the kitties every few days and Lucy (yellow tabby) decided she liked me and now let's me pet her and even pick her up. His other cat Ruby (tortie) we always called "Cujo." She'll come up to you and be all nice and then decides she's ticked and hisses at you! He lives at the beach and when he was on-the-road, we had to get the cats in before we left. I wish we had a video camera but this little 7lb tortie had 4 of us at bay trying to get her into the house for close to an hour! Finally my DH had to take an empty plastic waste basket and get it over her and slide the top under so we could get her in. It was all pretty comical. 
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 6:25 am
Samantha is 16 and has always been a hisser, but she has mellowed over the years! She'll sit with me and let me pick her up or brush her, but only when "she" wants me to. She'd sleep on my son and daughter's beds when she wanted to, but hiss at them if they moved their legs where she had to move. My daughter would hiss right back at her. To get her into the pet carrier, we end up cornering her and putting a towel over her. Trying to put a collar on her is another treat! The thing with Holly's fur is funny! My DD said all she needs is a Santa hat now. lol Holly is the complete opposite of Sam. Very mellow, doesn't care who picks her up or who brushes her. Your brother's Ruby, sounds just like Samantha. lol Cats have us trained well. 
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 7:18 am
Hypermom, that's exactly how Boo is. I don't brush Boo, she doesn't let me. But, if I have a clump of her hair or something and she smells it, oooh, watch out. Maybe she just doesn't like smelling Watching, Boo has always been weird when it comes to smelling her hair. As for the urninating in my bed, so far so good, no further peeing. However, I haven't put the featherbed back on yet. But yeah, psycho behavior, she's always had that. LOL!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 8:32 am
my cat ariel is weird about smells. she especially likes my husband's smells. my husband is a plasterer who can really sweat up a storm when he's working. one of her favorite things is to roll in his stinky sweaty shirts when he comes home from work. then she makes that funny face so she can smell it all the way back in her throat. and if you take the shirt away she hisses at you. WEIRD CAT!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 8:34 am
Ok, that is weird. One time, my DH shaved our cat. A stripe right down his back. (It's a long story) Anyway, that stripe stunk for the longest time......
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Redstar
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 9:17 am
I'm loving the psycho cat stories! I took Natalie to the vet on Monday, which meant, of course, I had to get her into the carrier for the first time since she came to live with us. For forty-five minutes I did everything I could - I tried coaxing her with food, I tried tricking her, I chased her from the living room to the kitchen and back again (but there are too many place she can get to that I can't). Then she made a tactical error and ran into the office. I had her cornered - no place in the office I can't get to. Unfortunately, she turned into insane kitty. She was screaming like I was trying to skin her alive, racing back and forth. She climbed the miniblinds like they were ladders. She jumped on the file cabinet and launched herself off the printer, sending it flying to the floor (it still works, thankfully!). She dribbled pee everywhere. For twenty LONG minutes I chased her in this little 8X10 room, her screaming and me cursing. FINALLY, I managed to grab her! I wrapped her so tightly in the towel that she probably couldn't breathe, poor thing, then stuffed her towel and all into the carrier. Whew! How I managed to survive without getting a scratch is a minor miracle. I arrived at the vet a half-hour late and told them that if it was too late do get her into surgery that day that I wanted to board her until the surgery could be performed - no way was I going to go through that again in a day or two! Fortunately, they were still able to perform the surgery (spay). She is back home now and is doing well. I figured that I wouldn't see her for days, but she came out of hiding for petting about six hours after getting her home. I have to take her in to have the staples removed next Wednesday. But since I'm usually pretty good about learning from my mistakes, I got a kitty tranquilizer from the vet to put in her food.
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