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Ophiliasgrandma

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 04:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Auntie, that was great!

Kady

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 07:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Isn't it funny that a cat lover will find those rules amusing and, oh so, endearing?

My kitty's official name is Stinky. When we first got him he had a little gas problem and well you get the picture. I mostly just call him my Precious which reminds me of Gollum in LOTR.

Twinkie

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kady, our boy that died over 3 years ago we nicknamed Stinky and that's what we always called him.....but for a different reason. He was an indoor/outdoor cat and he used to sometimes come home smelling horrible and we'd have to give him a bath. To this day we still talk about Stinky. He was the best cat ever and we still miss him. It took us a long time to even think about another cat but now we have Angel and Squirt and they are our beloved children. Angel is the regal princess that I bottle/formula fed since she came to us at 2 weeks old....she didn't even look like a cat then....more like a bat. LOL Squirt we got at Pet Smart when he was 8 weeks old and he's a little nutjob. He's mommy's boy and she's daddy's girl. Kinda funny since I was the one up every 3 hours mixing formula and heating it to just the right temp and bottle feeding her. But hey, our babies pick their faves, not the other way around. Of course hubby and I love them equally.

Kady

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 09:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My hubby will not admit to loving our kitty. He always says he just tolerates him. I know he just says that to bug me cause this is the only cat that he has ever allowed to sleep in the bed with us. He even lets me take him on our camping trips with us. :)

Bandit

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aunt - that was awesome-thanks! And oh so true!!!

Justme

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 12:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Max - He was about 2 when I got him from the local shelter. He had just recently been fixed so he still had these huge jowls and just looked a big old boy

Frannie - I got her when she was just 4 days old. My mother raised her for me until she was eating catfood. Long story short. Frannie was a sickly little thing and my mother being the devout Catholic that she is, prayed to St. Francis - patron Saint of Animals - and thinking Frannie was a boy named him Francisco. Well, he was a she, hence Frannie

Aunt_Bob

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 01:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
URVW...

Kady...You reminded me of this newspaper ad...

catorme


ktAB

Kady

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 01:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That is so cute AB!! Sometimes my DH says I love the cat more than him. I just say I love you both equally.

Sia

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 04:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Love the ad, Aunt_Bob!! Hey, LTNS, woman. How are you, anyway? Hope things are going well with you.
catlaugh

Mygetaway

Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 12:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's a picture I dug out of my 'archives'..LOL
This was my first cat ever. He would have been 20 years old this month. In this pic he was about 3 years old I think. The other guy with him is my son, when he was about 11 months old.

Sam
Doesn't he look like a black panther?

Urgrace

Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 08:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
After spending the first six months of his life in a 'no-kill' shelter cage, Buddy was adopted by my son. When son decided to move to Hawaii permanently, he couldn't bear to have Buddy caged for another six month quarantine to take him there, so we came to his rescue. After several months of chasing him on his escapes into the great outdoors, we finally allowed him to be an outdoor cat with indoor privileges. Buddy is a black and white tuxedo with a perpetual white smile line.

Last May we rescued two semi-feral kittens. They were born in a barn to semi-feral parents. Mostly uncatchable but fed by my neice, the parents were trying to overpopulate the area.

The oldest kitten just had her first birthday, is all black and named Jujukitty from suggestions here at the clubhouse, although JujuStinkykitty would fit. She is the youngest kitten's aunt.

The youngest kitten is a multi-colored tabby named Kallicat. She has skin allergies, hates baths, but is very loving following a bath, and her first birthday is next week.

Jujukitty and Kallicat are both about half the size of Buddy.

MGA, love the pic of your first kitty and what a sweet baby pic - this is the son who is now driving?

Aunt_Bob, that article really cracked me up!

Mygetaway

Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 01:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Grace.. Yes, that would be my now almost 17 year old son. Jeez, where does the time go? When I found that picture last night, I decided I had to post it. My cat was "retired" and living at my Mom's until about September of last year. About 10 years ago I moved across the street from my Mom. He decided he liked it better over at her house, so he kind of moved in. He would follow my son over there in the morning before school, and just decided one day not to come home for dinner. It was kind of funny. He would come over and visit whenever he felt like it, but he always went back to Mom's at night.

Ophiliasgrandma

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One of these days I hope to have the wherewithall to show pics of the most gorgeous, big-blue-eyed slinky Siamese that ever lived...Ophelia!

Kady

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 09:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Since I don't have the capabilities to share pictures, I thought I would tell ya'll a story.....

Last night I had a nightmare. My DH is always telling me how useless my kitty is and that he he good for nothing. So last night I dreamed...I was sitting on my sofa watching tv and petting my sweetie. My DH comes home from work and promptly drops 3 rats on the floor in front of the cat. My kitty does nothing but lies there to get his tummy rubbed. DH leaves the room and comes back in with some poison and says "See, I told you that cat was good for nothing and now he must die". I started screaming and crying trying to protect my baby. I then woke up scared, sweating and in tears.

So this afternoon when I told DH about the dream, he said stop being mad at him. He said you woke up before you finished the dream. I'm sure I was just picking and was gonna give the poison to the rats to get rid of them. He said you know I wouldn't do anything to hurt that cat. Which of course, this prompted me to ask...so that means you love the kitty? Of course, his reply was....you know I just tolerate that cat. (hehe, I know he loves him)

So later on after supper, I was cleaning the kitchen and conveniately found where he had taken an empty medicine bottle and wrote in magic marker 'Cat Poison'. I'm gonna kick his butt.

Sia

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 09:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kady, your DH sounds a lot like my older brother. When I was at home (with our folks) he'd stop by the house and leave mean messages about my two dear cats on Mom's fridge with the magnets and I'd retaliate with messages of my own. We had to get pretty creative whenever we ran out of letters. You can substitute many letters/numerals if needed: "V" becomes "A" when it's turned upside-down, and a "3" can serve as an "E" if you turn it over, etc.!

Moondance

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 11:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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Sia

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Awwwwwww, cute kitten, Moondance! Where did you find that graphic?
cat

Moondance

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 03:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You are the Queen of Graphics Sia! LOL :)

A friend sent it to me today and I came right here to post it... I lOVE that cute kitten face!

Pamy

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 03:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOve those kitty graphics! Kady your DH story cracked me up!

Moondance

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 04:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kady, just read your post! LOLOLOL

Sia

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 08:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I took my best friend to lunch on Monday I told her a story that had everyone at Red Lobster looking at us because we were laughing like idiots! My cat Liz (18 years old next month!!) does something really strange whenever she goes to get up on my bed:

Instead of jumping directly onto the bed--where she might land on a pile of papers or laundry and slide to the floor--she walks completely around my bed and then around my husband's bed, jumps onto his pillow, waking him or scaring the mess out of him, then she pu$$y-foots delicately across both his pillows and walks across the drawer of the nightstand between our two beds and then onto my bed.

After completing this circuitous route my dear kitty-cat stops beside my face to get some loving, then goes on down to the foot of my bed, where she spends the night.

What had us laughing so hard was my explaining why my DH gets so mad at the cat for doing this. He doesn't want her "dirty" little kitty-feet on his pillows where he puts his face, and sometimes she stops and SITS on the pillow beside him! He then will sit up and bellow for me to make my cat "Stop a$$-ing up his pillow!" ROTFL!
liz2

Nightcrawler

Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 06:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a good cat story.

L.C. and I went in to Subway last Saterday to get super. When we got to subway there was a cat at the door wanting to go in. we made sure the cat did not go in with us. once in side the subway people asked us if the cat came in with us. we told them it did not. and they told us that it has got in 5-6 times today.

we asked about the cat. they sade it just showed up 3 days ago. and had been getting in a lot.

they told us we were welcome to take it home.

I told them no thank you we allready have about 20 cats. ( we live on a farm 20 cats 4 dogs NO mice)anyway we got are food and went to get in the truck and there was the cat. as my son L.C. opened his door the cat jumped in.

I told him just to get in and we would get it out on my side. when he set down the cat got on his lap and started to per.

need less to say we took it home with us and now have 21 cats:)

the cat comes in side all the time wiggals just loves to let it in and feed it. it is a very loving and gental cat. it must of been some ones inside cat.

we told the subway people in case someone is looking for it.

and to end this store.
can you guess what we named it??????????????????????????
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thats right SUBWAY

Moondance

Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 07:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like that story!:)

Yeah for Subway!

Sweetbabygirl

Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 08:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, how many times do you guys feed canned food to your cats?

Harpo is the only one that will eat the canned stuff, D.P. just licks the gravy and moves on; he's happiest with the dry stuff.

Now, back to Harpy....I give him a 1/2 can in the morning, then the remainder in the afternoon. Plus, he eats all the dry stuff that he wants. My question is, should he get two cans a day?
(Important to mention that he is as big as a house and could live off that belly for days, lol!)

Pamy

Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 08:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhh Nightcrawler, I love the story and the name!!
Sweet...We leave dry food out all the time, they get wet food in the morning and at night. One of our cats just licks to gravy also. I also have 1 that will not eat the dry unless the bowl is at least 1/2 full, if not he stands there and yells at me to fill it!