Archive through April 24, 2001

The ClubHouse: Archive: An ode to furballs ;-) : Archive through April 24, 2001

Nancy091158

Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 11:31 am Click here to edit this post
An Ode To Furballs

1. After dark, all cats are jaguars...

2. Never *ever* try to baptize a cat.

3. Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get
a cat to pull a sled.

4. A cat knows your every thought. It doesn't care.
But it knows .

5. If I want to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I
will put shoes on my cat ...

6. Most people with cats, know they are being
controlled. That's the horror of it ...

7. Never try to out stubborn a cat .

8. Thousands of years ago ,humans worshiped
the cat . They have not forgotten this . . .

9. Whenever I bathe my cat, it takes an hour to
get the fur off of my tongue.

10. I prefer to live with Feline Sapiens, thank you
very much.

11. (picture of a fat tabby on a couch , looking at his
owner, "My species domesticated your species... "

Moondance

Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 11:34 am Click here to edit this post
Oh yeah! Gotta love the Kittie Cats!

Twiggyish

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 09:36 am Click here to edit this post
My kitty doesn't do anything special. He sleeps all day and once in a while he goes into "crazy cat" mode..LOL He knows who in the house will let him out to the patio (me). I am the one he will meow to when he wants something. (like more food) When my daughter is asleep, he is careful not to wake her up and tiptoes across her bed. His purr is very loud and his meow sounds like a kitten. He is also very large and looks like Garfield.

On a side note,we used to be "dog" people.

Kady

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 02:41 pm Click here to edit this post
My cat is a lazy, good for nothing piece of fluff and I love him to death!!!!!!!!!!

Kady

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 02:45 pm Click here to edit this post
My cat is a lazy, spoiled rotten, good for nothing piece of fluff and I love him to death!!!!!!!!!!

Nagster

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 06:28 pm Click here to edit this post
My cat is also spoiled rotten, but has one and only one redeeming quality. When someone pulls their car into my driveway, he comes running into the house from the screen porch, growling. My very own alarm cat! Considering he can't see the driveway from the porch, this is rather odd that he senses someone is coming, isn't it? When I intend to leave the house and pick up my car keys, he meows plaintively and gets in my way all the way to the door, wanting to go bye-bye with me. Understands "no" and "eat", comes when called and follows me from room to room, yet hates being picked up. My first foster kitty of 17, I adopted him only because he was so bad I just knew nobody would adopt him except me. I too love him to death -- all 19 pounds of him!

Kady

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 06:43 pm Click here to edit this post
OMG, 19 pounds. How fat is that cat? Mine looks very fat but it is mostly fluff. How sweet of you to adopt a kitty nobody would want!! :)
My husband found my first ever kitty at the dumpster. Boy that cat was mean. I sure miss her.

Have you hugged your cat today?

Moondance

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 06:44 pm Click here to edit this post
I love that story Nagster!

A few of my kitties play fetch and dogs thought they were the only ones!

Twiggyish

Monday, April 23, 2001 - 06:58 pm Click here to edit this post
My Carmel is 23 lbs of orange fluffiness. But, I have heard of fatter cats. Ours was on his own for a year, as the lady who owned him let him outside. He ran away and only showed up once in a while. She told us to take him the next time he came around. He was 10 lbs when we first got him.
It must have been a rough year on the outside because he doesn't like strangers. He hides whenever someone comes to visit.

Nancy091158

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 05:31 am Click here to edit this post
my cat weights 10.5 pounds and was quite quite quite happy to see me last nite ;-)

Of course, it could be because of the catnip mouse i lugged all the way from England for her LOL

Tksoard

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 06:13 am Click here to edit this post
For anyone who is interested, my cat was coughing with hair balls pretty bad. I bought Purina Special Formula for hair ball control. I couldn't believe how great it is!! She hasn't coughed since, and it's been about 6 months. No, I'm not an employee of Purina. Ebony and I are just 2 very satisfied customers.

Kady

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 10:44 am Click here to edit this post
I love the kitty stories!!!!! I tried #7 - Never try to out stubborn a cat last night. My sweet bundle of fluff kept jumping on the kitchen counter. I would pop him on the booty, put him down. About every 10 minutes I would go check and he would be right back up there. I gave up.
Cat-1 Kady-0

I have also used the food for hair ball control. You are right Tksoard, it works great.

Grooch

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 11:17 am Click here to edit this post
Kady, have you tried a watergun? You don't let him know that you are the source of water. When he jumps up there and he's not looking, give him a good squirt. He'll knock it off.

Karuuna

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:18 pm Click here to edit this post
kady -- spreading something sticky on the counters a few times will help too. They hate that! :)

Moondance

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:47 pm Click here to edit this post
Oh just let him walk on the counter:)

Grooch

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:52 pm Click here to edit this post
But Moon, what if she left some chicken out on the counter by mistake? You wouldn't want him to chew on the bones and choke, or worse yet puncture his stomach? Would you? :(

Moondance

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 12:56 pm Click here to edit this post
No MsG ... mine walk where ever they want so I keep things pretty clear... for them of course:)

BTW... they will go up no matter what if there is food!!!!

Grooch

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:02 pm Click here to edit this post
Moondance, I used to have the bestest cat in the world. He was black and white like a cow. He never ever went on the counters or got in the garbage. And he slept everynight on top of my head. I miss him.

Moondance

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:09 pm Click here to edit this post
:( I am sorry MsG... isn't it so great to have such a connection with your baby(cat) they are the best! And it does sound like you had a great one!

Moondance

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:21 pm Click here to edit this post
MsG... click on my name so you can see one of my favorite pix of one of my cats... his name is Shilo. He is pretty special too!

Kady

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:25 pm Click here to edit this post
I will have to try the water gun. I bet my son would have fun with that. The sticky stuff I will try second.
Moon, I didn't mind him jumping on the counter until he started jumping up on the one next to the stove. I don't want cat hair flying in my food. Also, I don't want him to step on the burners. You know how electric stoves are-the burners stay hot awhile.
Score one for me, I walked in the kitchen a second ago to stir my meat and he jumped down. See he knows its wrong, he just won't quit doing it.
Cat-1 Kady-1

Grooch

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:33 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey Moon, when did you change your picture? Was the other one you also? I must say, Shilo is a very handsome cat. Just keep him away from Keith. I don't want him choking on any chicken bones.

Moondance

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 02:42 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL... yes both pix are me... I just changed it to show you Shilo:) My other one is what Ocean_Islands did to my headshot... it is B&W but he put colors in it:)

Bijoux

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 03:20 pm Click here to edit this post
I was adopted by a stray cat once. It would come by and drink out of a dish that was set out for my chicken. I started to feed it, but the chicken would eat the food. The chicken was history soon thereafter as it crowed once too often at dawn. Kept the cat though. She settled down with me just long enough to enjoy her pregnancy, have the kittens and raise them. I then moved and had to give all the kitties away.

Nagster

Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - 06:55 pm Click here to edit this post
Hermie, the 19-pounder, isn't fat at all - just a large cat. He measures 2 feet from the top of his head to the rear of his body and his tail is at least 14" long (he won't hold still for momma to measure properly). Yes, he too jumps up on the kitchen counter, walks over to the sink and drinks out of any glass there with water in it. Same thing in the bathroom. Stoop to lap water from a dish on the floor? Not The Herminator! When I snack in the living room, he simply has to smell what I have but has no interest at all in human food other than tuna fish, which is all he will eat of late. Would you believe 3 meals from one small can of tuna? I'm going to try the Purina food that supposedly takes care of hairballs. Rather, I'm going to try Hermie on the Purina! Much too crunchy for me!