An ode to furballs ;-)

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Kady

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 08:45 pm Click here to edit this post
That is just too cute!!!!!!!!

Moondance

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 08:48 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank you Kady!:)

Kady

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 08:51 pm Click here to edit this post
Wow!!! You have 10 kitties. If my husband would let me I would have a couple more. The only reason I think he let me get this one was he was scared I might want to have a baby. LOL

Moondance

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 09:20 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL... babies with out stretch marks! Kitties are great... I rescue so the ones I have were not adoptable for some reason or another so they adopted me:)

Egbok77

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 10:49 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey Moondance, we're neighbors!! I'll check this thread for your input on adoptions/recues, etc - thanks for any info you can get to me!

I absolutely love Gossy's picture!! Adorable!! You are a good Mom and you should be proud helping out this little fellow!! Come to think of it, you're an Angel and not just for BB!!

Moondance

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 10:52 pm Click here to edit this post
Egbok... I am off to bed but I just sent you an e-mail!:)

Fruitbat

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 10:53 pm Click here to edit this post
Hey Moon? Where is the picture?

Grooch

Monday, May 21, 2001 - 11:05 pm Click here to edit this post
Moon, that is such a cute picture!

Twiggyish

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 06:01 am Click here to edit this post
awwww how cute

Wink

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 07:42 am Click here to edit this post
Fruit click on Moon's name. Moonie he is beautiful. What do the other kids think of him?

Fruitbat

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 08:10 am Click here to edit this post
Oh, he is precious. Can you find a rural home for him?

Wink

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 09:41 am Click here to edit this post
Fruit are you offering yours? Or planning Thanksgiving dinner?

Moondance

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 11:05 am Click here to edit this post
We are trying MsBat... we have so many calls out right now... I will let you know. Of course it isn't coming to your house!!! I know better!

He is GREAT... he follows us around like a dog! Angela(my neighbor)'s dog, her cats and my cats all get along... it is so cute!:)

Lobster

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 04:58 pm Click here to edit this post
Moon, thanks for the advice about the kitties. I can't believe you have ten! I find that having two is pretty expensive between food and litter. Plus, Tiger has kidney problems and goes to the vet for fluids once every two weeks. I did them at home for awhile when my brother was living here in between apartments, but now he's moved so it's back to Dr. Wolf's. Yes, that's his real name. LOL Saw the picture of your little goosy, and he's just adorable.

Egbok77

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 - 08:14 pm Click here to edit this post
Moondance, got your email and replied.

Moondance

Friday, May 25, 2001 - 11:33 am Click here to edit this post
Gosling...Yogi update

We took the Gosling to the wildlife waystation... what a wonderful place... we are sad to see Yogi leave because he was so sweet but it is only fair he lives the life of a Goose and not a dog which he was acting like... it was so cute how he wanted to be part of everything and follow us around... even cuddled with Max - Angelas's dog. But he will be happier at this place...

http://www.waystation.org/

Please visit and support this wonderful charity:)

Yogi and I thank you!

Grooch

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 09:54 am Click here to edit this post
Rules for Cats Who Have A House To Run

DOORS: Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get door opened, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an "outside" door opened, stand halfway in and out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather, rain, snow, or mosquito season. Swinging doors are to be avoided at all costs.
CHAIRS AND RUGS: If you have to throw up, get to a chair quickly. If you cannot manage in time, get to an Oriental rug. If there is no Oriental rug, shag is good. When throwing up on the carpet, make sure you back up so that it is as long as the human's bare foot.
BATHROOMS: Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything -- just sit and stare.
HAMPERING: If one of your humans is engaged in some close activity and the other is idle, stay with the busy one. This is called "helping", otherwise known as "hampering". Following are the rules for "hampering":
a) When supervising cooking, sit just behind the left heel of the cook. You cannot be seen and thereby stand a better chance of being stepped on and then picked up and comforted.
b) For book readers, get in close under the chin, between eyes and book, unless you can lie across the book itself.
c) For knitting projects or paperwork, lie on the work in the most appropriate manner so as to obscure as much of the work or at least the most important part. Pretend to doze, but every so often reach out and slap the pencil or knitting needles. The worker may try to distract you; ignore it. Remember, the aim is to hamper work. Embroidery and needlepoint projects make great hammocks in spite of what the humans may tell you.
d) For people paying bills (monthly activity) or working on income taxes or Christmas cards (annual activity), keep in mind the aim -- to hamper! First, sit on the paper being worked on. When dislodged, watch sadly from the side of the table. When activity proceeds nicely, roll around on the papers, scattering them to the best of your ability. After being removed for the second time, push pens, pencils, and erasers off the table, one at a time.
e) When a human is holding the newspaper in front of him/her, be sure to jump on the back of the paper. They love to jump.
WALKING: As often as possible, dart quickly and as close as possible in front of the human, especially: on stairs, when they have something in their arms, in the dark, and when they first get up in the morning. This will help their coordination skills.
BEDTIME: Always sleep on the human at night so s/he cannot move around.
GUESTS: Check human house guests carefully to detect who might have an allergy, the more allergic the house guest, the closer you should stay. This will shorten the stay of the allergic human house guest and your owner can spend time with you as they should have been doing in the first place. If the human house guest has brought a guest-pet, be as rude as possible, hissing at an audible volume. This will let the guest-pet know s/he has been noticed and is unappreciated.
SINGING: Always schedule your performances between 2 and 3 AM so as to have the full attention of everyone in the household.
GUILT. Cats have no guilt. Owners have guilt. Jewish owners have cornered the market on guilt but they sometimes will share. Guilt in owners equals treats for kitty. Guilt can be invoked in many ways such as giving your owner a pathetic look when s/he returns from work related travel or after your owner has shouted at you for having practiced an exercise in hampering.
FUR. Carefully examine and take note of the color of your coat. Your goal is to find contrast between your fur and a human's wardrobe. Black is especially good as all cat hair goes well with black. If your human is wearing tweed, don't bother. If you have dark fur, frolic on the light carpet and furniture, and vice versa. This rule also applies to hairballs, always deposit a hairball where it will leave a lasting impression. Never leave a hairball on a surface such as tile where it can be easily cleaned away.

Moondance

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 09:58 am Click here to edit this post
That was funny, G!!!!!!

Tksoard

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 10:51 am Click here to edit this post
Hi Grooch!! That was TOO perfect!! As I was reading the door part, guess who scratched at the bedroom door, and when I opened, she walked away. I told her I knew she was going to do that, and she just sat a stared at me. 's!!

Moondance

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 10:55 am Click here to edit this post
LOL Tk!... Thanks again,G... I copied it and sent it out!

Nancy

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 11:13 am Click here to edit this post
lol i've seen that one before..love it and also how to bathe a cat..both of which are tooo true

Wink

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 12:00 pm Click here to edit this post
LOL Grooch. Wink is sitting here beside the keyboard reading and giving her critique. Too funny.

Jetticat

Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - 12:21 pm Click here to edit this post
I just love that Grooch! They should have added Jetson's favorite rule....anytime Mommie goes into the kitchen, you must race in front of her meowing for food in your dish as though you've never eaten before in all of your nine lives. Despite her protests of "Jetti, you'd be the ultimate Survivor because you could live off of your body fat and still be overweight at the finale", continue to cry and look pitiful. She will cave into your demands. Then tell you that you are the best kitty girl in the world.

Nancy

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 03:42 am Click here to edit this post
1. Introduction: Why Do We Need Humans?

So you've decided to get yourself a human being. In doing
so, you've joined the millions of other cats who have
acquired these strange and often frustrating creatures.
There will be any number of times, during the course of your
association with humans, when you will wonder why you have
bothered to grace them with your presence.

What's so great about humans, anyway? Why not just hang
around with other cats? Our greatest philosophers have
struggled with this question for centuries, but the answer
is actually rather simple:

THEY HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS.

Which makes them the perfect tools for such tasks as opening
doors, getting the lids off of cat food cans, changing
television stations and other activities that we, despite
our other obvious advantages, find difficult to do
ourselves. True, chimps, orangutans and lemurs also have
opposable thumbs, but they are nowhere as easy to train.

2. How And When to Get Your Human's Attention

Humans often erroneously assume that there are other, more
important activities than taking care of your immediate
needs, such as conducting business, spending time with their
families or even sleeping.

Though this is dreadfully inconvenient, you can make this
work to your advantage by pestering your human at the moment
it is the busiest. It is usually so flustered that it will
do whatever you want it to do, just to get you out of its
hair. Not coincidentally, human teenagers follow this same
practice.

Here are some tried and true methods of getting your human
to do what you want:

Sitting on paper: An oldie but a goodie. If a human has
paper in front of it, chances are good it's something they
assume is more important than you. They will often offer you
a snack to lure you away. Establish your supremacy over this
wood pulp product at every opportunity. This practice also
works well with computer keyboards, remote controls, car
keys and small children.

Waking your human at odd hours: A cat's "golden time" is
between 3:30 and 4:30 in the morning. If you paw at your
human's sleeping face during this time, you have a better
than even chance that it will get up and, in an incoherent
haze, do exactly what you want. You may actually have to
scratch deep sleepers to get their attention; remember to
vary the scratch site to keep the human from getting
suspicious.

3. Punishing Your Human Being

Sometimes, despite your best training efforts, your human
will stubbornly resist bending to your whim. In these
extreme circumstances, you may have to punish your human.
Obvious punishments, such as scratching furniture or eating
household plants, are likely to backfire; the
unsophisticated humans are likely to misinterpret the
activities and then try to discipline YOU. Instead, we offer
these subtle but nonetheless effective alternatives:

* Use the cat box during an important formal dinner.

* Stare impassively at your human while it is attempting a
romantic interlude.

* Stand over an important piece of electronic equipment and
feign a hair ball attack.

* After your human has watched a particularly disturbing
horror film, stand by the hall closet and then slowly back
away, hissing and yowling.

* While your human is sleeping, lie on its face.

4. Rewarding Your Human: Should Your Gift Still Be Alive?

The cat world is divided over the etiquette of presenting
humans with the thoughtful gift of a recently disemboweled
animal. Some believe that humans prefer these gifts already
dead, while others maintain that humans enjoy a slowly
expiring cricket or rodent just as much as we do, given
their jumpy and playful movements in picking the creatures
up after they've been presented.

After much consideration of the human psyche, we recommend
the following: cold blooded animals (large insects, frogs,
lizards, garden snakes and the occasional earthworm) should
be presented dead, while warm blooded animals (birds,
rodents, your neighbour's Pomeranian) are better still
living. When you see the expression on your human's face,
you'll know it's worth it.

5. How Long Should You Keep Your Human?

You are only obligated to your human for one of your lives.
The other eight are up to you. We recommend mixing and
matching, though in the end, most humans (at least the ones
that are worth living with) are pretty much the same. But
what do you expect? They're humans, after all. Opposable
thumbs will only take you so far.

Misslibra

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 03:52 am Click here to edit this post
Very very funny Nancy, thank's so much for the laugh!!! LOL I have a Cat and I do sometimes feel like I'm the pet, and she's the one in control. Animals are so smart. Smarter then some humans! LOL

Nancy

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 04:39 am Click here to edit this post
LOL--agreed ML..my cat also knows to sit on my newspaper..my chest...my keyboard..almost anywhere she wants to to get her humans attention..but she's so cute i can almost never refuse..and she's great when I'm not feeling well.. ;)

Wcv63

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 07:11 am Click here to edit this post
I have 3 kitties. Having 3 kitties was an accident = the result of an unwed teenage mother. Sonic is a small, shiny pitch black short haired kitty, who like her name, loves to dash around the house. She's an inside kitty who discovered that if she went into the closet in my daughter's room, she could get up into the attic and find an opening to get outside and run wild with the boys. ~sigh~ kids.

The babies (well they are six months old now and will be "getting the o-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n" soon) are named Ditto (little carbon copy of mama cat except he's a boy) and Kuzco (a friendly, fuzzy, affectionate lil gray girl).

They love to chase the curser on the monitor and have taken to climbing the blinds in my office. They also love to sit on my lap, or shoulder, or head while I'm working at the computer.

Nancy

Thursday, June 21, 2001 - 08:28 am Click here to edit this post
lol wcv..one of my cats used to love to sit in the crook of my arm(on purpose im sure) to prevent me from typing..it seemed like every time i would talk to a particular person on aol thru IM's she would come out of no where to sit on my arm...(she probably WAS smarter than me as the dude turned out to be a bit crazy LOL)

Nancy

Friday, June 22, 2001 - 10:23 am Click here to edit this post
CAT MEWS NETWORK -- Research by scientists at Britain’s Edinburgh
University has shown that one in 20 pets are allergic to their owners.
While 25-percent of humans experience pet allergies, up to 75,000 cats
and dogs itch and sneeze because of a sensitivity to people. A pet’s
allergic reaction to humans is caused by a reaction to human skin or a
reaction to dust mites that feed off dead human skin cells. Symptoms
include itchiness on the face and paws of dogs and cats that chew and
lick their fur off. (Edinburgh Evening News)

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Jetticat

Friday, June 22, 2001 - 11:28 am Click here to edit this post
Wcv, funny! It's like with my dog, he is a Keeshound and is a huge ball of fluff. He loves to ride and loves going to the vet. The only problem that he has is when it's his turn to go back. I've told him that they can only be taken once, but he doesn't seem to believe me!:)

Grooch

Monday, July 16, 2001 - 11:21 am Click here to edit this post
Cats, People to Share Common Scents
By Ellen Wulfhorst

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cat lovers may not always admit it, but they often share everything from their breakfast cereal to their bed pillows with their feline friends.

Soon, humans and cats can share and wear the same perfume.

Oh My Cat, a scent designed for both cats and humans, is set to hit U.S. store shelves in mid-August.

Oh My Cat is floral, mixing jasmine, magnolia, freesia, mandarin and bergamot with cedar, sandalwood, vanilla and a touch of olive leaf oil that cats with their sensitive noses can smell but humans can't, according to Nick Munafo, vice president of marketing for Adipar, the New York-based company that is introducing Oh My Cat in the United States.

Since it's for cats, Oh My Cat is completely edible, he said, although it contains no catnip.

People and their pets can bond by wearing the same scent, he said.

``It's to promote harmony between you and your pet,'' said Munafo, who says his own cats love it.

``On weekends, I put it on them, and they really seem to like it,'' he said, adding that he dabs a little on himself, but ''I'm a little embarrassed to tell people what it is.''

Oh My Cat was tested extensively in labs by veterinarians and cosmetics experts, according to its creator, the Paris-based company Dog Generation.

A non-scientific test, using a sample of Oh My Cat sprayed on a piece of felt, among cats at Manhattan animal shelter Bide-A-Wee had mixed results.

Several cats gave a brief sniff and turned away disinterested, one gray cat seemed intrigued, a few kittens tried to chew on the sample and eventually a five-month-old tabby stole it to keep as her toy.

Aimed at affluent cat owners, Oh My Cat will be sold exclusively at first at Saks Fifth Avenue, said Munafo.

It will be priced at $32 for a 50 ml bottle.

Its canine counterpart, Oh My Dog, was launched last year, also at Saks.

Nancy

Monday, July 16, 2001 - 11:23 am Click here to edit this post
ohmigod that's too funny...32 dollars??? I think I think I'd rather let my cat smell like a cat and my smell like me thank you very much LOL

Reddravenn

Friday, July 27, 2001 - 10:42 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay everyone I have to ask what is the weirdest food your cat eats? They are known to be picky eaters but I had one that loved cantalope rinds...not the actual melon but the rinds. I could always tell when the cantalope was ripe because Lucifur would eat all the skin off of it. I work as a pet sitter and have had people request all kinds of unusual thing to be fed to their pets I was just wondering.

Nancy

Friday, August 10, 2001 - 06:53 pm Click here to edit this post
CAT MEWS NETWORK -- Madeline was a Michigan library cat that made the
Loutit District Library its home until allergic readers forced
authorities to ban it. Next week, Madeline may be allowed back in. The
library director sees a benefit to Madeline’s presence, which has not
been felt since the ban went into effect July 31 after two young girls
developed rashes after a library visit. According to library officials,
the numbers of people who want the cat back far outnumber the few who do
not. Board officials plan to discuss the issue and render a decision on
Tuesday.