PF cat thread

[LittleLebowski]

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[LockedBreech]

I like orange and white cats. Always so chill.


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[Cypher]

Mutt Approves

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[WobblyPossum]

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Ursula heard that other cats were getting into their humans’ stuff. She wants to come.

[EMC]

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[LittleLebowski]

I like orange and white cats. Always so chill.


I’ve met a few folks from the country that say that color denotes cat personality type and I’ve never seen them proved wrong. This cat is extremely chill and a great companion.

[hufnagel]

I prefer muted calico (just the right amount of feisty and cuddle bug) and full tabby.
although really I'll take any cat that shows up and wants to be adopted.

[LittleLebowski]

So, both of my cats were adopted as kittens. The orange male is awesome, chill, affectionate, and patient with the kids. The gray female is wild and isn’t getting better. She’s been only treated with love and never reciprocates. She’s been checked out by the vet, she’s fine. Now she’s a young adult and still runs from us whenever we are near. Today is the second day in a row that she peed in the house, not in the litterbox. I’m out of options, so she’s becoming an outside cat (she loves the outdoors, spends a lot of time outside on our five acre property). I won’t have a house ruined by cat piss, but I’m still disappointed it came to this. I guess it just sucks.

[EMC]

So, both of my cats were adopted as kittens. The orange male is awesome, chill, affectionate, and patient with the kids. The gray female is wild and isn’t getting better. She’s been only treated with love and never reciprocates. She’s been checked out by the vet, she’s fine. Now she’s a young adult and still runs from us whenever we are near. Today is the second day in a row that she peed in the house, not in the litterbox. I’m out of options, so she’s becoming an outside cat (she loves the outdoors, spends a lot of time outside on our five acre property). I won’t have a house ruined by cat piss, but I’m still disappointed it came to this. I guess it just sucks.Exact same experience with cat behavior and coloration. Last cat was a grey tabby female and hated everyone. New orange/white male is super chill.

[JAD]

I had two tortoiseshell. Bipolar opposites.
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[NETim]

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[rcbusmc24]

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Shop Cat.....

[rcbusmc24]

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[wvincent]

LL, had a cat that began having accidents, turned out to be a urinary tract infection. Treated it, never happened again for the life of the cat, she was also female.

OTOH, I can't believe I am posting in a cat thread. Hope I don't get caught and have to turn in my big bore revolvers and and have to switch to a PPK.:o

[LockedBreech]

So, both of my cats were adopted as kittens. The orange male is awesome, chill, affectionate, and patient with the kids. The gray female is wild and isn’t getting better. She’s been only treated with love and never reciprocates. She’s been checked out by the vet, she’s fine. Now she’s a young adult and still runs from us whenever we are near. Today is the second day in a row that she peed in the house, not in the litterbox. I’m out of options, so she’s becoming an outside cat (she loves the outdoors, spends a lot of time outside on our five acre property). I won’t have a house ruined by cat piss, but I’m still disappointed it came to this. I guess it just sucks.

If it's any comfort she'll probably be happier since it seems in her nature to be fierce. My ex had a cat like that, was just a hunter by nature and genuinely seemed upset inside.

Weirdly enough, grey MALE cats are among the sweetest in my experience, and the only ones that don't really trigger any allergy in me.

If allergy wasn't a factor though, it would be orange ones all day. I volunteer at the shelter a few times a month and one of my favorite pictures of myself is 6-7 different orange cats and kittens in various states of snuggle on my lap, shoulders, neck, stomach, etc.

[EMC]

Greg Ellifritz just posted an article on cats:

https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag

[Mirolynmonbro]

Winston and Bert say hihttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190707/561535b52a6510044d328e1ca5b41770.jpg

[Duelist]

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I like cats. I would have several if I was not allergic.

[Doc_Glock]

Adopted these two males as kittens a year go. Fought like lions for at least a month but they get along now.

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American shorthair above. Super friendly and bold.

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Some sort of Maine coon mix. Cautious but curious and very polite, never bites or scratches even in play. Seems kind of stupid compared to the other.

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We had a Lilac point Siamese that was simply awesome, athletic and ferocious. We all loved him, but died at a year old from lymphoma. Fuck cancer. Wrecked the entire family emotionally.

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[Stephanie B]

Chip wants the remote and a beer.

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[Wondering Beard]

Don't know about colorings, but Persephone, our Russian Blue mix (probably with Chartreux) is sweet, playful, social and just a joy to us.

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She liked watching John Wick

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[Cypher]

I walked around a corner at work one night and almost stepped on this one

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She was fairly tame. According to the caretaker they fed her live mice.

[Cypher]

Mutt was a feral cat that used to hang out with me at work. I took to feeding her and she would walk rounds with me. I named her Mutt because she followed me like a dog. The night we had the "Bomb Cyclone" I let her sleep in my car. After that she slept in my car every night. I want to bring her home but we're only allowed two animals where I live. One of our dogs died of old age a couple of months ago and I told my wife I wasn't taking "No" for an answer, I'm bringing Mutt home. She said yes and Mutt was here the next day.

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If you look closely you can see where the Humane Society cut the tip of her left ear off 2 marker when they spayed her.

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I'm actually very surprised because my took to being a house cat very easily she's very happy here

[Norville]

We’re too busy sleeping to care about anything. Except maybe food. Mother on the left, daughter on the right.

[Leroy Suggs]

My 11 year old tuxedo

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[Pepper]

Currently, we have five cats and have had several dobies over the years.

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[Duelist]

Currently, we have five cats and have had several dobies over the years.

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“Oh, shit! Don’t breath, Snowball! Shit, shit, shit, don’t look at me!”

-just captioning.

[Joe in PNG]

The cats at this moment, curled up at my elbow:
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The tabby (Junior) was found as a small kitten under the hood of a friends car a few years back.

[TGS]

This is Mauser. She's the most affectionate cat I've ever had. Aggressively affectionate. Absolutely loves being with us, follows us around, extremely social. She's pretty much always curled up with us.

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[Joe in PNG]

My former cat in PNG and slayer of small critters*- Callie (sounds like Kali):

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Sadly, I had to give her away a couple of years ago, due to my regular travels to the USA. However, she's out in the bush with some friends, and I did get to see her this Christmas.


*she once ate a whole duck in one sitting, and didn't move for two days.

[mtnbkr]

This is Cammie, a semi-feral calico we "adopted" from my parents' house after she adopted them. She was very comfortable with them and their house, but one of their dogs wouldn't tolerate the cat inside the house and they were afraid she'd get hit by a car on the busy road they lived on. We brought her home. She settled into indoor life quickly, but has taken a couple years to really warm up to people. She likes being with us, but isn't overly affectionate. She has been getting better over time, but she'll never been the type of cat who will snuggle up with you on the couch or bed. She's more personable and vocal in the mornings. She gets along great with our dog and engages in back and forth chases and other shenanigans (that's also the restaurant Farva likes).

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She also likes my tactical lifestyle magazines:
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Chris

[WobblyPossum]

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This is Jaxon. We adopted him almost exactly two years ago. We lived in a very rural area for about a year and a half of that time and learned that Jaxon preferred to be an outdoor cat. We’d let him out in the mornings and he’d come back around sundown. Our neighbors were German Shepherd breeders who also ran a boarding kennel. They told us that Jaxon would climb on top of the kennel walls and look down on all the dogs that were staying there. Jaxon ended up murdering many small woodland creatures during his time there. He’d occasionally leave the bottom halves of squirrels and bunnies in the yard. I guess he liked the top halves better. On one occasion, we had some friends over for dinner and, because it was so hot, we left the front door open with a little baby gate across it to keep the dogs in. Jaxon immediately hopped the gate and went outside. I said he’d probably bring something home because that was his habit if he went outside prior to having his inside meal. About an hour later Jaxon hopped back over the baby gate holding a traumatized, but otherwise unharmed, bunny. He was very disappointed when we took it away from him and sent it on it’s way.

Now that we live in a suburban area, Jaxon has to stay inside because I don’t want him getting run over or stolen. He doesn’t like this new arrangement.

[UNM1136]

Our last cat, adopted as a kitten from the local pound, killed our older cat by continually harrassing him. The older car was the cool one, the younger an absolute prick. Had to be dropped off at the same pound after the chihuahua came around the corner while the wife was holding him, and he bit the wife bad enough to require a trip to the ER with a nasty infection. The chihuahua was here when the cat came to live with us as a kitten.

Currently, my working bloodline malinois likes to eat pussy, so....no cats.

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[ArgentFix]

Found this long-haired royal meowing outside my door one night 10 years ago, abandoned, underweight, unkempt, with ear mites but otherwise healthy. My first cat, she's become a good friend and helped me through some difficult times.

Her name is Penelope.

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[willie]

Cats not warming up to people may not have been socialized early enough despite having arrived as kittens. That plus genetics can interact to produce an animal uncomfortable with people.

[mtnbkr]

Cats not warming up to people may not have been socialized early enough despite having arrived as kittens. That plus genetics can interact to produce an animal uncomfortable with people.

That's what our vet explained to me as well. That said, Cammie has been showing increasing signs that she not only accepts us, but trusts us as well. She's growing more tolerant of handling (picking up, holding for increasing lengths of time, etc) and showing other behaviors or signs that indicate she feels more comfortable. She'll probably never be a "lap cat", but she's definitely more of a family member than she was a couple years ago.

Chris

[LittleLebowski]

Cats not warming up to people may not have been socialized early enough despite having arrived as kittens. That plus genetics can interact to produce an animal uncomfortable with people.

My problem child girl was adopted as a kitten. I think she's just wild through genetics.

[mtnbkr]

My problem child girl was adopted as a kitten. I think she's just wild through genetics.

At what age though? The vet explained to me that socialization has to take place pretty early. We got ours as a kitten as well. She's not fully wild and doesn't spray in the house, but she's certainly not cuddly and fully people-oriented.

Chris

[LittleLebowski]

At what age though? The vet explained to me that socialization has to take place pretty early. We got ours as a kitten as well. She's not fully wild and doesn't spray in the house, but she's certainly not cuddly and fully people-oriented.

Chris

Pretty damn early, earlier than my other cat (who turned out great).

[s0nspark]

3/5ths of my gang... the other two would not sign the release form to have their photo published ;-)

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[mtnbkr]

Pretty damn early, earlier than my other cat (who turned out great).

Gotcha. Your cat is just an asshole apparently. :D

Chris

[Olim9]

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sorry

[LittleLebowski]

Gotcha. Your cat is just an asshole apparently. :D

Chris

I hope she's enjoying the outside weather today because she's worn out her indoor welcome.

[Gadfly]

I don't have a cat. My wife has 4....

[LittleLebowski]

My next cat will prolly be another orange and white male. Trying to avoid another asshole.

[Joe in PNG]

My long experience with being owned by multiple cats is that fixed males tend to be far more affectionate & willing to cuddle than females- even the ones I've had since kittenhood.

[LittleLebowski]

My long experience with being owned by multiple cats is that fixed males tend to be far more affectionate & willing to cuddle than females- even the ones I've had since kittenhood.

That's my plan, neutered male. Mine is chill, but seeks out affection from the entire family, he loves to play fight, he doesn't yowl at night nor tear stuff up; he's just great. A valued and loved member of the family.

[wvincent]

That's my plan, neutered male. Mine is chill, but seeks out affection from the entire family, he loves to play fight, he doesn't yowl at night nor tear stuff up; he's just great. A valued and loved member of the family.

Does your Mal tolerate them?
My Borgi is ready to Move to Contact as soon as one pops up it's head.
Hence why I have no indoor cats.

[Magsz]

My first cat was an orange and white neutered male and something was seriously wrong with him. I really think that from the time that I picked him out at the pound to the time that they neutered him and I went to go pick him up, someone had done something to him.

He made it almost fourteen years before I had to put him down. He started peeing in my house profusely and was basically going to get my house condemned. I took him to the vet, did some basic diagnostics and came up with nothing. The next round of diagnostics was estimated at three thousand dollars and I was in between jobs. When he was a kitten, he had bladder stones which cost us three thousand at the time to diagnose and treat. I hate to be callous but Shinjo had used up his allocated budget. I ended up putting him down.

I cried, hard. I felt guilty as hell and still miss him even though in thirteen years, I never touched him. He kind of just existed in my home as a family member that didn't really seem to like anyone or anything. I gave him the best life I could and I hope hes eating mice somewhere else, happy as a clam.

Anyway, point of the story is. With cats, you never know what you're going to get. Some are super loving cuddle bugs and others basically try to kill you in your sleep. I still love em and think they're an awesome companion.

I currently have another thirteen year old tuxedo cat via my Fiance. She became a cuddle bug when I moved into the picture which surprised the heck out of my Fiance. Since we got a puppy four months ago she has become the room mate that moved in upstairs. She has lost all interest in human interaction lol. I guess its her choice? :P

I never understand people who hate cats. I just don't get it at all, especially people that have a venomous hatred towards them.

I always threaten my Fiance with new kittens as every night I run across cats on patrol that need homes. Ive had some friendly buggers literally jump INTO my patrol car to say hi.

[theJanitor]

We put our cat of 12 years, Luci down in March. We picked up this little girl a couple month later from the pound. She’s by far the naughtiest cat we’ve ever had

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[TexasSiegfried]

This is Picasso, so named because of his polydactyl thumbs. He is 14 and has developed thyroid issues, so we are certainly in our last chapter with him, but he is still as playful and chatty as ever, just a few more naps per day than when younger.

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[ArgentFix]

Thanks LL for a simple, pleasant thread :)

[Gadfly]

Cat 1) Hands Down the best cat I ever owned. 13 good years, but he passed in 2016. RIP to the only cat I agreed to have.

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Cat 2) my wife brought her home as a companion to cat 1. She is the old lady of the house. Not a great cat, not a bad cat.

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Cat 3) starts as a loud noise in the driveway. Went out to find a possum with a kitten in its mouth. Possum was shaking and bitting the kitten. So I smacked it with a broom. And then had a bleeding kitten with a broken leg. Crap. I was stuck with him... that was 7 years ago this week per face book.

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Cat 4). Sadly, the new Alpha Male kitty is an asshole. He showed up on out patio 6 years ago and never left. After several weeks of living in our back yard, my wife let him in. Milo is every stereotype of why people don’t like cats. Here he is in one of the rare moments he shows affection. Typically, he is not social. He is a prolific killing machine. And frequently we find half eaten corpses of big piles of feathers.

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Cat 5). This white mess showed up a year ago. My son’s girlfriend wanted to have a cat, and she adopted this one. Her family said no. So my son and her brought the cat to our house to call around to find it a home. I said HELL NO. Then my wife got home. And I told her HELL NO. So, now I have a white cat. At least she has a good personality.

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There are 4 cats in the house now. A single cat is tolerable. I do not want this many ever again... ever.


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[the Schwartz]

A few years ago, our male tabby 'Tiger' passed away after only ten years.

'Tiger' was arguably the most affectionate cat that I had ever seen 'til we got '7' in March of 2018.

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After 'Tiger' died, my son saw this kitty (he named her Punkin) at a local shelter...

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...and she grew into this little snuggle bug.

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After our last black male cat (Ra) passed away after 17+ years in March of 2018...

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...my kids wanted another black male cat.

My daughter saw this handsome devil at a local pet store about two weeks later and we ended up with '7':

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Both cats are unbelievably affectionate and each one has their ''own self-assigned kid''.

[hufnagel]

I've found that older shelter cats tend to be more affectionate and appreciative of the loving environment that they in general get adopted into.
Normally or M.O. is to go to a shelter and see which one(s) "call" to us. The strays have been a new thing for us.

[s0nspark]

We used to volunteer at a local rescue and foster cats for them... Had to stop both.

Volunteering was too much emotionally - the rescue was not run well and has since been shut down - and fostering is why we have 5 cats instead of 2.

I can't complain though. The last two were foster kittens I could not let go.

[hufnagel]

that is pretty much why I can't volunteer or foster; I'd wind up on the news with 60 cats running around in short order.

[Magsz]

We put our cat of 12 years, Luci down in March. We picked up this little girl a couple month later from the pound. She’s by far the naughtiest cat we’ve ever had

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My current butterball is a tuxedo cat female, named Lucy...im pretty sure they're all nuts. :P

[LittleLebowski]

Dozing in the sun.

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[drjaydvm]

Butters the best cat https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190721/706986d746e208386516887a893be486.jpg

[Drang]

I know I've posted this before, but neither Ratbane nor I care.

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[the Schwartz]

Butters the best cat https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190721/706986d746e208386516887a893be486.jpg

If that cat yawns much wider, he's gonna swallow his own head. ;)

[LittleLebowski]

Somebody got high on catnip and is now playfighting with my daughter, purring, and rolling around in the catnip, damn druggie :D

#HighKittyPie (https://pistol-forum.com/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=HighKittyPie)

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[OlongJohnson]

I like cats. Grew up with them. Have tried rescuing two this year. First one had a broken leg and tested positive for feline leukemia. Fuck cancer, even in kitties.

The second one was cute as heck and a sweetheart, but I was allergic. "Just a little anaphylaxis" isn't really a thing people say.

There's a new stray that's trying to establish my yard as his territory and is crapping all over the place and not burying it, like a dog. I had to scoop the lawn with a shovel before mowing today. For the first time, I understand how non-cat people can think they are disgusting, filthy animals.

[Wondering Beard]

The second one was cute as heck and a sweetheart, but I was allergic. "Just a little anaphylaxis" isn't really a thing people say.


I am allergic as well but research into breeds that are less likely to provoke allergies helped me (there is apparently no such thing as a hypoallergenic cat and it's not dander, like with dogs, that provokes the allergy). As this was over two years ago, I don't remember all the details, but it turns out that Russian Blues and Siberians are much less likely to provoke allergies.

I spent some time in a small enclosure with rescue Russian Blues to test whether they would affect me and I had no allergic reaction. Persephone (who is actually a Russian Blue/Chartreux mix) rubs against my face and I'm fine.

Here she's decided that my chair is hers :-)

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[OlongJohnson]

Siberians are much less likely to provoke allergies.

My mom has a Siberian who was awesome, and I was not allergic to him at all. He lived with her longer than I did, lasting past 20 years. Wonderful, big, floofy boy.

That doesn't help me with the fact that my backyard smells like cat poop now.

[Duelist]

I am allergic as well but research into breeds that are less likely to provoke allergies helped me (there is apparently no such thing as a hypoallergenic cat and it's not dander, like with dogs, that provokes the allergy). As this was over two years ago, I don't remember all the details, but it turns out that Russian Blues and Siberians are much less likely to provoke allergies.

I spent some time in a small enclosure with rescue Russian Blues to test whether they would affect me and I had no allergic reaction. Persephone (who is actually a Russian Blue/Chartreux mix) rubs against my face and I'm fine.

Here she's decided that my chair is hers :-)

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Really? Hmm. I miss having a cat, and don’t due to not liking my eyes feeling like they are going to swell up and explode at the same time as my whole face gets scratched off.

[Wondering Beard]

Really? Hmm. I miss having a cat, and don’t due to not liking my eyes feeling like they are going to swell up and explode at the same time as my whole face gets scratched off.

That's basically what happened with our previous cat, a wonderful Main Coon. She slept on my pillow once and the next morning, my eyes were so swollen I could barely open them. Ultimately, it turned into cysts inside my eyelids that had to be removed by an eye surgeon.

I can't say that what worked for me will work for you, but basic research on the internet showed that the two breeds I mentioned are the least likely to provoke allergies (there are a couple of others but the likelihood of not provoking allergies in any individual is lower) as there are no hypoallergenic cats.

We went to one of those adoption days at a pet store where we knew the breeds we researched would be there; you get to spend a little time in an enclosure with the animal you may want to adopt and that's what I did. I waited for the rest of the day to see if I was going to have a reaction and I didn't. We then contacted the rescuers to see if they had other Russian Blues up for adoption (the ones I spent time with were already spoken for and Siberians couldn't be found anywhere near us outside of breeders) and that's how Persephone came into our lives.

Check out the personality of the breeds though, they may or may not work for you.

[baddean]

Keepin' the seat warm for me.

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[s0nspark]

Zyrtec has been a godsend for my pet allergies.

Cats make me sniffle. Dogs make me break out in hives.

Maybe that is why I favor cats lol

[NorthernHeat]

Cat newbie with a question.

We have always had dogs growing up, but now we have "adopted" a cat on our ranch. I say adopted, but its more of the cat showed up at our doorstep one night and now wont leave.

Cat is friendly, but because it is a completely wild cat, its nails are VERY sharp and even when its playing with us (like laying on its back and we are petting its stomach) it slowly paws its paws out and scratches the crap out of us.

Is there anything I can get to keep at the house near where the cat stays to help dull down these nails a little bit, as an alternative to actually trying to trim nails... which we are not trying to do.

Some sort of scratching post or something?

[EMC]

Cat newbie with a question.

We have always had dogs growing up, but now we have "adopted" a cat on our ranch. I say adopted, but its more of the cat showed up at our doorstep one night and now wont leave.

Cat is friendly, but because it is a completely wild cat, its nails are VERY sharp and even when its playing with us (like laying on its back and we are petting its stomach) it slowly paws its paws out and scratches the crap out of us.

Is there anything I can get to keep at the house near where the cat stays to help dull down these nails a little bit, as an alternative to actually trying to trim nails... which we are not trying to do.

Some sort of scratching post or something?Comes with the territory. Every cat is different in what they like or are willing to scratch. If it happened by random circumstance that it loved to scratch sandpaper on a board you would be in business, but none of the typical scratching post materials are likely to dull your cats claws too much.

[hufnagel]

you could always try to trim it's nails a bit, but if it's a wild cat you're best to leave it alone so it has full use of its defenses.
alternatively you could try to convince it to scratch a chunk of wood, to help keep them in shape.

[TheRoland]

Cat newbie with a question.

We have always had dogs growing up, but now we have "adopted" a cat on our ranch. I say adopted, but its more of the cat showed up at our doorstep one night and now wont leave.

Cat is friendly, but because it is a completely wild cat, its nails are VERY sharp and even when its playing with us (like laying on its back and we are petting its stomach) it slowly paws its paws out and scratches the crap out of us.

Is there anything I can get to keep at the house near where the cat stays to help dull down these nails a little bit, as an alternative to actually trying to trim nails... which we are not trying to do.

Some sort of scratching post or something?

Three things:

1. You could try putting out a scratching post. Some cats like them, some cats don't.
2. This varies by region somewhat, but a cat in a rural area that's friendly is/was probably someone's cat at some point. Feral cats will happily take food and even spend time with you, but will almost never let you interact with them closely. As someone who lives semi-rural, I'd be thinking someone dumped them, and at least be cautious that their survival skills may not be at the apex of feline potential.
3. Sticking their belly up for you to pet is the cat inviting you to be clawed to death. Scratching the shit out of you is the objective. See a wide variety of memes on the topic, for example, here (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/kitty_pet).

Welcome to cats. There's a reason they own the internet.

[Drang]

There's a new stray that's trying to establish my yard as his territory and is crapping all over the place and not burying it, like a dog. I had to scoop the lawn with a shovel before mowing today. For the first time, I understand how non-cat people can think they are disgusting, filthy animals.
It's called "maddening", and is an aggressive form of territory marking.

[willie]

Using a sling shot to project small potatoes is the method I used to discourage a certain cat who was eyeballing my pair of roadrunners. I nailed him good a couple times without harming his health. He went elsewhere.

[OlongJohnson]

It's called "maddening", and is an aggressive form of territory marking.

Did some googling. It's actually "middening."

[LittleLebowski]

We are getting rid of our younger cat. We have tried and tried to give her a good chance over the past year (adopted her as a kitten) and she just gets more and more wild plus she's ruining our carpets. I can't let a cat ruin my house, I spent my weekend running a goddamn rented carpet cleaner. We have two litterboxes as well. I'm finding her a home as a barn cat. I'd really like to buy a Burmese cat as they're nearly guaranteed to have a good personality, but I don't want to pay more than $200 or so. This just sucks with the kids crying and whatnot.

[Dog Guy]

LL, you might also consider a Bombay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_cat . No idea what they cost if you shop for one. Ours was an accidental rescue and was as nice a cat as you could ever ask for. Very sociable with people, got along well with the dogs. Didn't set my allergies off to any notable extent. If you spend a lot of time away from home and the cat will be home solo, Bombay might not be a great choice because of their strong sociability.

[Wondering Beard]

Three things:.
3. Sticking their belly up for you to pet is the cat inviting you to be clawed to death. Scratching the shit out of you is the objective. See a wide variety of memes on the topic, for example, here (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/kitty_pet).

They do love to grab and stick their claws in and chew on you a bit, but it's primarily affectionate and they control very well how deep to dig in. A high pitched yelp indicating that you are in pain generally gets them back off some since they want to play and not hurt. With my wife, she grabs with barely any claw out but with me, since I let her go in deep when she was a little kitten, I get small temporary scars which don't bother me at all. She also does it when she sees I'm about to leave for a long trip to indicate she doesn't want me to go.

[the Schwartz]

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That is one beautiful cat! They're all aesthetic, but she is really gorgeous.

[EMC]

They do love to grab and stick their claws in and chew on you a bit, but it's primarily affectionate and they control very well how deep to dig in. A high pitched yelp indicating that you are in pain generally gets them back off some since they want to play and not hurt. With my wife, she grabs with barely any claw out but with me, since I let her go in deep when she was a little kitten, I get small temporary scars which don't bother me at all. She also does it when she sees I'm about to leave for a long trip to indicate she doesn't want me to go.My trick to escape the kill zone of the belly ambush is to blow air in their face. They get away quick. [emoji1787]

[s0nspark]

Did some googling. It's actually "middening."

That is awfully close to "kittening" lol

[Irelander]

Didn't really want a cat but couldn't tell my wife and daughter no. My daughter is pretty allergic to cats so I figured it'd work itself out. Turns out she is not allergic to this guy at all and now he's my best bud.

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[OlongJohnson]

That is awfully close to "kittening" lol

It also sounds a lot nicer than "damn cat crapping all over the place," but it means the same thing.

[NEPAKevin]

Junk Yard Kitten doing his tire workout.

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[s0nspark]

It also sounds a lot nicer than "damn cat crapping all over the place," but it means the same thing.

And autocorrect got me again. I meant that to say "mittening"

You are right, though. We had a cat who resorted to that... but indoors. It was exasperating, to say the least. Thankfully it was short-lived.

[RoyGBiv]

Wish I had a picture, but this was before cell phones had cameras. Our little cat was 5 pounds of meanness. We accidentally locked her in a bedroom closet for 5 days and not only did she survive, I think she actually smiled at us when we got home and let her out.

Loved to kill birds off the feeder. Left dead rabbits on the back porch for sport.

Got the picture?

The cat loved to play in her water bowl. I'd fill it, as soon as I left the room I'd hear splashing sounds. Water all over the linoleum in the laundry room. I was sick of cleaning it up. Cats have zero guilt. She'd turn tail and trot out the cat door. One day, I caught her in the act. I locked the cat door, filled the water bowl and listened from my office. When she started splashing, I sprinted to the laundry room and the cat crashed face first into the locked cat door. I picked her up by the scruff, she made lots of scary angry-cat sounds, and I mopped the floor with her. Literally. Flipped her over and mopped with the other side, then slid her towards the door and unlocked the cat door.

That was the last time she played in the water bowl.

I forget what she peed on the next day (my luggage, IIRC). But we called a truce after that.

[Zincwarrior]

Currently, we have five cats and have had several dobies over the years.

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When I was very small, we had two dobermans and a tom cat. Tom cat would come flying over the fence chased by other cats. The dobermans would remind the other cats that this was a bad idea. They couldn't stand the tom cat, but he was their tom cat.

[the Schwartz]

Didn't really want a cat but couldn't tell my wife and daughter no.

That's how they get you.

Every.

Damned.

Time.

:D

[RJ]

I developed a severe cat allergy in my teens, and to this day, literally can’t go into any house with a cat without starting to sneeze and get watery eyes.

Cats are awesome, and since I can’t get near them these days, I really am enjoying this thread.

Especially the pictures.


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[Bigguy]

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I wrote about this one in my Book, "The Funny Thing About Bladder Cancer."
http://www.guywheatley.com/interests/writing/TFTABC-Fatty.pdf

Tease
The Funny thing About Bladder Cancer

We finally got home with my insides still inside of me.
Sharon helped me into the house and settled me on the
couch. I needed help to even get to my feet and was under
strict orders to not carry anything, so that left it to Sharon to
do everything else. I just sat on the couch watching TV, still
using my hands to delicately hold in my innards at every
deep breath or cough as Sharon spent the rest of the evening
hauling in stuff from the car getting supper and cleaning up
what messes the cats had left.
We'd left the cats with sufficient litter pans, food and
water to hold out for the seven to ten days we'd expected to
be gone. Brandon had come by on his way home on Tuesday
to check on them. He must not have done a head count. One
of them had managed to dart unseen through the door to our
bedroom, which we closed to keep off limits, as we left.
This rotund ball of gray stripped fur goes by the
ridiculous nom de plume Skinny Minnie. It has been many
years since she could fit in her prom dress. I'd taken to
calling her Fatty Patty, however Mrs Sharon nixed that
name. So even as we watch her waddle down the hall, as
wide or tall as she is long, we still call her Skinny Minnie.
It's amazing how she can get that much fat moving so fast so
quickly, but she can. And of course she picked the worst
possible time to do it, dashing unseen through a door that
would remain closed for the next seven days.
As we opened the bedroom door, headed for blessed
slumber, a much more svelte Skinny Minnie zipped between
our legs in a mad dash to the feeder and water dish. It
became quickly obvious that we would not be sleeping in
our bed this night.
Settling down in the guest bedroom, I lay in bed with the
Yorkie puppy Charles and Brenda had returned a few hours
earlier. We had a rug topped with towels on the bed, that was
his bed. Sharon finished her chores and came to bed.
Leaving her and the Yorkie, I went to the bathroom to start
swapping and cleaning the various bags and tubes that
would be my constant companions for the next four or five
weeks. Just as I was finishing up, I heard a distressed, 'Oh
no! BINKY!" I guess there was just too much change and
too much excitement for that little bladder. Sharon had
stepped out of bed for just a second to grab another blanket.
Binky stepped off his bed for some other business. On to the
second guest bedroom, and our third bed for the night. Thus
passed our first evening home.

[Drang]

It's called "maddening", and is an aggressive form of territory marking.


Did some googling. It's actually "middening."

You are correct, it's my inability to type that is maddening...

[Wondering Beard]

That is one beautiful cat! They're all aesthetic, but she is really gorgeous.

Thank you and I, naturally, quite agree.

Russian Blues, to my eyes, have a certain "je ne sais quoi" going for them that you can't find in other cats.

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[Wondering Beard]

My trick to escape the kill zone of the belly ambush is to blow air in their face. They get away quick. [emoji1787]

When I blow air in her face, she just looks at me as if I'm weird and just keeps doing whatever she was doing before.

Truth be told, I don't mind the "belly rub kill zone" at all, it's part of how she and I play, and she knows exactly what she's doing. For example, a couple of days ago, I was standing at the kitchen counter by one of her boxes (she is spoiled) and unbeknownst to me she got in it and pinned my bare foot with her paw through a hole she had made in her box. She surprised me enough that I said "oww!" and she withdrew. She still ambushes me from that box but now there is no claw pinning me, just a soft paw.

Box in question:

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[OlongJohnson]

I developed a severe cat allergy in my teens, and to this day, literally can’t go into any house with a cat without starting to sneeze and get watery eyes.

Cats are awesome, and since I can’t get near them these days, I really am enjoying this thread.

Especially the pictures.

Try to find a Siberian and be around it for awhile. I'm pretty allergic to a lot of cats, but not at all to the Siberian my mom had.

Although you might need to move the heck out of Florida before you keep one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=siberian+cat+black&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid5NCd8uzjAhUR2qwKHTAkD9cQ_AUIESgB&biw=1745&bih=888


And, this isn't the meme thread, but what the heck...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

[hufnagel]

LL: did you try crating the furry demon for a couple days? I had a problem child cat that HATED to be crated. The last time he misbehaved like you described, I locked him in the crate with just a litter box for a couple hours. By the time he got done playing interior parkour in the crate he figured out he dun fucked up with the peeing all over thing, and changed his ways. Maybe give it a try? I know it sounds mean/cruel, but sometimes you gotta treat an animal like an animal.

[Drang]

Thank you and I, naturally, quite agree.

Russian Blues, to my eyes, have a certain "je ne sais quoi" going for them that you can't find in other cats.

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Hmmm...
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[EMC]

Toddler love. This cat is amazingly tolerant.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190807/a1f94487580eb376e7d1230ee68fdc09.jpg

[LittleLebowski]

Toddler love. This cat is amazingly tolerant.

Holy crap, that cat looks exactly like our extremely tolerant orange and white male.

[RJ]

Try to find a Siberian and be around it for awhile. I'm pretty allergic to a lot of cats, but not at all to the Siberian my mom had.

Although you might need to move the heck out of Florida before you keep one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=siberian+cat+black&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid5NCd8uzjAhUR2qwKHTAkD9cQ_AUIESgB&biw=1745&bih=888


And, this isn't the meme thread, but what the heck...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

Thanks! Not at the moment tho. Maybe later on.

On topic, I always liked this picture of Roxie (May she RIP) I took a few years ago. She was a cat at my SILs house. Basically if you can imagine a Labrador Retriever in the shape of a (large) cat lol. Very friendly.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190807/4a2e402d41ad256db27935fcd4823a36.jpg




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[EMC]

Holy crap, that cat looks exactly like our extremely tolerant orange and white male.I was thinking the same. Pretty much genetic clones.

[willie]

I quit visiting animal shelters because I wanted to take everybody home with me. Always I would see cats who begged for company and affection. LL and his children might visit a shelter and allow a cat to choose them. A cat is good company. Having pets is good for the family, especially children.

[LittleLebowski]

New kitten! Our troublesome gray cat is now the happy resident of a barn.

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[Drang]

I quit visiting animal shelters because I wanted to take everybody home with me. Always I would see cats who begged for company and affection. LL and his children might visit a shelter and allow a cat to choose them. A cat is good company. Having pets is good for the family, especially children.


This little girl was in the top cage just inside the entrance to the cat room. A family was checking out the cat in the bottom cage, so we kept moving.
She watched us as we worked our way around the room.
When we got back to her and the attendant opened the cage, she immediately assumed this position...
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[NEPAKevin]

This morning, I pull into the impound yard and take the dog out back for his morning constitutional, as we do every morning, and on the way back out I go to shut the gate and hear what I first thought was a cat bird. Then I hear it again and realize that it is not a bird but cannot place the direction. So, I look around and see that someone left the covers off the dumpster. Go over and look in and looking back at me is a tiger stripped kitten with this sad, "pardon me sir, but could you please get me the f*ck out of here?" look on his face. About all I know about cats is that getting scratched or bit by a feral one is a bad idea. About this time, one of the drivers pulls in and he tries to reach in but the kitten was having none of it. His next plan was to jump in, but then I remembered this post (https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?21713-Deep-thoughts-from-my-wife&p=751393&viewfull=1#post751393) and stuck a 2x4 into the dumpster and as I was saying "if we give it some space..." this blur of fur comes flying up the stud. I think its fair to say the P-F and trash pandas helped save a kittens life today. Thank you P-F and trash pandas.

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[the Schwartz]

This morning, I pull into the impound yard and take the dog out back for his morning constitutional, as we do every morning, and on the way back out I go to shut the gate and hear what I first thought was a cat bird. Then I hear it again and realize that it is not a bird but cannot place the direction. So, I look around and see that someone left the covers off the dumpster. Go over and look in and looking back at me is a tiger stripped kitten with this sad, "pardon me sir, but could you please get me the f*ck out of here?" look on his face. About all I know about cats is that getting scratched or bit by a feral one is a bad idea. About this time, one of the drivers pulls in and he tries to reach in but the kitten was having none of it. His next plan was to jump in, but then I remembered this post (https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?21713-Deep-thoughts-from-my-wife&p=751393&viewfull=1#post751393) and stuck a 2x4 into the dumpster and as I was saying "if we give it some space..." this blur of fur comes flying up the stud. I think its fair to say the P-F and trash pandas helped save a kittens life today. Thank you P-F and trash pandas.

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Got a name for her yet?

[the Schwartz]

This little girl was in the top cage just inside the entrance to the cat room. A family was checking out the cat in the bottom cage, so we kept moving.
She watched us as we worked our way around the room.
When we got back to her and the attendant opened the cage, she immediately assumed this position...
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And we think that "we pick them out".

Now you know who is really "calling the shots"! ;)

[NEPAKevin]

Got a name for her yet?

I generally don't name the cats that wander in and out of our impound yard. Its best not to bet attached. Leaving work this evening, caught two of them at the scene of the crime. I think the fur ball under the cross bar is the one that was in the dumpster.

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[LittleLebowski]

Battle kitteh.

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[MistWolf]

That is one bizarre pistol grip!

https://pistol-forum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=41414&d=1566070433

[Matt C.]

He terrorizes the neighborhood dogs but tolerates this one.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190820/6ff9a94470e65caab8d256348e5616c8.jpg

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[LittleLebowski]

Violently attacked in my own home!

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[Drang]

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You can't see me, I'm hiding!

[EMC]

Come on, touch this belly. You know you want to!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190903/2f820f41d601a0ab7faae2bb5be4df60.jpg

[EMC]

I can dig it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ar15/comments/e9vuz0/yo_dawg_i_heard_you_like_your_cat_so_we_put_your/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[Caballoflaco]

An interesting video on cats in the navy. I had no idea at least US and British ships often had an official cat or even cats.


https://youtu.be/M7HIY0GTEC8

[GearFondler]

Yeah, the family takes too many cat pics... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/99ac2da4f9c8fb37c95b105498437473.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/c3f7e87bbf9df734d1183f705af12b1c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/9a7bd174b0d845952002d6c30ad33452.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/0b612ca5801889e1c8e9c8cc3e32e1e4.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/f587896cd97e142075d4e90b91ed8c97.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/5d22283011aa381cd7e5dcf19bbce408.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200301/c14f7d45738859bd7efb8a7e045f9fdb.jpg

[the Schwartz]

The latest "cute" shot of our tomcat "Seven".... one of his many skills....

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Yes, the stuffed toy is his. "Plankton" from the cartoon series, SpongeBob SquarePants. Carries the damn thing everywhere.

[Hemiram]

After my littermates King and Molly went at almost 14 in 2012, I decided that due to my back and knee issues, that getting another dog wouldn't be fair to it as I'm unable to walk it, so I started looking for a couple of cats. My last cat, Orville, was King's playtoy for the last year he was alive. He just didn't get that King was just having fun with him, and didn't want to hurt or kill him. Here he is raging at King who was just trying to help him eat.
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First one I found was "Timmy", a polydactyl tabby, who, except where food is concerned, is the most laid back cat I've ever seen:
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Then came "Bella", who is now "Wink", for obvious reasons.
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Wink is the cuddliest cat I've ever seen, but easily spooked, and about twice a year, she will explode in rage, even worse than Orville was, who was infamous at the vet's office for "The worst patient ever". I'm usually the victim of these rage attacks, and it's amazing how much damage a 9 pound cat can do when it's totally insane. Usually, she is set off by either water running, cat litter being poured, or a couple of times, Timmy hissing because of some issue he panics about, like the first time she lost it when Timmy got his claws stuck in the bathroom drapes and wigged out. I was trying to get him loose and she jumped up and sunk her teeth into my forearm and her one eye fully dialated kind of freaked me out. The worst time I was about to take a shower, and I was brushing my teeth when she jumped up, screaming, sunk her teeth into my butt, and raked the back of my knee. When I tried to get her off, she slid down and sunk her teeth into leg just above my knee and raked my foot and ankle with her back claws. If I wasn't totally immune to whatever the bacteria are from cat bites, it probably would have been bad. She is about due to have another one of these soon, and I dread them. Five minutes after it starts, she's back to her cuddly normal self. All tests have come back normal, and she even likes going to the vet, so it's a mystery as to what is going on.

[OlongJohnson]

Hate to say it, but you need to consider the consequences of that behavior just as if it was a dog. If she ever does that to a visitor to your home, you will face the same liability. Except the cat bacteria is very bad. I know multiple people who have required medical attention due to infection from mechanically minor cat bites.

[Clusterfrack]

I'm not a cat person, so it's not surprising that I have a very simple behavioral model for cats. There are 3 binary variables for cat personality:

1. Evil / Not evil
2. Crazy / Not crazy
3. Scared of everything / Not scared of everything

Very few cats are (-) for all three, but even I could put up with one that acted that way. There are other combinations that are fairly benign. E.g. if you have an evil crazy cat that's scared of everything, than that's ok because you never see it (until you have to capture it for a trip to the vet). But I'm starting to suspect that a cat can flip it's behavior variables as it ages...

[Clusterfrack]

Hate to say it, but you need to consider the consequences of that behavior just as if it was a dog. If she ever does that to a visitor to your home, you will face the same liability. Except the cat bacteria is very bad. I know multiple people who have required medical attention due to infection from mechanically minor cat bites.

Yup. The dude next door almost lost his eye because his crazy evil cat bit him in the face randomly while he was sitting on the couch.

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The cat that adopted us has been infuriating. First off she seems to prefer women. Follows the wife around the house like a dog. Always want to be right next to somebody so you have to look around before you step back. So stand offish to being touched. Only when she wants it. Hates to be picked up.
But things have been progressing. First it was jump in the chair next to me or on top of me when Im laying on the couch. Just walks around but never sat down.
Kind of perturbing when you provide for an animal that doesnt reciprocate. Finally today for the first time I got this. There may be hope after all.
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[snow white]

Having now owned two cats for a while I have learned that I hate owning cats. I. Sorry to say it folks but I despise owning these two god damn things. The wife and kid love them so they will stay but I'm not happy about it lol.

[Chance]

My Cat from Hell (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1933073/) is on Discovery+ now, I think. It can be very helpful in explaining cat neuroses to folks that don't have much experience with them, or maybe have experience with them, it's just all bad experience.

[Bobaloo22]

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[Jim Watson]

I like cats, socially, but am allergic to most.
Our neighbors had a Siamese that would come over to play with our dog until he got tired and would hide in the house, once found on top of my Mother's hat box on the top closet shelf. Never bothered me.
A friend's previous cat, Pox, was non allergenic, but his successor Sam will give me sniffles and burning eyes in short order.

Another friend's Beethoven was a weird cross between a house cat and some small wild cat, non allergenic. Interesting, he studiously ignored me until his co-cat Seymore died, then he got very friendly.

[Joe in PNG]

I'm not a cat person, so it's not surprising that I have a very simple behavioral model for cats. There are 3 binary variables for cat personality:

1. Evil / Not evil
2. Crazy / Not crazy
3. Scared of everything / Not scared of everything

Very few cats are (-) for all three, but even I could put up with one that acted that way. There are other combinations that are fairly benign. E.g. if you have an evil crazy cat that's scared of everything, than that's ok because you never see it (until you have to capture it for a trip to the vet). But I'm starting to suspect that a cat can flip it's behavior variables as it ages...

Of the current set of parental cats, both are (-) on the Evil and Crazy scale. The older cat is a bit scared of strangers, and will hide behind the TV. Younger cat loves everyone and everything, even visiting doggos- which isn't always reciprocated.

[Robert Mitchum]

Maine Coons are awesome cats .. they act like dogs.
I like cats use to feed the strays at work by the AP trailer at one Faculty I worked at.
Took home a Huge Maine Coon that was roaming around the prison ..that's how I got stared liking the breed.
After he passed I have always had Maine Coons.

I spent a lot of money on food feeding the prison cats and trapped some to be fixed by a Vet so they would have no more litters.

Feral cats are hard to handle .. funny sight seeing a guy with a Mohawk and a reputation for being violent to be a soft touch for cats.

[hufnagel]

https://i.imgur.com/3ud0OW4.png
https://i.imgur.com/nB3dWSH.png

we have a new stray.
this is morning and evening #2 of it coming around and getting food.
this isn't a feral; this is/was someone's pet. it's WAY too affectionate, and it can be handled without trying to kill us.

[Irelander]

Here's our cat in mid yawn. He was an indoor cat for a couple of years and seemed to be increasingly unhappy. We decided to give him his freedom and make him an outside cat. He is a different animal now and totally in his element. He follows me everywhere and is a killing machine. Mice, moles and chipmunks are not safe around the farm now. Vet says he is a very happy and healthy cat. Pretty cool.

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Post yawn
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[TGS]

Had to take little Mauser to the vet, turns out the Porsche Cayman makes a phenomenal cat conveyance. The look on her face says, "Get me out of this wretched eurotrash car, human."

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[Joe in PNG]

Of the current set of parental cats, both are (-) on the Evil and Crazy scale. The older cat is a bit scared of strangers, and will hide behind the TV. Younger cat loves everyone and everything, even visiting doggos- which isn't always reciprocated.

Older cat:
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Younger cat:
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[BobM]

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This is the kitten my daughter and I rescued from the engine compartment of her car two weeks ago. It stowed away and rode an hour then spent the night before we knew it was there.

[beenalongtime]

The house is quiet and seems empty now. I moved into this house, after my friend/employer passed away, at families request, to take care of the cat. We had to put her down yesterday, as her kidneys were in shut down mode. (hasn't eaten and lost a pound and a half in a week)

She was only mine for a year, but I knew her all her life. Mattie will be missed.

[OlongJohnson]

This is the kitten my daughter and I rescued from the engine compartment of her car two weeks ago. It stowed away and rode an hour then spent the night before we knew it was there.

Beautiful fluffy little thing.


My sister had to put down another fur baby (her designation, not mine) after 15 years yesterday. He was a very cute Siamese, even if he did tell me to go f myself and then hid under the bed whenever I got close. F cancer.

[GJM]

Saw the damndest thing today. In Montana, there is a neighbor white cat, that we often see cruising around. Saw that cat today, and it was on its belly in tall grass, trying to sneak up on a covey of Hungarian partridge that live near us. Wanna be bird dog!

[LittleLebowski]

Saw the damndest thing today. In Montana, there is a neighbor white cat, that we often see cruising around. Saw that cat today, and it was on its belly in tall grass, trying to sneak up on a covey of Hungarian partridge that live near us. Wanna be bird dog!

Casa are amazing. Hungarian partridge, iguanas, whatever.

[Half Moon]

Casa are amazing. Hungarian partridge, iguanas, whatever.

Heck, when wife and I were first dating, she had a large, elderly, female tabby (cleverly named Tabby) that I've watched, more than once, stalk black tail deer through a grass field. Maybe she was an optimist, but she was utterly convinced she could take that ruminant if she could just get close enough...

Miss that cat. She (allegedly) hated everyone but liked to sit on my lap and get scritches.. RIP tabby girl.

[DMCutter]

I've got a good one. Not long after I got out of the Marines and was living the lonely bachelor life, my parents found a tiny abandoned kitten at the end of the dock by their place on the Pamlico Sound. They fed him table scraps, named him Scraps, of course, and gave him to me so I'd have some company. Maybe a year later my sister at NC State found a black kitten wandering the streets of Raleigh on Halloween, named him Halloween, of course, and gave him to me to keep me and Scraps company.

Some years later, in the fall of 1997, Scraps suddenly became very ill. I was doing drilled shaft foundation inspection at a large resort hotel at the time. I took Scraps to the vet in the morning and dropped him off on my way to work. The vet called and said it was sudden onset kidney failure and there wasn't much he could do other than put him on an IV and give him pain meds until I could get back to the office and say goodbye. When I got there that afternoon he put him down as I held him and I cried my eyes out. I took him home and put him in a Rocky boot box in the garage so Halloween (aka Weeners) could see that his brother had crossed the rainbow bridge.

The next morning I took Scraps in the boot box to work with me. I had inspected and passed off on an 80' deep, 48" diameter shaft the previous afternoon and they were set up to pour the concrete that morning. I told the crane operator that I needed to go back down and recheck the bottom and I took Scraps down with me and laid him to rest. A little while later he had 80' of concrete on him and I inscribed his name and dates in the wet concrete at the top of the shaft. Now he has a resort hotel as a headstone and every time we drive by it on the interstate I wave and say "hi Scraps", which kinda weirds out my grandson. Years later I ran into the developer's project manager when I was checking out a house for his father in law and I told him the story. He about wet himself laughing. Weeners lived to be 21 and he's just buried in the back yard, no grandiose edifice. Since my wife is allergic we haven't replaced them, and I sure do miss having cats around.

[OlongJohnson]

My mom's old black cat looked like a Siberian. Best cat evar. Lived with her longer than I did.

Her current cats are both morons. They will let me pet them when they are on her bed, totally get into it, purr loudly, etc. If they are anywhere else, they run away, one of them making the effort to hiss just to make sure I know he's an idiot.

[feudist]

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This is the kitten my daughter and I rescued from the engine compartment of her car two weeks ago. It stowed away and rode an hour then spent the night before we knew it was there.

Lucky little thing.
I've lost 2 cats getting in the engine bay and being killed by the radiator fan when I cranked up.:mad:

[Jim Watson]

A friend's cat survived startup.
The vet sewed him up and he lived a normal span.
But you could part his long fur and see him stitched up like a patchwork quilt.

[45dotACP]

My brother is quite the fan of Lord of the Rings...as one can see by his replica of Anduril

Tis only fitting when he adopted a cat that he give an appropriate name...and like many cats, Frodo will often sit wherever he damn well pleases.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220921/26e8569512a4a695ebc240c336cb57b7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220921/3f5ab4c16cc5839abec4b647bb8e0eea.jpg

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[Artemas2]

Was heading out to the barn before work yesterday morning and found these two on the driveway in a mud puddle, soaked and shivering.
Did not look like they had much chance, figured I can at least bring them in and let them pass somewhere warm...
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...however they are proving to be tough little bastards and have taken residence
on my night stand demanding feeding about every 60-90 minutes
The vet thinks I found them within hours of being born. As of this post, they made it through their first night, about 30 hours old and still seem pretty strong.
They still have an uphill battle yet, hopefully I can get them there.
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[the Schwartz]

Was heading out to the barn before work yesterday morning and found these two on the driveway in a mud puddle, soaked and shivering.
Did not look like they had much chance, figured I can at least bring them in and let them pass somewhere warm...
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...however they are proving to be tough little bastards and have taken residence
on my night stand demanding feeding about every 60-90 minutes
The vet thinks I found them within hours of being born. As of this post, they made it through their first night, about 30 hours old and still seem pretty strong.
They still have an uphill battle yet, hopefully I can get them there.
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Thank you for taking care of them like that. Compassionate acts like these serve to remind that there are good people everywhere. Kudos to you.

[Stephanie B]

My George was a 3-week-old rescue. A friend took him in, kept him warm, and bottle-fed him. He had maggots on an open cut on one thigh, which she treated. He apparently was a bear to get to take a bottle, but he did.

He had a couple of idiosyncrasies. From spending so much time in a bathroom sink, getting his wound washed out, he regarded bathroom sinks as his safe spot. He also seemed to think that, on some level, he was people, because he always wanted people food. Another friend who had lots of cats told me "give him some raw beef, he'll go nuts over that."

So I did. He walked over to his dish, sniffed it, then looked up at me. I could almost sense him asking "well, aren't you going to cook it?" He stalked off, with his tail giving me lots of attitude. After that, I always made sure that if if I was cutting off a piece of meat for him, he got the most-done part.

[Bigguy]

An entry from my blog:


Siamese if You Please

A trillion years ago (I think we had just upgraded from sandscript) I was home from school on a spring break. My room was on the second floor of the old farm house we lived in. (Now inside the city limits) My sister had a Siamese cat. I’m not talking about the flat faced things that are passed off as Siamese now-a-days. I mean the old fashion Siamese like in “Lady and the Tramp.” He was Siamese if you pleased. He was Siamese if you didn’t please. He was a mean bastard, but some how I liked him and thought we had established a modicum of respect.

I was laying face down, cross ways, on my bed when his majesty strutted into the room with a runway model cross legged walk and tail swishing over head. They way I was laying, my hands were on the floor. He spotted me and went to the death crouch. It was a game we had played often. I’d thump the floor and scratch the carpet eliciting an attack. In fairness, taking into account the weight division difference, I’d keep my forearm on the floor and only rare up with my hand. He and my hand would do combat until his blood ran too high and the bites and scratches became real. Then I’d have to break it off.

On this particular occasion things were following such a familiar path. Scratch, scratch. My opponent launched his attack and I rared my hand as he reached the battle ground. Except!

This time he leaped over my hand and attacked my face. I suddenly found 7 lbs. of Tom Cat hanging from my nose. His bottom teeth were in the right nostril and his upper in the left. In shock I stood up. BIG mistake. I’ve now got 7 lbs. of cat hanging from my nose. I tried to lift him to get the weight off my nostrils. BIGGER mistake. With a solid base he began to shake his head back and forth, trying to tear meat from my face.

All I really remember past this point was pain, but I think I must have had the presence of mind to pry those vicious jaws apart with my thumb. I just remember that suddenly the facial attack was over. I was still in pain and blinded by tears, but the destruction of my face had stopped. I do recall that I had 7 lbs. of spitting Satan wiggling in my right hand.

With unbridled anger, I threw his butt as hard as I could. I’m sure I wanted to hear a fatal splat against a wall. But at some point, in what was now a slow motion universe, I noted that the furry ball from hell was headed for one of my bedroom windows. I was slightly concerned about explaining the broken window to my parents.

I was spared the problem as the window was open. I remember thinking I’d have to console my sister over the dead car my sister in the morning. But that didn’t happen. I can still hear the scratching as he found purchase in the limbs of the tree right outside my window. He survived with less ill effect than I suffered from his attack. Me -0 Cat -1.


We kept a respectful distance for the rest of his life as I was in the process of moving into my own home.

I don’t remember when his last day was as I was on my own by then. But. I’ve got to admit I remember the rear end fondly and would like to spend a watchful few more moments with him.

[wsr]

Natures reactive target

[willie]

Mrs Willie hates cats. A local cat that ran loose disturbed flower beds and slept on her car. I borrowed a cat trap from animal control, caught the cat, and paid the local pound to take him. Three weeks later he showed up with no balls and a collar. People two streets over adopted him.

[the Schwartz]

I borrowed a cat trap from animal control, caught the cat, and paid the local pound to take him. Three weeks later he showed up with no balls and a collar.

So, the cat got married?

[JCN]

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We have been a Ragdoll family for over 20 years.

[Joe in PNG]

We have been a Ragdoll family for over 20 years.

Our family has tried to be one a few times. The first one we got back in the late 80's was a super sweet cat, but sadly, he wasn't very healthy.

We tried again a few years ago, and got the most skitty kitteh I've seen in my life. One had to just look at her and she'd zoom right under some furniture.

[Oldherkpilot]

Love is love.😁
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