The cat thread

[pabs]

Hey, I was just looking through Wycco and Em's site and I just realized that they have 4 cats. I know Henrik and Greg also have cats, and as anyone that has seen me on msn messenger knows, I am also a cat lover. My girlfriend is the one that actually owns our cat, Donatella.

Anyways, I just wanted to start a thread to talk about cats, which seem to be the official pet of Shamu Croaks, obviously behind our spiritual leader, Shamu it/her/himself.

[Topcontender]

I am allergic to cats so i can't have one
However, i am more of a dog person so it is a wash

[Wycco]

LOL...


Actually we have 5 cats now. That site was created back before we got married- we only had 4 cats then- but we adopted one of Em's mother's.


These are our cats: LOL- hope this doesn't bore y'all...


Cleopatra "Cleo": is the oldest- shes the only female- and the brains of the bunch. She is a long haired tabbby with patches of ginger on her. She's a little stand offish at first- but when she gets in a loving mood she REALLY wants to be loved. She has three strange habbits: 1) Licking plastic bags. 2) Attacking peoples feet when they want to sleep. 3) When she sits down she crosses her legs.

PS- Cleo is the love of my life.

Cotter: Cotter is the next eldest- He was one Emy's cats. He is a Siamese Tabby with half a tail (Em accidentally trapped it in the door when he was a kitten- it had to be amputated). Cotter is a neutered incestuously gay cat. He had to take anti-depressants at one point- and it made him horney- he used to try raping his "brother" Gelo (not blood related). Cotter can be sweet when you get to know him- but if you don't know him- watch out- he slaps, bites and growls at strangers. Cotter's weird habbit is he likes to smell people's breath.

Jaguar: Jaguar was Emily's mother's cats until she found she couldn't keep him because she was constantly on the road. Jag is pure black apart from a white g-string. Jaguar is a lover- he wants CONSTANT attention- and yes I mean CONSTANT attention.

Angelo Blanco "Gelo": Gelo was another of Emily's cats- he is pure white- and quite chubby. He's the biggest and loves to bully the other cats around. We call him our sexy beast because he looks quite the sex symbol- being so white and pretty- Also, despite being neutered, you can see where Gelo's nuts were- and man was he hung! Gelo isn't quite as attention hungry as the other cats- except for when his food bowl is empty... Gelo is a food slut. He is also into S&M- Gelo loves to be spanked... hard. He gets real excited if you start spanking his back- starts purring and meowing contented- lifting his butt to be spanked some more. Gelo is a pimp-daddy!

Tutankhamen " King Tut": Tut is the youngest- and the most athletic. He can jump the highest- do the most impressive mid-air flips- can run the fastest and has the fastest reaction time. He is a Tabby- half Maine Coon- he isn't as big as a Maine Coon- but he looks like a minature Maine Coon- Huge puffy tail- shaggy main- tufts between his toes. After Jag, Tut is perhaps the next most affectionate- but he can be a real stubborn *BEEP* from time to time. If you tell him off- he deliberately tries to piss you off- by either doing it harder- or slapping you... But when he is not being bad he is really sweet natured. Tut has an abnormal paranoia of mops, brooms, anything that smells strong, and- baby Shamu. Greg and Henrik sent me the coolest Shamu the makes "Shamu noises"- Tut runs at the mere sight (or sound) of that thing. All in all Tut has a lot of character.

[RacerX]

I'd like a cat, but I'm affraid the numerous dogs wouldn't appreciate it as much as I...LOL!

We're out on a little land in the country, so we have 2 ponies, 2 pigmy goats, 7 rabbits, 7 birds(parrots & cocka-something, coniars, etc) and a whole bunch of puppy dogs...strays that wondered up; Mitsy, Muffin, Yota, Bones, Snowy, Amber, Sheeba, Sequoia, Jake...who knows...LOL!

We had a pig too, but he's gone now.

Wuff, at one time, we counted 34 pets...LOL, although I'm proud to report that number is under 20 and holding...hopefully declining...LOL!

OK, so I thought, what's another mouth...we need a cat, but the dogs just don't like'em. So I doubt I'll have a cat anytime soon.

Later,
Rx

[greg99]

Please RacerX - tell me you do NOT own a kookaburra....... (could that be the cocka-something bird?)

[RacerX]

You're safe greg99, it seems that I'm the only "KooK" at our house!!! LOL

Rx

[greg99]

Errrr................my dear RacerX, you got it the wrong way: YOU are the one who is safe: if you had had a kookaburra, you would have found me knocking on your door within 24 hrs

I just adore that bird and it can't be found around here.

[RacerX]

ROFLMAO...well, I'll take a look around & see what I can find in this part of the world...LOL!

Wuff,
Rx

[OT]

RacerX - before you go getting any ideas - it's illegal to smuggle Native Australian Birds out of the country....

[da_silva]

Ahem,

I'm of the opinion that animals are for eating.

[Topcontender]

is it a cockateal. I think that is what my grandmother had. If it talks and it a little bigger than a sparrow that is what you got

[RacerX]

Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding-Ding...

...and the winner is: Top Contend. Yep, that's what it is, a cockateal. I have a cockateal, and several conures; nandae, red check, etc., etc, and a big African grey. The African Grey talks pretty good.

I almost forgot, but I have a couple of tourtises too. A Russian, and an African. They're both young now, but the African will eventually get to about a 36 inch diameter shell. Pretty cool creatures, they actually have different personalities.

I wouldn't figure a tourtise would have a personality, but they do.

Thanks TC, that was correct!

later,
Rx

[greg99]

We currently have two cats and very naturally each of them has chosen one of us as their devoted slave. I will leave Henrik the pleasure of describing his monster.

Before Nikita arrived, I had another love in my life: Pumpi (short for pumpkin). He resembled a Maine Coon with long hair and a fluffy tail but was a stray cat born in a cupboard in a small French village, a few km away from Geneva. I was a teenager and he was to be my 3rd cat (the 1st one, my black beauty Zorro, left us to live with an elder couple, the 2nd one, splendid grey Sapphire, disappeared when he was only 6 months old). We waited for Sapphire to come back but as weeks became months our parents decided to surprise us with a replacement. We had to chose between 4 kittens, 3 of them beautiful and the 4th one, well, looked like nothing: he was wet, tiny, shy and one of his eyes was still closed but the opened one was staring back at me. I asked for the ugly one….. Pumpi and I became best buddies from the very beginning. I left him with my parents when I moved out – he was too used to spending his weekends at my parents weekend house in his native village, something I could no offer him. Pumpi was a remarkably intelligent cat, very faithful and yet extremely independent. He was beautiful, inside and out. He could recognize my step and would greet me at the door when I came home, he was funny – he would do acrobatic stuff at my command. He knew all my secrets. He had his own language, one only I could understand. He would know when I was feeling down and comfort me. He was unique. There will never be one like him again. Pumpi was born on Feb. 29, 1980 – he died in my arms on Aug. 1, 2001, we had to put him down, he just wouldn’t let go of life. He was 21.5 years old. He was the love and the light of my life. I miss him dearly.

Nikita was born in 1991. She is a very elegant and slender black cat, with a small white spot on her throat and another one on her tum-tum. She has beautiful green eyes and knows how to use them too…. When we first got her, she was just 2 months old and had a broken leg. She therefore missed her mother’s education in the litter and in spite of my spending hours scratching in the litter box to show her how it worked, she preferred the rest of the apartment…. Well, it’s given me a few opportunities to change the sofa and the carpets, the latter having been completely eliminated here now. We know she is “not all there” – with her it’s a matter of “the barrier’s down, the bell’s ringing, lights are blinking but the train ain’t coming”, she does strange things, suddenly jumps up for no reason, sprints around the house, talks to herself, etc… As a kitten she used to nibble on my arm, drooling profusely and purring to death, she must have mistook me for her mom. She stopped that at some point and mostly kept to herself. It took her 3 years to start purring again with us, at least with me. She also started coming to bed with me, on my side of the bed, as far away from her sister – Henrik’s beast – as she could – they barely tolerate each other. She is very finicky with food and makes herself heard when something is not to her liking and as the well-trained little slave that I am, I always give in and give her the treats that she fancies (don’t tell Henrik…) – she is always asking for food. Luckily for her, she is so shy and scared of everything, that her metabolisms works overtime and eliminates the calories immediately. And don’t you dare closing doors, she will cry ntil someone opens them. She loves hiding in boxes and bags and leaves her tail out. She is convinced we can’t see her…. If any of you come to our house, there is very little chance that you will see her, unless she likes your voice: she can’t stand strangers and hides away in her secret places. Oh and she loves sunbathing on the balcony, even under the highest temperature. And last but not least, she comes with me to the bathroom while I take my shower – if I don’t know where she is, I just have to pretend I’m going to take a shower - she'll show up.

As crazy as she is, Niki is my little darling.

Phew…that was a long one…. sorry about the rambling but it’s not every day I get the chance to talk about my babies.

[OT]

jeeeez da_silva - I would have put any money on you losing your life with that comment above....

And I guess woof woof is out of order too....

[greg99]

Animals are for eating what, da silva?