Mine have never had a problem eating off of any plant in my house. Including plastic ones. But all three of them were outside cats at one point, and two were born feral. So I might not have the best example.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
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Mine have never had a problem eating off of any plant in my house. Including plastic ones. But all three of them were outside cats at one point, and two were born feral. So I might not have the best example.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by katluvr
Izzy's favorites are the aforementioned Amazon box, plastic bags (which we tie in a knot for her safety, my ponytail bands, and empty edamame shells. She has a basket full of toys she totally ignores.
My last cat dearly loved the belt from my robe. I finally gave in like the good trained woman I am and allowed her to have it. She just looked adorable dragging that thing all over the apartment :) Yeah, it was a lot more fun for her than those toys I bought her :rolleyes:
Dear junior cat,
Last night that pie was sitting uncovered on the kitchen counter so that it could cool off-- it wasn't there for you to eat. You're lucky the pie was just a test-drive of a new recipe, and not something about to be taken somewhere. It would have been hard to explain away little cat teeth marks...
But we're in agreement, that was a fantastic pie crust.
I greatly enjoyed this article, cat-lovers:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/pe...tches-bus.html
That is too cute, Reesha!
Dear Chloe,
Why are you fixated on playing with the bathroom sink's plug? :confused: Bringing to bed after you dropped it in your litter box was not exactly what I wanted to wake up with. I know you like to bring your toys to bed, but that?! Now that I've cleaned it, the sink, and the floor, would you please leave it alone? You have a basket full of toys, where is squirrel, hedgie, or mouse?
The lady who keeps you in kibble
(and good luck finding the plug now, muhahaha)
Dear D@mmit Cat:
I would be more than happy to share my cheese and summer sausage with you if I thought you planned on digesting it, but you've already reached your vomit quota for the week.
However, thanks for returning the Wii controller so I can watch Netflix again!
(PS - your stomach might feel better if you stopped eating out of the trash. Just sayin.)
Dear Cat,
There are two bowls with water in them. When one bowl is empty you can drink from the other bowl. They both have the exact same substance in them. You don't have to meow at me, just step 3 inches to your right and, look! more water!
Thank you.
.
Dear Cat,
I realize now that you have a penthouse somewhere that you retire to when our abode is no longer to your liking, since you disappeared on New Year's Eve in the pouring rain, leaving your food and a set of worried owners behind, and reappeared in the wee hours dry, warm, calm and content, and most surprisingly, not hungry. I will endeavour to no longer worry about you when you do stuff like that.
PS. Do drop by every now and then, we're fond of you.
Dear Lulu,
We know you are smart but you are still a CAT. "C", "A", "T" CAT. We never taught you to use people toilet but my partner spied on you squatting on the toilet seat and peed into the toilet. I don't know how you figured it out but you did.
then it occurred to us that you might be the culprit for pee smell around the toilet. You seem to have missed on few occasions. Yuck!
Both of us would prefer that you stick with your litter box. Or if you continue to use people toilet, to please pee in the toilet not on it. And BTW, it would be nice if you could flush it when you are done.
Thank you,
Your proud mama.
One of mine is more than happy to flush but will not use. Skunk is fascinated by watching things go down the hole and now knows what makes that happen. I have to leave the lid shut to keep her away.
(Also, pretty sure dumdum plays in the toilet if I leave it open, based on the mess I've found.)
So Paris likes to drink from the bathroom faucet.
And the cats sleep on our bed at night.
Around 3:15 this morning, Paris decides he's thirsty.
So rather than walking down the hallway to his waterbowl, pounces on yours truly. Literally. All 13 pounds of him. I must have felt him walking up the bed, because I opened my bleary eyes just in time to see a black blob coming down on me from a height of about 18". :eek:
I lay there for about a minute. Shock. Confused. Finally, I decide, "Well, I'm awake. I may as well do what I do every time I wake up at 3 in the morning." So I go to the bathroom, and there is Paris, sitting on the sink, waiting for me.
Purrrrrrr.....A purr, a prance, and a paw at the sink bowl. Awww...Isn't he just so cute. Not. :mad:
Hmmm...it was sort of this last night.
Dear Cars
I will really miss you while DH and I are in hawaii. My DS will take good care of you.
xx
your fur mom.. well not really furry...but it's the thought that counts.
I'm just guessing here but you meant cats right :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
both of my cats love to drink from the bathroom faucet, but their methods of waking us is completely different. Tux (the 18 pound maine coone) head butts me with his forehead,usually aiming for my cheekbones or chin, repeatedly and not gently, purring like a maniac all the time. Ike the little (5 pound full grown) rescue kitty who sleeps curled around my head, digs her claws in slightly and starts madly grooming my hair, focusing on the areas where there is not much hair or on my upper forehead. She grooms until it is too painful to stand, at which point I get up, wander in to use the toilet after turning on the water to a trickle in both sinks. By this time both dogs are awake and decide they need to go out- the whole process usually takes about half an hour although lately the cats have been sleeping in to almost 5 am before the circus games begin. It's a good thing that I can always fall asleep after .Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
I love them all dearly but from time to time a feel a strong temptation to teach them to fly.
marni
Heheh. Lyra doesn't mess around with trying to be cute anymore. She miaows quietly and hopefully outside the bedroom door, and if we're stupid enough to let her in, she just walks around on top of us until we give up and get up. 5 1/2 kgs of cat on pointy little paws and a blank stare.
Dearest Little Lucy:
Whatever you ate (string, lint, mouse, plant leaves, something you found on the floor that looked interesting...) that caused you to throw-up violently, and stop eating and caused us many trips to the vet, very large vet bills and worrying that we were going to lose you until you finally, right before surgery was scheduled today, eliminated what was stuck inside you, um... please don't do that again.
Your loving, and with much less $, moms.
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Dear Chloe,
come over here and read the post about Lucy. You have lots of toys, why did you need to grab the pastry brush from the drain rack. Good thing I got it away from you before you decided to chew on it.
We don't need to go see Dr. C. Trust me on this.
signed,
The lady who provides you a nice warm house and kibble
Norse - glad to hear Lucy is feeling better.
Lucy - just ask her for catnip. Trust me on this.
Thanks BMC. Lucy update: last night, a shoelace appeared from her behind; called vet who said it should now be safe to gently pull it out as her system was emptied; out came an approximate 15" long shoelace. :eek: Yes, little Lucy ate a shoelace sometime last week and this caused all her problems. Today, she is once again our food fiend kitty, running all over the house and looking for more things to put in her mouth.
:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Norse
Dear Lucy,
STOP IT! Norse is a nice Mom, she will see to it that you get plenty of food so you don't need to eat rediculous things like shoe strings. I'm glad you passed the long shoe string, but dearheart it could have killed you. If you're bored while she's a work, then maybe you should show her the ads for pet toys. :cool:
sign me, a friend and Mom of a couple of kitties
Wow, Norse. I'm glad Lucy's okay. I've had my fair share of kitty stress, so I really feel for you.
Thanks for the positive thoughts! Lucy looks and acts like she is completely back to normal, thank goodness. We, of course have been showering her with attention, much to the consternation of Athena cat and Katy dog. But as we tell them, "we love you all equally." :)
Looking back, we have now almost lost 4 pets unexpectedly at a relatively younger age: my last dog had a tumor the size of a softball in his intestines; Katy had liver failure - after which the vet told us she had not expected her to make it; Isis kitty had some form of an awful virus; and now little Lucy Loo. All recovered and thrived. Now if we can just keep Lucy more interested in the cat giant basket of toys and less interested in string, plants, drapery cords.... :rolleyes:
Dear Cat,
Why must you only want to knead on my lap when I'm wearing tights? Shredded tights are not in fashion!!
Signed,
Your exasperated owner
Dear Joe the confused,
Well, you're living up to your epithet again. The way the dog was sprawled on the couch last night, her nipples were in clear sight. Very tempting for a cat who still likes to suckle, I'm sure. But she's a dog, and you are a cat. What's more, she's a dog who's not interested in letting you nurse. As you found out. Next time, why not stick to Moses? At least he's a fellow cat, and seems to enjoy having you suckle.
Dear Cats:
I agree that the new hand knotted wool rug is nicer than the pine pellets in your boxes. At least the rug was nicer until you peed all over it. But no, I am not going to switch the contents of your box.
Get over it.
PS, you still crack me up!
Dear Malkin
you might have a problem. In my days of fostering cats, we found a couple kitties who absolutely would NOT use the pine pellets. They will do anything to avoid touching the things with their tiny toes. Most cats are not so picky.
good luck.
Thanks for the good wishes.
They have used the pine pellets flawlessly for 2 months and 8 months and before that at the shelter before we got them.
We are doing some remodeling and I think they don't like the commotion. I hardly blame them. I don't like it either.
Oh--and I meant that I wouldn't switch their box to hand knotted wool rug yarn. If they insist, I'll switch to some other kind of litter. ;)
Right now they are in jail (confined). The gray older one is contrite, and the little red one is completely clueless.
Best cat name ever!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by skhill
I hope you call him the full thing sometimes :D
Dear Cat,
No, I have not forgotten that you tried to remove my hand at the wrist ten minutes ago, when you got a bit carried away with the whole hiding-behind-the-computer-screen game. So you can just give up on curling around and being all purry and cute just because you suddenly found out you're hungry.
Dear girl cat,
I'm really sorry that the dry food bowl went empty over the night. But did you really have to let me know about it at 4:18 am? Couldn't it have waited until I got up at 5?
Dear boy cat,
Congratulations! After a decade of hard work, you've finally got me trained. Proof: when I was washing dishes last night and you came up and yowled at me, I stopped what I was doing and gave you a kitty treat. Didn't even think about it, just responded to your stimulus in the way you desired. Good job!
dear miss ike,
do you have any idea how hard it is to warp a loom when you are loving on me and wandering through the warp? I love you dearly but you make it a bit difficult.
PS I have to admit that your 2 AM hair stylings are getting pretty wild but digging the claws in to immobilize me is a bit too much.
marni
Dear cats
The National Weather Service really should put y'all on the payroll. When the tornado warning siren went off yesterday, I knew there was no reason to be worried, because you were all hanging out in the living room with me. If there were any real danger, you'd have been taking cover in the bathroom closet. Sure enough, you were right-- the warning was canceled in just 5 minutes.
Glad you didn't get hit by yesterday's tornadoes! It missed my uncle's house by 2 blocks. Let's hear it for "weather cats." :DQuote:
Originally Posted by skhill
Reminds me of when I rode out a hurricane and realized that all my furry beasts were under the bed, together.
Dear Chloe,
The carnations in the vase are mine, I say MINE, to enjoy. They are not your new toys. If you really want to decorate with flowers, maybe I should hire you out to the florist across the street.
Dear Mister Kitty,
I thank you for sharing your catch with me, I already have enough, tho thanks to you l will forever lo twice now when your playing with your you mice.
Signed,
The evil one who took your prize
Dear Cat,
I'm very happy to see you're back to being Queen of The Universe, nonchalant mistress of all you survey, and snotty guardian of the entire block. But do you have to be such a drama queen? Your loyal and loving servants get quite worried when you spend an entire day looking unhappy and upset, just because you had to go through the ordeal of coming home again.
I know you had a fine and spoiled time spending three days at my in-laws, and you're obviously at home here, and the car drive between takes all of twenty minutes, so what IS all the moping about? I was ready to take you to the vet, until I remembered you're a flaming hypochondriac.
LPH - did you bribe Her Highness with some nice tasty salmon or herring? Perchance her welcome home dinner wasn't up to royal standings? :D
Fawf, salmon is for other cats. She liked a little snack of goats cheese (her morning usual, and the only thing she will sit up on her hind feet for) but otherwise she was ignoring her food, starting, and running around like a worried kitten. Very strange!
try some duck- it usually melts the bipolar cats pissy moods.
good for dogs also.
marni