The Enigma and the Dweeb

[katluvr]

OMG Shelly....you have a cat that actually likes the cat carrier and to ride places in it in the car??!!
I swear w/ the kittens I want to take them in the car carrier to places other than the vet so when they get older they don't yee-owl the entire way!

Try tackilng the 17# boy and "stuffing" him into the carrier!

[snapdragen]

Fat Cats

[firenze11]

My parents rescued a tiny tortoise shell kitten a few years ago. She was found by a neighbor outside her house in the middle of the nasty Ontario winter and then taken to the vet. Only a few days of board were paid for so when the time came to put her down, my Mom got a call. Down she went to get this teeny little thing with a purr so loud it could be heard throughout the vet's office.

Now she's a happy, fat, lazy cat. I figure after what she went through trying to survive as a kitten that she probably deserves it.

My parents told me that one night they were in their bedroom with the cat and our Old English Mastiff when they heard a mouse squeaking. The cat was just kind of staring at it, semi-interested and my parent's couldn't get to it to rescue it. Well, then mouse started running around and ran right into the cat's nose. The cat chirped and sprang into action (at least as much as this cat springs) and chased the mouse for awhile. Finally, she picked up the poor, exasperated little mouse, brought it over to the dog. . .and put it on the dog as if to say "I've had my fun, now what? You take care of it"! The dog was like " what is this?!? I don't want anything to do with it!" Thankfully my Dad was able to get the mouse off the dog and put him/her outside.

As you can see, she's not much of a mouser. Actually, I don't think she's ever killed anything. She's much more interested in sleeping, eating, and cuddling.

[wackyjacky1]

As I sit here reading these posts (and LOL-ing ) my little Erin-Aquanetta (yes, she's hyphenated ) is playing with a small stuffed hamster-looking thing and making those creepy "I've caught a mouse" noises. Better that she does it now, though, and not in the middle of the night when those strange meows give me the heebie-jeebies, forcing me to turn the light on and confirm it's just a stuffed mouse she's playing with.

Just for chuckles, here is a short video of Erin last year with a ping-pong ball and a box (I only videoed a few seconds, but this went on for 20 minutes non-stop until she finally conked out):


BTW ping-pong balls make great cat toys.

[short cut sally]

I never thought of ping pong balls!. my cat has a collection of unbreakable xmas ornaments that he plays with. which of course, i found after taking care of all the xmas goodies and they were under all the large furniture. it was too much of a bother to take care of the ornaments so he has extra toys. and yes, last night, at about 9pm, little boy gets in the carrier and comes back out, meows, gets back in the carrier. broke my heart, i didn't take him out for his ride. should've thought about it before it was my bed time. my kitty came with a taj-mahal of cat carriers. i think maybe its more for a dog than cat. my mom's cat carriers are much smaller than mine. she did get a larger carrier finally for her 25# boy, more like mine. all you saw of her boy in the cat carrier was all the fur sticking out of the air holes and his head by the door, he could hardly move in that thing.

[mimitabby]

I have two former feral cats and they are very food motivated. I can get them to do ANYTHING I want. Enza used to jump up on the bed to wake me up.
I taught her to jump on the dresser. so now she sits there waiting for a kibble as time for me to get up approaches.
Then i go into the bathroom, and she will shut the door for me. Too bad if i'm in the way the door will hit me in the back. If that isn't good enough, she'll open the door and go out and come in again.
Then we get to the kitchen and Aggie jumps on top of the garbage can. what she wants is for me to throw kibbles, so i do; and now all 3 cats are scrambling for the few kibbles i throw.
next i hide kibbles all over the place, windowsill, chair, cat scratching post.
If Enza is on her game, she manages to follow me and find most of them.
She will give me a kiss, spin, sit, lay down all on command for a kibble.

they keep me entertained too.

[roadie gal]

A friend of mine had a theory about why cats stare at invisible things or talk to the air... They're visitors from another planet. They're FELIONS, sent here to spy on humanity and report back to the mother ship.

Houston, our male cat, is a spring with fur. That boy has a 4 foot vertical leap... up or down. In our house we have a cat condo that stand about 4 feet tall. It sits downstairs in the living room, with the loft above and slightly past it. The floor of the loft stands about 6 feet above the condo. One of Houston's favorite things is to leap off of the loft onto the condo. You'll be standing there and suddenly you'll hear a "THUMP" and Houston will magically appear, from nowhere, on top of the condo.

One day we had a dogsitter coming to walk the dogs while we were at work. Apparently Houston did his flying cat trick for the dogsitter. It about scared her pants off. She had no idea what the loud noise was and suddenly there was this cat staring at her at eye level.

Riley, the girl cat, knows that my time at the computer is her time to be petted. In the morning when I'm at the computer she sits on the desk and meows and pats me on the shoulder until I pet her. If I quit before she's ready she screeches and pats me again.

[bmccasland]

Try tackilng the 17# boy and "stuffing" him into the carrier!

That's what dog carriers are for. I have loads of experience stuffing Herald into the carrier. The real problem child was little Erin Kitty (may she rest in peace), all 7 pounds of her - that cat would do the spread-eagle thing across the opening of the same carrier, back when she was heathlier and we'd just do routine vet visits, or storm evacuations. Once she got sick, she was easier to crate - either that or she knew that she'd feel better once Drs. Erica or Michelle got to her.