Dear Cat

[indysteel]

Awwwww, she is just adorable and looks SO much like your avatar! She is the spitting image of your beloved Henry (if I remember the name correctly).

Thanks! Henry is my avatar. He's bigger and more of a buff color. Izzy is more orange and has a perma-kitten quality about her. Personality-wise, Izzy is a trouble maker, while Henry is a love bug.

[Becky]

That is an excellent photo, Indy!

[bmccasland]

Just want to you know that y'all are scaring me. Chloe is 7-8 mo old..
Still debating whether or not a tree will go up at my house. It is artificial, with lights, so maybe I'll start with just the tree...

[VeganBikeChick]

Indy, I love that photo of Izzy! That'd be an awesome Xmas card

[indysteel]

Just want to you know that y'all are scaring me. Chloe is 7-8 mo old..
Still debating whether or not a tree will go up at my house. It is artificial, with lights, so maybe I'll start with just the tree...

We put our tree up last year when Izzy was about that age and she didn't bother the tree at all. Again, it was the tree skirt that she fixated on, although we did make sure to hang breakables up high and tightly secure any hooks. We also kept a spray bottle of water handy to squirt her if she did mess with the tree itself.

[marni]

we are used to keeping the lower third of the tree bare of everything but lights and don't mind putting down several layers of tree skirts (tablecloths and colored sheets) for the kitties to play in on and under, they love lurking underneath, especially if there are prezzies to leap over around or "accidentally" knock out to skid across the hard wood floor, as they jump out and attack passing ankles, and small dogs. Poor
Weena the corgie was so terrorized last year that she avoided coming into the front room until the tree was gone, and after we took it out, the cats were terribly irritated.

Fun times.

marni

[colby]

we are used to keeping the lower third of the tree bare of everything but lights and don't mind putting down several layers of tree skirts (tablecloths and colored sheets) for the kitties to play in on and under, they love lurking underneath, especially if there are prezzies to leap over around or "accidentally" knock out to skid across the hard wood floor, as they jump out and attack passing ankles, and small dogs. Poor
Weena the corgie was so terrorized last year that she avoided coming into the front room until the tree was gone, and after we took it out, the cats were terribly irritated.

We do the same thing - we hang "cat things" at the bottom of the tree (ornaments that can't be damaged and we don't mind them playing with - bells on strings, etc) and anything that shouldn't be touched farther up. We have an artificial tree, when we had cats and a real tree the troublemakers would climb up the middle; you can't predict that until you have seen it, though, the cats I would EXPECT to do that weren't the ones doing it. We also have to move their cat tree away from the tree-tree (cat tree is 6ft, tree is 7ft) so they don't dangle off the edge of it to mess with stuff.

They do love to snuggle on the tree skirt.


Ornaments!


What presents are good for:

[7rider]

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".
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.

Hmmm...it was sort of this last night.

[Biciclista]

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.

[marni]

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".
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.

Hmmm...it was sort of this last night.

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 .

I love them all dearly but from time to time a feel a strong temptation to teach them to fly.

marni