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Home for Love-Starved Cats?
Suddenly, without warning, Brandy Alexandre exclaimed (10-Oct-05 4:14 AM):
Is there some invisible sign that neighborhood cats put on your door to tell other cats "get love here?" Boots was by meowing at the door this morning, so I lavished some love on him and sent him on his way. Then, a few hours later, there was a different meow at my door. I opened it to a really sweet calico with a tag that said she was Chloe. I pleyed with her a bit--very spunky--and then she left. How did she know to park at my door and meow? Kami's annoyed by it. I've invited both cats in and she wasn't the least bit amused. Oddly, both cats are declawed, but I was impressed with Chloe. While we were hording around outside she went right up the tree. She hug with her front lags and propelled with her back. I still don't think declaws should be allowed out side. Yea, declaws do learn. I made that mistake in my (very) younger days, and Mouse just learned that anything she wanted to rip to pieces, she just needed to grab and have at it with her hinds (or of course, simply bite!). She was 18# of pure Maine Coon muscle, so she was very good at that. I agree, it's a dangerous enough world for cats with all their defenses. jmc |
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Brandy Alexandre wrote:
Is there some invisible sign that neighborhood cats put on your door to tell other cats "get love here?" Boots was by meowing at the door this morning, so I lavished some love on him and sent him on his way. Then, a few hours later, there was a different meow at my door. I opened it to a really sweet calico with a tag that said she was Chloe. I pleyed with her a bit--very spunky--and then she left. How did she know to park at my door and meow? Kami's annoyed by it. I've invited both cats in and she wasn't the least bit amused. No surprise there, she knows better than you and doesn't want to catch something... like say ear mites. Oddly, both cats are declawed, but I was impressed with Chloe. While we were hording around outside she went right up the tree. She hug with her front lags and propelled with her back. I still don't think declaws should be allowed out side. So what are you going to do about that... other than come to the newsgroup to express your opinion? |
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Joe Canuck wrote: Brandy Alexandre wrote: Is there some invisible sign that neighborhood cats put on your door to tell other cats "get love here?" Boots was by meowing at the door this morning, so I lavished some love on him and sent him on his way. Then, a few hours later, there was a different meow at my door. I opened it to a really sweet calico with a tag that said she was Chloe. I pleyed with her a bit--very spunky--and then she left. How did she know to park at my door and meow? Kami's annoyed by it. I've invited both cats in and she wasn't the least bit amused. Cats know. They did one study was it where the cats knew when an owner was coming home, even if on a varible shift! Did not need a telephone call. This was in UK as I recall. When the cat would get up from slumbering, the guy would show in around 20 minutes. No surprise there, she knows better than you and doesn't want to catch something... like say ear mites. Females are very real estate possessive. The males just want an excuse to fight. Oddly, both cats are declawed, but I was impressed with Chloe. While we were hording around outside she went right up the tree. She hug with her front lags and propelled with her back. I still don't think declaws should be allowed out side. So what are you going to do about that... other than come to the newsgroup to express your opinion? What do you suggest? Outlawing declawing might be a start. And the vets? Teaching people or making a mandatory course in high school - how to treat your pet to a scratching post with catnip. Put that course along others. Like don't declaw your pets, declaw your parents! |
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Brandy Alexandre wrote:
He just like to be contrarian with me. I have him plonked, but I see some of his comments when others reply. Last time when I said Boots wanted love he thought I *should* let the cat in. You'll find the Joke Canuck will find something wrong with absolutely everything I post. Some cats are like that. Their only good day is a bad day |
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"Brandy Alexandre" wrote in message ... You'll find the Joke Canuck will find something wrong with absolutely everything I post. That's not very hard to do. |
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"Joe Canuck" wrote in message ... Brandy Alexandre wrote: wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: Joe Canuck wrote: Brandy Alexandre wrote: Is there some invisible sign that neighborhood cats put on your door to tell other cats "get love here?" Boots was by meowing at the door this morning, so I lavished some love on him and sent him on his way. Then, a few hours later, there was a different meow at my door. I opened it to a really sweet calico with a tag that said she was Chloe. I pleyed with her a bit--very spunky--and then she left. How did she know to park at my door and meow? Kami's annoyed by it. I've invited both cats in and she wasn't the least bit amused. Cats know. They did one study was it where the cats knew when an owner was coming home, even if on a varible shift! Did not need a telephone call. This was in UK as I recall. When the cat would get up from slumbering, the guy would show in around 20 minutes. No surprise there, she knows better than you and doesn't want to catch something... like say ear mites. Females are very real estate possessive. The males just want an excuse to fight. Oddly, both cats are declawed, but I was impressed with Chloe. While we were hording around outside she went right up the tree. She hug with her front lags and propelled with her back. I still don't think declaws should be allowed out side. So what are you going to do about that... other than come to the newsgroup to express your opinion? What do you suggest? Outlawing declawing might be a start. And the vets? Teaching people or making a mandatory course in high school - how to treat your pet to a scratching post with catnip. Put that course along others. Like don't declaw your pets, declaw your parents! He just like to be contrarian with me. I have him plonked, but I see some of his comments when others reply. Last time when I said Boots wanted love he thought I *should* let the cat in. You'll find the Joke Canuck will find something wrong with absolutely everything I post. It isn't my fault if there IS something wrong with everything you say. shrug rolls eyes I believe the subject of that thread which you originated was "Neighbor's Cat Annoying Me". I'd say if you are annoyed by cats... any cat, then you are in the wrong newsgroup. Apparently even your own cat annoyed you... so you had her declawed. The fact that you try to misrepresent what I did say once again goes to your credibility... or rather the complete lack of. BTW, below is what I really did say. Notice anything about inviting the cat inside? No. Path: local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.magma.ca!news.m agma.ca.POSTED!not-for-mai l NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:21:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:21:44 -0400 From: Joe Canuck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Subject: Neighbor's Cat Annoying Me References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0539-0, 26/09/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.26.167.96 X-Trace: sv3-uIfYYeYhp2EFCiNIhVw/BdzggIeuO3KVdz+J5Cw59G6AMCi+A6JJJeVuGnI fm7DqBBTWaYvDhOX1EIH!ylFGpgJvkoPsp2STNKyuddhFJqpQG xN7dpujC2r6wTtxW53zPuIRIBz SGgUkfrSe6jl4d2rw X-Complaints-To: X-DMCA-Complaints-To: X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.pets.cats.health+behav:430832 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0540-8, 07/10/2005), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Brandy Alexandre wrote: Okay, I love cats, we know that. We do? We only know what you are telling us. I suspect those who truly love cats don't go around proclaiming they do... they just DO. Actually, your subject line speaks volumes... those who love cats are never annoyed by them. We tolerate their quirks with a smile and thoroughly enjoy their company... even at 6 am in the morning. This is just patently ridiculous. *This* is the basis for your opinion? That somebody does not gleefully welcome the presence of a pushy and loud cat in the wee hours of the morning? I'm an animal lover too but to say that somehow somebody's love is questionable because they aren't on-call 24x7 whenever a stray comes around howling is a stretch. I have 2 cats, one of which annoyed the living hell out of me the first year we were together. I mean you had to be there. But I love the little guy with my whole being, he's mine for life, I would die if anything happened to him, I'd not trade him for 1 second (though for a while I did entertain the idea of making an oven mitt out of his annoying little ass.) I love him more every day even though just today he threw up all over a stack of undeposited checks, tossed litter all over a freshly cleaned floor after a ripping good BM and woke me up at 4:30 by jumping with all his weight on my chest. Was I annoyed? You better believe it. What did I do about it? I went back to bed grumpy, swearing and recalling the oven-mitt idea after flicking him off my bed like a tiddly-wink (which he seemed to interpret as an invitation to play.) He still loves me and I still love him. We tolerate each other and I'm sure I annoy him too from time to time. Lots and lots of people post to this group with every manner of cat stpry you can think of. I don;t see you jumping down their throats, so why just pick on a selcted target? Paul |
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Paul M. Cook wrote:
"Joe Canuck" wrote in message ... Brandy Alexandre wrote: wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: Joe Canuck wrote: Brandy Alexandre wrote: Is there some invisible sign that neighborhood cats put on your door to tell other cats "get love here?" Boots was by meowing at the door this morning, so I lavished some love on him and sent him on his way. Then, a few hours later, there was a different meow at my door. I opened it to a really sweet calico with a tag that said she was Chloe. I pleyed with her a bit--very spunky--and then she left. How did she know to park at my door and meow? Kami's annoyed by it. I've invited both cats in and she wasn't the least bit amused. Cats know. They did one study was it where the cats knew when an owner was coming home, even if on a varible shift! Did not need a telephone call. This was in UK as I recall. When the cat would get up from slumbering, the guy would show in around 20 minutes. No surprise there, she knows better than you and doesn't want to catch something... like say ear mites. Females are very real estate possessive. The males just want an excuse to fight. Oddly, both cats are declawed, but I was impressed with Chloe. While we were hording around outside she went right up the tree. She hug with her front lags and propelled with her back. I still don't think declaws should be allowed out side. So what are you going to do about that... other than come to the newsgroup to express your opinion? What do you suggest? Outlawing declawing might be a start. And the vets? Teaching people or making a mandatory course in high school - how to treat your pet to a scratching post with catnip. Put that course along others. Like don't declaw your pets, declaw your parents! He just like to be contrarian with me. I have him plonked, but I see some of his comments when others reply. Last time when I said Boots wanted love he thought I *should* let the cat in. You'll find the Joke Canuck will find something wrong with absolutely everything I post. It isn't my fault if there IS something wrong with everything you say. shrug rolls eyes I believe the subject of that thread which you originated was "Neighbor's Cat Annoying Me". I'd say if you are annoyed by cats... any cat, then you are in the wrong newsgroup. Apparently even your own cat annoyed you... so you had her declawed. The fact that you try to misrepresent what I did say once again goes to your credibility... or rather the complete lack of. BTW, below is what I really did say. Notice anything about inviting the cat inside? No. Path: local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.magma.ca!news.m agma.ca.POSTED!not-for-mai l NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:21:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:21:44 -0400 From: Joe Canuck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Subject: Neighbor's Cat Annoying Me References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0539-0, 26/09/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.26.167.96 X-Trace: sv3-uIfYYeYhp2EFCiNIhVw/BdzggIeuO3KVdz+J5Cw59G6AMCi+A6JJJeVuGnI fm7DqBBTWaYvDhOX1EIH!ylFGpgJvkoPsp2STNKyuddhFJqpQG xN7dpujC2r6wTtxW53zPuIRIBz SGgUkfrSe6jl4d2rw X-Complaints-To: X-DMCA-Complaints-To: X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com rec.pets.cats.health+behav:430832 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0540-8, 07/10/2005), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Brandy Alexandre wrote: Okay, I love cats, we know that. We do? We only know what you are telling us. I suspect those who truly love cats don't go around proclaiming they do... they just DO. Actually, your subject line speaks volumes... those who love cats are never annoyed by them. We tolerate their quirks with a smile and thoroughly enjoy their company... even at 6 am in the morning. This is just patently ridiculous. Really? Am I alone in *never* being annoyed by my pets? Isn't life far too short to spend even a tiny portion of it annoyed? I think so. *This* is the basis for your opinion? It is? Where did I say that? That somebody does not gleefully welcome the presence of a pushy and loud cat in the wee hours of the morning? I'm an animal lover too but to say that somehow somebody's love is questionable because they aren't on-call 24x7 whenever a stray comes around howling is a stretch. I have 2 cats, one of which annoyed the living hell out of me the first year we were together. I mean you had to be there. But I love the little guy with my whole being, he's mine for life, I would die if anything happened to him, I'd not trade him for 1 second (though for a while I did entertain the idea of making an oven mitt out of his annoying little ass.) I love him more every day even though just today he threw up all over a stack of undeposited checks, tossed litter all over a freshly cleaned floor after a ripping good BM and woke me up at 4:30 by jumping with all his weight on my chest. Was I annoyed? You better believe it. What did I do about it? I went back to bed grumpy, swearing and recalling the oven-mitt idea after flicking him off my bed like a tiddly-wink (which he seemed to interpret as an invitation to play.) He still loves me and I still love him. We tolerate each other and I'm sure I annoy him too from time to time. Lots and lots of people post to this group with every manner of cat stpry you can think of. I don;t see you jumping down their throats, so why just pick on a selcted target? Paul One doesn't sleep well grumpy. I'd say life is too short to spend even a small portion of it annoyed. |
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I'd say life is too short to spend even a small portion of it annoyed.
Then you picked a strange place to hang out. Paul |
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Paul M. Cook wrote:
I'd say life is too short to spend even a small portion of it annoyed. Then you picked a strange place to hang out. Paul I enjoy Usenet and never get annoyed. You see, I don't take much of what goes on here seriously and keep my sense of humour near the surface. |
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