A bathtub. A rubber ball. A Balinese.

Courtesy of a friend in Oz, who bred the cat in the tub. So cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADCSVkR6Gc

--

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the
most shocking and inhumane."-Martin Luther King, Jr.

On 3/23/2011 8:09 PM, Phoenix wrote:

Courtesy of a friend in Oz, who bred the cat in the tub. So cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADCSVkR6Gc


Very cute! After listening, I have to wonder how many people talk to
their cat with their normal talking voice pitch? I don't! Maybe I'm
weird. Ok, scratch that. I'm weird despite how I talk to animals.

Phoenix wrote:

Courtesy of a friend in Oz, who bred the cat in the tub. So cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADCSVkR6Gc

What a great play area! The bottom of the tub being curved makes the
ball roll all over the place. And the jets make it look (and act) like
a pinball machine. Ding! Buzz!

(At first I thought you'd said that your friend had used the tub
for cat breeding. )

Joyce

--
If an animal does something, they call it instinct. If we do exactly
the same thing for the same reason, they call it intelligence.
-- Will Cuppy

Cheryl wrote:

On 3/23/2011 8:09 PM, Phoenix wrote:

Courtesy of a friend in Oz, who bred the cat in the tub. So cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADCSVkR6Gc

Very cute! After listening, I have to wonder how many people talk to
their cat with their normal talking voice pitch? I don't! Maybe I'm
weird. Ok, scratch that. I'm weird despite how I talk to animals.

In fact, I don't think talking to animals in silly voices is at all
weird. I don't think I know anyone who *doesn't* do this. I certainly
do. And you should hear my sister.

Joyce

--
If an animal does something, they call it instinct. If we do exactly
the same thing for the same reason, they call it intelligence.
-- Will Cuppy

On Mar 23, 11:23*pm, Cheryl wrote:
On 3/23/2011 8:09 PM, Phoenix wrote:



Courtesy of a friend in Oz, who bred the cat in the tub. So cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADCSVkR6Gc

Very cute! After listening, I have to wonder how many people talk to
their cat with their normal talking voice pitch? I don't! *Maybe I'm
weird. *Ok, scratch that. I'm weird despite how I talk to animals.

Mostly I talked to Rusty (RB) in my normal voice. But sometimes I did
talk
to him in a different pitch. Winnie

On 24/03/2011 10:16, wrote:

In fact, I don't think talking to animals in silly voices is at all
weird. I don't think I know anyone who *doesn't* do this. I certainly
do. And you should hear my sister.

I use my normal voice, but I do use baby language. But I've always
talked to kids in my normal voice, too, because I remember how I
despised grownups who used a stupid high-pitched voice to me when I was
a kid. :P

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:

On 24/03/2011 10:16, wrote:

In fact, I don't think talking to animals in silly voices is at all
weird. I don't think I know anyone who *doesn't* do this. I certainly
do. And you should hear my sister.

I use my normal voice, but I do use baby language. But I've always
talked to kids in my normal voice, too, because I remember how I
despised grownups who used a stupid high-pitched voice to me when I was
a kid. :P

Well, it makes more sense to talk normally to kids, because they feel
patronized when people talk down to them. I don't think cats are going
to interpret things in quite the same ways.

But I don't exactly talk baby talk to my cats. I just use weird voices
and certain phrases repetitively, which I wouldn't do with people, such
as saying to Licky, several times a day in a mock-formal voice, "You're
a very HANDSOME feline individual." He seems to like this. I think he
knows that "handsome" is an endearment, because he gives me the slow
blink whenever I say it. Or maybe he's just vain.

Joyce

--
Taxes: Money you complain about giving the government, to pay for
services whose absence you would complain about.
-- John O'Hanlon

wrote:
Phoenix wrote:

Courtesy of a friend in Oz, who bred the cat in the tub. So cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADCSVkR6Gc

What a great play area! The bottom of the tub being curved makes the
ball roll all over the place. And the jets make it look (and act) like
a pinball machine. Ding! Buzz!

(At first I thought you'd said that your friend had used the tub
for cat breeding. )

Hee! I never thought of that! Don't you just love ambiguous
phrasings?

Deborah

--

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the
most shocking and inhumane."-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Phoenix wrote:

wrote:

(At first I thought you'd said that your friend had used the tub
for cat breeding. )

Hee! I never thought of that! Don't you just love ambiguous
phrasings?

How many ways can you parse this one: "Drive to feed needy snowballs".

Joyce

--
The heck with top and bottom -- I want relationships with strangeness
and charm.

wrote:
Phoenix wrote:
Hee! I never thought of that! Don't you just love ambiguous
phrasings?

How many ways can you parse this one: "Drive to feed needy snowballs".

Ow! My brain! I've got at least 4 and more seem to be crowding
forward.

That's a keeper, that is.

Deborah


--

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the
most shocking and inhumane."-Martin Luther King, Jr.