And I should let a WHAT in the house?

Might not be the right match for me, then.

--

Christopher A. Young
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"HRFLTiger" wrote in message
oups.com...

Stormin Mormon wrote:
From eating his food, drinking out of
his glass, waking him at 6 AM, scratching his face, and jumping on
counters
and such. Cat litter stink. And then descriptions of kitty farts,
and
graphic descriptions of Kitty Turd Supreme.///

Normal conditions of being owned by a cat. You need to be able to deal
with those before you consider getting another cat into your life. To
me, the advantages/pleasure far outweighs the "nasties".

Used to sit on my chest at night.///

Now to me, that is a great priviledge. I consider that a BENEFIT of
owning a cat.

Jumping on things. Knocking things off. On the
counter. On the TV. On the copier. Knocking stuff off the surfaces.
Defiant,
on top of the copier while my back is turned and a blur of fur coming
down
off when I turn around.///

I like it. It reminds me I'm not the only one in the universe and that
I'm the bottom of the pecking order! ;o)

I'm quite seriously turned off about the concept of getting a cat.///

Then maybe you should rethink whether it is the pet for you. ) Being
owned by a cat is a wonderful priviledge, but also a very great
responsibility.

Helen M

Well, now there I have to disagree. That should read instead:

No cheap catfood but a brand that is nutritious and healthy, no mealworms.

As I said, I've had cats for 35 out of 40 years of my life and never had to
contend with such.

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
No cat, no catfood.

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Christopher A. Young
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"KellyH" wrote in message
...
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
.. .
As I understand, it was "indian mealworms" in cheap dry catfood.

And that was the cat's fault how? Could have happened in a sack of flour,
too.

--
-Kelly
kelly at farringtons dot net
"Wake up, and smell the cat food" -TMBG

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
Might not be the right match for me, then.


Please do not get a cat.

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:40:59 -0600, "Karen"
wrote:

Well, now there I have to disagree. That should read instead:

No cheap catfood but a brand that is nutritious and healthy, no mealworms.

As I said, I've had cats for 35 out of 40 years of my life and never had to
contend with such.


While I haven't ever had them in cat food, I have had them in flour,
cornflakes, and instant potato flakes (all at the same time). I
probably would have had them in the cat food as well, except for the
fact that I didn't own a cat at the time. They will eat anything
starchy, and, if you ever buy any food product that turns out to have
had mealworm eggs laid on it, you will subsequently end up with the
larvae hatching out in any starchy foodstuff that isn't in an airtight
container. The adults are small, soft-bodied beetles.

--
John F. Eldredge --
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"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

"Enfilade" wrote in message
om...

What a wonderful man!

Yes, that's why I started dating him...

--Fil

As well you should have! Lucky you, lucky him.

Enfilade wrote:

This is how DP feels about the bitties. I was on military service so
he was home, alone, with a pair of three-week-old infants that he'd
found in a trash heap, who pipped and squee'ed and looked to him for
every necessity of life--every three hours around the clock. Somehow
he managed to write his masters' thesis and raise those bits into
kittens and then into cats....and he says that in the end, waking up
multiple times a night for bottle-and-cottonball duty was rewarded by
the fact that those bitties still look to him as their "MomDad."

I love the story of the bitties.


--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
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Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Stormin Mormon wrote:
Might not be the right match for me, then.

--

Christopher A. Young
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Maybe you should list the reasons you *think* you want a cat, and see
if there is another pet that might be a better fit?

-L.