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Kitty Nicknames
Buffy has a few nicknames.
(1) Fluffy McBuffy-pants. She has very soft furry fluffy hindquarters. (2) Flippy Tail. She wags her tail. All the time. Sometimes she wags her tail in her sleep. She actually woke me up at 6AM by thwacking me in the face with her tail. I think it startled her as much as it did me. (3) Pretty orange stripey girl. self explanatory (4) Big fat belly cat. Also self explanatory. Jill |
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On 4/1/2017 5:48 AM, jmcquown wrote:
Buffy has a few nicknames. (1) Fluffy McBuffy-pants. She has very soft furry fluffy hindquarters. (2) Flippy Tail. She wags her tail. All the time. Sometimes she wags her tail in her sleep. She actually woke me up at 6AM by thwacking me in the face with her tail. I think it startled her as much as it did me. (3) Pretty orange stripey girl. self explanatory (4) Big fat belly cat. Also self explanatory. Jill Oh, and I forgot (5) Rumblebug. She purrs very loudly. She's a happy cat. Jill |
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 05:48:20 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
She wags her tail. All the time. The only nickname I've hung on Minnie so far is Kittydawg - because: 1. Unless she's sleeping, the only time you ever see that tail hold still is when her face is in her food dish eating...then it might actually lie still on the floor for a few seconds. The rest of the time it's wag, wag, wag. 2. She buries things. I left a folded-up blanket on a hassock in the living room last week and she immediately claimed it as her new lounging spot. This afternoon, I found three of her favorite toys, including her beloved rawhide shoelace, all hidden in the folds of the blanket. 3. She whines just like a dog whines - especially whenever I won't play with her because I'm busy doing something else, or I get near the cupboard where she knows the kitty treats are but it doesn't look like I'm getting any out for her. I haven't actually called her Kittydawg out loud - yet - but I do think it to myself every time I see that tail of hers going a mile a minute. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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On 4/1/2017 9:42 AM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 05:48:20 -0400, jmcquown wrote: She wags her tail. All the time. The only nickname I've hung on Minnie so far is Kittydawg - because: 1. Unless she's sleeping, the only time you ever see that tail hold still is when her face is in her food dish eating...then it might actually lie still on the floor for a few seconds. The rest of the time it's wag, wag, wag. 2. She buries things. I left a folded-up blanket on a hassock in the living room last week and she immediately claimed it as her new lounging spot. This afternoon, I found three of her favorite toys, including her beloved rawhide shoelace, all hidden in the folds of the blanket. 3. She whines just like a dog whines - especially whenever I won't play with her because I'm busy doing something else, or I get near the cupboard where she knows the kitty treats are but it doesn't look like I'm getting any out for her. I haven't actually called her Kittydawg out loud - yet - but I do think it to myself every time I see that tail of hers going a mile a minute. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY That reminds me of the time my parents came to visit (many years ago). My Dad was strictly a dog person, and we had cats. Pyewacket (RB) decided to convert him. Every time my Dad sat down, Pye jumped in his lap. By the end of the visit, My Dad was callying Pye a "puppycat'. Joy |
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On 4/1/2017 4:57 PM, Joy wrote:
On 4/1/2017 9:42 AM, John Kasupski wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 05:48:20 -0400, jmcquown wrote: She wags her tail. All the time. I haven't actually called her Kittydawg out loud - yet - but I do think it to myself every time I see that tail of hers going a mile a minute. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY That reminds me of the time my parents came to visit (many years ago). My Dad was strictly a dog person, and we had cats. Pyewacket (RB) decided to convert him. Every time my Dad sat down, Pye jumped in his lap. By the end of the visit, My Dad was callying Pye a "puppycat'. Joy That's cute! My father didn't like cats at all. He always felt there was something sneaky about them. No cats allowed! Mom & Dad's neighbor (now my neighbor) had two black cats, Fedders and Schwartzie. I used to cat sit them. When Dad was still alive he would see the cats walking around behind the house he'd say, sotto voce, "Those cats listen to everything we do." Need I mention Dad suffered from dementia? But even before that he never liked cats. He always thought they were sneaky. I don't understand how someone can't like cats. They're so cute. They're pretty. They're soft! They purr! Stand offish? Okay, not all cats want to be lap cats. But I've rarely encountered one that didn't at least accept the occasional quick pet. Buffy was skittish when she first came to live with me because she'd been bullied by another cat in her former house. Once she got comfortable with the fact that it was just her, no other cat, she got very happy and playful. And turned into a lap cat. Jill |
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jmcquown wrote:
That's cute! My father didn't like cats at all. He always felt there was something sneaky about them. No cats allowed! Mom & Dad's neighbor (now my neighbor) had two black cats, Fedders and Schwartzie. I used to cat sit them. When Dad was still alive he would see the cats walking around behind the house he'd say, sotto voce, "Those cats listen to everything we do." Need I mention Dad suffered from dementia? But even before that he never liked cats. He always thought they were sneaky. Wow, it's horrible when someone's dementia makes them paranoid. I've heard about people who became very delusional in that way, and their life was miserable. On the other hand, I've also heard of people who were really unhappy and nasty throughout their lives, but when they got dementia, their personality totally changed and they became calmer, warmer, and just plain nicer. Maybe their dementia destroyed the memories that made them miserable, so they didn't have those feelings anymore. That's a mercy! It was a mercy for their kids, too, who had terrible relationships with their parent until the change in personality. These were all parents of my friends, btw. That's how I know about them. Back to cats: I don't understand how someone can't like cats. They're so cute. They're pretty. They're soft! They purr! I said this once to a friend. We were talking about how some people have a phobia about cats. I didn't understand why. Being afraid of big, mean dogs I do understand, but housecats aren't very dangerous, except in rare cases. She said it wasn't a rational fear like that, it was more a sense of revulsion. She likened it to how a lot of people feel about bugs - a "don't let that thing get near me!" kind of feeling, even toward harmless bugs. There isn't any real danger, and you can't reason people out of it because it's an irrational phobia. I understand about those, even if it's hard to imagine feeling that way about cats. I've been a cat-lover since I was a year old! Joyce -- Fluffy Mackerel Pudding - "Once upon a time, the world was young and the words 'mackerel' and 'pudding' existed far, far away from one another. One day, that all changed. And then, whoever was responsible somehow thought the word 'fluffy' would help." -- Hilarious recipes at: www.candyboots.com |
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On 4/5/2017 3:17 PM, Bastette wrote:
jmcquown wrote: That's cute! My father didn't like cats at all. He always felt there was something sneaky about them. No cats allowed! Mom & Dad's neighbor (now my neighbor) had two black cats, Fedders and Schwartzie. I used to cat sit them. When Dad was still alive he would see the cats walking around behind the house he'd say, sotto voce, "Those cats listen to everything we do." Need I mention Dad suffered from dementia? But even before that he never liked cats. He always thought they were sneaky. Wow, it's horrible when someone's dementia makes them paranoid. I've heard about people who became very delusional in that way, and their life was miserable. On the other hand, I've also heard of people who were really unhappy and nasty throughout their lives, but when they got dementia, their personality totally changed and they became calmer, warmer, and just plain nicer. Maybe their dementia destroyed the memories that made them miserable, so they didn't have those feelings anymore. That's a mercy! It was a mercy for their kids, too, who had terrible relationships with their parent until the change in personality. These were all parents of my friends, btw. That's how I know about them. Back to cats: I don't understand how someone can't like cats. They're so cute. They're pretty. They're soft! They purr! I said this once to a friend. We were talking about how some people have a phobia about cats. I didn't understand why. Being afraid of big, mean dogs I do understand, but housecats aren't very dangerous, except in rare cases. She said it wasn't a rational fear like that, it was more a sense of revulsion. She likened it to how a lot of people feel about bugs - a "don't let that thing get near me!" kind of feeling, even toward harmless bugs. There isn't any real danger, and you can't reason people out of it because it's an irrational phobia. I understand about those, even if it's hard to imagine feeling that way about cats. I've been a cat-lover since I was a year old! Joyce You can't reason someone out of a phobia, because phobias aren't reasonable. They just are. Joy |
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 18:54:25 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
My father didn't like cats at all. He always felt there was something sneaky about them. No cats allowed! My dad always claimed he hated cats. He told me that at one point he and my mother lived in the Bronx and in the summer it was so hot and muggy out you had to leave the windows open even at night, and "The blankety-blank alleycats would climb up the fire escape and come right in the window...two or three o'clock in the morning they'd wake me up walking around on the bed and I thought I was gonna have a heart attack." Despite that, the first time he came over to my house when I had Charlie (RB), my big Russian Blue, Dad and I were sitting on the couch and Charlie jumped up at the end Dad was at, intending to walk across dad's lap to me - but when he got onto Dad's lap, Dad started scratching him behind his ears. Charlie loved being scratched behind his ears more than anything else, so as soon as Dad started doing it he laid down on Dad's lap and squinted his eyes shut and began purring up a storm - the perfect picture of solid contentment. Eventually he fell asleep and Dad just sat there on the couch scratching the sleeping kitty behind the ears for half an hour or longer. This was 40+ years later, so maybe he mellowed out about cats as he got older, or maybe he simply discovered that a purring cat lying in your lap isn't relaxing only to the cat - but he sure made Charlie happy, and every time Dad came over after that Charlie would jump up on Dad's lap as soon as Dad sat down and the whole scene was repeated. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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John Kasupski wrote:
My dad always claimed he hated cats... Despite that, the first time he came over to my house when I had Charlie (RB), my big Russian Blue, Dad and I were sitting on the couch and Charlie jumped up at the end Dad was at, intending to walk across dad's lap to me - but when he got onto Dad's lap, Dad started scratching him behind his ears. Charlie loved being scratched behind his ears more than anything else, so as soon as Dad started doing it he laid down on Dad's lap and squinted his eyes shut and began purring up a storm - the perfect picture of solid contentment. Eventually he fell asleep and Dad just sat there on the couch scratching the sleeping kitty behind the ears for half an hour or longer. This was 40+ years later, so maybe he mellowed out about cats as he got older, or maybe he simply discovered that a purring cat lying in your lap isn't relaxing only to the cat - but he sure made Charlie happy, and every time Dad came over after that Charlie would jump up on Dad's lap as soon as Dad sat down and the whole scene was repeated. That's adorable! It's funny to see someone who insists they don't like cats (or any animal) suddenly realizing that hey, they're not so bad. In my family, there were 4 females (mom, me, and my two sisters), and my dad. Mom and the 3 of us kids loved cats, and dad was the bad guy. He never said he hated cats, it's just that, given free reign, we would have continued to accumulate stray cats indefinitely. Dad used to say, "One or two cats, or one dog, one cat, that's fine, but I don't want a houseful of cats." So he would eventually put his foot down and the strays had to go. That was when I was growing up. Now, my dad, who lives alone in a house in Florida, is the Cat Man of his neighborhood. My sister got him a cat about 12 years ago, and he fell in love with him. (That cat is really great, I've met him a few times.) Then he got a second cat. Then he started feeding neighborhood cats who hung out in his yard. Word quickly spread through the feline community in the area, that free food was to be had at my dad's house, so more strays. Then there was this cat in the neighborhood who kept having kittens. She didn't belong to anyone, so nobody did anything about it until my dad decided to intervene, so he had her spayed. Last time I visited him, several years ago, I drove up to his house to find about 6 cats sitting in the yard. Joyce -- The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel |
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Kitty Nicknames
Mine's a "get off of there" "NO!" "ow, stop that"
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