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Cat Idiosyncrasies
"Cheryl" wrote in message
. .. "CatNipped" wrote in message ... OK, your turn!!! ; Nose Twitches, CatNipped I had to think about this. Scarlett still waits until all water bowl sources are cleaned and refilled then she has to swim in it and make it Scarlett flavored. Shamrock has to make every room I'm in Bonnie-free Rhett has to own the humidifier in the winter to the point where I think it needs to be in a cage to be leak-free; other months he harasses Shamrock, probably because Shamrock hates his GF Bonnie Bonnie still has her squeaky mousy toy obsession though she's killed most of them and they don't make noise any more. I remember a video of one of yours going crazy over the red dot greebling. Which master was that? I have three that will chase it - Demi and Ozzy get the most frenetic the longest, and Sammy will run after it for a minute or two - Archer and Demi will just watch it in a bored manner. Ear Twitches, CatNipped |
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"Joy" wrote in message
.. . "CatNipped" wrote in message ... I've been thinking about this and finally gotten around to starting a thread about it. Each one of my cats has some idiosyncrasy. I'm sure every cat does, so I'll start and then would like to read about other master's little quirks. Demi - you guys already know hers, she's a 'fraidy-cat, living on the edge of the clowder, running for her life when anyone walks near her. *But* if anyone in the house is eating chicken, she'll jump up right next to them and stare until she's given her "chicken toll". Chicken trumps fear every time. Jessie - she has a little stuffed dog that she carries around meowing loudly, every single day, sometimes several times a day. I think it's the behavior of a mother cat bringing home prey. She also likes flake fish food - it's like kitty potato chips to her, she can't get enough (too bad it's so expensive). Sammy - gawd, where do I begin??! First, most of you know, at 4.5 years old she *still* sucks her toe. She follows me around like a puppy dog (she won't jump on my lap, but she's *always* in the same room as me or waiting on the other side of a closed door). She *hates* having her claws clipped or brushing - my arms and hands are in shreds after any grooming session. Archer - he is our "nerd" cat. No matter what you're doing, he has to be the center of attention. If you're playing with another cat, he'll push them out of the way so he can get the toy. He never "gets" that the other cats don't love him to pieces - he's blissfully unaware that they may be wishing he would go away. His favorite toy is a denuded feather stick (which has no feathers left, just a couple of bright tinsel streamers). No matter where he is in the house, if you swish the stick he'll hear it and come running. He will chase that thing until he is totally out of breath (we have to be careful not to play with him too long with it). When he first came here he was quarantined in a bedroom with his bro-fur. In that bedroom was a stuffed green frog. He thinks that green frog is his meow-my - to this day he snuggles up to froggie to nap (I put froggie on his favorite chair in the living room so he could be with the family and still snuggle with his meow-my). Ozzy - has a foot fetish!!! Seriously!!!!! He very infrequently jumps up next to me for good pettins. But if you say, "Ozzy want da footses?" he'll break his neck running from the far end of the house to be "petted" with a foot. Doesn't matter if you're wearing shoes. Anybody in the house who crosses their legs will soon feel Ozzy petting *himself* against their foot! OK, your turn!!! ; Nose Twitches, CatNipped Lindy wants lots and lots of attention. If she thinks I've been ignoring her for too long, she'll yell at me. However, she hates to be picked up, won't sit on my lap when I'm at the computer, and seldom sits on my lap in my recliner. She will occasionally come up and lie next to me in the recliner, but only for a few minutes. When anybody comes over, she thinks they came to see her, and pesters them for attention. She seldom drinks out of the water dish I change every day. Instead, she prefers to get her water out of the toilet. If I walk in while she's getting a drink, or if I'm there when she comes in for a drink, she gets very upset. If I take off a bra and put it on my bed instead of in the hamper, she sniffs and rolls on it as though it were catnip. Sometimes she'll lie on top of it for long periods of time. Joy LOL! Do you use catnip sachet in your lingerie drawer?!! Nose Kisses, CatNipped |
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"kilikini" wrote in message
. com... CatNipped wrote: I've been thinking about this and finally gotten around to starting a thread about it. Each one of my cats has some idiosyncrasy. I'm sure every cat does, so I'll start and then would like to read about other master's little quirks. Demi - you guys already know hers, she's a 'fraidy-cat, living on the edge of the clowder, running for her life when anyone walks near her. *But* if anyone in the house is eating chicken, she'll jump up right next to them and stare until she's given her "chicken toll". Chicken trumps fear every time. Jessie - she has a little stuffed dog that she carries around meowing loudly, every single day, sometimes several times a day. I think it's the behavior of a mother cat bringing home prey. She also likes flake fish food - it's like kitty potato chips to her, she can't get enough (too bad it's so expensive). Sammy - gawd, where do I begin??! First, most of you know, at 4.5 years old she *still* sucks her toe. She follows me around like a puppy dog (she won't jump on my lap, but she's *always* in the same room as me or waiting on the other side of a closed door). She *hates* having her claws clipped or brushing - my arms and hands are in shreds after any grooming session. Archer - he is our "nerd" cat. No matter what you're doing, he has to be the center of attention. If you're playing with another cat, he'll push them out of the way so he can get the toy. He never "gets" that the other cats don't love him to pieces - he's blissfully unaware that they may be wishing he would go away. His favorite toy is a denuded feather stick (which has no feathers left, just a couple of bright tinsel streamers). No matter where he is in the house, if you swish the stick he'll hear it and come running. He will chase that thing until he is totally out of breath (we have to be careful not to play with him too long with it). When he first came here he was quarantined in a bedroom with his bro-fur. In that bedroom was a stuffed green frog. He thinks that green frog is his meow-my - to this day he snuggles up to froggie to nap (I put froggie on his favorite chair in the living room so he could be with the family and still snuggle with his meow-my). Ozzy - has a foot fetish!!! Seriously!!!!! He very infrequently jumps up next to me for good pettins. But if you say, "Ozzy want da footses?" he'll break his neck running from the far end of the house to be "petted" with a foot. Doesn't matter if you're wearing shoes. Anybody in the house who crosses their legs will soon feel Ozzy petting *himself* against their foot! OK, your turn!!! ; Nose Twitches, CatNipped Chloe - we call her "The Retard". She will stare up at a wall and just cry, cry, cry - for no reason. There's nothing there! Then she'll walk away from the wall, be a good 8 feet away from you, stare at you and cry, cry, cry. Hey, if you want to be petted, get your butt over here, I'm not going to get up to pet you across the room. She also has an amazing skill to open cabinets, go inside, and not figure out how to get out. Archer says she sounds like just the girl for him! ; Tyrone - aka "Dr. Evil". If something is reachable, it *will* be destroyed. We have to kitty-proof this house. Nothing is sacred. Books get gnawed on, important papers get shredded as do the walls. Yes, the walls! I've got boards with sisal NAILED to the walls and he still prefers the drywall. Like CatNipped's Ozzy, he's also our "footy-tat". We always joke, "I thawt I thaw a footy-tat". :~) LOL! "Footy-tat"! I like that one - I'll have to tell Ben when I get home. Pua - no nickname. She's the ultimate perfect cat except for the fact that she's my constant shadow. I mean CONSTANT. I can't even use the bathroom without her trying to get on my lap. I tend to be sick a lot and it's kind of annoying to have a cat wanting attention when you're busy in the loo, you know? Then, if I have to lay down in bed, thump, there she is again. I'm sick, honey! Please! Sure enough, whisker in my nostril. kili Like my Sammy - well, it used to be just Sammy, but now Archer and Ozzy follow me around too - so I have *three* little "suppositories"! ; Chin Skritches, CatNipped |
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
. .. CatNipped wrote: I've been thinking about this and finally gotten around to starting a thread about it. Each one of my cats has some idiosyncrasy. I'm sure every cat does, so I'll start and then would like to read about other master's little quirks. (snip seriously cute idiosyncracies) CatNipped Persia does the tap me on the nose with her paw thing. If she can't reach it my chin will do It's so cute! Used to be she'd do it to wake me up. Now there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it, she just likes to reach out and touch me from time to time. In terms of wake-up-mommy rituals, she's become very dedicated to gently nipping me on my chin once I open my eyes. It's her version of a good morning kiss, I suppose. And if I don't stir fast enough two or three of them is guaranteed to get me moving! Back in TN she was fed in the small foyer off my very small kitchen. The phrase, "It's not time yet!" would stop her in her tracks if I was heading in that direction (she gets feed early AM and early PM). Sometimes she'd peer around the corner at me through the entry to the kitchen while I was cooking but she rarely followed me *into* the kitchen. Not so here. She eats in the bedroom and her food is stored in a closet in the master bath. Still, when I go into the kitchen she comes in and talks to me. She doesn't get fed people food, ever, and in fact the kitchen here doesn't always involve food. I pay the bills sitting at the kitchen table. Guess she's just keeping me company She meatloafs on one of the small rugs, either in front of the sink or by the garage door. The sight of the milk carton coming out of the fridge will induce the most pitiful crying you've ever heard. She only gets a tiny dribble about once a week (she's not lactose intolerant but why take chances?). If she had her way she'd be lapping it up every day! And you don't dare open a bag of chips/crisps. She could be sound asleep in a closet at the other end of the house but she knows that crinkly sound anywhere. Jill Awwww! Poor skinny little Persia - what a mean meow-my to starve her like that. What is she, a tee-nincy little 20 pounds - skin and bones, just skin and bones!!! ; Fluffy Tails, CatNipped |
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"Charleen Welton" wrote in message
g.com... Loving this thread! Victor Velcro has to fall asleep with his forehead against my left hip; has done this since he was a kitten (11 years ago!). After a while he will wander off someplace else but he and I share that time together every night. That reminds me of my Bandit(RB). Any time any part of her body was touching any part of my body she was purring! Aggie Marble is the resident Whack-A-Mole. David and I will be reading or talking, propped up in bed and Aggie's noggin starts bobbing up and down, up and down, up and down at the side of the bed. It is so funny. If we stop paying attention she either starts tapping one of us firmly with a paw or jumps up on the bed. Silly cat. ROTFLMAO! You need to take video of that and send it in to AFV! The kittens both fall asleep upside down. I've not seen this before and it is absolutely darling. After a while they tumble to their side. they each have the whitest, cutest bellies and their legs are all askew with one tail going one way and another tail going the other. I'll be sorry when they out grow that. Charleen Awwwww! They may not grow out of that. Sammy still sleeps that way! Nose Kisses, CatNipped "jmcquown" wrote in message . .. CatNipped wrote: I've been thinking about this and finally gotten around to starting a thread about it. Each one of my cats has some idiosyncrasy. I'm sure every cat does, so I'll start and then would like to read about other master's little quirks. (snip seriously cute idiosyncracies) CatNipped Persia does the tap me on the nose with her paw thing. If she can't reach it my chin will do It's so cute! Used to be she'd do it to wake me up. Now there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it, she just likes to reach out and touch me from time to time. In terms of wake-up-mommy rituals, she's become very dedicated to gently nipping me on my chin once I open my eyes. It's her version of a good morning kiss, I suppose. And if I don't stir fast enough two or three of them is guaranteed to get me moving! Back in TN she was fed in the small foyer off my very small kitchen. The phrase, "It's not time yet!" would stop her in her tracks if I was heading in that direction (she gets feed early AM and early PM). Sometimes she'd peer around the corner at me through the entry to the kitchen while I was cooking but she rarely followed me *into* the kitchen. Not so here. She eats in the bedroom and her food is stored in a closet in the master bath. Still, when I go into the kitchen she comes in and talks to me. She doesn't get fed people food, ever, and in fact the kitchen here doesn't always involve food. I pay the bills sitting at the kitchen table. Guess she's just keeping me company She meatloafs on one of the small rugs, either in front of the sink or by the garage door. The sight of the milk carton coming out of the fridge will induce the most pitiful crying you've ever heard. She only gets a tiny dribble about once a week (she's not lactose intolerant but why take chances?). If she had her way she'd be lapping it up every day! And you don't dare open a bag of chips/crisps. She could be sound asleep in a closet at the other end of the house but she knows that crinkly sound anywhere. Jill |
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"Kathy" wrote in message
. .. OMG- y'all have the funniest stories! Woodgie has a few quirks, mostly with me as the instigator. She'll come up to me when she thinks she needs something, or just wants to get some attention. She'll pat my elbow and say, "Gramma". She also sits on the edge of the desk where my computer is and lay there, snoozing. But if I scritch her or say something that rouses her\, she sits up and puts her paw out. I put my hand out and she'll put her paw in it. Then she looks at me like "so where's my treat?" which , of course she gets. I taught her the paw business and sometimes she will do it without a treat. Usually she checks out my paw before she'll give me hers though, hoping the treat is already there, like it was when I started training her... Kathy and Woodgie ^..^ Wow, Woodgie sure has you trained well - good job, Woodgie! Chin Skritches, CatNipped |
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"Takayuki" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote: Demi - you guys already know hers, she's a 'fraidy-cat, living on the edge of the clowder, running for her life when anyone walks near her. *But* if anyone in the house is eating chicken, she'll jump up right next to them and stare until she's given her "chicken toll". Chicken trumps fear every time. I think you should eat chicken every day, since she likes it so much! Demi agrees with you. I'm actually thinking about cooking chicken just for her to eat every day in addition to her cat food since we're trying to get her weight up. I don't know if this counts, but I think Buster moves his head excessively when he's investigating something. Whether he's looking at me, or some ordinary household object, he stretches to look at his subject from above, crouches to look at it from below, and tilts his head back and forth to get a look from all angles and perspectives. This habit makes him look very quizzical. And if he's looking at your face this way, it's also pretty comical. How cute! Can you get a video of him doing that? Chin Skritches, CatNipped |
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On Aug 4, 9:57*pm, wrote:
Takayuki wrote: * I don't know if this counts, but I think Buster moves his head * excessively when he's investigating something. *Whether he's looking * at me, or some ordinary household object, he stretches to look at his * subject from above, crouches to look at it from below, and tilts his * head back and forth to get a look from all angles and perspectives. I've seen cats do this - cracks me up. Kind of sounds like predatory behavior, to me - like he's trying to get something "in his sights". -- Joyce * ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) My Jebediah looks like someone wearing bifocal lenses. When he is looking at you, he tilts his head up and down, like DH does when he's wearing his glasses. Tilt back to 'focus' on the small stuff. Tilt forward for the 'full view'. Tilt back to see the fine detail. It's hilarious, but of course, never done when I have the video ready. He wants the tap in the bathtub turned on low (for a thin slow stream). He prefers his water fresh and running, and will stand next to the tub, look at you, then reach his right paw up (while opening the toes up, to show his big ole foot), like he's raising his hand to ask permission to get some water (and telling meowmie and paw that he can't turn the water on himself, thenkyewveddymuch).. |
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On Aug 6, 6:24*am, "CatNipped" wrote:
"Shiral" wrote in message ... On Aug 4, 7:17 pm, "Cheryl" wrote: "CatNipped" wrote in message ... OK, your turn!!! ; Nose Twitches, CatNipped I had to think about this. Scarlett still waits until all water bowl sources are cleaned and refilled then she has to swim in it and make it Scarlett flavored. Shamrock has to make every room I'm in Bonnie-free Rhett has to own the humidifier in the winter to the point where I think it needs to be in a cage to be leak-free; other months he harasses Shamrock, probably because Shamrock hates his GF Bonnie Bonnie still has her squeaky mousy toy obsession though she's killed most of them and they don't make noise any more. This is a great thread! Francesca is very affectionate as long as it's HER idea. She's very agile at getting away if I try to pick her up unless I pounce quickly enough. *She'll tolerate being held, but gives me this look of "If you don't put me down in about three seconds, things will get ugly" look. And usually it's when I'm watching TV in the comfy chair. She jumps into my lap to say hello, and when I obligingly give her strokes and ear scritches, she drools to indicate what a good time she's having. She's also the computer supervisor. And yes, she likes to sit on the mouse, severely hampering my ability to move it around freely. She's sort of *mellow about having her claws clipped, by which I mean she doesn't scream her head off, although she does try to pull her paw out of my hold. *But she HATES the zoom groom. I swear she bends her body like a little furry pretzel to avoid letting *it touching her. *She gets fits of housekeeping lust in which her inner Martha Stewart informs her that towels hanging tidily from towel rods is SO last century. The proper place for towels is obviously on the counter or preferably the floor. Many cats bury their waste, but Francesca is incredibly serius about this. I sometimes think she'd like to dig her way down to Artesian water level to get her droppings properly covered. *On chilly nights she *likes to make me hold up the covers while she considers if she'd like to get under them to keep warm. She's the bolder of the two cats, and once she's over her initial shyness, she'll come out and say hello whenever I have company. Nina is a love sponge, she just soaks it *up. She too, will come visit me in the comfy chair while I'm watching TV, but if I give her scritches and cuddles, she won't let me watch the program. If I stop paying enough attention to her, she'll stick her little face in mine and use her claws while kneading to tell me she wants MORE attention. Oddly, when I do stop, she'll settle enough to curl up in my lap and go to sleep. *Every night, she chases her poor mother all over the apartment after lights out for about 15 minutes, then she comes and lies down on the bed between my knees where she spends the night. Oddly, she's the shy one. Visitors at my door or the vacuum cleaner send her running to safety under the comforter on my bed where she makes a Nina-sized hill, convinced that if she can't see you, you can't see her. She's the local * laundry fetishist, as she loves to roll ecstactically on my clean laundry when I bring it back all warm from the dryer. I suppose it must be thoroughly checked to make sure there are no laundry greeblings embedded in it. *Her favorite laundry toys are my briefs and socks. *Next to clean warm clothes, her favorite things are drinking straws. She's got a kind of Dominatrix attitude about them. I have a collection of the best-disciplined, chewed up straws you'll ever find. She *trots around with them in her mouth, plops down on the rug and gnaws and bunny kicks Mr. Straw into submission for a few seconds, then gets up, and carries the straw into the next room to repeat the whole procedure. *Paper towels standing still on the kitchen counter are okay. BUt let me put them onto the designated paper towel holder and I'm asking for trouble. *All the paper towel greeblings come out and start mocking NIna, necessitating the rapid unrolling of the whole roll so she can get at them and teach them a lesson. Both girls are crazy for fishing pole toys. They are both also adept at messing up whatever pictures I'm trying to take of them while playing with them. Melissa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I remember when you found Francesca (under / next to a shed?) and then finding out she was pregnant. *It seems like yesterday, but I know it has to have been a while now. *How old is Nina? Nose Kisses, CatNipped- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Ummm, no. I adopted her from the Santa Clara Humane Society. She had a cold that made it unsafe for her to be anesthetized for spaying. The HS agreed she'd get well better isolated from other cats, so I agreed to bringg her back when she was well. It took her three weeks to get well, which saved Nina's little life. Francesca is now about four and a half and Nina is now just past her fourth birthday. Melissa |
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Redunzel- has a thing about shoes-she's a cat who only occasionally likes to be stroked and petted but every evening when I get in from work, she is there and apparently gets high on sniffing shoes (Or bare feet if shoes are not available). Her other odd habit is when faced with DaNip, she doesn't bite it or anything she just stands there inhaling deeply until finally she falls over then lies there with her legs in the air Sarrasine- again shoes she keeps dropping toys into people's shoes, a friend came round a couple of weeks ago and as it was hot took his shoes off, when he went to put them back on, her froggie was inside one of them! She also causes a lot of inadvertent grief at home when I am off or it's the weekend- she has this little ritual where I have gone back to bed with a coffee fully intending to drink the coffee and get up but then she wants to be stroked to the extent that pretending to be asleep gets me bapped so I surrender and then she settles down next to me to have her tummy tickled then after a few seconds she traps my hand and stretches out on it..of course moving her ladyship is out of the question after all I am no hurry to get up am I? Yeah okay give her 5 minutes then drink rhe coffee and get up.. Next thing I have Dave asking me if I plan to get up today and a cold cup of coffee! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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