Do you collect cat items?

On 2012-05-23 7:40 AM, Jack Campin wrote:
Once people get the idea that you collect animal figurines (of whatever
species they think you're fond of), you absolutely cannot get rid of
them! They're like the Craig Shergold email, coming back to haunt you
just when you thought it was safe to have a birthday again.

This is horribly true. I tell people "I have real live breathing
fur-shedding cats, why would I want a sculpture of one?" but the
message doesn't often get through.


It's not just cats. A friend of mine was given an angel (well, you know,
one of those dolls or statuettes dressed like a Christmas angel) by an
inlaw one Christmas, and honestly admired it and said so. The in-law
figured she was on to a good thing, and has given her angels ever since.
It's been a lot of years, and really, my friend is not a collector and
is running out of places to put Christmas angels, even at Christmas time.

I usually have a cat calendar, and I've been given things like notepaper
with cats on them, but I'm not a collector. If I had been, helping an
elderly relative who does like collecting things downsize into a smaller
place (twice in four years, one involving a long-distance move as well!)
would have cured me.

--
Cheryl

"MatSav" wrote in message
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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Most of the birthday cards I get have cats on them. This year my sister
gave me the book, "I am Maru". I say to people, do you think I like cats
by
any chance? ;-)

Well, I'm looking at the bookshelf in my bedroom:

Personality Cats
The Funny Book of Cats
Cat Confidential
The Devious Book For Cats
Cat Behaviour Explained
The Sophisticated Cat
Cats in Books
A Cat is Watching
Augusta The Great
Mieaoui - A Treatise on Cats
Puss in Books
Cat Haiku
Catmas Carols
Champion Cats Of The World
365 Ways to Love Your Cat
One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human
Champion Cats Of The World
Purr Points
Augusta The Great
French Cats Don't Get Fat
The Awfully Good Cat Joke Book
The Book of Cats
101 Key Points of Cat Care
Cats' Kingdom
Particularly Cats
A Cat Affair
A Cat In The Window
Cat's Christmas
Cathedral Cats
The Mousehole Cat
Cats In The News
Cat and Kitten Care
Best Cat Stories
Every Cat In The Book
Garfield Gallery
Garfield: His 9 Lives
The Cat Lovers Companion
Felidae On The Road
A Celebration of Cats
The British Museum Book of Cats
Cats - The Rise Of The Cat
Cat And Camera
How To Live With A Neurotic Cat
Grabianski's Cats
Garfield "I Hate Monday"
The Love of Cats
Definitive IQ Test for Cats
Lama
Is There Life Without Cats?
The Laws of Cat Physics
Here Comes Garfield
Humphrey - The Nine Lives Of The Number Ten Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Cool Cats
Casey
Garfield Here's Looking At You
Garfield Two's Company
Tripli-Cat
Cats, No Less
A Clowder of Cats
Problem Puss
A Cast of Lions
Cats Cats Cats
Impressionist Cats
Cat Chat
A Passion For Cats
The Language Of Your Cat
The Garfield Treasury
The Garfield Selection
Catmopolitan
Kittens
The Little Cat Book
Cat World
The English Cat At Home
Cats
Garfield 25 Years of Me
The Character of Cats
The Book of Cats
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats
The Cat's Whiskers
A Collection of Cats Tales
Kittenwar
Wonder Cats
A Friend Like Ben
Dewey
One Hundred Ways For A Cat To Find Its Inner Kitten
Catlore

There's more scattered around the home, and at work!

--
MatSav

Oh, well, if you want to count books ...

I don't have that many, but I have a couple of Garfields, a few by an
English author whose name I can't remember and am too lazy to look up about
his cats and his blind wife, and a number of Lillian Jackson Braun's "The
Cat Who" books, as well as some other mysteries involving cats.

Joy

On 05/23/2012 11:43 AM, Joy wrote:
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Most of the birthday cards I get have cats on them. This year my sister
gave me the book, "I am Maru". I say to people, do you think I like cats
by
any chance? ;-)

Well, I'm looking at the bookshelf in my bedroom:

Personality Cats
The Funny Book of Cats
Cat Confidential
The Devious Book For Cats
Cat Behaviour Explained
The Sophisticated Cat
Cats in Books
A Cat is Watching
Augusta The Great
Mieaoui - A Treatise on Cats
Puss in Books
Cat Haiku
Catmas Carols
Champion Cats Of The World
365 Ways to Love Your Cat
One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human
Champion Cats Of The World
Purr Points
Augusta The Great
French Cats Don't Get Fat
The Awfully Good Cat Joke Book
The Book of Cats
101 Key Points of Cat Care
Cats' Kingdom
Particularly Cats
A Cat Affair
A Cat In The Window
Cat's Christmas
Cathedral Cats
The Mousehole Cat
Cats In The News
Cat and Kitten Care
Best Cat Stories
Every Cat In The Book
Garfield Gallery
Garfield: His 9 Lives
The Cat Lovers Companion
Felidae On The Road
A Celebration of Cats
The British Museum Book of Cats
Cats - The Rise Of The Cat
Cat And Camera
How To Live With A Neurotic Cat
Grabianski's Cats
Garfield "I Hate Monday"
The Love of Cats
Definitive IQ Test for Cats
Lama
Is There Life Without Cats?
The Laws of Cat Physics
Here Comes Garfield
Humphrey - The Nine Lives Of The Number Ten Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Cool Cats
Casey
Garfield Here's Looking At You
Garfield Two's Company
Tripli-Cat
Cats, No Less
A Clowder of Cats
Problem Puss
A Cast of Lions
Cats Cats Cats
Impressionist Cats
Cat Chat
A Passion For Cats
The Language Of Your Cat
The Garfield Treasury
The Garfield Selection
Catmopolitan
Kittens
The Little Cat Book
Cat World
The English Cat At Home
Cats
Garfield 25 Years of Me
The Character of Cats
The Book of Cats
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats
The Cat's Whiskers
A Collection of Cats Tales
Kittenwar
Wonder Cats
A Friend Like Ben
Dewey
One Hundred Ways For A Cat To Find Its Inner Kitten
Catlore

There's more scattered around the home, and at work!

--
MatSav

Oh, well, if you want to count books ...

I don't have that many, but I have a couple of Garfields, a few by an
English author whose name I can't remember and am too lazy to look up about
his cats and his blind wife, and a number of Lillian Jackson Braun's "The
Cat Who" books, as well as some other mysteries involving cats.

Joy


I have given 15 (or so) Cat Who books away as well as others I thought
someone might enjoy. One of my favorites was "All my Patients Are Under
the Bed _ I have forgotten the name of the Vet who wrote it. I have
been given several "coffee table books of cat pictures. The pictures
are beautiful but I never spent much time looking at them. I did give
my Vet a book of pictures of very fat tabbies. MLB

"MatSav" wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
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Most of the birthday cards I get have cats on them. This year
my sister
gave me the book, "I am Maru". I say to people, do you think I
like cats by
any chance? ;-)

Well, I'm looking at the bookshelf in my bedroom:

Personality Cats
The Funny Book of Cats
Cat Confidential
The Devious Book For Cats
Cat Behaviour Explained
The Sophisticated Cat
Cats in Books
A Cat is Watching
Augusta The Great
Mieaoui - A Treatise on Cats
Puss in Books
Cat Haiku
Catmas Carols
Champion Cats Of The World
365 Ways to Love Your Cat
One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human
Champion Cats Of The World
Purr Points
Augusta The Great
French Cats Don't Get Fat
The Awfully Good Cat Joke Book
The Book of Cats
101 Key Points of Cat Care
Cats' Kingdom
Particularly Cats
A Cat Affair
A Cat In The Window
Cat's Christmas
Cathedral Cats
The Mousehole Cat
Cats In The News
Cat and Kitten Care
Best Cat Stories
Every Cat In The Book
Garfield Gallery
Garfield: His 9 Lives
The Cat Lovers Companion
Felidae On The Road
A Celebration of Cats
The British Museum Book of Cats
Cats - The Rise Of The Cat
Cat And Camera
How To Live With A Neurotic Cat
Grabianski's Cats
Garfield "I Hate Monday"
The Love of Cats
Definitive IQ Test for Cats
Lama
Is There Life Without Cats?
The Laws of Cat Physics
Here Comes Garfield
Humphrey - The Nine Lives Of The Number Ten Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Cool Cats
Casey
Garfield Here's Looking At You
Garfield Two's Company
Tripli-Cat
Cats, No Less
A Clowder of Cats
Problem Puss
A Cast of Lions
Cats Cats Cats
Impressionist Cats
Cat Chat
A Passion For Cats
The Language Of Your Cat
The Garfield Treasury
The Garfield Selection
Catmopolitan
Kittens
The Little Cat Book
Cat World
The English Cat At Home
Cats
Garfield 25 Years of Me
The Character of Cats
The Book of Cats
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats
The Cat's Whiskers
A Collection of Cats Tales
Kittenwar
Wonder Cats
A Friend Like Ben
Dewey
One Hundred Ways For A Cat To Find Its Inner Kitten
Catlore

There's more scattered around the home, and at work!

LOL

--
Adrian

"ann791" wrote in message
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I have a collection of cat figures. DH usually buys me them. He even bought
me one for the garden that looks like a cat sitting. I have some earrings
that are cats and a pretty pendant of a cat.

Ann

I don't collect them as such, I sometimes get them for gifts. The most cat
items I acquired at one time is when I helped clear out my friend's house
after she'd passed away. She was a real cat lover.
I brought home with me a shopping bag with cats on which I use every time I
go to the supermarket, a glass model of a curled up cat with space for a
candle in the middle, a new comfy blanket with cats on which I use every day
during the winter to keep me warm when I am sitting downstairs, several cat
mugs (which I haven't used yet as I have a favourite mug that I always make
my tea in) and some cat books.
My sister bought me a nice cat print by- I forget who without going to look
at it - Cats in a Conservatory, for my last birthday.

Tweed

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"ann791" wrote in message
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I have a collection of cat figures. DH usually buys me them. He even
bought me one for the garden that looks like a cat sitting. I have some
earrings that are cats and a pretty pendant of a cat.

Ann

I don't collect them as such, I sometimes get them for gifts. The most
cat items I acquired at one time is when I helped clear out my friend's
house after she'd passed away. She was a real cat lover.
I brought home with me a shopping bag with cats on which I use every time
I go to the supermarket, a glass model of a curled up cat with space for a
candle in the middle, a new comfy blanket with cats on which I use every
day during the winter to keep me warm when I am sitting downstairs,
several cat mugs (which I haven't used yet as I have a favourite mug that
I always make my tea in) and some cat books.
My sister bought me a nice cat print by- I forget who without going to
look at it - Cats in a Conservatory, for my last birthday.

Tweed

I forgot about my comfy cat blanket that I use while watching TV in the
winter.

Well, I'm looking at the bookshelf in my bedroom:
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Purr Points
[...]

That's the only one on your list I have - present from an ex-girlfriend.

I also have a beautiful Turkish book of cat cartoons with associated
poems, Selcuk Demirel's "Kagittan Kediler", which I mean to translate
when I get a round tuit.

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MatSav wrote:

"Adrian" wrote:

Most of the birthday cards I get have cats on them. This year
my sister
gave me the book, "I am Maru". I say to people, do you think I
like cats by any chance? ;-)

Well, I'm looking at the bookshelf in my bedroom:

[Huge list snipped for brevity]

Wow! You could open up your own cat library! I did notice a few
repetitions - unless you really do have 2 copies of those books.

However, there are few that weren't on the list that I can recommend,
if you're still in the market for more cat books:

The Fur Person by May Sarton - Story of a "gentleman cat's" adventures,
told from his point of view.

The Dewey book has a sequel. I have to get around to reading that myself.

The Tribe of Tiger is interesting. It's all about "cat culture", how
cats learn things from each other and then pass them on. If you're
interested I'll get the author's name for you. Oh, wait, you can do that
yourself online!

A Cat Named Spit McGee - forget this author's name, too. It's about a
cat-hater who married a cat-lover, which changed his life.

There are plenty more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

--
Joyce

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
-- Edward Abbey

Nadia N. wrote:

I personally like getting cat-related presents. My favourite birthday
gifts that I got were a beanie baby black and white kitten that looks
like Kotyo's twin brother, and a t-shirt with Kotyo's picture on it that
a friend gave me (she was very sneaky about it, too - I was totally
surprised when I opened my present and my little monster's face was
staring at me from a t-shirt).

Here's the monster hanging out with his beanie-baby twin:
https://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova...65767305132146

And this is the picture on my t-shirt.
https://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova...67699253198866

Unfortunately I wore the t-shirt so much that it is now too ratty for
wearing outside of the house. But did wear it when we flew with Kotyo
from Canada to Spain. I knew I would have to take him out of the carrier
at the x-ray scanners, so I figured, if somehow he got away from me and
I had to go searching for him around the airport, it would be easier if
I could just point to my t-shirt and say "have you seen this cat?"

I also have a bunch of other beanie baby cats of various sizes, some I
bought and some were gifts. And blankets with cats on them, and pillows,
and a cat clock (a kitty sleeping on a stack of books). And a *ton* of
cat jigsaw puzzles. Oh, and a throw that I use as a wall hanging because
it is too pretty to actually use as a throw.
https://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova...88710745204482

I think I am well on the way to becoming a crazy cat lady. I just need a
few more cat-related things...

He's *gorgeous*! And adorable. No wonder you're crazy about him. Just
looking at those pictures, I want to cuddle him. He's so fuzzy and
fluffy. But there are also some really pretty pictures of him posing
all dewy-eyed for the camera.

He's dwarfed by that cat "tapestry" wall hanging. And I'll bet you
never expected anyone to say he was dwarfed by anything.

By the way, I never responded to your happy news post (bad RPCA member!
bad!) - but I was so glad to read it! That's an incredible relief. What
a scary BCT that was. And now he's probably starting to wonder whatever
happened to his cucumber snacks.

--
Joyce

What I look forward to, is continued immaturity, followed by death.
-- Dave Barry