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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 |
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Do you collect cat items?
"MatSav" wrote in message
... "Adrian" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Do you collect cat items?
On 05/23/2012 11:43 AM, Joy wrote:
wrote in message ... wrote in message ... 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 |
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Do you collect cat items?
"MatSav" wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message ... 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 |
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"ann791" wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "ann791" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Do you collect cat items?
Well, I'm looking at the bookshelf in my bedroom:
[...] 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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Do you collect cat items?
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 |
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Do you collect cat items?
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 |
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