Cute cat story

[walkin jack]

I'm a fairly recent (2005) convert. Oh I still love dogs but I have also grown to love cats and have 3 of them at the present time. Y'all have read my cat story and seen the pics.

One of the things that helped me to see the light is a book that my daughter gave me. She is a natural born cat lover and has been on my case since she was old enough to realize that I was not a cat person.

This book, "Dewey -the small-town library cat who touched the world" written by Vicky Myron, is her true account of how she discovered a cold, starving and miserable little kitten on frosty winter morning.

she nursed it back to health and it lived at the library most of the time. It was a big draw to the library and for 19 years people and children in particular came from all around just to see Dewey. He got to be known all over the world and is probably the most famous cat ever.

It is a heartwarming story. A story of a great little kitty cat and the joy he gave to untold numbers of people. If you are a cat lover and maybe even if you are not a cat lover you should do what ever you have to do to find this book from Grand Central Publishing. It will make you feel good. I promise.

 

[shouldazagged]

I think my black cat has secret Al-Catta meetings while we are away at work.

When he realizes you've figured that out, you're in serious peril.

I love black cats, unless they're half Siamese. The one like that I had was so vocal he drove me crazy. Never seen a cat that talked and complained that much.

Had a huge black tabby-mix tom that was one of the two handsomest cats I've ever owned. Had exactly three white hairs on his chest.

Laziest cat who ever lived. My first wife and I lived in an old house that had lots of mice. She'd spot one, and literally have to go pick up the tomcat, show him the mouse, and launch him. Then he might deign to catch it. Or not.

 

[Jst1mr]

One of my cats lazily observes my activities until I sit down to read the paper. She then retrieves her plastic bell toy, drops it carefully on my foot, and taps my foot once with her paw. Of course, this means that I am to throw the toy across the wood floor so she can run it down, bat it around, then carry it back to me and drop it on my foot, tap once, etc., etc. Very distracting when trying to read the paper......but who needs the paper anyway!

 

[Mcwsky09]

Baby Kitty

Baby kitty adopted me as her people about 15 years ago.

She likes to jump on my shoulders when I get out of the shower - and until we got a dog - used to lay down and roll over on command.

Although strictly indoor and declawed in the front she recently killed a mouse and left it by my bedroom door.

 

[the ringo kid]

Exactly why I love them so much.

I think my black cat has secret Al-Catta meetings while we are away at work.

I had one about 14 years ago that we called: Ayatollah Catatollah (or) Cattatollah Komeini--named after those higher than thous in Iran. We called him that because he thought he was higher than any "thous" he came across--and usually was.

 

[the ringo kid]

One of my cats lazily observes my activities until I sit down to read the paper. She then retrieves her plastic bell toy, drops it carefully on my foot, and taps my foot once with her paw. Of course, this means that I am to throw the toy across the wood floor so she can run it down, bat it around, then carry it back to me and drop it on my foot, tap once, etc., etc. Very distracting when trying to read the paper......but who needs the paper anyway!

Mine is similar--and does this in between endless trips to her food bowl--where-if she sees just a tiny hint of blue on the bottom of her bowl? she thinks im purposely starving her even though she has enough food in her bowl to last for days. If I dont move fast enough to fix the situation? she will come over and either slither around my ankles-purring like a pair of motors--or she will come over and step on my leg-then proceed to shred it.

 

[CatSnipah]

Baby kitty adopted me as her people about 15 years ago.

She likes to jump on my shoulders when I get out of the shower - and until we got a dog - used to lay down and roll over on command.

Although strictly indoor and declawed in the front she recently killed a mouse and left it by my bedroom door.

Leaving you a gift is their highest form of showing love.

Fortunately, mine just leave catnip mice in my path. And the occasional Hairball.

 

[CatSnipah]

Nuttiest thing my gray tabby (the one who's time is sadly nearing an end) ever did was take down a bat...out of the air.

Darn thing was flying around the upstairs...I nicked it with a towel, got it slightly off-kilter, and as it buzzed by at about 4 feet off the ground, Dexter leaped up and nailed it. Ah, he was a menace to flying critters all those years ago (he was about 2.5 years old at the time).

 

[Abbynormal]

My SO morphed into a crazy cat lady. She can't understand why a dog guy like me won't take to katz.
I'm allergic to the hairy things, but the SO has a herd ( 1 when I met her and now grown to 5!!) and she feeds the neighborhood ferals, so I have to live with them and have done litter box duty for 10 years (with the help of Wal-Act and Visine). I have built up some allergy tolerance, but when one pissed on my Sig P229, (rust, congealed piss, sticking parts, 7 hours of detail stripping) I declared war and laid down the law!

No cats in the bedroom
No cats in the kitchen
No cats in the dining room
No cats sleeping on MY CHAIR!
Deal with the smell of Hoppes to clean the cat piss out of the P229
I'm go'in shootin' to test the P229 tomorrow whether she likes it or not!!!!!!!!!!

I've now moved into the spare bedroom and am making myself at home after stripping and washing the bedding, shampooing the carpet and keeping the door shut to keep the pissing hair balls out.

Tomorrow, I'm getting a dog to train the hair balls! Paybacks are gonna be a bitch!!!

 

[Vegetaman]

This stray started coming around 2 years ago (fixed and declawed front). In the last 6 months or so he was at our house probably 70% of the time. He was indoor/outdoor in town. Sadly he died about two months ago. Hard to find a replacement for a cat with such an eccentric personality. He was like a dog that would follow us around, work with us outside (he'd go lay by the garden when we'd be out there).

Spent most of his days while we were at work napping on the bed upstairs in the sun. Or sleeping in my computer chair. And then waking me up at 4AM because he wanted food or to go outside.

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

Awesome stories! I've always been a cat person.

And major kudos to those who have black cats, take them in, etc.

 

[shouldazagged]

And major kudos to those who have black cats, take them in, etc.

No kudos due here--I just think they're beautiful.

I haven't had a cat for many years, and couldn't now even if we didn't have a one-pet limit here. My rat terrier hates the critters ferociously, and would probably get his crazy little butt whipped daily.

 

[JayFramer]

This stray started coming around 2 years ago (fixed and declawed front). In the last 6 months or so he was at our house probably 70% of the time. He was indoor/outdoor in town. Sadly he died about two months ago. Hard to find a replacement for a cat with such an eccentric personality. He was like a dog that would follow us around, work with us outside (he'd go lay by the garden when we'd be out there).

Spent most of his days while we were at work napping on the bed upstairs in the sun. Or sleeping in my computer chair. And then waking me up at 4AM because he wanted food or to go outside.

What a gorgeous animal. Where I live now, no cats aloud per Uncle Sam, but I'm on my way to a new post and am looking to get a cat when I get there. They really are wonderful creatures.

 

[the ringo kid]

This stray started coming around 2 years ago (fixed and declawed front). In the last 6 months or so he was at our house probably 70% of the time. He was indoor/outdoor in town. Sadly he died about two months ago. Hard to find a replacement for a cat with such an eccentric personality. He was like a dog that would follow us around, work with us outside (he'd go lay by the garden when we'd be out there).

Spent most of his days while we were at work napping on the bed upstairs in the sun. Or sleeping in my computer chair. And then waking me up at 4AM because he wanted food or to go outside.

Waking you up ay 4am just him showing you that he is the Boss. The eating part is his way of covering up that fact from ya.

 

[LVSteve]

Looks just like a female cat my aunt had. Weirdly, despite the markings she meowed in Siamese. Caused much confusion at he vet's.

She liked to get in the bed with you. I woke up at my aunt's one morning with a thick head after a crazy party to find the cat's head on the pillow. After the WTH? moment I found the rest of her was in the bed with me and that Don Corleone's boys had not visited me in the night. Like most UK cats she was fully equipped with claws and could get pretty nasty if you did not let her under the covers. I had no marks so I guess I was too drunk to resist.

 

[CatSnipah]

This stray started coming around 2 years ago (fixed and declawed front). In the last 6 months or so he was at our house probably 70% of the time. He was indoor/outdoor in town. Sadly he died about two months ago. Hard to find a replacement for a cat with such an eccentric personality. He was like a dog that would follow us around, work with us outside (he'd go lay by the garden when we'd be out there).

Spent most of his days while we were at work napping on the bed upstairs in the sun. Or sleeping in my computer chair. And then waking me up at 4AM because he wanted food or to go outside.

Looks just like my Dexter kitty. I'm really going to miss him when he's gone. Both of my little furry numbskulls are really sweet personalities.