Cat thread

[schild]

:groan:

[MuffinMan]

Mesa, the underbed kitty, was clawing at the boxspring on my bed. I checked out the damage; big ole hole in it. But that wasn't the biggest surprise. Turns out Mesa has crawled into the hole and now uses it as his home.

BOXSPRING CAT HAZ A HAMM0CK.

Seriously between the "Eh wot?" expressions and him holing up into my boxspring, I think I adopted a cat straight out of Dwarf Fortress.

My cat Smeagol did this exact same thing with the lining on the bottom of the couch. My roommate used to have a ferret and I think he picked up his bad habits.

[Evil Elvis]

[apocrypha]

I guarantee that cat will take revenge on the perpetrators of that picture. Deep in the night, when least expected.

[Sky]

Going to have to declaw a couple of Bart's gimpy toes. Had one that's not shedding properly and he almost killed the vet when he clipped it. Claw was almost grown back into the pad, poor little bastard. Vet wants to take all the extra claws out, but the boy uses and properly sheds most of them, so I'm leaning toward just taking the couple of gimpy ones that don't get worked when he scratches his post.

[Lucas]

 

[LK]

Thing that gets me about that is that that is one happy cat.

[tgr]

The above post is slightly old, but well worth watching again.

Longer version (albeit darker and with a slightly annoying voice):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

Although, word of warning, do not read the comments. The facepalm is strong within a lot of those.

And just to bring something new to the table:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms maru

[Ingmar]

I almost listed Maru in the 'best characters of 2000-2009 thread'.

[Cyrrex]

And just to bring something new to the table:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms maru

I can't believe I watched that whole thing, but I did.  Do want.  What an adorable cat.  The thing with the boxes was win.

[Pagz]

[Samwise]

That's an old picture, but the caption made me lol.

[schild]

I, on the other hand, did not.

Captions suck.

Except wharrgarbl.

WHARRGARBLE

[Goreschach]

The caption on that image made it funny. That image without a caption would have been terribly disturbing.

[NiX]

The caption on that image made it funny. That image without a caption would have been terribly disturbing.

That didn't change. It's still terribly disturbing.

As for the cat in the hoodie, very gangster.

[Sky]

I, on the other hand, did not.

Why are you in the cat thread, grinchy? Get a cat or gtfo!

[Polysorbate80]

The caption on that image made it funny. That image without a caption would have been terribly disturbing.

But what if that caption read "Bukkake Kitty"

[Riggswolfe]

The caption on that image made it funny. That image without a caption would have been terribly disturbing.

But what if that caption read "Bukkake Kitty"

You...bastard!

[Polysorbate80]

I didn't do it to the cat...

[Xuri]

In other news, I took one of our two cats on it's last trip ever, today - to the vet. Thanks for 14 1/2 years, cat.

[Viin]

Sucks to see them go, but sounds like he/she had a good run.

[Hawkbit]

Awww.  My condolences.  It's always tough to let them go.  :(

[Dtrain]

Sorry to hear that. Having lost a number of dogs over the years, I feel for you. I don't remember my mom being as outwardly broken up about my dad passing as when the family dog passed. Maybe it's because animals are just better than humans.

If you're looking to get another animal, I'd recommend a rescue cat. We've adopted all 3 of our cats, and they're great. We got our last one about 6 months ago, and he is awesome.  He was in very bad shape when we got him - skinny, wormy, dehydrated, missing hair on his ears, long ratty tail, and not just a little bit shell shocked.


And then he hung around for a while, resting and getting used to his surroundings. (You can still see his ratty tail though.)


We named him Bruno - the name suits his gregarious personality quite well. He charges around the house now and burbles out his own warcry. He plays really nice with the other cats - he adopts a submissive posture with the other male cat when he wants to play, even though he's 3x the size of the other cat. He likes to be pet roughly, almost like a dog. His favorite thing to do is go outside (but we have to watch him closely because he'll jump on the roof.) He's not exactly a lap cat, but he's always close by. I had to set up a cat bed on my computer desk because he lurves to be right there whenever I'm on the PC for a while.

In the last couple months he started to grow lots and lots of hair. Why anyone shaved this cat, I have no idea.


I'm not great at recognizing breeds, but I think he must be at least partially Maine Coon - I'm told his look and personality are much like the breed.

I took this picture of him today: 


Here's a picture of our other male cat, Trouble:

And one of our female cat, Misty: (Yes, she is the boss.)

[Samwise]

I am very envious of your Bruno.

[Murgos]

In other news, I took one of our two cats on it's last trip ever, today - to the vet. Thanks for 14 1/2 years, cat.

Sorry to hear that.  My aunt's cat recently passed, she (the cat) was over 20!  I'd known that cat since I was a teenager, through high-school and an enlistment, numerous jobs, college and I can't even remember how many moves.  The poor thing was all skin and bones toward the end but she could still jump up on to the dinner table when she wasn't supposed to.

[Sky]

Xmas weekend, Bart first helped me with laundry and then saved us from the dangers lurking underneath the wrapping paper.

He's over two feet long now, not yet two years old. Also recommend rescuing cats, Bart was destined for the shelter if I hadn't adopted him.  Bruno's got whiskers like some grand handlebar mustaches or something. Bart's not a lap cat, either, but lately (when it's cold) he's been curling up in my right elbow on the mouse pillow or last night in my left elbow when I was playing Burnout with my controller. Then he bitches at me when I move and I crash because I'm laughing.

[Engels]

Bruno and Bart sound like awsome cats. We had a rescue cat named Jones before we got Burger and Binkie, who are only sorta rescues (obligatory pic
I don't have any pictures of Jones, which is unforgivably stupid since he was very close to my heart. This being a geek house, you can rest assured that he was named after the cat in Alien. He was the coolest, most collected cat ever. He wouldn't frighten at all. Turns out half the reason for that is that he was mostly deaf. I feel good about having rescued him, even if he only lived for 4 years in our care (he was an old scarred warrior when we got him). He probably wouldn't have lasted much longer out on the street, since hearing is pretty important in the  not-getting-hit-by-a-car department.

[Ingmar]

Yeah I expect Abyssinian rescues don't come up too often. Super pretty cats.

[Sjofn]

In other news, I took one of our two cats on it's last trip ever, today - to the vet. Thanks for 14 1/2 years, cat.

I'm sorry to hear that, it's never easy. :(

Bart's not a lap cat, either, but lately (when it's cold) he's been curling up in my right elbow on the mouse pillow or last night in my left elbow when I was playing Burnout with my controller. Then he bitches at me when I move and I crash because I'm laughing.

Lizzie isn't very lap catty either (Gilly is a whore for laps), nor does she like sleeping with us (Gilly loves sleeping right on our heads, purring). But it's been cold! So she has suffered though nights huddled on our bed, and she's been in my lap a lot more often. She also bitches when you have the NERVE to not stay PERFECTLY STILL at all times. It's really weird, but pretty funny. 

The other place they both like for warmth is the top of my computer tower. Basically whichever one loses the Battle for Sjofn's Lap (or the desk's cat bed, depending if I have one up there or not) goes there as their consolation prize. And usually they step on my damn power button on the way. ><

[Sky]

That red carpet in my photos is what we've been using for a hearth rug. Bart is front and center and all about the wood stove. On nights it stays above freezing I haven't been using it, since I only got less than two cords for the whole winter, and some of that isn't dry enough. Those nights he sits on the rug staring at the wood stove, as if to will it into flames. Then he looks at me and yowls.

[Engels]

Yeah I expect Abyssinian rescues don't come up too often. Super pretty cats.

They aren't purebred. They are half street tabby. Mom went a bit post partum nutty, started abusing them, so they were taken from her and kept in a cat rescue place. Hence the 'sorta' in the rescue. They were a find.

[rattran]

One of my cats has bad teeth, so in addition to tooth brushing regularly and crunchy things daily, he gets duck jerky treats to chew on. In the last several days, all the other cats have discovered them. Pretty amusing watching them all gnawing like dogs.

[Signe]

My cats don't eat just dry food.  I think I'll order some of that and give it try.  I tried the turkey jerky but neither of them would chew it.  They do like raw and tinned duck, though, so maybe that will work.   Strangely, my giant cat doesn't seem to like treats much at all and he's the one who's teeth I need to brush all the time.  How can he be 18 lbs and still be finicky?  Damn cat.

[Margalis]

All three cats my family had were strays that just came in one day and never left.

[Sjofn]

Gilly is sick again and it seems pretty likely it's FIP. It's pretty depressing, she's only 9 months old. :(