Snowbeast take warning - Guybrush Threepwood is cuter.

[Cheddar]

You should train your pet the same way you would train a child; with your fist.  Key is to knock them in the face when they least expect it.  Puuuuuuuurrrr <WACK> watch cat run!
I few of these and I promise they will not mess around with you.  EVER.

[Furiously]

So - update.

He sat on my lap last night for 2 hours watching me play EQ2. He only tried to hit the keys for the first 30 minutes. Then he just stared. Then again - he's on heavy anti-biotics due to a horrid 4 pack a day smoking habbit for 20 years cough.

I was amazed at the de-fleaing pills they gave him at the doctor.  Litterally 10 minutes after they gave it to him, they started dropping off him.

[Llava]

You should train your pet the same way you would train a child; with your fist.

Children are our future, they are not here to be paraded around as cheap entertainment. I am outraged and sickened that you would use your kids in this manner.

[Furiously]

Did I mention how cool it was to see the flleas falling off him?  Of course then I though... "OMG!!! he's been in our bed!!!!"

[Bunk]

My sister's cat's thing was sitting on your chest when you were sleeping, and licking the moisture around your nostrils. Damn freaky feeling to wake up to.

[kaid]

My cat never did the nostril licking thing but she LOVED to sleep on peoples chests. Usually when she did she would purr so loud she just resonated with it. Very odd waking up feeling an odd buzzing only to notice you have a 15 pound cat staring at you purring.

My cats other favorite trick was to sleep in the window above my head. To bad her favorite way to leave her roost was to plant her feet on my forhead. Nothing like being in a deep sleep and having a cat paw planted on your head.

[Triforcer]

Does anyone know if it is actually true that adult cats with get jealous of babies and jump up on them and suck the breath of out them?  My mom firmly believes that and was VERY uncomfortable that my aunt and uncle and their newborn had a cat in the house.

[Cheddar]

Does anyone know if it is actually true that adult cats with get jealous of babies and jump up on them and suck the breath of out them?  My mom firmly believes that and was VERY uncomfortable that my aunt and uncle and their newborn had a cat in the house.

Sounds like an old wives tale. Cats are very territorial though, you can read some good articles on the net about helping them get along.  Basically it takes a couple weeks (from my experience) for the cats scent to mingle and for them to stop killing each other.

[WayAbvPar]

Does anyone know if it is actually true that adult cats with get jealous of babies and jump up on them and suck the breath of out them?  My mom firmly believes that and was VERY uncomfortable that my aunt and uncle and their newborn had a cat in the house.

It is bunk.

[voodoolily]

god I can't believe people still buy that old Victorian myth. Didn't check WAP's link, but it is thought that cats who have been observed to sit on a baby are either a) licking the milk from baby's mouth or b) actually protecting the infant from rats or mice that were near the baby for the milk (as was commonplace in Victorian times). The only bad connotations new parents should have about cats is with toxoplasmosis, but that's only a concern during pregnancy (and is the reason pregnant women should never clean a litter box).

[kaid]

While cats won't suck the breath out my cats I have had really do enjoy sleeping ontop of peoples chests. Whenever my mom would nap my cat would be on her purring on her chest within about 10 minutes. For an adult this is no big deal for smaller kids it could be an issue. Its not that their mean its just I think that they enjoy the warmth and the motion of the breathing as they purr like crazy if you let them stay there.

kaid

[Stephen Zepp]

One of my cats absolutely hates anything closed. He daily goes around and opens:

A) All the drawers in my dresser and night tables.
B) All of the kitchen cabinets.
C) Any human style door that is partially closed.

He then spends an hour or two working on the human type doors that he has been through before, knowing that there just must be something really cool on the other side since it's closed. I literally walk around the house every day after getting home closing up everything again.

Oh, and I can't get either one of them to stop drinking from my (indoor) hot-tub. One woke me up in the middle of the night with this huge SPLASH, and then a RAARROORWW!, as he couldn't find a spot to get back out again after he fell in. I've gone back to putting the cover back on so they don't drown :(

[voodoolily]

Bock opens doors and cabinets, too. He's also got doorknobs figured out, he just lacks the opposable thumbs to fully execute the maneuver. But the little fucker tries.

[Hoax]

Yeah wtf is up with that door thing?  My cat also likes to get inside cabinets and shut the door.  Fucking hi-larious.

[Jeff Kelly]

Yeah wtf is up with that door thing?  My cat also likes to get inside cabinets and shut the door.  Fucking hi-larious.

The look on their face when you have found them after they have locked themselves in and you open the door is especially cute. It is kinda like: "WTF what took you so long, this is all your fault, you know, not mine."

My parents' cat does the look everytime she screws up something like it was my parents' fault that she dropped on the floor while climbing mount bookshelf for the umpteenth time.

Oh I love this cat. It is just sad that I cannot have one of my own because I live in a small apartment and are away most of the day.

Jeff

Has anybody else noticed that most cats suffer from ADD? With our cat it usually goes like this: Do something rather dangerous like balancing on the very narrow balcony rail when something very interesting happens then "Oh shiny" while completely forgetting the dangerous situation she is in. I seriously do not know how many of her nine lives she lost while doing something like that.

[edit] proofreading FTW

[Samwise]

My mom's cat has opposable thumbs.  And knows how to use them.  Shame he was neutered, he could have spawned a new race of supercats.

[Margalis]

My old cat used to open doors by reaching her paws under them, grabbing them and pulling. If the door was closed she would just shake it for a while until it got annoying and you were forced to open in. She would also routinely climb up onto the roof of our garage and meow at a bedroom window until someone let her in. She liked to sit on people's laps but when she did that she would reach her paws up to their chest and knead them with her claws for a while. We found her as a stray when she was a year old or so so I guess she was never properly domesticated. The way we found her was she got on our roof and meowed at us through a window - I guess she stayed with what worked. (Don't fix what ain't broken)

I went to visit my mom recently and across the street lives a 3-legged cat. Watching that thing run is the weirdest thing. It moves at a 45 degree angle, klind of skipping to the side. It's really bizzare looking, but it's actually quite fast.