A cat forum. CatBanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » CatBanter forum » Cat Newsgroups » Cat anecdotes
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11  
Old January 18th 17, 02:36 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Bastette
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,622
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

John Kasupski wrote:

We did have a dog. My wife inherited him when her grandfather passed
away. He was too big and mean to allow it to run loose with the kids
around, so we built a doghouse in the front yard and left him chained
to a stake in the dirt next to it when the kids were outside. Goldie
knew down to the last inch exactly how far the dog could reach on that
chain because the grass was mostly gone in the dog's area...and he'd
sit just outside the dog's reach calmly grooming himself. He never
batted the dog in the snoot or did anything else to further antagonize
the dog. He just sat there showing absolutely no fear with the dog's
mouth about two inches away snarling and snapping his teeth the whole
time. It was enough. That dog couldn't have been any more enraged and
humiliated if Goldie had sat there waving an upraised middle finger
in his face.


Haha, that sounds like a cartoon of a dog and cat! Sort of like Tom and
Jerry, but with a dog and a much-smarter cat.

It also reminds me of a cat belonging to someone who used to post here
several years ago, when the newsgroup was much more active. His name was
Ollie and his human's name was Bev. I don't think she's here anymore, but
I do see her posts on Facebook occasionally. She used to tell us tales
of Ollie's famous nonchalance. She had a relative who was afraid of cats
(afraid of animals, period). He would try to shoo Ollie away by stamping
his feet, waving his arms wildly and yelling. Ollie would just sit there
quietly grooming. That cat could not be intimidated.

The despicable person who deliberately swerved off the road and onto the
shoulder to hit and kill Goldie and thereby took him away from us...well,
as far as I'm concerned, there's no place in Hades hot enough for that
person, and that's all there is to it.


Is it possible that someone moved Goldie over to the side of the road after
he was killed? People sometimes do that with a dead animal - I did it myself
a few years ago. If someone did this, they might not have known whose cat
it was, so couldn't notify you. Maybe it really was an accident. Of course,
the person who hit him should have stopped, but they might not have meant
to hit him. This is something I would want to believe, if it happened to my
cat. Since you don't know exactly what happened, there's no harm in thinking
of it that way.

Usually the smartest ones seem to figure out how to get themselves out
of trouble too if they get into it, but - as with all things - there
sometimes are exceptions.


Tell me about it! I used to have a cat, Smudge, who was pretty smart. She
would become easily bored with games, once she figured out what the drill
was. She had a mandate to be outside, which was a struggle between us for
a long time - I live in an urban area which is not ideal for outdoor cats.
At least my neighborhood is residential and has a lot of winding streets
that don't get much traffic. She was savvy about cars, too, unlike some of
the neighborhood cats who would go to sleep in the middle of the road! I
guess the asphalt got nice and warm in the summer.

Anyway, Smudge got herself into various scrapes because she was very
curious and always had to investigate things. One time she got locked in
a neighbor's garage for a week. I despaired of ever seeing her again, until
one day when I went outside, I heard this loud, unholy cat meowing. It didn't
sound like Smudge, so I thought some other poor cat was in trouble and I went
to investigate. I followed the sound to a garage, which luckily had a window
on the side. I looked in, and there was Smudge! I think she must have seen
me when I first came out, so she howled to get my attention. It worked!

Even if your cat is dumber than a stump, he or she is still your cat,
which is in itself enough to make them special. :-)


My favorite cat ever, Roxy (who passed away last year), was not a genius
cat. She wasn't dumb, just average, but I had her and Smudge at the same
time, and Smudge could make any cat look like a not-so-sharp knife by
comparison. I also have a cat named Licorice (mostly known as "Licky"),
who is somewhere in between those two, intelligence-wise. I like smart
cats, but affection matters a lot more to me. Roxy really was a very
contented, ultra-domesticated animal who was happy to hang out in the
house and cuddle.

You could really see the difference in their play. Smudge took her
predation games very seriously. She'd hunker down, her pupils would get
huge, and she'd slink toward the string (or whatever I was dangling) as
though it was really alive, and dive at it with jaws clamping on it and
claws digging in. Licky is pretty much the same way. Roxy, on the other
hand, would roll over onto her back and wave her arms and legs around
trying to catch the dangling object. She looked completely adorable, but
I'm sure if there had been any prey animals around, they would've been
snickering to themselves.

Now it's just me and Licky, but one of these days I'm going to adopt a
friend for him. I can tell that he gets lonely when I'm not home,
because he's really needy for attention at night, which wasn't the case
when Roxy was around. I just have to get myself to the shelter before
they close, and the hours I keep aren't conducive to that. That's a
different story.

Joyce - really an owl

--
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing
that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
-- A. Einstein
  #12  
Old January 18th 17, 03:14 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
John Kasupski
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 112
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:36:18 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:

Is it possible that someone moved Goldie over to the side of the road after
he was killed?


No. I won't go into too many gory details in case someone is eating while
they're reading this, but let's just say that the condition of the remains and
other clues present on the ground near the body made it quite evident that he
was hit right there on the shoulder where I found him and had not been moved.

You could really see the difference in their play. Smudge took her
predation games very seriously. She'd hunker down, her pupils would get
huge, and she'd slink toward the string (or whatever I was dangling) as
though it was really alive, and dive at it with jaws clamping on it and
claws digging in. Licky is pretty much the same way. Roxy, on the other
hand, would roll over onto her back and wave her arms and legs around
trying to catch the dangling object. She looked completely adorable, but
I'm sure if there had been any prey animals around, they would've been
snickering to themselves.


Yeah, right up until the moment she caught them! Goldie was the same way when
you were playing with him. Then when you thought he was plum tuckered out he'd
walk away and return shortly with a dead mouse or bird to drop at your feet. The
personality he presented to us humans was the polar opposite of what his prey
saw from the business end of what we viewed as his ridiculously cute front paws.

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY

  #13  
Old January 18th 17, 03:33 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
John Kasupski
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 112
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:39:43 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:

With creamed corn, or any other processed food that has more than just the
vegetable in it, it's a good idea to read the ingredients list to make sure
there's no onion. Onion is bad for cats and can cause serious health problems,
maybe even death. The same is true for garlic, although that's less likely
to be found in creamed corn.


This fact IS a problem, because Minnie likes spaghetti and I haven't seen a jar
of spaghetti sauce yet that doesn't have onion and dried or dehydrated garlic on
the list of ingredients. Luckily, she'll accept pasta without sauce, especially
if I melt a little butter on it for her first.

I only had cream corn because it was given to me, and I've used it up. When I
buy it, it's kernal corn, and again I melt butter on it when I heat it up, which
gives her another reason to like it. Then again, I also melt butter on my peas
and green beans, and she couldn't be any less interested in them.

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY

  #14  
Old January 18th 17, 05:50 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Bastette
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,622
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

John Kasupski wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:36:18 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:


Is it possible that someone moved Goldie over to the side of the road after
he was killed?


No. I won't go into too many gory details in case someone is eating while
they're reading this, but let's just say that the condition of the remains and
other clues present on the ground near the body made it quite evident that he
was hit right there on the shoulder where I found him and had not been moved.


I'm so sorry to hear this. The very idea that anyone would do something
like that deliberately is so upsetting. Sometimes it feels like the world
is too harsh for the kind of love we feel for our furry friends.

Roxy, on the other
hand, would roll over onto her back and wave her arms and legs around
trying to catch the dangling object. She looked completely adorable, but
I'm sure if there had been any prey animals around, they would've been
snickering to themselves.


Yeah, right up until the moment she caught them! Goldie was the same way when
you were playing with him. Then when you thought he was plum tuckered out he'd
walk away and return shortly with a dead mouse or bird to drop at your feet. The
personality he presented to us humans was the polar opposite of what his prey
saw from the business end of what we viewed as his ridiculously cute front paws.



Ha - good point. Kind of how I might feel seeing a mountain lion coming
toward me.

Joyce

--
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not
as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarassed millionaires.
--John Steinbeck
  #15  
Old January 18th 17, 08:03 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
John Kasupski
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 112
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:50:53 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:

John Kasupski wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:36:18 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:


Is it possible that someone moved Goldie over to the side of the road after
he was killed?


No. I won't go into too many gory details in case someone is eating while
they're reading this, but let's just say that the condition of the remains and
other clues present on the ground near the body made it quite evident that he
was hit right there on the shoulder where I found him and had not been moved.


I'm so sorry to hear this. The very idea that anyone would do something
like that deliberately is so upsetting. Sometimes it feels like the world
is too harsh for the kind of love we feel for our furry friends.


In a perfect , Goldie jumps into the ditch at the last instant and survives
unharmed. The driver loses control of the vehicle, which veers into the ditch,
flips upside down, and goes airborne fifty feet into a utility pole, The driver
is decapitated on impact. The body remains in the vehicle. The head rolls on
another twenty feet, coming to rest at the feet of a whitetail deer grazing
nearby - who, having witnessed the entire incident, unhesitatingly kicks it into
the ditch and walks away satisfied that justice has been served.

Roxy, on the other
hand, would roll over onto her back and wave her arms and legs around
trying to catch the dangling object. She looked completely adorable, but
I'm sure if there had been any prey animals around, they would've been
snickering to themselves.


Yeah, right up until the moment she caught them! Goldie was the same way when
you were playing with him. Then when you thought he was plum tuckered out he'd
walk away and return shortly with a dead mouse or bird to drop at your feet. The
personality he presented to us humans was the polar opposite of what his prey
saw from the business end of what we viewed as his ridiculously cute front paws.



Ha - good point. Kind of how I might feel seeing a mountain lion coming
toward me.


Don't get me wrong, I've seen plenty of cats who wouldn't hurt a fly. A mouse
could walk out into the middle of the room, unfold a lawn chair, and sit there
in it calmly sipping a glass of iced tea while watching soap operas on TV all
afternoon, and those cats probably wouldn't move a muscle. But you can rest
assured that another cat in the neighborhood recently slaughtered a mouse in
cold blood, and the word's gotten out in the mouse community about the brutal
murder up the block, so they're not likely to tempt fate in such a manner. :-)

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY

  #16  
Old January 18th 17, 08:05 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
John Kasupski
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 112
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:03:28 -0500, John Kasupski wrote:

In a perfect , Goldie jumps into the ditch at the last instant and survives
unharmed. The driver loses control of the vehicle, which veers into the ditch,
flips upside down, and goes airborne fifty feet into a utility pole, The driver
is decapitated on impact. The body remains in the vehicle. The head rolls on
another twenty feet, coming to rest at the feet of a whitetail deer grazing
nearby - who, having witnessed the entire incident, unhesitatingly kicks it into
the ditch and walks away satisfied that justice has been served.


Oops - sorry! I guess that's what I get for posting at two o'clock in the
morning. That should read, "In a perfect world..."

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY

  #17  
Old January 18th 17, 08:24 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Joy[_3_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 397
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On 1/17/2017 11:03 PM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:50:53 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:

John Kasupski wrote:

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:36:18 -0000 (UTC), Bastette
wrote:


Is it possible that someone moved Goldie over to the side of the road after
he was killed?


No. I won't go into too many gory details in case someone is eating while
they're reading this, but let's just say that the condition of the remains and
other clues present on the ground near the body made it quite evident that he
was hit right there on the shoulder where I found him and had not been moved.


I'm so sorry to hear this. The very idea that anyone would do something
like that deliberately is so upsetting. Sometimes it feels like the world
is too harsh for the kind of love we feel for our furry friends.


In a perfect , Goldie jumps into the ditch at the last instant and survives
unharmed. The driver loses control of the vehicle, which veers into the ditch,
flips upside down, and goes airborne fifty feet into a utility pole, The driver
is decapitated on impact. The body remains in the vehicle. The head rolls on
another twenty feet, coming to rest at the feet of a whitetail deer grazing
nearby - who, having witnessed the entire incident, unhesitatingly kicks it into
the ditch and walks away satisfied that justice has been served.

Roxy, on the other
hand, would roll over onto her back and wave her arms and legs around
trying to catch the dangling object. She looked completely adorable, but
I'm sure if there had been any prey animals around, they would've been
snickering to themselves.


Yeah, right up until the moment she caught them! Goldie was the same way when
you were playing with him. Then when you thought he was plum tuckered out he'd
walk away and return shortly with a dead mouse or bird to drop at your feet. The
personality he presented to us humans was the polar opposite of what his prey
saw from the business end of what we viewed as his ridiculously cute front paws.



Ha - good point. Kind of how I might feel seeing a mountain lion coming
toward me.


Don't get me wrong, I've seen plenty of cats who wouldn't hurt a fly. A mouse
could walk out into the middle of the room, unfold a lawn chair, and sit there
in it calmly sipping a glass of iced tea while watching soap operas on TV all
afternoon, and those cats probably wouldn't move a muscle. But you can rest
assured that another cat in the neighborhood recently slaughtered a mouse in
cold blood, and the word's gotten out in the mouse community about the brutal
murder up the block, so they're not likely to tempt fate in such a manner. :-)

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY


Many years ago the very first cat I ever had was in the house when I saw
a mouse in the kitchen. I got the cat and set him down where he could
see the mouse. The cat took one look, then turned around and ran out of
the room.

In contrast, I've had a couple of indoor/outdoor cats who were real
hunters, and who liked to bring their prey in the house to play with it.
  #18  
Old January 18th 17, 09:09 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
John Kasupski
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 112
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:24:07 -0800, Joy wrote:

Many years ago the very first cat I ever had was in the house when I saw
a mouse in the kitchen. I got the cat and set him down where he could
see the mouse. The cat took one look, then turned around and ran out of
the room.


LOL! Well, cat, there goes YOUR reputation around here...thanks for nothing!

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY'

  #19  
Old January 19th 17, 12:55 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
jmcquown[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 8,008
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On 1/18/2017 2:03 AM, John Kasupski wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I've seen plenty of cats who wouldn't hurt a fly. A mouse
could walk out into the middle of the room, unfold a lawn chair, and sit there
in it calmly sipping a glass of iced tea while watching soap operas on TV all
afternoon, and those cats probably wouldn't move a muscle. But you can rest
assured that another cat in the neighborhood recently slaughtered a mouse in
cold blood, and the word's gotten out in the mouse community about the brutal
murder up the block, so they're not likely to tempt fate in such a manner.:-)

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY


Shortly after Persia (RB) decided to live with me I found her standing
outside the entrance to the kitchen off the hallway. She meowed at me
but absolutely would *not* go into the kitchen. I flipped on the light.
There was a dead mouse in the middle of the kitchen floor. It hadn't
been killed by her; there wasn't a mark on it. (For all I knew it
keeled over from a heart attack when it saw Persia.) She refused to go
into the kitchen until I had disposed of the mouse and mopped the floor!
Guess she was afraid of mice.

She was great at catching the nasty palmetto bugs that sometimes got
inside, though. I'm not afraid of mice but palmetto bugs absolutely
creep me out.

Jill
  #20  
Old January 19th 17, 12:56 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
jmcquown[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 8,008
Default Kitten Converts Reluctant Owner

On 1/18/2017 2:05 AM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 02:03:28 -0500, John Kasupski wrote:

In a perfect , Goldie jumps into the ditch at the last instant and survives
unharmed. The driver loses control of the vehicle, which veers into the ditch,
flips upside down, and goes airborne fifty feet into a utility pole, The driver
is decapitated on impact. The body remains in the vehicle. The head rolls on
another twenty feet, coming to rest at the feet of a whitetail deer grazing
nearby - who, having witnessed the entire incident, unhesitatingly kicks it into
the ditch and walks away satisfied that justice has been served.


Oops - sorry! I guess that's what I get for posting at two o'clock in the
morning. That should read, "In a perfect world..."

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY

I knew what you meant. We all do it from time to time, regardless of
what time it is. If you know what I mean.

Jill
 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
The new owner Bridget[_4_] Cat anecdotes 4 June 18th 08 09:48 PM
New cat owner cshenk Cat health & behaviour 4 March 7th 08 11:18 PM
To the owner Are all Capric0rnS Cat rescue 1 August 18th 05 02:25 PM
help new cat owner Anita Hartley via CatKB.com Cat health & behaviour 6 March 11th 05 08:40 PM
combing a reluctant cat Angi Cat health & behaviour 18 June 13th 04 06:27 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 11:55 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 CatBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.