Cat hunting

Otis normally ignores the TV, including any sounds from it apart from
whistling (we have to turn the sound down for the Xfiles theme tune -
he goes into attack mode). My old cat Thomas (don't ask!) used to sit
on top of the set when snooker was on and try to paw the balls.
Anyway, this morning I was watching an old documentary on the box,
called Pussies Galore - wonderful programme about a feral cat colony in
Rome, really fascinating stuff. Anyway the 2 boss toms (Caesar &
Brutus) were having a shouting match over a girl and squaring up (so
what's new there then) - when suddenly Otis (who's ahem not quite 100%
in the bloke department if you know what I mean) jumps up and joins in
the racket, it freaked me out, dunno who he thought he was arguing with
or what over, very strange! Two minutes later he was sitting next to
me with his head in my lap again waiting for the slave to give him a
tummy rub.

Marcia

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Anyway, this morning I was watching an old documentary on the box,
called Pussies Galore - wonderful programme about a feral cat colony in
Rome, really fascinating stuff. Anyway the 2 boss toms (Caesar &
Brutus) were having a shouting match over a girl and squaring up (so
what's new there then) - when suddenly Otis (who's ahem not quite 100%
in the bloke department if you know what I mean) jumps up and joins in
the racket, it freaked me out, dunno who he thought he was arguing with
or what over, very strange! Two minutes later he was sitting next to
me with his head in my lap again waiting for the slave to give him a
tummy rub.

When Betty hears recordings of cat sounds, even her own, she does
react, and seem either interested, or disturbed. She's never replied
to cat sounds, but if they happen to show Pussies Galore here, I'll
try to catch it and see what she thinks.

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Otis normally ignores the TV, including any sounds from it apart from
whistling (we have to turn the sound down for the Xfiles theme tune -
he goes into attack mode). My old cat Thomas (don't ask!) used to sit
on top of the set when snooker was on and try to paw the balls.
Anyway, this morning I was watching an old documentary on the box,
called Pussies Galore - wonderful programme about a feral cat colony in
Rome, really fascinating stuff. Anyway the 2 boss toms (Caesar &
Brutus) were having a shouting match over a girl and squaring up (so
what's new there then) - when suddenly Otis (who's ahem not quite 100%
in the bloke department if you know what I mean) jumps up and joins in
the racket, it freaked me out, dunno who he thought he was arguing with
or what over, very strange! Two minutes later he was sitting next to
me with his head in my lap again waiting for the slave to give him a
tummy rub.

LOL! Poor Otis, someone was trying to take over his domain!

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He would have been in serious trouble if they had been, they were
fierce cats, probably why they were named Brutus & Caesar, their
offspring were just like them (same litter, one baby Caesar and one
baby Brutus) - big Caesar looked like he'd take on Mike Tyson if he had
to. I love the way when they were fighting over the females, they just
caterwauled at each other, didn't actually fight, I'd never realised
they do that before. It reminded me of an English pub brawl - as in
"ere you lookin at my bird geezer?"

Rome would do me in though, I'd want to bring all the ferals home in my
luggage (sure they'd object though). They seem to do quite well as a
tourist attraction.

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He would have been in serious trouble if they had been, they were
fierce cats, probably why they were named Brutus & Caesar, their
offspring were just like them (same litter, one baby Caesar and one
baby Brutus) - big Caesar looked like he'd take on Mike Tyson if he had
to. I love the way when they were fighting over the females, they just
caterwauled at each other, didn't actually fight, I'd never realised
they do that before. It reminded me of an English pub brawl - as in
"ere you lookin at my bird geezer?"

Heh. I seem to remember seeing that documentary myself some time. Can't
remember if the cats reacted to it in any way.

--
Marina, Frank, Nikki, and Mere
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki