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  #11  
Old April 5th 17, 11:54 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 4/5/2017 6:32 PM, Joy wrote:
On 4/5/2017 3:17 PM, Bastette wrote:
jmcquown wrote:

That's cute! My father didn't like cats at all. He always felt there
was something sneaky about them. No cats allowed!


Mom & Dad's neighbor (now my neighbor) had two black cats, Fedders and
Schwartzie. I used to cat sit them. When Dad was still alive he

would
see the cats walking around behind the house he'd say, sotto voce,
"Those cats listen to everything we do."


Need I mention Dad suffered from dementia? But even before that he
never liked cats. He always thought they were sneaky.


Wow, it's horrible when someone's dementia makes them paranoid. I've
heard
about people who became very delusional in that way, and their life was
miserable. On the other hand, I've also heard of people who were really
unhappy and nasty throughout their lives, but when they got dementia,
their
personality totally changed and they became calmer, warmer, and just
plain
nicer. Maybe their dementia destroyed the memories that made them
miserable,
so they didn't have those feelings anymore. That's a mercy! It was a
mercy
for their kids, too, who had terrible relationships with their parent
until
the change in personality.

These were all parents of my friends, btw. That's how I know about them.

Back to cats:

I don't understand how someone can't like cats. They're so cute.
They're pretty. They're soft! They purr!


I said this once to a friend. We were talking about how some people have
a phobia about cats. I didn't understand why. Being afraid of big, mean
dogs I do understand, but housecats aren't very dangerous, except in rare
cases. She said it wasn't a rational fear like that, it was more a sense
of revulsion. She likened it to how a lot of people feel about bugs - a
"don't let that thing get near me!" kind of feeling, even toward harmless
bugs. There isn't any real danger, and you can't reason people out of it
because it's an irrational phobia. I understand about those, even if it's
hard to imagine feeling that way about cats. I've been a cat-lover since
I was a year old!

Joyce


You can't reason someone out of a phobia, because phobias aren't
reasonable. They just are.

Joy


You can't reason someone out of dementia, either. I have no idea why my
dad thought the cats were spies. He told me the neighbor cats were
spying on us. Oh dear. Really? They were just walking around out back.

Jill
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Old April 6th 17, 12:47 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 18:54:25 -0400, jmcquown wrote:

My father didn't like cats at all. He always felt there
was something sneaky about them. No cats allowed!


My dad always claimed he hated cats. He told me that at one point he and my
mother lived in the Bronx and in the summer it was so hot and muggy out you had
to leave the windows open even at night, and "The blankety-blank alleycats would
climb up the fire escape and come right in the window...two or three o'clock in
the morning they'd wake me up walking around on the bed and I thought I was
gonna have a heart attack."

Despite that, the first time he came over to my house when I had Charlie (RB),
my big Russian Blue, Dad and I were sitting on the couch and Charlie jumped up
at the end Dad was at, intending to walk across dad's lap to me - but when he
got onto Dad's lap, Dad started scratching him behind his ears. Charlie loved
being scratched behind his ears more than anything else, so as soon as Dad
started doing it he laid down on Dad's lap and squinted his eyes shut and began
purring up a storm - the perfect picture of solid contentment. Eventually he
fell asleep and Dad just sat there on the couch scratching the sleeping kitty
behind the ears for half an hour or longer. This was 40+ years later, so maybe
he mellowed out about cats as he got older, or maybe he simply discovered that a
purring cat lying in your lap isn't relaxing only to the cat - but he sure made
Charlie happy, and every time Dad came over after that Charlie would jump up on
Dad's lap as soon as Dad sat down and the whole scene was repeated.

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY

  #13  
Old April 6th 17, 01:51 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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John Kasupski wrote:

My dad always claimed he hated cats...


Despite that, the first time he came over to my house when I had
Charlie (RB), my big Russian Blue, Dad and I were sitting on the
couch and Charlie jumped up at the end Dad was at, intending to walk
across dad's lap to me - but when he got onto Dad's lap, Dad started
scratching him behind his ears. Charlie loved being scratched behind
his ears more than anything else, so as soon as Dad started doing it
he laid down on Dad's lap and squinted his eyes shut and began
purring up a storm - the perfect picture of solid contentment.
Eventually he fell asleep and Dad just sat there on the couch
scratching the sleeping kitty behind the ears for half an hour or
longer. This was 40+ years later, so maybe he mellowed out about cats
as he got older, or maybe he simply discovered that a purring cat
lying in your lap isn't relaxing only to the cat - but he sure made
Charlie happy, and every time Dad came over after that Charlie would
jump up on Dad's lap as soon as Dad sat down and the whole scene was
repeated.


That's adorable! It's funny to see someone who insists they don't like
cats (or any animal) suddenly realizing that hey, they're not so bad.

In my family, there were 4 females (mom, me, and my two sisters), and
my dad. Mom and the 3 of us kids loved cats, and dad was the bad guy.
He never said he hated cats, it's just that, given free reign, we would
have continued to accumulate stray cats indefinitely. Dad used to say,
"One or two cats, or one dog, one cat, that's fine, but I don't want a
houseful of cats." So he would eventually put his foot down and the strays
had to go.

That was when I was growing up. Now, my dad, who lives alone in a house
in Florida, is the Cat Man of his neighborhood. My sister got him a
cat about 12 years ago, and he fell in love with him. (That cat is really
great, I've met him a few times.) Then he got a second cat. Then he started
feeding neighborhood cats who hung out in his yard. Word quickly spread
through the feline community in the area, that free food was to be had at
my dad's house, so more strays. Then there was this cat in the neighborhood
who kept having kittens. She didn't belong to anyone, so nobody did anything
about it until my dad decided to intervene, so he had her spayed.

Last time I visited him, several years ago, I drove up to his house to
find about 6 cats sitting in the yard.

Joyce
--
The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a
sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat. -- Michael McGarel
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Old April 6th 17, 02:29 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 4/5/2017 8:51 PM, Bastette wrote:
John Kasupski wrote:

My dad always claimed he hated cats...


Despite that, the first time he came over to my house when I had
Charlie (RB), my big Russian Blue, Dad and I were sitting on the
couch and Charlie jumped up at the end Dad was at, intending to walk
across dad's lap to me - but when he got onto Dad's lap, Dad started
scratching him behind his ears. Charlie loved being scratched behind
his ears more than anything else, so as soon as Dad started doing it
he laid down on Dad's lap and squinted his eyes shut and began
purring up a storm - the perfect picture of solid contentment.
Eventually he fell asleep and Dad just sat there on the couch
scratching the sleeping kitty behind the ears for half an hour or
longer. This was 40+ years later, so maybe he mellowed out about cats
as he got older, or maybe he simply discovered that a purring cat
lying in your lap isn't relaxing only to the cat - but he sure made
Charlie happy, and every time Dad came over after that Charlie would
jump up on Dad's lap as soon as Dad sat down and the whole scene was
repeated.


That's adorable! It's funny to see someone who insists they don't like
cats (or any animal) suddenly realizing that hey, they're not so bad.

In my family, there were 4 females (mom, me, and my two sisters), and
my dad. Mom and the 3 of us kids loved cats, and dad was the bad guy.
He never said he hated cats, it's just that, given free reign, we would
have continued to accumulate stray cats indefinitely. Dad used to say,
"One or two cats, or one dog, one cat, that's fine, but I don't want a
houseful of cats." So he would eventually put his foot down and the strays
had to go.

That was when I was growing up. Now, my dad, who lives alone in a house
in Florida, is the Cat Man of his neighborhood. My sister got him a
cat about 12 years ago, and he fell in love with him. (That cat is really
great, I've met him a few times.) Then he got a second cat. Then he started
feeding neighborhood cats who hung out in his yard. Word quickly spread
through the feline community in the area, that free food was to be had at
my dad's house, so more strays. Then there was this cat in the neighborhood
who kept having kittens. She didn't belong to anyone, so nobody did anything
about it until my dad decided to intervene, so he had her spayed.

Last time I visited him, several years ago, I drove up to his house to
find about 6 cats sitting in the yard.

Joyce

Why does this remind me of an old song by Crosby Stills & Nash? "Our
house was a very very fine house, with three cats in the yard..."

That's a wonderful story, Joyce!

My father probably never would have accepted cats. But he did have to
(reluctantly) accept my little dog Sampson. He sort of growled at me
when I moved back while getting divorced - "That dog better not poop on
my lawn". Really? Where do you expect him to poop? Next thing I knew
Dad was playing with the dog in the living room. Gee, weren't you the
one who told me not to bring a dog into the house?

I also found out, quite by accident, my mother was cooking scrambled
eggs for my dog. I forgot my purse or something one morning when I left
to go to work. Came back and discovered she was feeding scrambled eggs
to Sampson. MOM! What the heck are you doing? She said, "He likes
them." Of course he does. No wonder he wasn't eating his Alpo. LOL

Cats... Mom did finally realize they're okay. Really, you don't have to
love them or let them crawl all over you. Just accept them. I'm not
sure my father would have. shrug

Jill
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Old April 6th 17, 07:16 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Joy[_3_]
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On 4/5/2017 5:51 PM, Bastette wrote:
John Kasupski wrote:

My dad always claimed he hated cats...


Despite that, the first time he came over to my house when I had
Charlie (RB), my big Russian Blue, Dad and I were sitting on the
couch and Charlie jumped up at the end Dad was at, intending to walk
across dad's lap to me - but when he got onto Dad's lap, Dad started
scratching him behind his ears. Charlie loved being scratched behind
his ears more than anything else, so as soon as Dad started doing it
he laid down on Dad's lap and squinted his eyes shut and began
purring up a storm - the perfect picture of solid contentment.
Eventually he fell asleep and Dad just sat there on the couch
scratching the sleeping kitty behind the ears for half an hour or
longer. This was 40+ years later, so maybe he mellowed out about cats
as he got older, or maybe he simply discovered that a purring cat
lying in your lap isn't relaxing only to the cat - but he sure made
Charlie happy, and every time Dad came over after that Charlie would
jump up on Dad's lap as soon as Dad sat down and the whole scene was
repeated.


That's adorable! It's funny to see someone who insists they don't like
cats (or any animal) suddenly realizing that hey, they're not so bad.

In my family, there were 4 females (mom, me, and my two sisters), and
my dad. Mom and the 3 of us kids loved cats, and dad was the bad guy.
He never said he hated cats, it's just that, given free reign, we would
have continued to accumulate stray cats indefinitely. Dad used to say,
"One or two cats, or one dog, one cat, that's fine, but I don't want a
houseful of cats." So he would eventually put his foot down and the strays
had to go.

That was when I was growing up. Now, my dad, who lives alone in a house
in Florida, is the Cat Man of his neighborhood. My sister got him a
cat about 12 years ago, and he fell in love with him. (That cat is really
great, I've met him a few times.) Then he got a second cat. Then he started
feeding neighborhood cats who hung out in his yard. Word quickly spread
through the feline community in the area, that free food was to be had at
my dad's house, so more strays. Then there was this cat in the neighborhood
who kept having kittens. She didn't belong to anyone, so nobody did anything
about it until my dad decided to intervene, so he had her spayed.

Last time I visited him, several years ago, I drove up to his house to
find about 6 cats sitting in the yard.

Joyce


I love both of these stories!

Joy
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Old April 6th 17, 11:49 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Christina Websell
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Buffy has a few nicknames.

(1) Fluffy McBuffy-pants.

She has very soft furry fluffy hindquarters.

(2) Flippy Tail.

She wags her tail. All the time. Sometimes she wags her tail in her
sleep. She actually woke me up at 6AM by thwacking me in the face with
her tail. I think it startled her as much as it did me.

(3) Pretty orange stripey girl.

self explanatory

(4) Big fat belly cat.

Also self explanatory.

Jill


Boyfie has several nicknames Chicken pie, pikelet and pikey (the latter is
a bad name for gypsies, but it's just how the name evolved from my lovely
little chicken pie)


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Old April 25th 17, 12:17 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Ganzi has accquired the nickname "Alice" where the black on her face comes down near her mouth on each side it tapers down to a point. From certain angles it looks like Alice Cooper's make up


Lesley

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Old April 26th 17, 12:46 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On 4/24/2017 7:17 PM, Lesley Madigan wrote:
Ganzi has accquired the nickname "Alice" where the black on her face comes down near her mouth on each side it tapers down to a point. From certain angles it looks like Alice Cooper's make up


Lesley

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That made me laugh. Good reason for a nickname for Ganzi

Jill
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Old April 28th 17, 04:28 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:17:16 -0700 (PDT), Lesley Madigan
wrote:

Ganzi has accquired the nickname "Alice" where the black on her face comes down near her mouth on each side it tapers down to a point. From certain angles it looks like Alice Cooper's make up


Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs


That's cute. I suppose we could have a cat nicknamed Kiss. None of my
cats have nicknames though. Scooter is the closest, but that's his
actual name. He's absolutely balanced between a "scaredy cat" and a
"curiosity killed the cat". At any sudden noise or movement, he'll fly
away from any possible danger, only to get curious and come right back
to see what it was. So, he scoots around a lot.
 




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