whiskytangofoxtrot wrote:

http://www.betterthanpants.com/media/ca … _10_35.png

...sorry tojo, I just baptized my cat and this made me laugh.

Hmm....

/me goes to find a hammer

scarydog wrote:

Cuteness attack!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/302 … 1775_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/302 … 0339_o.jpg

Kittens are so cute when they play with their food.

choad wrote:

A writer's mews...

When you're writing an article about writers and their cats, how do you miss Hemingway?

jesusluvspegging wrote:

choad wrote:

A writer's mews...

When you're writing an article about writers and their cats, how do you miss Hemingway?

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scarydog wrote:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/303 … e283_o.jpg

That looks like something my cats would do.  I live alone, so I don't always close the door when I'm answering the call of the wild.  For some reason the fact that I don't allow them in there while I'm doing the dirty makes entering the bathroom irresistible to them, so I end up kicking at them while balancing on the throne.

This is Charley.

sigmoid freud wrote:

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Does anyone else in the world use the tongue-clucking tsk, tsk, tsk sound to summon cats? I learned it in earliest childhood, our cats were, I guess, conditioned to associate the sound with food and the tradition continues. Parents are deceased, so I can't ask them.

Yet, it also interests strange cats. You know how it is when walking in your neighborhood, and you encounter a cat you don't know, and they move cautiously off. Well, tsk, tsk, tsk usually makes the cat pause, and sometimes meow back or even approach.

Is it just me and family or does anyone else do this?

Tsk-tks-tsk rapidly.

Usually works for me.  I don't know where it comes from.  It doesn't sound like anything I can think of in nature that would make a cat sit up and take notice.

tojo2000 wrote:

sigmoid freud wrote:

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Does anyone else in the world use the tongue-clucking tsk, tsk, tsk sound to summon cats? I learned it in earliest childhood, our cats were, I guess, conditioned to associate the sound with food and the tradition continues. Parents are deceased, so I can't ask them.

Yet, it also interests strange cats. You know how it is when walking in your neighborhood, and you encounter a cat you don't know, and they move cautiously off. Well, tsk, tsk, tsk usually makes the cat pause, and sometimes meow back or even approach.

Is it just me and family or does anyone else do this?

Tsk-tks-tsk rapidly.

Usually works for me.  I don't know where it comes from.  It doesn't sound like anything I can think of in nature that would make a cat sit up and take notice.

I've always wondered about "Here, kitty, kitty..." Why on earth a cat would respond to that is beyond me, but it also works.

sigmoid freud wrote:

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Does anyone else in the world use the tongue-clucking tsk, tsk, tsk sound to summon cats? I learned it in earliest childhood, our cats were, I guess, conditioned to associate the sound with food and the tradition continues. Parents are deceased, so I can't ask them.

Yet, it also interests strange cats. You know how it is when walking in your neighborhood, and you encounter a cat you don't know, and they move cautiously off. Well, tsk, tsk, tsk usually makes the cat pause, and sometimes meow back or even approach.

Is it just me and family or does anyone else do this?

Tsk-tks-tsk rapidly.

I was in my yard at night a few weeks ago and had a skunk waddle up 8 to 10 feet from me and just scratch around in the grass. Out of curiosity, I talked to it ("Hey, Mr. Skunk...") for a minute or two---it ignored me---then it casually sauntered off. Glad it didn't rub my leg or anything like a cat would have.

Taint wrote:

I giggled maniacally all the way through the Roomba cat. Of course, I'm stoned, too.

Natch.

...and that's really not the way I thought cat/roomba interactions would go.

GooberMcNutly wrote:

All I could think of was the lyrics to BTO's Magic Carpet Ride.

Uh, do you mean Steppenwolf?

You've always suspected cats are two-faced.

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Bonsai!

sigmoid freud wrote:

When I retire and have the time necessary to properly raise pups, I'm gonna have me about 5 German Shepherds.

http://www.dog-obedience-training-revie … -puppy.jpg

Eeek, a dog!  Die, shit-eater!

Go make a Dog Thread, hater!

I am distressed by your unfeeling, unreasoning, ignorant Fascism

I was raised by Dog And Cat Owners. Yes. that's correct. Reasonable, loving people who could accept both the canine AND the feline. People who did not judge predators on the number of their molars.

I have struggled so long and hard in an unfeeling world. A world where those capable of opening their hearts to both the canine and feline are persecuted. Persecuted I say.

Where, oh where is your tolerance, High Street? Where?

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tojo2000 wrote:

I was raised with dogs and cats, too, but you don't put dogs in the cat thread!  That's...that's...  Well it's just not done!

Think about it. First they come for the dog owners.....

tojo2000 wrote:

sigmoid freud wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

I was raised with dogs and cats, too, but you don't put dogs in the cat thread!  That's...that's...  Well it's just not done!

Think about it. First they come for the dog owners.....

Nobody is banning dog owners, just dogs.

What should be done with non-feline pretenders and infiltrators? Is ANY punishment too great for the offense of impersonation?

Last edited by scarydog (2008-11-29 02:31:04)