Posted on 07/13/2009 11:45:09 AM PDT by dan_s
If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat.
Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Don't be snide. That study probably cost the Brits $1,000,000.
Please notice photo in post #35.
I now know where my cats are when they pretend to be napping.
this pic w/kitty & the news looks like my MiMi- i get gentle paws in the early am around 4:30 or 5:30 “feed me” - she won’t let me roll over either, just this gentle tapping with her paws on my face until i put the “treat” in her bowl,otherwise she has crunchies.... oh you silly puddy
That yellow cat accentuates the perspective.
Just watch yourself in the dark, especially around stairs. They will get even when you least expect it...
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Kitty ping.
I have a much loved, but very retarded Manx kitty (Dunbar). Several years ago, we were rushing around, getting ready to go on a camping trip. We left a fresh box of litter for Dunbar, extra food and water. (the great thing about cats is that they can be left alone for a few days, with food, water and litter) Upon our return four days later, I opened the refrigerator to put away some items left over from the camping trip. Out fell Dunbar. (He must have snuck in there in the confusion of getting ready for our trip.) He was very cold (obviously) and unresponsive. I wrapped him in towels and held him until he warmed up and started moving around. Took him straight to our vet. He suffered some oxygen deprivation which has affected his mental accuity. The poor thing cannot walk across the room without banging into a wall or a piece of furniture. He just bounces off any impediment to his progress, looks a bit stunned for a few seconds, and continues on. Even though he bounces of the walls, literally, he rules. He is now nearly 17 years old, and totally controls us.
Somebody buy Obama a cat. He’s out of control.
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He’d get rid of it. Narcissistic, egotistical people hate cats...hate things they can’t control
Now, that’s funny.
Ours get fed on a schedule that we set...show up on time to eat, or wait for the next meal.
They can whine, meow, and pull at the bottom of the door...but we open it or not to suit our plans, not theirs.
They do not get on tables, counters, or kitchen chairs, though easy chairs, couches, footstools, and beds are made for cats to lounge on, IF a human doesn't wish to use the same...then laps or bellies are substituted.
Along the same lines, scratch posts, not furniture or humans, are for scratching.
The low windows with window ledges are okay to bask in, but not the higher, ordinary windowsills.
Crawling headfirst into a sweaty, smelly boot is always fine, especially if accompanied by an ecstatic squirming.
Wrapping their bodies around the bald spot is especially welcome on cold winter nights; nothing beats a purring nightcap to put one to sleep.
Twenty plus years of raising and showing dogs was great training for civilizing kitties.
We have one of those, too. Vet's vbest guess was she was grabbed by the throat, and thrown out of a car. Broke her little meow.
Starving, about the size of a 6 or week kitten, but had 4 month old teeth. That was going on 14 years ago.
She still "mmm-yeps" instead o "MEOWing".
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