+ TROLL
= ATTACKING CAT!
Posted on 04/16/2005 9:31:21 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
I hesitate to admit this, but.....although I consider myself to be no slouch in the brains department, I had a cat who was considerably more intelligent than me, outwitting me at every turn.
I put in a new cat door again last week...backwards, of course, plus it's way too narrow. My plump kitties wriggle out, but don't think they can make it back inside. Evidently the door was narrow in order to discourage raccoons and squirrels, but my mini dachsie managed to get by the barriers I'd put up and out that door this am around 8:30. Barked like mad, and when chased, ran the other way. I spend half my life trying to outwit my four legged friends. But we have coyotes, so whether the door is operable or not and when is always open for discussion. We've lost three cats to foxes/coyotes over the years, but the people next door let their cat roam around night or day, and he comes to no harm. Can't figure out how he does it.
Wonderful pictures. Great cats!
That's a sweet/funny story about your family having a deaf and "dumb" cat.
Added almost as an afterthought at the end, the part where it said they didn't know why the old man was showering the parrot. Great article. Too bad, though.
Thankfully it would seem the can has been declawed. That kid would be a howling, bloody mess if it wasn't. The look on the kid's face after the kitty slapped him around is priceless!
An obvious MelC ping.
My cat was born in my dresser drawer...it was empty and set
up for the birth , lots of old clothes in it...but she
plays a game with me...very strange...
When she finds some kind of crinkly object, like a candy
wrapper , or plastic wrap around a small bottle of baby food,
she loves to play with it, you know, hitting it and then
chasing it. But at times, she will jump on my bed, and leave
it in front of me. She then backs out, and waits for me
to blast it out with a well placed flick of the finger.
Then she tries to swat it down. If I get it past her,and it
goes to the floor,she retrieves it, gets back on the bed,
and drops it off in front of me, backs off, and waits,
twitching and all, for the next finger flick...and on and on.
...Sometimes she will be right in front of me, like a goalie
in hockey, and I try and get the item past her.
If I wait to long, she sneaks up and preemptively grabs
the item, sometimes cutting me in the process...(bad kitty)
She also retrieves a balled up sock...if I throw it across
the living room into another room or hallway, she tracks it
down, brings it back to me, and drops it in front of me and
backs off, waiting for the next throw...I've never had a
cat like that or ever heard of that...but it is true.
I'm so sorry about loosing your cat.
Fur babies leave quite a hole when they are gone.
Dogs have masters.
Cats have staff.
Mama cat is a Manx, lite grey kitten on left is tailess. Tabby kitten on right has a tail.
Your cat is sharpening up and honing her hunting skills, Getready. Cats are natural hunters and predators who need to attack something from time to time.
Since you are the cat's surrogate mother. She drops her prey off for you. For either congratulations, or to teach her how to kill and eat. I've had enough cats and kittens to watch since I was a kid to know that Mother/Kitten training is very important for a kitten's survival, both in and out doors.
Clear plastic rings around Aspirin bottles would drive my cat, Paula into Instant Play/Attack Mode. I think the noise the rings make when sliding over floors sets cats off.
Jack.
Before he left though he did me a small favor and attacked my ex-wife's boyfriend and tore him up pretty good, he climbed up on his shoulders and chewed his ears and neck to shreds. Didn't think I would stop laughing on that one!
mom, is that you...
shut the lid, or they will take me ayay...
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