There are other more one-on-one solutions than cats...
Posted on 08/04/2006 1:58:31 PM PDT by libstripper
Before Mother, I was never much drawn to cats. They seemed slithery and remote. I have a farm, and cats didn't appear to be useful.
I am partial to working dogs—especially border collies and Labradors—that can herd sheep, fetch sticks, hike with me, cuddle on the sofa, and swim in nearby streams. I didn't really get having an animal you couldn't herd sheep or take a walk with.
Then the rats came. They invaded my farm last summer, especially the big barns. They were fat—at first, I mistook one for a rabbit—arrogant, and fearless. The farmers told me there was nothing much to be done: Rats, naturally drawn to farms, were smart, hardy, and tough to get rid of, especially with other animals around.
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how can you even hold that beast. too cute : )
That's her? Gorgeous!
Mine is more of the traditional sort - more round headed, though not really an "apple head". He's a hoot, for sure. And yeah, it does seem like they're telling you about their day and what they think about things! When I first got Tam, he drove me nuts...because I was constantly trying to figure out what he wanted. After awhile I realized he didn't necessarily want anything - he was just talking.
He has a few different "words" that I recognize now, though. Like he has a specific yowl that means "Halvah, come here!" He doesn't use it for anything else.
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Oh my, that's a big kitty. :o) Is he/she yours, and how much does he/she weigh.
The only problem was that they ALWAYS laid their prize on my doorstep to show me they've been at work. It was something to come home from work and see both of them separate by 2-3 yards on the lawn laying down and moving a chipmunk or something between them....
I moved to the North Georgia mountains and something got both of them last year. I think it was a coyote, or what passes for one around here...
Ohh, I just saw the picture of your cats on your profile. Regarding the picture of the two of them, the one towards the back looks exactly like my Chocolate Point. The one closer to the camera looks like he might be the Himalayan mix, but he looks very Siamese too. VERY cute guys you got there.
No its something I found on the internet.
then you need to get yourself a siamese. they were bred to be that wonderful. word to the wise-do NOT buy a "mill" style kitty. youll end up heart broken because they come w/ the personality & a host of ailments. but they are pretty special.
We're cat people at our house. Our older kitty triggered my husband's allergies. She passed away a few months ago. The younger kitty doesn't seem to bother his allergies. Her fur feels much softer, too. We talked to some other people, who told us the bit about the dander. Here's a pic of the newer kitty with my daughter - http://grammasheila.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_grammasheila_archive.html
I found it on the internet. It probably is photoshopped.
Tam hasn't mastered doorknobs...thank goodness. But if a drawer can be pulled out, he'll open it. He wakes me up at night sometimes, loudly pulling 'em open and rifling through them. What he expects to find...I have no idea. And it's a good thing I don't have anything fancy, furniture wise...he sometimes uses his claws to grab the edge of a particularly stubborn drawer. Brat. It means I have to hide his fetch balls in odd places...I used to hide them in drawers at night, but he'll pull them out and drop one on my chest and demand a game at odd hours if he can find one.
There are other more one-on-one solutions than cats...
My miniature dachshund likes rabbits too. I don't know if she kills them or finds them dead, but either way, she brings them up on the deck for me. (Thanks soooo much, Mimi. Nothing like dealing with rotting baby bunny to get the day off right.) And there was the time she got so excited chasing a squirrel she wound up six feet up the tree after it.
Oh, OK. That's one huge cat. I wonder how much it eats every day. I but a bunch. :o)
We could not get rid of the mice. Traps, poison, we just kept seeing things chewed up and such. They were apparently in the little attic area only accessible from a little square door.
We thought it would be a good idea to let one of the cats in there to look around. So we lifted our black and white tuxedo cat up there, and...he turned around to jump back out. Wasn't interested in this game at all.
So, we got our other cat, the Yellow one (Part of a race of Super Cats, which all yellow ones are)
and we stuck him up there.
His ears immediately went full forward at the far end of the shed. I left him there and climbed down the ladder, and saw mice running through the grass away from the shed...:)
The thing that I love about cats is that they are really only a fraction of an inch away, at any time, of being really wild animals. You can see it in their eyes when they have caught some living thing.
Oh my gosh, I read one of the attached links to the original article and laughed until I cried!
http://www.slate.com/id/2108762/
I'm so glad you've discovered Siamese too. Everyone should have such a loving pet. They've made my life so much happier since my friends move into my place with them. I re-discovered my love of animals from my childhood again, a part of me I had forgotten over the years as college, career-related moves, etc. all took me into a transient lifestyle. Only now having been in the same place for 7 years with my friends moving in have I rediscovered that neglected part of me again.
Like you, I've found they just love conversing with you, even if either side doesn't really understand what the other is saying. And they're always doing things that make us laugh. They're real comedians.
I like both dogs and cats.....but will take cat over dog as they are more low maintence for the most part. Downside for me though on cats is that I am a paraplegic. The last cat I had I got as a kitten. I would never notice her climbing up to my lap until she reached it. And she was ALWAYS climbing into my lap. Needless to say my legs resembled two well worn scrating posts until she was big enough to make the floor to lap leap. LOL
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