Posted on 02/01/2009 2:51:44 PM PST by girlangler
Thyme might smell like catnip, but it wouldn’t matter. Tsali just wanted to check out that pretty new perch. It wasn’t there yesterday, so it HAD to have put there today for his benefit!!!
I have bought him balls filled with catnip, etc, even have a pack PETMEDS sent me. He ignores catnip, and when I do offer it to him, he acts like I am in some act of conspiracy to fool him away from whatever mischief he is contemplating at that moment (LOL).
Grrrrr.
At least he did it early in the season, so you have time to start more.
Yea, right!
Dogs aren’t sneaky at all (LOL).
I had a poodle once that would go through my purse and shred my kleenex, and eat the peppermint candies, every time I’d run in the store and leave her in the car.
She had ways of getting her point across.
“Maybe this cutie could guard your PETA PAL!”
That is precious!!!
I used to take my poodle (who died in 2001) to the groomer and they’d put pretty bows in her hair.
My cat Tsali must have thought they were alive (he was a kitten then), he’d hide behind the doorframe, jump out and swat the bows off the poodle’s head.
Used to piss my poodle off. I finally gave up on the bows. The poodle would look at me with the expression “I’m too old for this *****.”
LOL. The ‘mators will be okay, and if not I’ll plant more.
I had also planted some Big Boys, which are a favorite here in Tennessee. They also ended up in the big pile of dirt and assorted seeds. They hadn’t come up yet.
I’ve moved the seedlings to the kitchen window, but think I’ll make a run to Lowe’s tomorrow to buy some electric fencing wire to place around them (LOL).
Cats are challenging. How in the WORLD do you raise chickens with cats (grin)? Tsali would have his head pecked off by now.
Maybe that explains it!!
He found out shortly after we moved here (the hard way) he is not a cougar and can’t take down a full grown doe.
LOL. The ‘mators will be okay, and if not I’ll plant more.
I had also planted some Big Boys, which are a favorite here in Tennessee. They also ended up in the big pile of dirt and assorted seeds. They hadn’t come up yet.
I’ve moved the seedlings to the kitchen window, but think I’ll make a run to Lowe’s tomorrow to buy some electric fencing wire to place around them (LOL).
Cats are challenging. How in the WORLD do you raise chickens with cats (grin)? Tsali would have his head pecked off by now.
Maybe that explains it!!
He found out shortly after we moved here (the hard way) he is not a cougar and can’t take down a full grown doe.
LV,
That cat looks like it is ready to whup some butt and take numbers (LOL)!!!
That is a BEAUTIFUL cat. I hate to show my ignorance, but it looks like a bobcat.
Beautiful!!!
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The tomato virus has taken over my yard so I can't grow any right now. I will enjoy your vicariously.
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Thats what she is. She’s 3 years old now.
Neat pic. That tabby is getting ready to have some baby “holy terrors.”
My friend and former next door neighbor had a yellow tabby. He made Tsali seem really tame. That cat was so mischevious he ended up on the front page of the local newspaper once, having survived his ninth life!!!
Gotta go to bed, but have to comment on this GREAT photo of your cat.
This photo is so sweet.
How could you NOT love a face like that.
Sometimes I just wish I could get into their heads for a few seconds (cats and dogs) and figure out what they are thinking.
This one in your photo has the classic look of “BEAM ME UP,” or “Ground Control to Major Tom. . . . .”
In her own world isn’t she?
These precious critters who own us really have a way to make us wonder how we, as mere humans, can overlook the simple pleasures in life.
I wouldn’t be without my critters. They make me smile, laugh, when I am sad, cry when I forget to be compassionate, think, when I take things for granted.
These are special companions, even when they shred your toilet paper off the roll, shit in your flowerbed, or destroy an entire early gardening plan in one swift jump!!!!
She was found last year June as a new born beside the road with her two brothers and her dead mother.
The local police woman that saw them picked them up and dropper fed them. Since she already had enough pets we adopted Mulan last September.
We had one cat (a second had died less than a month before) and a dog but both of them are REALLY lazy and just lay around the house.
Mulan came into our lives and is full of energy and gets into things. We can't stop smiling every time she does something and we can NEVER get mad at her if she does something a bit wrong.
She is very gentle but a terror and she now has our older cat running around with her and plating.
Life would be much less without her and our other two and both of our children think the same way.
I do not know if I would like to know what they think even for a minute because what is in my imagination makes them much more adorable and I would not want to break my illusions about them.
My Personal Viking Kitty Just Ruined My Seedlings
I know it is just February but that just might be the headline of the year!
You should thank the cat.
Theory 1: The cat is trying to teach you how to be self reliant.
The cat *will* stop if it sees you successfully stalk and catch something.
Theory 2: The cat is grateful that you provide food and shelter and is attempting to contribute to the communal food supply. (Yes, cat society *does* allow formations of colonies that help each other out. Your family is the cat’s “colony”.) It is bringing the prey back still alive so it will be fresh for all to partake in.
Here’s “Slayton” right before that picture, which explains his killer ‘tude...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2175564/posts?page=12#12
Really DOES look like him, doesn’t it?
Some years ago my husband started a bunch of tomato plants indoors. When they got to about 3” tall our cat ate the tops off of every single one of them—there was nothing left but a slew of pitiful stumps.
The two of them had a love/hate relationship so he had a hard time not taking it personally. :)
bump to show at work. The kitty calendar!
Same here. I tell them they are my "Happy." They look at me and think, "Whatever. Rub my belly."
It works for us.
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