Pictured The baby tigers who like nothing more than a daily dip in pool with female trainers
Posted on 06/10/2009 5:48:47 AM PDT by JoeProBono
You haven't seen angry until you've seen a cat with his head under a faucet. If there's anything the stereotypically haughty house pets despise it's being wet. "I think it's the closest you can see in the animal world to someone giving you the finger," said veterinarian Marty Becker, co-author of "Why Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?" "That look is unique in the animal world of total disgust. ... It's just a classic." And yet that look is taking the Internet by storm.
As feline photo blogs continue to draw millions of visitors each month, the wet cat sub-genre is taking on a life of its own. "They make such great drama, it's like watching daytime soap in a bucket," said Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger.com, one of the most popular cat photo blogs on the Internet. Each month, he said, about 3.6 million unique visitors check out his site for a daily dose of the feline funnies.
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We live on a golf course and take our cats walking down the cart paths. They follow like a dog would and people just stop and point like “Look at those cats walking!”
The mother cat we have is a stray and the other is her “baby”, even though the offspring is now heavier than mom cat.
I had given a few cats a bath in my day, and thought I knew the drill and all the methods to protect myself.
I was wrong about this particular tom. He was not amused and thought I was trying to kill him. He is a very large and fully equipped barn cat. In turn, he tried to kill me. I lost some blood and the fight was long and brutal.
Our relationship suffered for a few days, but he finally came around to check the wounds he inflicted. I told him he had fought the good fight, but I won at the cost of blood and scars.
I would not even go near him with a vacuum cleaner, that would be classified as suicide.
Talk about getting attacked, I was blowing some leaves with the leaf blower and that same cat was hiding inside the Japanese Box woods we have next to the garage. I didn't know what jumped out of there at me.
I had several scratches from above the knee almost to my ankles. After that, I make sure I know EXACTLY where they are before turning that thing on.
I haven't bathed him yet because I'm afraid this is what he will turn into:
I had a feeling he hated water, and I was right.
He was not bothered by the gloves, he just found flesh elsewhere.
It had to be done, and I knew that. Later when I told our vet, he said I should have brought him in and he would have sedated him.
I thought about that afterwards, but something about hauling him up to the vet and paying the money to get him zonked and bathed just didn't set right with me.
He's a good working cat, and the father of many good barn cats. He is getting more mellow as he gets older, and likes hanging around in the house in the winter.
Despite all, I would not trade him.
After those pictures no wonder cats don't care too much for humans...LOL
That one is a hoot....looks like a democrat when they are happy......
LOL experience is the best teacher....
One of my cats plays fetch with me; he brings his little plastic doodad, drops it at my feet, I throw it, he runs and gets it, brings it back and drops it at my feet again. He just figured this out on his own, the little smarty-pants!
“One of my cats plays fetch with me”
Uh, and our dog catches mice? ;>
My cats would never catch the mice because then they’d have nothing to do!
My rat terrier on the other hand is ALL business; one bite and no more vermin. No messin around; she gets right to the point.
My Rottie likes to hunt for snakes. Unfortunately, he is dumb as a box of rocks and just doesn’t get why when he catches one, i.e. BITES IT, it doesn’t want to “play” anymore. He’ll bark at, poke it with his nose until we carry it away to the tune of TAPS. Then he’ll spend the next hour looking for it...the cats on the other hand KNOW that if they KILL it, show’s over. No more entertainment.
I can’t even get them to kill bugs-they’d rather PLAY with them. Which TOTALLY grosses me out! (I hate bugs!)
SZQ
We had a water leak in my bathroom that came down into the kitchen. A company came with a de humidfier that we had to keep running for a couple of days. My cat slept under the damn thing and it sounded like a B-52.
My cat has nerves of steel. Must have been a EOD man in a past life.
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They blink.
Angror and Gremlin..
Sorry.
Awwww. Thats sad!
Sounds like the good life! Walking a horse on a leash - now that’s something you don’t see every day!
The article comment about cats in the wild not liking water is very wrong. There is more than one species of wild cats that like water just fine.
I’m fostering a 5 year old dachshund... distant relative died.. spent $500 so far on him but that’s for another thread. Anyway - high energy so he walks with me - up to 3 1/2 miles the other day and we went out trying to walk between storms Tuesday and got caught in a down pore. On the way out, he minced around the puddles - on the way back we were drenched and walking through puddles which came up almost to his neck to get to the car as fast as possible. No, we didn’t run - thunder - hello.
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