The Cat's Meow

[adoribull]

The cat meowing in EQ2 really drives my RL cat crazy :confused: He sits up looks around and then growls :mad: I guess since he can't find the cat he is letting it know he is not happy :( about it hiding from him.

I have had to turn the sound off occasionally he gets so upset.

[Ariadne]

ROFL :)

I know that fighting the Oakmyst Defenders kept making my 10 month old son giggle... so rather more of them died than we really needed to kill..

[Atala]

ROFL :)

I know that fighting the Oakmyst Defenders kept making my 10 month old son giggle... so rather more of them died than we really needed to kill..

well if that isnt a good reson to saltuer mobs what is

[Niami DenMother]

I am a mean, mean catmommy.

I went into SQ, where they are now selling pet kitties. There are cats scattered all over the place, meowing and hissing. Knowing full well that the dain bramaged one of my cats was napping next to me, I ... turned up the sound.

Took about 30 seconds, but when she woke up, she was peering around with THE most confused and bemused look on her face.

[Spyke]

Took about 30 seconds, but when she woke up, she was peering around with THE most confused and bemused look on her face.

Probably because she was hearing things coming from the computer that was translating into:

"Cat shoe with the bird need now!"

or

"Tree the water in apple and munchie!"

No wonder the poor dain bramaged thing was confuzled. =)

[Niami DenMother]

Probably because she was hearing things coming from the computer that was translating into:

"Cat shoe with the bird need now!"

or

"Tree the water in apple and munchie!"

No wonder the poor dain bramaged thing was confuzled. =)

Sadly, as Spyke well knows, that's probably about all that parses in a normal cat conversation for the lovable dingaling.

The only thing she DOES seem to understand is "t-r-e-a-t" when spoken instead of spelled out. Mention that one word and you'd best not be between her and the kitchen or 15 lbs of vision-impaired overeager feline will try to stampede through you to get to where the bedtime goodies are given out ... even if the sun is up and she knows that she doesn't get them until Mommy goes to bed.

[Zendaken]

(*ROFL*) I can't wait to try that out on mine!

Of course, they'll probably blame each other and chase one another around, but hey, that's what cats are for, right? Well, at least after they get done mopping the floor and providing me with fur-lined pants! :D

Zen

[Ariadne]

ooh yeah, something to torment one of our three demented mogs.. as well as setting of our son on a manic crawl towards them (never seen a cat run so fast in my LIFE!)

[Ariadne]

Sadly, as Spyke well knows, that's probably about all that parses in a normal cat conversation for the lovable dingaling.

The only thing she DOES seem to understand is "t-r-e-a-t" when spoken instead of spelled out. Mention that one word and you'd best not be between her and the kitchen or 15 lbs of vision-impaired overeager feline will try to stampede through you to get to where the bedtime goodies are given out ... even if the sun is up and she knows that she doesn't get them until Mommy goes to bed.


15 lbs? BIG Cat!!! any particular variety? (We have a Norwegian Forest puss cat)

[Zendaken]

Awww! Box cats are so cute! I've a couple of them myself, along with a closet box kitty. (She doesn't know she likes boxes yet, but she loves small spaces.) :D

Hrmm... maybe we should start a kitty thread so we can post pictures!

(*goes running to check his picture supply*)

Zen

[Maladru]

Three kitties here.
Since my daughter was born 2 and a half years ago we still only see one of them when she is sleeping!
One of the others runs like crazy from her (but at least she's visible!)
The last one is the tamest, calmest cat you have ever seen. She let my older daughter dress her up in baby clothes and push her in the doll stroller. The younger one she plays with no matter how much her tail is being pulled, despite being jumped on, (literally my daughter will run across the room and land on the poor cat) etc.

[Drucilla]

I have a cat that doesn't like boxes but she liikes closets.....does this make her a boxy closet kitty? <G>

[Grei]

My housemate has 3 cats...all of them love boxes. Of course I'm a mean housemate and tried to trap one of them last week when I got home with all of this new hardware for my computer. I set the box the case came in on an angle against the chest at the foot of my bed, waiting for the 'Great Fluffy Hunter' (he's the fluffiest of the 3 cats and really knows how to stretch open his paws so his paws are like 3 times larger than normal when he hunts) to walk right in and have the box fall so that the chest blocks the entrance but he decided it wasn't safe enough.

The bravest cat (and the most annoying one--he's learned that my chair is comfortable and knows how to use the doorbell when he wants in) took one look at the box and jumped right in. Trapped him but good...and he didn't care, since I left the foam in the bottom of the box and he had something to play with. My housemate said that was too mean and made me let him go--though he stayed in the box for another half hour.

Silly cats.

Grei

[Zendaken]

Great stories!

My sister's cat decided that my sister's new born was actually hers. She started bringing in dead mice and birds for my nephew. As he got older (and we're only talking weeks to months), she start bringing in critically injured ones. A bit later, it was fully lives ones she would bonk on the head into senselessness.

Needless to say, my sister wasn't that happy, but oh was it adorable. Though catching the revived ones wasn't all that fun. Heh. Too bad my nephew never actually learned how to hunt from all this! :D

Zen

[Deleah A]

Also the proud (?) owner of 2 box cats.

Nigel is about 15-18lbs? and has managed to squeeze himself into a shoebox.

Malcholm prefers the box that my carboys for mead come in. Guess cause he's a bigger cat, he needs a bigger box?

[Kesiax]

Yay cat people! I've got a cat, very friendly and laid back. The most interesting thing (imho) that he's done was rather simple. He grabbed a long string in his mouth, and then ran around the legs of the coffee table, and then started chasing the other end of the string around (and around and around, as he kept the first end in his mouth). Have never seen a cat do something that clever before =)

Benbu

[mebrhea]

kitties! our two are declawed, and you would never guess their ages from looking at them. the one on the left, skitz, is 14. the one on the right is her mother, tounces.

http://www3.telus.net/krttech/photos/skitz.gif http://www3.telus.net/krttech/photos/tounces.gif

[Niami DenMother]

The very large dain bramaged cat is likely either part Maine Coon, or Norwegian Forest ... she's a BIG boned girl! Her tale is rather touching (as opposed to her tail, which is just a touch large), but it ends happily. Quite happily if the sound of the VERY loud chirping purring from beneath my desk is any indication right now.

Northern Virginia in November isn't always the warmest time of year. In fact, it can get downright nippy. Ngreth and I had decided to go out for brunch on the day after Thanksgiving (late November) at a local International House of Pancakes.

I've always had what I jokingly call "cat scanners". I grew up around cats, I love cats, they tend to love me, and I can spot them in the oddest spots as we're traveling, without really actively looking.

We were almost to the IHoP when I saw a smudge on the side of the road. Now, this road is 2 lanes each way, divided, heavy traffic. Not much survives if it gets caught out on it at the wrong time. But something about that smudge, curled into a fetal position, unmoving on the shoulder, to me did NOT say "roadkill", but "KITTY!!!". So we stopped.

She was pitiful. Long matted fur, nonresponsive when we stopped to check on her. No broken bones, no visible bleeding, but a nasty lump on her head. And it was pretty chilly. It wasn't freezing temperatures out, but it wasn't a good place for a wounded creature.

We got her to the local vetrinarian in time. Much longer, and from what the vet said, she'd have died of exposure. She also had pretty much every parasite known to feline *other* than fleas (Her body temperature had dropped so low the fleas deserted her for dead.), so it was a good bet she'd been living feral for a while.

She didn't weigh much, she didn't seem very large. She was pretty much skin and bones. She survived the day. However, with it being the weekend of a major American holiday that weekend, they couldn't keep her for the entire weekend due to lack of staffing, so we closed our guest room off and kept her in there, going in to check on her regularly, while keeping our other two safely blocked away from potential infectious kitty diseases while keeping the new "Smudge" from the side of the road safe from them as well.

When she started being a bit more conscious, we tried to feed her. She'd turn her head aside to the right, as if disdaining it. After a day or so of this, Ngreth got stubborn, held her head, and stuffed her nose into the canned cat food. He almost got bitten - the poor thing was STARVING but had been unable to eat. Seems she had no motor control on her left side, so when she'd try to move her head towards the food, only the right side was responding, making her turn away from the food she so desperately wanted.

The next few weeks were full of issues ... from the fact that she had no conscious control over bodily functions at first, to the lack of motor control on one side, to a possible total lack of vision.

Thankfully, I'm one of those annoying folks who tends to talk to her cats ... lots ... so she'd hiss defensively when she'd hear someone moving near her, but the moment I'd start talking to her, I could then touch her. Once she was being pet, she'd start purring and relax. With time, the lump on her skull went down, she started regaining her sight, though it still seems a bit off, she regained her motor control. And she started fleshing out. She got BIG.

She's very dumb. She's very loving. She can be very easily startled by the simplest of things. (For someone his size, the House Ogre moves very quietly, and she often gets disoriented and flees if she unexpectedly finds in appearing in her limited range of sight.) It happens less now, but there were times when she'd hit blind panic mode and forget how to use her left side properly again, leaving her literally spinning in circles clockwise.

Did I mention she's DUMB? Thankfully, she's got a very sweet, if ditzy disposition, and once we found she didn't have anything contagious, and got her to graduate from hiding in a closet, we cautiously introduced her to our two girls (I'd lost my male tigger a few months before to kidney failure) before deciding if we were going to keep her or have to find a home elsewhere for her.

She met Natasha (our purebred Chartreux that is the smartest cat I've ever known and pure, loving imp) and it was pretty much love at first sight. Nat always wanted a playmate and the grumpy granny (Nutmeg) wasn't the playmate sort of cat.

Then she met Nutmeg. In the kitchen. Next to the cat food dishes. I was cringing as that's a prime danger zone for two strange cats to first collide, especially one that we suspected had been feral.

Nutmeg hissed, and I have to admit, it was an impressive hiss (this coming from the Cat Mommy who has the queen Alien of all hisses). Smudge, who'd been putting on bulk as she convalesced, gave Nutmeg "the look". The sort of look that said, "Who are you talking to, girlfriend? Do you know where I've been living? Do you know what I've been through? Put that attitude away. Don't make me go street cat on you."

That was it. One look, and Nutmeg turned tail and ran. Almost a decade of ruling the roost, and she backed down.

And that's Chapter 1 of the Tale of the Dingbat Cat. It doesn't even start to cover why she now chirps when she purrs, or squeaks when she meows. ;)

[mebrhea]

Nutmeg hissed, and I have to admit, it was an impressive hiss (this coming from the Cat Mommy who has the queen Alien of all hisses). Smudge, who'd been putting on bulk as she convalesced, gave Nutmeg "the look". The sort of look that said, "Who are you talking to, girlfriend? Do you know where I've been living? Do you know what I've been through? Put that attitude away. Don't make me go street cat on you."

I can totally see this. and it gave me a giggle.

It doesn't even start to cover why she now chirps when she purrs, or squeaks when she meows. ;)

tounces chirps too. although she doesn't squeak.

[Inyidd]

tounces chirps too. although she doesn't squeak.

And don't forget driving! Tounces drives.

--Inyidd, the Untouchable

[Homeslice513]

My roommate's one cat loves boxes. She crawls into them of all sizes. It cracks me up when she gets in a beer box(12 pack) and she sits in it and looks out and waits for someone to walk by or something to attack from in the box, Guess she thinks it is her armor :)

Also on an off topic her, just was curious if Ngreth and Niami were still in the Nova area :) I moved out of Manassas last year into no man's land Bealeton. So still close but have to drive to get to anything at all :rolleyes:

[Niami DenMother]

Nope. In-laws live in my old house in Manassas now. (Was next to the IHoP in Manassas that Smudge was found.) As for now, let's just say that if you decided to nuke SOE HQ near San Diego, we'd likely be in range of the fallout. (Not sure the fallout radius ... guess it'd depend on the type of nuke :O)

[Homeslice513]

Nope. In-laws live in my old house in Manassas now. (Was next to the IHoP in Manassas that Smudge was found.) As for now, let's just say that if you decided to nuke SOE HQ near San Diego, we'd likely be in range of the fallout. (Not sure the fallout radius ... guess it'd depend on the type of nuke :O)

At least you are in a much better place now ;)

[Inyidd]

At least you are in a much better place now ;)

Did you see pictures from the wildfire not too long ago? :P

--Inyidd, the Untouchable

[Homeslice513]

Did you see pictures from the wildfire not too long ago? :P

--Inyidd, the Untouchable

You ever been to Manassas? ;)

[Zendaken]

You ever been to Manassas? ;)
Just don't live IN Manassas - go outside. I particularly like the North end and the water end (ok, so it doesn't really have a "water" side, but the river is navigable fairly far up!)

Zen

[DeWeasel]

I've been to Manassas, the old town anyway. Strictly as a tourist -- kind of a history buff here :)

And btw, I'm starting to feel a little out of place...all you cat people... I don't have anything against cats, but I am very allergic, so I'm a dog guy.

[Zendaken]

And btw, I'm starting to feel a little out of place...all you cat people... I don't have anything against cats, but I am very allergic, so I'm a dog guy.

I wonder if that says something about crafters - I wonder if we took a poll what the results would be - interest in crafting <?=?> interest in cats? (BTW, the little symbol isn't a smiley! It's more of a math symbol wonder if there is a connection between the two. Gah. Theory running out of brain into finger tips! :eek: )

Of course, those who read this thread are likely to be biased. :D

Zen

[Spyke]

Actually from everything i've seen with the various crafting bits I've been around it's more of a crafters == pet owner kind of thing.

It fits... someone who is able to care for a pet and treat it like a member of the family seems to also have the capacity to want to *make* stuff.

Those types also have a minor tendancy to like to play healer/buffer types, too.

Again.. go figure. =)

[Zendaken]

That's a very good observation that has the ring of truth to it!

On the more flippant side, it could just be that most of us are more use to putting things back together after our pets have taken them apart. :D

Zen

[Flendon]

The Infinite Cat Project (http://infinitecat.com/infinite/cat-html/1.html) 476 cats and still counting.

[Ariadne]

omg that's really quite scary... *wonders if she can be bothered to scroll to the end and pose Bramble to peer at the screen*

[Homeslice513]

omg that's really quite scary... *wonders if she can be bothered to scroll to the end and pose Bramble to peer at the screen*

You can go backwards from the first one and see the last one ;)

I doubt I could get my roommates cat to watch but you never know :D

[Zendaken]

Wow. I think I'll have to see if I can get one of mine up there! :D

Zen