Cat definitions

On Aug 23, 10:20 pm, "ohmikeg...@earthlink.net"
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> CAT DEFINITIONS
> Cat:
> 1. a lap warmer with a built-in buzzer.
> 2. a four footed allergen.
> 3. a small, four-legged, fur-bearing extortionist.
> 4. a small, furry lap fungus.
> 5. a treat-seeking missile.
> 6. a wildlife control expert.
> 7. one who sleeps in old, empty pizza boxes.
> 8. a hair relocation expert.
> 9. an unprogrammable animal.
10. Something to watch C-span and the History Channel with.
11. Something that gets a case of 'empty-nest syndrome' worse than
that of the mother*

~'Phyre
AIM:Hellphyre87
* My sister and I are both at college this year - 'Psychokitty' does
not do well when 'her M' is inaccessible and has thus been prescribed
valium - much to the unspoken relief of the carpets, duffel bags, book
bags, mattresses, etc.

>
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Oh, and don't forget:
12: self propelled, self recharging alarm clock with NO snooze
button.
(I wish I could convince the little beasties about the joys of
weekends and sleeping in!)

Snowfire
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On 8/27/2007 6:50 PM, Snowfire wrote:
> Oh, and don't forget:
> 12: self propelled, self recharging alarm clock with NO snooze
> button.
> (I wish I could convince the little beasties about the joys of
> weekends and sleeping in!)

Exactly! If you're very lucky, perhaps they'll let you "sleep in" a
whole five minutes.........

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Snowfire wrote:

> Oh, and don't forget:
> 12: self propelled, self recharging alarm clock with NO snooze
> button.
> (I wish I could convince the little beasties about the joys of
> weekends and sleeping in!)
>
> Snowfire
> Goddess of Cats

Speaking as the owner of a dog... nee-ner, nee-ner, nee-ner!

Ok, granted, Pepper is the only dog I've ever had that I was
able to train not to wake me up in the morning. I was
sleeping on a futon right near the floor when I first got
him, and I just shoved him off the bed whenever he made
noise at night. He got the message.

I don't think shoving off the bed works quite as well with
cats, as a reprimand.

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On 8/28/2007 11:02 AM, m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
[snip about alarm-clocks-pretending-to-be-cats]
> Speaking as the owner of a dog... nee-ner, nee-ner, nee-ner!
>

I'd mutter something about obnoxious dog people, but I used to have a dog,
and won't rule one out in the future, so I can't (but still!).

> Ok, granted, Pepper is the only dog I've ever had that I was able to
> train not to wake me up in the morning. I was sleeping on a futon right
> near the floor when I first got him, and I just shoved him off the bed
> whenever he made noise at night. He got the message.

In the mists of pre-history, my puppy never woke me up in the morning, but
that's more because Dad made him sleep in the garage, and not in the house.

> I don't think shoving off the bed works quite as well with cats, as a
> reprimand.

Uh, no. (From the "been there, tried that" department.)

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m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> Snowfire wrote:
>
>> Oh, and don't forget:
>> 12: self propelled, self recharging alarm clock with NO snooze
>> button.
>> (I wish I could convince the little beasties about the joys of
>> weekends and sleeping in!)
>>
>> Snowfire
>> Goddess of Cats
>
> Speaking as the owner of a dog... nee-ner, nee-ner, nee-ner!
>
> Ok, granted, Pepper is the only dog I've ever had that I was able to
> train not to wake me up in the morning. I was sleeping on a futon right
> near the floor when I first got him, and I just shoved him off the bed
> whenever he made noise at night. He got the message.
>
> I don't think shoving off the bed works quite as well with cats, as a
> reprimand.
>

I taught my cat not to wake me up until the alarm went off. It was
very simple. I NEVER, EVER fed her first thing in the morning. Thus,
it really didn't matter to her when I did get up.

SAMK
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SAMK wrote:
> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>> Snowfire wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, and don't forget:
>>> 12: self propelled, self recharging alarm clock with NO snooze
>>> button.
>>> (I wish I could convince the little beasties about the joys of
>>> weekends and sleeping in!)
>>>
>>> Snowfire
>>> Goddess of Cats
>>
>> Speaking as the owner of a dog... nee-ner, nee-ner, nee-ner!
>>
>> Ok, granted, Pepper is the only dog I've ever had that I was able to
>> train not to wake me up in the morning. I was sleeping on a futon
>> right near the floor when I first got him, and I just shoved him off
>> the bed whenever he made noise at night. He got the message.
>>
>> I don't think shoving off the bed works quite as well with cats, as a
>> reprimand.
>>
>
> I taught my cat not to wake me up until the alarm went off. It was
> very simple. I NEVER, EVER fed her first thing in the morning. Thus,
> it really didn't matter to her when I did get up.
>
> SAMK

Same here. My cats have always been fed at night, right before I go to
bed. Started by my parents because we always had dogs too, so if you
feed the cat and then take the dog to bed with you, the cat gets to eat
its own food. So I got into the habit of it, and my cats never
developed any bad habits about waking me up to feed them. Okay, so they
are banished from the bedroom anyway, for doing things like knocking
glasses of water off the nightstand onto me (TWICE!), but they still
will yowl outside the door. Plus, if I give them wet food, I like to do
it before going to bed so that I don't have to smell it! Yuck!

We had a dog who was very good about not bothering you to be let
out...as long as you didn't open your eyes. She'd thump her head on the
mattress, and look at you, but as long as you kept your eyes clothes,
she'd sigh and go lay back down. If she caught you even peaking at her,
though, all bets were off, and she'd be all over you until you got up to
let her out. LOL

Kat
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victoreia wrote:
> On 8/28/2007 11:02 AM, m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> [snip about alarm-clocks-pretending-to-be-cats]
>> Ok, granted, Pepper is the only dog I've ever had that I was able to
>> train not to wake me up in the morning. I was sleeping on a futon
>> right near the floor when I first got him, and I just shoved him off
>> the bed whenever he made noise at night. He got the message.
>
>
> In the mists of pre-history, my puppy never woke me up in the morning, but
> that's more because Dad made him sleep in the garage, and not in the house.

My parents made our family dogs sleep in the kitchen, with
three firmly closed doors between dogs and sleeping parents.

If one of the dogs got through two of the doors (let out by,
say, small children), she would stand at the parental
bedroom door and BREATH through the crack by the doorjamb.
She could be a very loud breather -- darn near got a
whistling effect, sometimes. (She knew barking and whining
were not allowed. But how could we outlaw breathing?)

>> I don't think shoving off the bed works quite as well with cats, as a
>> reprimand.
>
> Uh, no. (From the "been there, tried that" department.)

:> I've seen it tried, and was under-impressed by the effects.

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In article <46d512d9$0$18921$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
victoreia <inkypaws.TakeThisOut@hawaii.nospam.rr.com> wrote:

> In the mists of pre-history, my puppy never woke me up in the morning, but
> that's more because Dad made him sleep in the garage, and not in the house.

Our puppy sleeps in the garage, too, and she seems perfectly happy with
the arrangement. And this way we KNOW that she was not the one waking up
the neighborhood at 3:00 am last night. That dog barked for an hour! And
it's not the first time, either. I wish I knew whose dog it was...

Edna


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m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> victoreia wrote:
>> On 8/28/2007 11:02 AM, m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>> [snip about alarm-clocks-pretending-to-be-cats]
>>> Ok, granted, Pepper is the only dog I've ever had that I was able to
>>> train not to wake me up in the morning. I was sleeping on a futon
>>> right near the floor when I first got him, and I just shoved him off
>>> the bed whenever he made noise at night. He got the message.
>>
>>
>> In the mists of pre-history, my puppy never woke me up in the morning,
>> but
>> that's more because Dad made him sleep in the garage, and not in the
>> house.
>
> My parents made our family dogs sleep in the kitchen, with three firmly
> closed doors between dogs and sleeping parents.
>
> If one of the dogs got through two of the doors (let out by, say, small
> children), she would stand at the parental bedroom door and BREATH
> through the crack by the doorjamb. She could be a very loud breather --
> darn near got a whistling effect, sometimes. (She knew barking and
> whining were not allowed. But how could we outlaw breathing?)

We had one dog who was ocasionally banished to the kitchen for sleeping.
You could hear him go... stomp, stomp, stomp, click click click all the
way down the carpeted hall into the linoleum kitchen. He would then
tiptoe back into the bedroom, making none of the sounds he had
previously been so loud about.

SAMK
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SAMK wrote:
> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
<snip>
>>> In the mists of pre-history, my puppy never woke me up in the
>>> morning, but
>>> that's more because Dad made him sleep in the garage, and not in the
>>> house.
<snip>
> We had one dog who was ocasionally banished to the kitchen for sleeping.
> You could hear him go... stomp, stomp, stomp, click click click all the
> way down the carpeted hall into the linoleum kitchen. He would then
> tiptoe back into the bedroom, making none of the sounds he had
> previously been so loud about.
> SAMK

Tiptoe? Seriously? Anyone else ever had a dog who could
deliberately not-click when walking on hard surfaces? Every
dog I've ever had clicked like castanets on hard floors.

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On Aug 29, 9:30 pm, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Tiptoe? Seriously? Anyone else ever had a dog who could
> deliberately not-click when walking on hard surfaces? Every
> dog I've ever had clicked like castanets on hard floors.
>

My best canine buddy could sneak up on people. Not through any great
tiptoeing technique, he just had VERY furry feet. Hazard was a very
large Malamute. His head came up to my hip, but he was the quietest
dog I ever met. If I didn't actually see him walk up, the first I
would know about it was when a cold dog nose would bump my leg.

At the house I grew up in, the neighbors had a German Shepard who
would come visiting. It would be rather disconcerting to be leaning
headfirst into the irrigation weir late at night, adjusting valves,
and have a cold wet nose run up your thigh. Luckily that nose belonged
to a very nice dog, but it still made me levitate the first time it
happened, since I had not heard anything due to the noise of the
water.

Snowfire
Goddess of Cats
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Snowfire wrote:
> On Aug 29, 9:30 pm, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>Tiptoe? Seriously? Anyone else ever had a dog who could
>>deliberately not-click when walking on hard surfaces? Every
>>dog I've ever had clicked like castanets on hard floors.
>
>
> My best canine buddy could sneak up on people. Not through any great
> tiptoeing technique, he just had VERY furry feet. Hazard was a very
> large Malamute. His head came up to my hip, but he was the quietest
> dog I ever met. If I didn't actually see him walk up, the first I
> would know about it was when a cold dog nose would bump my leg.

Not deliberate, though -- an inborn talent.

I grew up in warm parts of California, so we never had
long-haired dogs. Maybe that's why I remember all my dogs
clickclickclicking.

One of our dogs could be quiet, and willing to stand for
hours (and hours) in the center of the kitchen. So if Mom
was cooking and forgot the dog was there... Mom is *not* a
shrieker, but once or twice the dog startled her with the
cold-nose/warm-back-of-knee trick. Memorable. :>

> At the house I grew up in, the neighbors had a German Shepard who
> would come visiting. It would be rather disconcerting to be leaning
> headfirst into the irrigation weir late at night, adjusting valves,
> and have a cold wet nose run up your thigh. Luckily that nose belonged
> to a very nice dog, but it still made me levitate the first time it
> happened, since I had not heard anything due to the noise of the
> water.

At night? In darkness? Cold noses and strange, big-toothed
visitors? And you a reader of adventurous fantasy novels
with dragons and monsters in them? I'd have done darn more
than levitate!

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