Expressing disinterest in a topic

Cookie said:
I'm an Obsessive Catpulsive myself too. Have loved cats since I found out about em back when I was a teensy kid. What's not to love.
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Claws.

Psycho Mao scratched me up real good yesterday. Then he curled up on my lap and purred. :jaded:

Other than that, yeah, the little fur-balls are cool.

He seems to have expressed his negative opinion for the topic of "good behavior" ...
 
I've had many many scabs and scars from my kitties' sharp claws too. Trimming is a good idea but not as easy as one thinks.
 

Cookie said:
I've had many many scabs and scars from my kitties' sharp claws too. Trimming is a good idea but not as easy as one thinks.
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Uh - I never had the courage to trim them - always afraid of hitting that vein. I just give them a good scratching post and hope they use it. Roomie usually trims them, though - she seems to know what she's doing.
 
applecruncher said:
btw Holly, when you say you don't like Cats are you talking about the Andrew Lloyd Webber kind or the one slinking around my ankles right now?
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sowwy AC, and all cat lovers I don't like the real four legged felines....(not that I liked the musical either)....but then I wouldn't demand everyone agreed with me just because that's MY opinion... :rolleyes:
 
Actually I have a love for all furry creatures. Bearded dragons aren't furry but quite expressive faces...kind of mini dinosaurs. But dogs AND cats together always. Remind me that the next time the kits get into a slap fight on the keyboard. Or my leg, you know that move dogs do where they beat at you like horses? When it's a big dog you get scary scratches.
 
A bit on the humorous side ,regarding cats ...while we were out dancing recently at a hall ( locally)which is in the middle of a farming area so it's fairly isolated (about 16 km from our small town) Anyway we were dancing and a large black and white cat appeared in the doorway it sat and watched us for about 4 Minuites with a big frown as if to say I'm sure there's something wrong with you 4 people ....:laugh:It stayed in the hall dashing up and down the very slippery wood floor ,it would go out the back door and come back in and sit on the doorstep again looking at us ....at one stage it sat next to our tiny stereo we take out there for music ,hubby said it will go as soon as I turn up the music but it again just sat there looking at us ...:confused:
It hung around us while we had lunch then disappeared ,
I Latter phoned the people we pay the rent for the hall to ask it is was their cat ...It was ... I asked him to check the hall if he didn't see it around home in case it was hiding behind something in the hall when we locked it up as we didn't expect to be back there untill it's cooler ( next year )
 
Not liking cats --- that's interesting --- is it not being smitten with cats like many are, or is it out and out hatred of cats, maybe having roots in childhood trauma.

I once had a friend over for supper and I had 3 cats at the time who enjoyed mingling with guests. This poor girl sat cringing against the couch, scared out of her skull when one of the cats looked her way or came near. I would consider that some kind of neurosis or phobia, since our cats weren't about to lunge for her throat. She was terrified and I couldn't understand it, and I still can't understand being afraid and/or hating one of earth's precious creatures. I like just about all animals, except those who want to kill and eat me, perhaps not a giant warthog -- Goats, fish, cows, horses, dogs, four legged ones and even 2 leggeds like birds and chickens, even gasp, humans - like them all
 
Cats are fascinating... but you cannot appreciate that with only one cat.. I have 5 cats... and it's so interesting to watch them interact. They have set up a whole little society in my house.. Each cat apparently has his/her role to play, and each has his/her own territory.. no matter how small.. One has a shelf in the back room.. One on a chair under the kitchen table.. etc.. Yet they DO seem to genuinely appreciate and enjoy one another.. some love one more that the other.. some are more lone wolves... One is the boss, and breaks up fights... so interesting.
 
Cookie said:
I'm an Obsessive Catpulsive myself too. Have loved cats since I found out about em back when I was a teensy kid. What's not to love.
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Whoa! Sounds as though you favor "catapulting" them.....I KNOW ya ain't that type......

(I couldn't resist). imp
 
imp said:
Are there many fights, QS? imp
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Actually not... They have pretty much set up boundaries. Once in a while someone does something to piss off another and there is some hissing and spitting... but NEVER any blood shed.. I have never seen one hurt another cat... I have one cat I call the Bouncer.. his name is Harold.. He is a giant orange Tabby.. He breaks up fights immediately and sends the would be combatants to their corners to cool off.
 
QS, my experience also. Although I only have two cats now, condo rules, not mine, for years I had anywhere from four to six at a time. I recall in my youth, when the white cat Solomon, who greatly resembled a baby fur seal, benevolently ruled the

feline household for fifteen years, including my son when he was small. Lol. Solly even raised any kittens we had. I can still see him lying on his side, patiently allowing little scraps of kittenhood to "nurse."
 
When I had a multiple-cat household I also had a "bouncer cat" - it was interesting watching him do his thing to restore the social order of the clowder (a group of cats).

Two cats would get into it, he'd come barreling in - he was a BIG cat - and cuff each of the combatants in the head with his mighty paw. They'd go to their respective corners to cool down, he'd turn and wink at me as if to say "Okay, boss - no problems here". :D
 
I've enjoyed the cat stories on here, thanks for sharing. And Phil, thanks for mentioning what Clowder means, I'm going to have to go tell my brother he is the Piped Piper of a Clowder. It's not often I can get one over on him!
 
Cookie said:
Not liking cats --- that's interesting --- is it not being smitten with cats like many are, or is it out and out hatred of cats, maybe having roots in childhood trauma.

I once had a friend over for supper and I had 3 cats at the time who enjoyed mingling with guests. This poor girl sat cringing against the couch, scared out of her skull when one of the cats looked her way or came near. I would consider that some kind of neurosis or phobia, since our cats weren't about to lunge for her throat. She was terrified and I couldn't understand it, and I still can't understand being afraid and/or hating one of earth's precious creatures. I like just about all animals, except those who want to kill and eat me, perhaps not a giant warthog -- Goats, fish, cows, horses, dogs, four legged ones and even 2 leggeds like birds and chickens, even gasp, humans - like them all
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I don't dislike cats, I just prefer dogs, especially big ones. I love how they interact with me. And they are so CUTE! I've had cats in the past, but mostly they were quite aloof until they wanted to knead my flesh with their claws; whereas Bonnie always thinks I am swell, even when I'm not. And when I've been off on an errand where she couldn't come with, she has an absolute orgasm of joy to see me on my return -- gives me kisses, runs around in circles, does a little break dance routine and then flops over on her back for me to pet her underside.
 
I have experienced Siamese cats that have many of the same qualities as dogs. My great grandmother had a farm. Watch, the border collie, (all her sheepdogs were named Watch,) was best friends with a Siamese cat. Together, they would herd the sheep. It was amazing to see. Unlike most working dogs, Watch slept with a cat!
 
I also have 4 dogs... none of them are particularly crazy about the cats... and the cats run rings around the dogs.. taunting them every chance they get.. getting just close enough to get them to react and then leaping straight up 4 ft to the top of a cabinet... to escape the snap... One cat enjoys sneaking up on a dog to slip in a sucker punch.
 

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