Things I've learned about cats

[Baakay]

As I am sure all people who co-exist with cats can testify Cats do not understand the concept of Daylight Savings Time.

Our 16 year old is now yelling her head off at 5:00am to be fed even though she gets fed at 6:30am

Ignoring does not help for she gets next to your head , nudges you then yells very insistantly right in your ear.

Good thing she is so cute and has been a part of our family for so long...

What you said.
Every word of it.

Make them just-turned-19 and senile as all get out and you have the added bonus of Parkinsonian-like head wobbles just to make you feel guilty for not being up at the crack of stupid

Ahh, poor old sweetie probably won't be with us all that much longer, so I can deal with it for awhile yet

[DevoVamp]

Also

Cats know exactly how to get attention whenever they are ignored (for example when you are reading a book, she or he will sit down on the top of the book.)

LOL! My dog has done that! She also makes this sound that's like a cross between a growl and a purr when you're trying to read the paper and she wants you to stop! If that doesn't work, she sneezes at you.

This is the same dog that screams at the mailman. And I do mean scream!! Think blood chilling shriek!

A cousin of mine had a cat who liked to sleep on her dresser, well, since my cousin put perfume bottles and hairbrushes and things on there, the cat decided to "clean" it. She'd walk along and just knock everything off, "ping.... ping..... ping" until it was clear and then she'd stretch out and take up the whole thing.

Animals, gotta love them!

[HotIce]

if my cat wants attention, he makes sure he gets it... he's sat on my checkbook, stands in front of the monitor.... climbs to the top of the bathroom door and cries b/c he wants me to get him down. (not sure how he balances there)

he thinks he's an opera singer.... even after being fed, played with clean litter box... he feels the need to start crying/singing/bellowing as -soon- as i try to lay down for any kind of sleep. A cats aria(sp?) is -not- something i'm accustomed to falling asleep to yet.

When He wants me up, it is his custom to jump on me, and start kneeding (lack of a better word) and verbalizing that it's my time to get out of bed, at 5:30pm on the nose, almost every day.... he's almost more reliable than my alarm clock. >_<

But I also find it pleasant to wake up and find him happily asleep on me... or by me. Though it's a lil scary that i sleep so soundly that i don't notice my cat walking all overme and making a bed out of my back or stomach.

[Cloud]

And the what happened?

[Baakay]

if my cat wants attention, he makes sure he gets it... he's sat on my checkbook, stands in front of the monitor.... climbs to the top of the bathroom door and cries b/c he wants me to get him down. (not sure how he balances there)

he thinks he's an opera singer.... even after being fed, played with clean litter box... he feels the need to start crying/singing/bellowing as -soon- as i try to lay down for any kind of sleep. A cats aria(sp?) is -not- something i'm accustomed to falling asleep to yet.

When He wants me up, it is his custom to jump on me, and start kneeding (lack of a better word) and verbalizing that it's my time to get out of bed, at 5:30pm on the nose, almost every day.... he's almost more reliable than my alarm clock. >_<

But I also find it pleasant to wake up and find him happily asleep on me... or by me. Though it's a lil scary that i sleep so soundly that i don't notice my cat walking all overme and making a bed out of my back or stomach.

*giggle* As I type with one arm under the front end of Emily (which drools) and the other over her tail (which helps with the keyboard) this is especially funny.

[aernath]

Last week, I didn't know whom to laugh at the most: the cat or my husband.

I went away to Guam for one night, leaving the cat and husband at home alone together.
Apparently, the next day before I got back, the cat decided to express his opinion in a little pile on my bed.
Yes, that's funny. But now, what does my husband do upon finding the "note"? He picks it up (with paper towels) and deposits the "note" in the middle of the cat's bed (he has a hammock in the window).
Yes, that's funny. But the cat wasn't around when my husband did this. Later on, my husband is downstairs reading, and sees the cat make his way up the steps to the bedroom. Shortly thereafter followed by a loud protest "MEOOOW!"
: I didn't know whether to laugh because the cat had pooped in my bed because he was upset with me for leaving (I forgot to tell him I was leaving), or because my husband put it in the cat's bed, or because the cat then protested about it!

[sailorsv13]

That is hilarious Aernath!

Some cats (such as my kitten) decide that there is an invisible mouse hiding under the couch. My cat spends at least HALF the day staring under the couch with an excited look on her face. She claws the couch, she shoves her head into the crevices of the couch, she meows at the couch, and she even jumps away from it as though something popped out at her! I have lifted that couch up, looked under it, inside of it, and practically turned it inside out and STILL have yet to find the phantom mouse!

~ Bri ~

[Not Sir Phobos]

This is a quote from a button I used to have:

A cat by any other name is still a sneaky little furball who shits behind the couch.

[JWR]

Ok we all know cats can be creatures of habit.

The last time we left for a few days my sister came over to feed our three cats. After taking the bowls (simular but different colors) she placed the food in them and then placed in front of the cats.
The oldest Snowball and Chocolate our seal point Siamese just stood there looking at her then yelled. It took my sister a few minutes of getting yelled at to figure out she had dared place the wrong color bowl in front of these 2 and after she reversed the bowls , both cats proceeded to eat their food.

Fast forward to today , Snowball who will turn 17 on the 24th of this month had the yellow plastic bowl shes used for 14 + years finally fall apart , So... We took another bowl (white one) and put her food down this morning. Did she eat from .... Noooooo! She just yelled at us all the way down the hallway.
So I just got back from going to 4 different stores looking for a YELLOW BOWL, finally found one , put her food in it and she ate it then went into the sunroom for a nap.

[aernath]

LOL!!! We'll be talking about the "yellow bowl" forever!

[Baakay]

Ok we all know cats can be creatures of habit.

Heh...heh... and they expect you to follow suit.

When I get up in the morning, Emily has to make sure that the first thing I do is go into the bathroom. Doesn't matter whether I have any particular NEED for such a visit; she yells at me anyway.

Which is not all that odd, really... what IS strange is that she does the same thing when I walk in the door in the evening. I'm greeted by stampedes of children, and a cat who insists that I go to the bathroom.

"Yellow bowl!" *giggle* If that isn't just like an elderly cat...

[usamamo]

I love this thread. I laughed so hard my sides hurt and I shed tears. So I thought I'd add my won experience.

I have never owned a cat before but my bf and I got one 7 months ago. I thought all cats were pretty similar. Boy o boy was I ever wrong.

When she was a tiny little thing, she used to climb up my pants to get up to the table, sink or anything really. She absolutely loves water. It is frustrating doing dishes because she sits on the sink and plays with the foam and water. She loves running water, so you have to leave it on while you dry the dishes. Not only that, but she follows you to the toilet wanting you to turn on the tap for her. When she gets desperate she plays in her water dish.
I swear she is crossed with a dog. You can sit and play fetch with her for half hour and she wont get tired of it. She loves going outside on her leash. She runs to the back door when you pick it up. Oh and she loves scraps.

We definatley have a weird one. She ripped her scrathing pole carpet off the other day. I don't think those things work, her claws seem even sharper! She also loves choking me to death at night. She sleeps across my neck and her feet always seem to be on my throat.

Anyways, thats my experience. No matter what she does, my little mischief will always have my love.

[JWR]

Ok , of my three cats , each has their own personality.

Snowball , who is now 17 has become very demanding in her old age. She jumps into bed at 3:00am and yells in my ear till I wakeup and let her into the bes beside us. Then starts yelling a 1/2 hour before the alarm goes off to be fed. After eating she stands in the hallway and yells at the top of her lungs till my wife Maria goes into the den and sits on the couch so Snowy can sit on her lap and then is contented.

Chocolate our now 8 year old Sealpoint Siamese will demand attention only when she want's it and not a second before. She is a beautiful and solid cat and knows it for she spends a nice chunk of the day sitting infront of the mirrored doors of our closet admiring herself.

Finally their's Josie our newest who realy does now meow but more squeeks. Every so often she disappears or so she thinks for we can always find a "lump" in our bed where she has crawled up under the bedspread and went to sleep. Normally she can be there most of the day till dinnertime. She also has adopted a cardboard filebox I had set on a chair in my computer room in which she pearches herself and watches me type on the computer.

Since our kids are grown , it's nice to still have company around the house.

[Cloud]

That is a generalization.

[Baakay]

Every so often she disappears or so she thinks for we can always find a "lump" in our bed where she has crawled up under the bedspread and went to sleep.

Oooo! Oooo! Bedlumps!

We play that game too. Buffy isn't as fond of it now that she's a grande madame of 19, but she has this thing about the bed being MADE. ALWAYS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Whenever I change the sheets she freaks. She will jump up and flop down right in the middle of the bed and just *glare.* So way back when I started just tossing the sheets onto the bed, right over her. Then I'd go about smoothing them out all around her, proclaiming loudly "Tsk! There's a LUMP in the bed!" and run my hands over the top of her as if trying to flatten out a bedlump.

Silly? Yes, but when you can play a game with a cat for the best part of two decades it takes on legendary status. She's been known to race down the hall and leap into the bed just before I get there, so that I *can't* take the sheets off!! And then give me that smug "I DARE you" look.


Gotta love these guys.