The CAT room!

Fleas again? get that spray quick ....


msolga I'd have left the miaows on!

Roberta how worrying. I'm so glad it all turned out ok. I know that horrible feeling when you think you are facing the worst.

My daughter came for the weekend and Paddy - who is never really cuddly with us (like Rosie is) - he allows some stroking and purrs enthusiastically for food or being let out but as for choosing to cuddle up with us? huh! only in the mornings and that's to make us get up and let him out. The horror was all cuddly to my daughter, spent ages on the bed with her purring, sat on the settee next to her happily - I told he she could take him home with her - please Little monster!

I think himself and daughter's cat may have something to say about that :wink:

Vivien, Mikey isn't all that cuddly either. I understand that this can sometimes be frustrating. I'm glad (and relieved) that he's not a lap cat.

As for Paddy and your daughter. He just did that to annoy you. He succeeded, didn't he?

he succeeded very well!

It's weird that he doesn't hesitate to walk all over you purring when he wants you or something and will curl up next to himself in the morning - whereas Rosie who does like her cuddles, never ever jumps onto my knee but just sits looking soulful until I notice. Then when I pick her up she's like a ragdoll and just relaxes totally into me, paw around my neck and big happy sigh. (if I want a cuddle when she doesn't it's totally different - alert, tolerating a short cuddle and then wanting to go).

Yes Mikey would be an uncomfortable lap cat! Roberta's head poking out from under a huge pile of fur - breathlessly

Fact is, Vivien, there's too much cat and not enough lap. Sometimes he puts his head in my lap. I can get him to sit in my lap when I give him a pill. But lying down would be impossible. Some part of him would lop over my leg. Mikey is about the size of a lynx. Would a lynx fit in a lap? Not my lap!

Has anyone read Elizabeth Peters novels - sort of historical lighthearted detective stories? I'm just reading one I haven't read and really enjoying it, They are archeologists in Egypt in Victorian times, quite eccentric and with a gorgeous cats (Thunder in the Sky is the one I'm currently reading but that is about the 4th in the series I think). Sort of Indiana Jones-ish with cat and eccentric family.

Roberta

I'm so glad Mikey is OK - you really are in the wars lately, aren't you?



Olga

Leave the cat sounds - we all know you have a critter - and we know who's boss - he should be able to leave his own message - if he doesn't want to take the call!

File this story under: "What were they thinking of?"

About 56 Cats Recovered From D.C. Home

I finally got one minus Flatty yodelling, margo! God that was an ordeal! The trouble was, every time he started his infernal yodelling I totally lost my train of thought!

I'm having cat difficulties right now. Rufus is a former stray I adopted and I've had him for nearly three years, but he's still very skittish. He loves to be petted and have his tummy rubbed; he's about the most affectionate cat I've ever had. But at other times he's so nervous that any movement makes him run away and crouch in a corner, eyeing you with a look of utter distrust and fear, and he'll do this even in respose to gentle, calm movements-- you absolutely can't approach him, he has to decide to approach you.

Both of my cats are indoor cats-- Sticky goes outside if we're out there too, but she can't go out alone because we live in a neighborhood with lots of strays that are always fighting, and lots of speeding cars, and I just can't stand to have her wandering around. Rufus doesn't go out at all, because of his skittish nature I know he won't come back.

The problem is that Rufus slipped out a few weeks ago and hasn't come back. He's in the neighborhood, but he reverts to his stray cat behavior as soon as he gets outside, and won't come near us for anything. I know some people say that if he won't come back it shows that he hates being an indoor cat and I should just leave him out. But he loves being a house cat as long as he's inside, he adores Sticky, and he loves to be cuddled. It's just that when he gets out, he's so nervous that he runs off and then it's like he forgets that he's ever known us. *Sigh*

I miss my big dopey kitty!

Cypher, I'm sorry to hear that Rufus is outside and won't come back. I've never had such a problem, so I don't know what to suggest. Just offering a word of sympathy.

Thanks for the sympathy, Roberta! I don't really expect any advice (althought of course it's welcome) because he's just so weird! I don't think there's much to do with a cat that's so untrusting and spooky. He did come to the edge of his hidey hole and look at me the last time I went out and called him, so perhaps with time he'll start approaching me...we'll see.

cyphercat

I'm perplexed, too. Cat's are SO into their home comforts! I can't imagine one permanently forfeiting the luxury of home for the streets. Could someone else be feeding him, perhaps?

yeah, the neighbors feed their cats outside, so he steals that...but still, it's not like he doesn't get fed at home! He's just such a strange cat, poor guy. I think there must be some past abuse to make him SO jumpy. He especially gets nervous around men.

I think if I was the judge, I would have been more severe!

Woman who dumped kittens sentenced to night in woods

cat hitches ride, takes biscuits

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4489250.stm

I wonder if the PETA types here would want to convict me of animal cruelty for feeding my cat meat products?

I'm a PETA type! Hi! And, ummm, no. And ummm, what's your point?

Hi all, sorry for the long absence.

Paddy is big as ever, and his mean times seem to be at an ebb, due to the fact that I have "allowed" him to have his moments.

I got a new desk and bookcase (matching), for my computer, books, nick-nacks, etc. Where does Paddy decide to laze? Of course, on top of the bookcase and desk where all my nick-nacks are ... what's up with that?

I tried to get him down without breaking anything, so he decided once he got down he could go right back up. Hello?

Now, what do I do? Wait for him to get tired of these shelves, or go ahead and place everything in a new direction? I personally think he has a short attention span and will foreget this in a few days.

One never knows with cats, they have a mind of their own and will use it to it's full capacity:)

Hi Misti! Good to see you!

We also got a new bookcase. It has square compartments that are just cat size. So at the moment, one compartment is empty for the cats to sit in... In one compartment, I put in all the shells I collected in Florida. That's were Mysan sits. I don't know how she does it. Actually, there is no room for her, but she sits there without moving the shells... hmmmm...

Good to see you again, Misti! You, too, urs!