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Forum Meta => Archive => General Discussion Archive => Topic started by: Allama on December 11, 2007, 08:30:19 PM
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This topic is to praise cats of all kinds, discuss what kinds of kitties members here live with (or used to), and share anecdotes/quotes/myths about them.
Basically, cats are the topic. Go.
"'I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, 'What is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?' Death thought about it. 'Cats,' he said eventually. 'Cats are nice.'"
- excerpt from Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
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(http://www.greatdreams.com/cats/bast1.gif)
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/me purrs.
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I love that quote so much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dno3r_rcqpU&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dno3r_rcqpU&feature=related)
Someday, I will be like that, too. Cats seem to have that effect.
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i have 6 of them it a small condo
crazy ? i think so
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Dont like them that much - end of!
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dogs=good
cats=ok, dont like them, dont hate them
ferrts= ..im going to kill one someday
Hey, one bit me!
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I had some regards about cats, once I gave a piece of food to a cat and he almost pulled my finger apart from my hand with a nail. Not that I was afraid but...anyway, later on my mom got a cat, he's more dangerous with his teeth than with his nails, although now I've another cat, female kitten, I dunno...the other one is smart, but this kitten is smarter by her age...she gets interested with screens, TV screens or PC screens, I even play with her with the mouse pointer. Is that normal? my other cat reacts like if the screen was a clean wall or something, while the kitten even plays with TV, if not watching it, trying to grab things on the screen, not just random, if there's a ball running, specially in football games, she gets really interested by that white dot.
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Cat + Laser Pointer = Win.
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Works with dogs too.
Cats don't love you. They use you.
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Dogs are walking toilets that make annoying noises non-stop.
Cats are clean, sanitary animals.
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Dogs hate me.
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Works with dogs too.
Cats don't love you. They use you.
Yes. But else can you do but give in to their demands?
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I had a kitty who used to attack tomatoes if they were left out where he could get to them :D
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My cat is lazy except that she determinedly hunts twist ties. Those in particular, too, nothing much else. It's like she doesn't want that bag of chips ever to be resealed...
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I have a black cat (That may explain my streak of bad luck) :'(
I remember the one time he tried to jump on the couch and landed on a plastic bag lying there.
It was quite hilarious to watch him fight to stay on while he slid of the couch together with the bag. ;D
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I have a black cat too...." Brocca" trans. "Jug".
Ages ago, the RC church went on a cat killing purge-they were considered evil because pagans ( Egyptians in this case) worshipped them.
The uncontrolled rodent population celebrated with massive orgies, reproducing exponentially, and began to
spread the plague..
The plague killed off a good proportion of Europeans, including priests. Today, there is a Cryptotorium in Rome where the skeletal remains of 4000 dead capuccini monks (who died in the plague) are artistically arranged in foral motifs, along with the skeleton of Princess Barberini and relatives.
The church backed down. All of the important archeological sites in Rome today are inhabited by cats.
Viva i gatti! Kill the rats!
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The uncontrolled rodent population celebrated with massive orgies.
I have an idea for a new Animal Planet special...
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I once had a cat who came when called. She was fantastic! I lived in this old farmhouse with a lot of fields and woods about and Mittens (a sweet little orange tabby) would wander pretty far off, but even if it took her a minute or two to get back she'd run to the porch when I called her name or made squeaky noises.
She also had the bad habit of crawling into my lap every time I tried to read, but it turned out to be a benefit when I realized she would let me rest the book on her if it wasn't too heavy. Paperbacks only, really, but it was precious.
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I almost forgot to post this poem; since the day I read it I think of Ode to Cats nearly every time I consider their careless grace and aloof appeal.
Ode to Cats - Translated from the original Spanish by Pablo Neruda
The animals were imperfect, long-tailed,
unfortunate in their heads.
Little by little they put themselves together,
making themselves a landscape,
acquiring spots, grace, flight.
The cat,
only the cat
appeared complete and proud:
he was born completely finished,
walking alone and knowing what he wanted.
Man wants to be fish or fowl,
the snake would like to have wings
the dog is a disoriented lion,
the engineer would like to be a poet,
the fly studies to be a swift,
the poet tries to imitate the fly,
but the cat only wants to be a cat
and any cat is a cat
from his whiskers to his tail,
from his hopeful vision of a rat
to the real thing,
from the night to his golden eyes.
There is no unity like him,
the moon and the flower do not have such context:
he is just one thing
like the sun or the topaz,
and the elastic line of his contours
is firm and subtle like the line of a ship's prow.
His yellow eyes have just one groove
to coin the gold of night time.
Oh little emperor without a sphere of influence
conqueror without a country,
smallest living-room tiger,
nuptial sultan of the sky,
of the erotic roof-tiles,
the wind of love in the storm
you claim when you pass
and place four delicate feet on the ground,
smelling,
distrusting all that is terrestrial,
because everything is too unclean for the immaculate foot of the cat.
Oh independent wild beast of the house
arrogant vestige of the night,
lazy, gymnastic and alien, very deep cat,
secret policeman of bedrooms,
insignia of a disappeared velvet,
surely there is no enigma in your manner,
perhaps you are not a mystery,
everyone knows of you
and you belong to the least mysterious inhabitant,
perhaps everyone believes it,
everyone believes himself the owner, proprietor, uncle
of a cat,
companion,
colleague,
disciple
or friend
of his cat.
Not me.
I do not subscribe.
I do not know the cat.
I know it all, life and its archipelago,
the sea and the incalculable city,
botany,
the gyneceum and its frenzies,
the plus and the minus of mathematics,
the volcanic frauds of the world,
the unreal shell of the crocodile,
the unknown kindness of the fireman,
the blue atavism of the priest,
but I cannot decipher a cat.
My reason slips on his indifference,
his eyes have golden numbers.
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And someone seriously wrote that?
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::) maybe that someone...If you envy the French culturally, the rest lying south is also worth envying.
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Meggie is my cat.
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awesome!
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Aybabtu.png)
'nuff said.
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I have a cat. She is a Russian Blue named Sapphire. She rocks. Enjoys biting toes though. >_>
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dogs=good
cats=ok, dont like them, dont hate them
ferrts= ..im going to kill one someday
Hey, one bit me!
If biting makes you hate something, you're either going to live in abstinence or have a very boring sex life.
Cats don't love you. They use you.
*Women
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Well, I can always pretend my cat loves me, even if I'm being used.
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That's why we associate women with cats...
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Well, I can always pretend my cat loves me, even if I'm being used.
That's why we associate women with cats...
Oh, snap! :-P
I had fun with a really nice kitty the other day named Weasely; he's a little ginger kitten and loooves to play with Christmas tree lights. ^_^
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"'I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, 'What is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?' Death thought about it. 'Cats,' he said eventually. 'Cats are nice.'"
- excerpt from Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
I love Pratchett's books, I love cats, do I have to say more?
Cat + Laser Pointer = Win.
Yes, but only until they realize that they can't bite the damn red point ;) .
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That doesn't seem to botehr my cat. Then again, she now goes after other red points that she CAN sink her claws into.
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My cat doesn't like me too much, I don't know exactly why. He's doubtful of my presence, takes half an hour to get approach me when he wants a comfy seat. When the authoritarian figure died (my father), I became the new one, the one that throws him away of the dining table and sort. Maybe he would be ever upset of my humiliations, when he's playing the hard macho I grab him and flip him legs up and tickle his tummy, I think he hates that, specially in front of the female kitten, he only likes that when he's lying down.
Have you ever had a kitten that hates/screams like hell when she's grabbed? Not always, but most of the time she screams or protests or whatever when she's grabbed. What's wrong with her?
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I'd scream if you touched me, let alone picked me up.
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If you'd scream it'd be me raping you.
She has nothing to do with screaming because of me, actually she screams less often when it's me grabbing. She screams with everyone, even vets.
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Cats are very finicky. If your cat doesn't like you much, just nod and move on.
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how can you explain he's always playing with me and calling me? "Delfos! Change the water! Give me food, now!"
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Cats are selfish, picky, arrogant little creatures. It's a wonder that we have them as pets at all, now that I think about it - if they weren't furry and adorable, there'd be no question.
And I cannot explain the talking cat. If this is true, you could make some money on this.
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He does vocalize some stuff, they're different, I can already know if he's asking for me or someone else, there's also other kinds of stuff like "Follow me", after he asks me to get close, he vocalizes the same thing, but well, after all, we could be saying "Fucking bitch, get away!", who knows. Cats aren't supposed to do any noise, they communicate by smell and other kinds of language, they just vocalize stuff because of humans.
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There used to be a cat in my apartment building who would hang around the floor during the evenings. It had a collar, so I guess its owner let it out sometimes. It was very friendly with strangers, to the point that it followed me into my apartment a few times.
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If you'd scream it'd be me raping you.
How would you get ahold of a gun?
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ok....
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If you'd scream it'd be me raping you.
How would you get ahold of a gun?
Don't worry about me...
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I Just saw this video on youtube , and i laughed so hard i nearly cried
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQSoMakoIU&NR=1
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nice thing to make me in the good mood, right before going to a factory, right in the morning! lol
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I Just saw this video on youtube , and i laughed so hard i nearly cried
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQSoMakoIU&NR=1
i once laughed so hard i puked
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amasing, that never happened to me. I wonder if it ever will...
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I've never found something that funny..... yet
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yeah, i was watching larry the cable guy.
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I've never found something that funny..... yet
Never seen the Angry Nintendo Nerd (http://cinemassacre.com/AVGN/Nes_Nerd_videos.html)?
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yeah, i was watching larry the cable guy.
Behold, the slayer of modern intelligence.
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Watch this....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAHl5_LTGQ&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAHl5_LTGQ&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqS20TMaLtg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqS20TMaLtg&feature=related)
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yeah, i was watching larry the cable guy.
Behold, the slayer of modern intelligence.
Verily
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yeah, i was watching larry the cable guy.
Behold, the slayer of modern intelligence.
Verily
I third that.