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ElaineG Reading Standers by Dale Brumfield

23 Jun 2012, 05:00 AM | Post: #11

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(22 Jun 2012 08:53 PM)Lou Wrote: We've got four cats and they really do live the lie of Riley here. They eat like kings and claim about 70% of our bed at night leaving me duvetless and teetering on the edge.

We are forever chasing them round to house to retrieve mice and frogs that they've brought in and not so long ago, we were decorating and one of them managed to get into the room, run thought the roller tray and leave painty cat prints all over the carpets and window ledges as we chased her.

Despite all this though, we love them to bits.

We have one cat - or to put it better - there is a cat who comes into our house every day who demands food and somewhere soft to sleep and totally ignores us the rest of the time because he is an antisocial ******* . If we walk into the room he will lift his head and stare at us, then very casually rise up onto all four legs and just stroll out of the room. It is just the way he does it that really gets up my nose, so regal and if he could talk I am sure he would say something like "I did not give you permission to be in my presence". I am the only person in the house that he actually has any time for - when he wants feeding he is all over me but as soon as the food is in his bowl then I might as well be invisible.We have tried making friends with him by buying him cat toys and trying to tempt him to play with them, but he just stares at them as if to say " whaddya think i am, a performing monkey?" and never bothers with them. Any ideas we might have had of cosying up on the sofa with the cat on our laps just were a total waste of time, because he just doesn't want to socialise with us.

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23 Jun 2012, 09:20 AM | Post: #12

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We have 3 cats and I'm completely silly about them all, even the one who, a bit like Elaine's cat, never sits on my lap and only snuggles up to me when his fur is all wet!
(I am silly about spiders too, but in a different way as they cause me to panic and run around screaming)

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23 Jun 2012, 09:41 AM | Post: #13

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(23 Jun 2012 09:20 AM)cecilia_writer Wrote: We have 3 cats and I'm completely silly about them all, even the one who, a bit like Elaine's cat, never sits on my lap and only snuggles up to me when his fur is all wet!
(I am silly about spiders too, but in a different way as they cause me to panic and run around screaming)

Some cats are furry psychopaths. I used to be visited by a neighbouring cat who walked along the decorative moulding from the next flat's window into mine. He was usually delightful. Just occasionally, for no reason, he would claw my ankles.

Try talking to your spiders and giving them names. They might like it and it will calm you down.

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ElaineG Reading Standers by Dale Brumfield

23 Jun 2012, 09:49 AM | Post: #14

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I'm glad my cat isn't the only psychokitty Big Grin

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23 Jun 2012, 11:18 PM | Post: #15

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We haven't had cats since our two old boys died (one lived to 16.5 years, the other to 18), but we were cheerfully silly about their comfort. Sura liked to sleep between us and graaaaadually push until he had the middle of the bed to himself and we were perched on the edges. Kimi, the one who lived to be 18, had quite a dignified old age with us fussing over him, anticipating what he might want before he'd got around to expressing the need. Smile

Our neighbours were just about as silly over them. L. was a keen fisherman, and whenever he came home with some trout those cats would score a generous helping. The usual pattern was that Sura would come home with fish on his breath, and Kimi would immediately go next door and demand fish for himself.

We left them at a cattery a few times early on, and then the neighbours admitted they missed the cats too much when we were away, and could they please look after them in future. Of course this suited everyone very well!

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Robbie and I don't have any children and I think we've substituted the two dogs and the cat for kids. They're ridiculously well fed, have the run of the house and generally act like they're in charge but they do make me laugh with their antics so I figure it's all worthwhile. Especially of a night time when I'm watching TV and all three of them will clamber up onto my lap and go to sleep, it's so adorable. Heart

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