The Cat Thread

Arkandel

(3) doesn't need a fucking sitter every time my partner and I go out because OMFG WHAT IF HE WAKES UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!?!?.

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What kinda super-cat do you have that doesn't wake up at 4 am, find that the food dish is only 1/3rd full then starts wailing like the world is on fire?

Ganymede

@Arkandel said in The Cat Thread:

What kinda super-cat do you have that doesn't wake up at 4 am, find that the food dish is only 1/3rd full then starts wailing like the world is on fire?

The kind of cat that understands that the U.N.'s restrictions on waterboarding do not apply to me.

Ashen-Shugar

@Arkandel said in The Cat Thread:

@Ganymede said in The Cat Thread:

(3) doesn't need a fucking sitter every time my partner and I go out because OMFG WHAT IF HE WAKES UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!?!?.

<squints>

What kinda super-cat do you have that doesn't wake up at 4 am, find that the food dish is only 1/3rd full then starts wailing like the world is on fire?

Miss Demeanor

I currently have two cats, one is definitely older than the other and by all rights should be terrified of absolutely everything. Male orange tabby, he was a stray we took in during hurricane season about 7 years ago. He has right hip damage that suggests he was either kicked or hit by something as a young cat and it was never properly set so healed 'off'. He is afraid of shoes, shirts, feet, noises (laughter has been known to send him running), his own body noises (he once farted in his sleep, loud enough that it won't him up and sent him tearing through the house, crashing into things, before finally hiding under the bed for about 6 hours), rain, people, etc. This is a cat that for the first three years we had him, would pee in the closet if strange people came into the house just so that he wouldn't have to go downstairs to use his litter box.

Then we ended up getting a calico female from the shelter. She's probably 3-4 years younger than him, has asthma, and is very loving and active. She makes strange noises often (wheezing from her asthma) that by all right SHOULD send the older cat into flee mode. However, instead, she has slowly but surely helped to socialize him. He's still skittish (probably always will be), but he no longer jumps at shadows or his own noises, and he'll even sit with us and purr these days. I can change my shirt and not have him act like the world is ending. He's even joining the morning cacophony for breakfast and lets us know when the food dish is less than full!

Sometimes a scared cat is a scared cat... but sometimes having another cat can help them mellow out.

Ganymede

@Miss-Demeanor said in The Cat Thread:

Sometimes a scared cat is a scared cat... but sometimes having another cat can help them mellow out.

To be fair, my cat isn't that frightened of the world. He is very mellow, and is mellow about a lot of things.

But I also have human larva, so he disappears when they are out and about, trolling for fuzzy things to glom onto.

Miss Demeanor

@Ganymede I have two human larva, of the teenaged male variety. They tromp about in huge shoes and make lots of noise and take up HIS SPACE... going by how scaredy cat the tabby is, I should probably never see him. Instead, my youngest's under-the-bed has become his backup 'safe space' and he will actually allow the oldest larva to touch him. And again, I credit the female calico. She's helped mellow him out ALOT.

Arkandel

Izzy doesn't like strangers which is weird since I found her when she bolted out in front of me in a random street as a kitten and started making...noises in my direction. She's not super-afraid but she doesn't trust new people, and she will bolt for the basement or disappear into the aether if she encounters people she doesn't know.

However once she gets to know someone (about 12-16 hours seems to be the threshold after which she'll decide she might as well venture out and take a chance on them) she remembers them. She had met my father in law years ago overseas for a couple of weeks, then once we moved over she immediately knew him and was fine with him petting her.

What she despises is other animals. When she met my oldest dog they got along fine (but they were both quite young at the time), then when we brought in a second dog Izzy barely tolerated her for ages; she'd run across the house whenever she was pissed off at one of us, find Ruby sleeping on a bed or something and smack her in the face to vent her frustration (cats are such assholes), but when we had a guest older and very sweet tomcat for a few days over she hated him. She'd wait behind the bedroom door where he was holed up just to try and sneak in and be mean to him for no reason.

Miss Demeanor

Oh sure! Prior to Orange Tabby and Calico Girl we had Half-Siamese. Half-Siamese HATED anything that was not a human. Humans she absolutely loved and would sit on your lap for pettings and purrs for hours on end. But despite being an older declawed cat, she would beat the holy hell out of any animal that came within swiping distance. Within sight range she would growl and fluff up and wait to see if they dared come closer.

Auspice

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I have my fuzz! She gets very insistent on attention sometimes, which is fine. We've missed one another. I need to get a couple more toys for her before I fly out for my Christmas trip (she's never been a solo-pet before), but she's settling in fairly well. She really likes the sliding doors out to the porch... Good view and the ducks sometimes come down this way from their pond. I'm thinking I'm going to save up to get a cat tree to put by the door (added bonus: she'll stop trying to claw the couch!).

Catsmeow

Please everyone post more cat pics.

Thanks

Miss Demeanor

These are my current pair. The big orange tabby is DJ, the calico is Glitter. This is an odd moment of normalcy from them, you usually have to wait for them to be asleep to catch them on film together.

Roz

This is Sansa.

Miss Demeanor

SO FLUFFY!!!

Faceless · MSB free since 24/3/2018

This is George Winston(top) and Zoe Francis(bottom).

George is dumb and he likes to get under your feet as you're going through a pitch black house at night making sure everything is secure. If not for being strictly an indoor cat, he would be dead. George is dumb. Lovable dumb, but dumb.

Zoe was a darling and the only cat I've ever liked. She would pet herself using your hand; awake, asleep, willing, or unwilling. She died last January. I miss her.