Hi Maggie! Loving the kitteh tales. I can't have cats because I live in a rented place (and the other half is a dog person), so I have hamsters as substitute cats. They're not quite as much fun (although my current teeny dwarf hamster runs so fast in her wheel that she regularly falls out, and then gets back in and repeats the process again and again. All evening, we hear "brrrr BUMP.... brrrrrrrr BUMP...... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr BUMP...")
Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?
Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 29, 2009 11:34:14 pm PDT #1433 of 3094
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
DCJensen - Oct 29, 2009 11:36:44 pm PDT #1434 of 3094
All is well that ends in pizza.
Sounds like that Hamster needs a training wheel.
Or maybe she just likes the flinging.
DCJensen - Oct 29, 2009 11:39:21 pm PDT #1435 of 3094
All is well that ends in pizza.
So this thread turns into a pumpkin on my birthday. Talk about an anti-present.
I hope we end this thread by saying delurkers are welcome to delurk any time, they don't have to wait for October...
Nora Deirdre - Oct 30, 2009 4:01:28 am PDT #1436 of 3094
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
t giggles at ZAR's lurky giggling.
erikaj - Oct 30, 2009 5:42:08 am PDT #1437 of 3094
Always Anti-fascist!
Baseball is good for Olbermann's um, cockles, so even though I still don't grok it, that's good enough right now.(I need a fan to explain stuff someday, preferably not with his depth of knowledge, but basketball is not as subtle.Many times announcers become excited about things that I don't even notice as things.) I do think I understand cats, but maybe that's what they want you think.
Fay - Oct 30, 2009 5:52:52 am PDT #1438 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Welcome, Maggie! Jings, that's an impressively low ID number thingummy!
Man, this thread was a GREAT idea!
Fred Pete - Oct 30, 2009 5:53:17 am PDT #1439 of 3094
Ann, that's a ferret.
I thought dogs were supposed to be the uncritical lovers.
It depends on the cat and the human. It helps to keep in mind what cats want. Food, clean litter box, cozy place to nap, lack of sudden loud noises, attention when and as they (and not you) want it, play opportunities, and you've gone a long way. The tricky part is figuring out the priority each cat places on each of those things.
smonster - Oct 30, 2009 5:55:43 am PDT #1440 of 3094
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Her solution to the dizziness? She starts chasing it the other direction!
Speaking as a dancer, this actually works!
Fay - Oct 30, 2009 6:07:59 am PDT #1441 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
wrt cats - I like the fact that they're much less needy than dogs. I mean, I'm not anti-dog or anything, really, but the comparatively low-maintenance nature of cats suits me.
billytea - Oct 30, 2009 7:12:02 am PDT #1442 of 3094
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Re low-maintenance, there's a recent study checking out your pets' carbon pawprint. Apparently even a medium-sized dog is more damaging than an SUV. Cats are far more environmentally friendly. (Except in Australia, where they chew up all the native wildlife.)