― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
If anyone in the house, anyone whatsoever, sits on the floor to go through the DVDs or the CD collection, the cat will instantly find this person the most fascinating person in the world, stomp all over them, climb on the books of DVDs/CDs, scream and yell, etc etc etc. This does not occur if a person just chooses to sit on the floor. That person is a boring person. A person looking at DVD cases however is fascinating.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Old Mr. Johnson had troubles of his own. He had a yellow cat that wouldn't leave him alone. He tried and he tried to keep that cat away. Took it up to Canada and told it for to stay.
CHORUS: But the cat came back the very next day. The cat came back. They thought it was a goner, But the cat came back; it just wouldn't stay away.
He gave it to a man going up in a balloon. He told him to give it to the man up in the moon. The balloon it must have busted; well, that's what they all said, 'Cause ten miles away, they picked the man up dead.
Now, this cat was a terror and they thought it would be best, To gave it to a feller who was going way out West. His train went 'round a curve and hit a broken rail. Not a soul was left alive to tell the gruesome tale.
Now the cat was a possessor of a family of its own. There were seven little kittens, 'til there came a cyclone. It tore the houses all apart and tossed the cat around. The air was filled with kittens, but not one was ever found.
Away across the ocean they did send the cat at last. Vessel only out a day and taking water fast. People all began to pray; the boat began to toss. A great big gust of wind came by and every soul was lost.
They threw him in the kennel where the dog did lie asleep, Where the bones of other cats lay piled in a heap. That kennel burst apart and the dog flew out the side, With the dog's ears chewed off and holes in its hide.
He gave it to a little boy with a dollar note. He told the boy to take the cat up river on a boat. They tied a rock around its neck - it must have weighed a pound. And now they search the river for the little boy who drowned.
At last they found a way for this cat to really fix, They trapped it in an orange crate down on highway 66. Come a ten ton truck with a twenty ton load, Scattered pieces of that crate a mile down the road.
The farmer on the corner said he'd shoot the cat on sight. He loaded up his shotgun full of nails and dynamite. He waited in the garden 'til that cat came walking 'round. Seven little pieces of the man was all they found.
They strapped a bull's eye to its chest and tied it to a fence. They lined up with their pistols; everyone was feeling tense. It glared at them with eyes of green and with its teeth it spat. And when the smoke had cleared away, they couldn't find the cat.
The H-bomb fell just the other day. The A-bomb fell in the very same way. Russia went! England went! And then the USA. The entire human race was left without a chance to pray.
― andy ---, Monday, 3 October 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 3 October 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― it was a different shark (wetmink2), Monday, 3 October 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 October 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
As Ally points out, this part of your argument is not actually true.
My cat was having some issues, and so after five or so years of being an indoor kitty, she was allowed out with strict supervision. It seemed to calm her down. Then one day she got stuck under the overhang of a neighbor's building. (When I tried to figure out how to get her out, she came out on her own. "You could have done that the whole time?!") Anyway then I moved to my current place, which is a courtyard apartment thingy, however you describe it, but anyway there are lots of gardens and none of the streets outside are especially busy. She mostly just stays right outside the door, and sometimes plays with the other cats. She tries to go out at night, but this is discouraged since there are sometimes raccoons that come by at night. I am hoping she doesn't get too brave about her wanderings.
Anyway, if a cat is having anxiety issues or seems unhappy being indoors, it's fine to let her out supervised (assuming it's not a dangerous neighborhood). If it's happy being indoors then why show it what it's missing? Let it be happy.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
She's an indoor kittyThere's got to be a twistAn indoor kittyNo fleas up in this bitch
― it was a different shark (wetmink2), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― huell howser (chaki), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought I was the only one with a cat that does this. Mostly she's fine, but sometimes, and again in the presence of plenty of food, water, and attention, she sees it fit to walk around and yodel at the top of her voice for 20-30 minutes. Sometimes an hour. Then she settles on top of the record player and is fine for the rest of the night. It makes no sense, and it's very annoying.
Maybe she wants to go outside.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
A woman I know who is a confessed animal-strong-disliker let her kids get two (free) kittens last year. After paying many hundreds of $$ for shots, neutering, microchipping and the like, she left them out one night and they were eaten by coyotes.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
So then you club her unconscious with an empty wine bottle and go back to bed.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
One of our cats talks to himself most of the day, but in a low conspiratorial mutter.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Monday, 3 October 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah.
― Kenan (Jessa), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I think my cat suffers from ennui.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
This is because cats, being cats, are killing all the native birds/possums/other native wildlife, escaping and going feral, etc etc.
Also as a lot of people have pointed out - what if you have no "outside"? My only "yard" is my balcony and my cat is quite happy to wander out there, sit and view her domain from the safety of being higher up than her peons.
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 3 October 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― nope nothing wrong with that, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Ditto. My cat was all outdoors, all the time. Went on walkabout, took peyote and fought all of the animals. Tuff.
This is how tough: walked into the woods a few weeks ago and never came back. Rest in peace, Spike.
http://static.flickr.com/14/15332076_a78272c6e9.jpg
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link
It's hard to adopt a cat from a shelter in the UK if you're not going to let it out, though. They like to only give cats to people with gardens, so we had to go through an ad in the paper to get the kitten. Unfortunately he has chlamydia and infected his big brother but they're both fine now on antibiotics.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/27/49293752_7db6882198.jpg?v=0
Mr Chang thinks indoor cats are pussies.
― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
my vet is HOTT. BUT CHANG HAS FLEAS. ew. i don't think she was impressed.
― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― salexander (salexander), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Plus our street is pretty densely populated and if the cats did get out we'd never be able to find them.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
**and we have a lot of foxes.**
A cat will see off a fox.
**we'd never be able to find them**
They will come back.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
This might turn into a discussion of "monkey vs horse" level proportions, I'd be careful...
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I've seen a couple of cat/fox confrontations walking home late at night, and it's true that the fox thought better of it and went off, although one time we shooed it away ourselves.
Anyway, as I said above, both cats have chlamydia and therefore weakened immune systems so there's the risk of disease as well. Plus the kitten's still got his bollocks (for the time being).
As for them coming back, how would we know unless we sit outside our building waiting for them? I'm on the 2nd floor!
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah well. Thanks. Cat/Spike was tough as nails. I'm sure he died honorably. What's the feline equivalent of the final shootout of Scarface?
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Also if you are going to let your cat climb into neighbor's yards that's completely inconsiderate and rude. Whether or not you seem to live under some delusion that cats always come back no matter what, I mean if your neighbors wanted eaten plants and dead bugs and rodents and cat shit in their yards, I'm sure they'd put it there themselves. If I lived next door to you lot, I'd buy a German Shepard in 3 minutes.
xpost Dan that is what I think. If you live in a non-rural area you need to keep the kitty on a leash and supervise it if it wants to go out. And not just because it's funny to see a cat on a leash.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link