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If I were your fat cat, anything you do shall be considered as starving me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
How come my food is not ready six times a day? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />
And what is this little puny dish with dry blobs of smelly food?
I demand a whole chicken for dinner, two mice for breakfast, and a 300 grams fresh fish for my lunch.
Human Slaves could be very dumb when it comes to my demands, why does he not understand that he is MY SLAVE, or when on earth shall he get it? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

Then what is that new issue of taking me to the vet every now and then?
Why do you ever think that I am fat, I am fine, I am really fine; I am quite normal as a master who has no job else than eating, sleeping and giving orders to my human slaves. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

We shall all die, so let me eat my way to death.
Who wants to starve his way to health?
Sheesh, your human philosophy is intolerable.
Look at me, I am your cat master, and you MUST obey me.
Now put the damn food in my dish as I told you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />

And don’t you forget to clean my litter box regularly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Signed, Mandrake’s fat cat. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />

ROFLMAO! You may not have known my cat but you sure captured his spirit DAD.

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Mandrake, cats are very persistant teachers - they seem to believe, if they stop commanding, human slaves might forget their duties - that's at least what mine told me when I complained <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

I've had about 40 cats until now, mostly 3-4 at a time, mainly problematic ones (strays, neurotic, abandoned, chronic ill, illtreated). My family loves dogs and when I got my first cat as an adult, I was in for a hard time. Tiggy taught me very severely where my correct place was: Under her claw! And in her former life she was a vacuum cleaner, cause she seemed to inhale everything she thought suitable for lunch, including rubber, pins, needles etc. As she had a heart disease, I had to keep her on diet and lock everything dangerous away. She was not amused... And then it happened, I gave her to my colleague during my vacation and she stole liver sausage, died of intestinal occlusion 14 days later. Ah well, I enjoyed her 13 years.

Faile: Test for Feline Leukaemia (FeLV, FeSV)was what I meant, this is more common than the relatively new disease Feline AIDS (FTLV, FIV-FAIDS)
Kiya

Cats can have AIDS too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />.

Now we're in trouble.

Nope, you're not in trouble, this disease does [color:"yellow"]NOT[/color] go over to other races, it's race specific.

Symptoms are the same as for the human virus, it's a lymphosome retro-virus affecting the immune system. Cats die of cancer, certain teeth diseases, are weak and always ill. Infected kittens die very quickly. This disease is treacherous, cause the virus can park in the bones, the blood test seems to show a healthy cat. Then it gets virulent again after a time, even after years. No healing possible, but you can vaccinate the cat if it's healthy, this gives protection if faithfully repeated each year. Treatment can only reach the secondary illness, not the virus itself.
FAIDS/FeLV/FIV are related.
Kiya

My vet book says the USA has 1-12% infected cats, but I guess, the value is higher now. France (22.1%) and Great Britain (12.8%) are far worse. It's known since 1987. so don't worry, Jolie. Human HIV/AIDS hysteria is no longer an issue AFAIK, it's just another immune defect and really race specific.


And if you're still concerned: My Pucki was first positive, then negative as a kitten, was 13 yrs old and then the sarkom (cancer) came. I'm still negative <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Though theories say, FeLV can affect dogs, too. That's what my vet told me, don't know if this theory exists anymore.

WE'RE in trouble??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
You scare me jolie.

Cats are good students, uhm if what you teach them is for their advantage. So I showed my cats how to open doors, and after a while they jumped to open and then pushed or pulled.

My cats mostly talked to me 2, they meowed and when i was close the ran some untill i was close again and so on untill she was standing at the door of where we keep the food, same when they are outside and want to come in, they meow 1 or 2 times, wait and meow again, if nobody opens she know none is home and goes to hide under some cover.

Cats are the cutest !!

During my premarital life all my cats could open doors because they had lever type handles. The exception was one sticky door that humans find difficult to open. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> Um ... key-locked doors too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Now, in Japan, the doors are either sliding or with rotary knobs, and the later type is a no-go type.
Sliding doors though are very easy for cats when they are smooth and I never needed to teach them anything concerning opening and steeling. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

During dinner, if we serve fish, Mimi would sit on my wife’s chair and plead for tasting that stuff, but if we neglect her she would demonstrate some persistence by looking and sniffing at the tabletop with exaggeration until she makes us feel guilty. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

We usually laugh a lot and succumb to her majesty's wills but with great caution not to upset her health. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />


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Get a laser pointer. It is so much fun to watch them chase the little red dot. It's even more fun watching the confusion when they do catch it!

Other names Alex and I considered for our cat were Christmas and Lithium.

Where are the pictures! I wanna see pictures! <bounce> <bounce> <bounce> <bounce>

In my experience any light will do. Or a mirror. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> They can get pretty busy being mad at their own image.
Ah... at that age they're very curious and will play with almost anything you give them.
Or whatever they decide is worth investigating at that time. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

@faile: I didnt really think much about it at the time, I just wanted to get the guy breathing again <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

@kiya: See it was actually the kitty who took over my body and made me do it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

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The problem here is that if the “kitty” really liked it, “kitty” might pretend to be suffocating rather too often. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

And you accused Morbo of having a dirty mind... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Me! Accusing! Never.
I might have been praising him but you missed it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

So, Faile, is your kitty an angel or a devil ?

I'm guessing a devil, based on faile's own character <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />

Based on faile's character it must be an angel. (But she keeps it well hidden) Just a little rough around the edges.
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My niece is moving. She and her hubby bought an old farm and are busy building, tearing old things down, rebuilding, ...
They have 3 dogs and 2 cats.
The two older dogs (a rotweiler and a belgian shepherd) don't really care. They just lay outside in the grass.
But the puppy (a cocker-spaniel) and the two cats are very curious about what's going on around them.
They keep running in and out, get in the way, put their noses into everything,... being funny, silly young -but sometimes anoying- pets.
The other day we ware busy with lots of different things. Inside and outside, tearing down an old barn, redecorating and furnishing the inside of the house, doing stuff in the enormous garden,.... So they didn't knew where to go first.
They decided they had to keep an eye on things everywhere.
They run through puddles of water in the garden, run back in the house, leaving paw prints everywhere, getting themselves completely messy becouse of all the dust where we ware drilling and grinding. Then went back outside and decided the new cement was really interesting. The puppy even rolled around in it I think... based on what he looked like afterwards.
You should have seen them... they almost looked like 3 walking statues. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> My niece was close to crying though.
They gave them a couple of showers, but their fur was just to messed up. They got a nice haircut, even the cats. The vet said it was the only solution left. The puppy doesn't seem to care. But the cats didn't like that all. I guess they feel naked now. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> I guess (hope) they stay far away from cement now.

Although you have written your short encounter in a way that makes us realise that it was fun for the pets at least at first, I agree with your niece on crying. The vet costs money and taking them to the vet wastes time, but that is hardly the issue when it comes to health concerns. If it was me, I would have been scared to death. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I guess we would have been scared if they didn't looked so... eh... amazing is the only word I can think of that seems to justify it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
We ware to stunned and confused to think of their health. And they ware still going at it as if nothing had happened. So I guess their health wasn't in danger. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

They actually look even more cute and silly now. The cats really seem to hide as if they really feel naked. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
The puppy is as crazy as ever. But a cocker-spaniel without the typical long hair... well...he just looks silly with that short cut.
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Cats are creatures that really like their dignity. They get all embaressed when they look undignified. If you ever see at cat do something foolish prepare for it to look at you as if to say "What are you looking at human? I MEANT to do that you know" or to go hide somewhere till the embaressment wears off <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />.

And to sort out the argument, faile is a chaotic good pirate famed for not letting her crew eat anything but vegetables, especially certain rare mushrooms. Tattoos are compulsory ya swabs! *Hides somewhere where I cant be made to walk the plank and falls about laughing* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

@handefood: We need a pirate smile with an eyepatch <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />