considering a cat

stevie, those are good looking cats!

You can name them Thelonious and Albert if you want because within a week you'll be calling them T-bag and Alleycat or some nonsense anyway.

felinious & catbert

You can name them Thelonious and Albert if you want because within a week you'll be calling them T-bag and Alleycat or some nonsense anyway.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 10 March 2012 21:59 (1 hour ago) Permalink

otm

haha for real, my old cat i just called "cat" and my dog, who had a real name, was generally referred to as 'fathead' or 'stupidface' or 'bunny'

I know at least one person who skipped a step and just named her cat Fathead.

nb i did not call the dog 'bunny,' my sister did. anything that is cute and adorable she calls 'bunny!', with an exclamation point

this woman has several advanced degrees i should add

my cat's name is zipper and i gave her that name but i have never called her that. i call her cat, buddy, tiny, baby, pal, friend, and a bunch of other things. and she probably thinks the words don't, no, stop, and cut it out are all her names. at the shelter her official name was "baby kitty." wtf.

i no longer have a cat

;_; ∞

Oh mookie, I'm sorry.

made the mistake of discussing the matter via chat (lol) while at work, then went into the bathroom and cried

so cliche, next i'll be getting vapors

:(

No longer having a cat is an emotional thing. It's okay to cry or get the vapors. Or both at the same time.

I know it probably won't help much, but at least console yourself that it's better for him not to be moving between homes. Horrible thing to go through, though.

booo :(

aw mookie :(
i would be lost w/o my tuxedoed friend

i'm told there are other cats, but what if they won't do the chin rub? what if they don't enjoy tearing apart my desk chair, or hanging out between the shower curtain and the liner? also he was so fucking handsome.

the cool thing about cats is that each one has its own wacky habits

Oh no!! How sad.

I think you are safe from the vapors however.

i took the cover off my ikea couch to wash it and i am sitting on it and i just felt some little cat claws reach at my back from underneath. what a jokester.

What a scamp.

Our old fat cat has discovered that she can get into the bathtub to drink out of the tap, human cooperation permitting. She did it the first time a few days ago and I was delighted because she has a history of bladder stones and I'm always afraid she's not drinking enough water. Now she's positively beastly about it, going so far as to try to get in the tub with me while I was showering, trying to walk the length of the tub on the edge, which is NOT OKAY because she's 16, fat, and has been clumsy enough to fall off furniture since I got her in 2000. Also, between the two of us, there's not a whole lot of room in the shower and while I remain soft and vulnerable, she turns into a sharp, dangerous, panicked, indiscriminate WMD when she gets wet.

ha. my cat loves hanging out in the bathtub but as soon as I step inside for a shower, he jumps out of there as fast as he can.

Jeff says he's going to turn the shower on her because he has less patience for her obsessive water-seeking behavior, but I don't think he's going to actually do that.

aw mooks, I'm so sorry. hang in there and get another kitty when you are ready. she/he will be different from lyle, but awesome in his/her own way and will love you very much.

That is very very true.

our newish dudes woke us up last night biting our feet. v cute but a little disturbing. also the friendly black one is besotted with my other half and is never happier than when he's 'grooming' her, licking her hair and holding her in position with his paws. the ginger one still hisses when we get within six inches of him, but it used to be a perimeter of a foot, so its improving. and he likes the taste of our feet.

i have thought about getting another cat so that my cat can have a friend to play with but then the thought of two cats in my studio apartment, and twice the food expenses, and the thought of two carrying cases when moving...and i get overwhelmed. I wish cats could do playdates.

she turns into a sharp, dangerous, panicked, indiscriminate WMD when she gets wet.

WCD

the weirdness of cats is weird. i have a cat named snow cat who was a tiny unweaned foundling at first, later a human-avoiding semi-feral backyard dweller for several years before i took her on. she's become an indoor cat under my care, but a very timid one. this worked okay in my old apt, where she had a lot of room to creep warily around, but since i've moved into my gf's house, she's basically confined herself to a single room. she likes me but won't let anyone else get close to her, basically spends her entire life in the bedroom, sleeping most of the time, interrupted by occasional bouts of dashing about and/or playing with stuff. gf has three other cats, but snow cat won't have anything to do with them, and they consequently regard her with suspicion. i worry that she is depressed, but she was hardly thriving as an outdoor cat.

^ cat therapy thread

sorry to hear mookie, as quincie said when the time is right, you will know and will find a new friend, or maybe a new friend will find you, lizzie is also sad too http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6920969120_d6035027db.jpg

contenderizer - that sounds so sad! our orange cat is still crazy timid, though he's only lived with us a month or so. he keeps trying to connect - he climbs on our bed with us at night, and likes nothing better than lying on the floor with me as we yawn at each other (don't laugh i read about it on the internet), but if i get close enough to stroke him he hisses at me and looks enraged. it seems to be an instinctual thing, and we're not sure how to get around it, beyond just giving him space and getting him to slowly trust us. his brother is crazily affectionate, weirdly enough.

stevie, that cat hasn't lived with you that long. I can tell he'll come around; it just might take awhile.

contenderizer, how long have you lived in your gf's house? Cats really dislike change. It's super stressful for them and it takes them some time to feel comfortable. Not only did you move into a new apartment with another person, but there are three other cats there! The fact that Snow Cat comes out to play sometimes is a good sign.

I mean, it took a couple of years for our littlest cat to feel really comfortable with us, and she still hides under the bed when people come over* and if she's sitting on the floor and we walk by, she gets that hilarious, saucer-eyed panicked look and then bolts to one of her hiding places (we know where all of these are but she doesn't know we know).

*she'll start growling when someone walks up the stairs (she can tell when they are coming to our apartment) and as soon as the doorbell rings, she is gone.

I should say that this cat really likes ILX's own n/a.

She does not care for Jesse, however.

thanks carl agatha! we are in this for the long haul!!

that sounds so sad! our orange cat is still crazy timid, though he's only lived with us a month or so. he keeps trying to connect - he climbs on our bed with us at night, and likes nothing better than lying on the floor with me as we yawn at each other (don't laugh i read about it on the internet)

i understand completely. when i first got snow cat, it took me a week or two of lying on the ground, blinking and talking in a low soft voice to get her to come out from under the couch. she's much more comfortable now, but i worry that i'm not encouraging her to interact enough. i feed her in the bedroom, while the other cats eat in the kitchen. she seems content and is very affectionate w me (like to where it's a problem, cuz she always wants to sleep on me at night, so i wake up w cat face). bottom line: she is a v good cat. just wonder why she's so antisocial.

I'm beginning to understand why people throw cats out of windows. This boyfriend came with two cats, both of whom live in basically one room. They're remarkably well-behaved and neurosis-free, considering, but if the little one tries to sleep on my face one more time, I'm chucking her.

Noooo that just means she loves you.

I need her to love me from a little further away, because between her and the bf who talks in his sleep, I'm awake from about 5.30am onward.

Hold and cuddle her all the time. Then she'll never want to sleep on you.

^a total lie btw

my cat never tries to sleep on my face but she does like to spoon

who is so jaded as to reject neurosis-free kitty love

one of my cats sits on my face as I sleep and just purrs all night and it happens to be the fat one jesus

If she knows you don't like it, Laurel, she will only want to sleep on you more.

been kitty-less since january. but i dreamed about him last night

gonna have to explain to my new roommate why there's a milk-jug ring under the welcome mat

Maybe your cat was dreaming about you the same night.

You know, mookie, if the universe sends you a cat that you don't have/get to choose and think about too much, I bet you will love it--in a different way than Lyle, natch, but love all the same. I'm hoping for a kitty to come to you. Also if you see an open cardboard carrier behind a tree outside your front door, just ignore it. I'm sure it's nothing.

I would like a cat to find mookie, too.