considering a cat

emil.y why are you catless

my cat cries when i am gone. i can hear her when i'm on my way in. i hope she isn't annoying the neighbors :(

harbly, whatever the scenario your cat always sounds rotten.

mookie, i'm sorry you didn't get that cat and i hope you find your one true cat soon.

also i like that you considered calling that cat estela, though i was struck by how much she looked like my friend mike.

i love my cat!

but it is like how people love their kids and they are rotten

i love rotten pets.

harbl, maybe she hasn't been crying the whole time but just hears your approach?

i was thinking that. it is possible.

emil.y why are you catless

― mookieproof, Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:20 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Small flat, lack of money. Also need to ask the landlord's permission, and we're not that likely to get it.

We adopted a new cat in June. She's about 18 months, but still has that supersoft wispy coat that kittens have but usually grow out of. Funky coloring too. We've had cats all our lives, but this one reaches heights of laziness I've never seen before -- she spends about 22 hours a day asleep on the ottoman in the living room. (Plus one hour eating/drinking/crapping, and one hour staring intently at the gerbil tank in Sarah's room.)

harbl, maybe she is trying to make you feel guilty. She is probably asleep for most of the time you are gone.

Good luck with your ongoing cat search, mookie.

now my cat is crying because a house centipede is crawling along the very top of the wall by the ceiling. she has climbed as high as she can, but the ceilings are like 11 ft high so i tried to tell her it's useless. telling her it's useless is useless!

I guess you'll just have to duct-tape the cat to the end of a mop handle and lift her up so she can do whatever she needs to with the centipede. It's tough being a cat owner :(

I would do that to get rid of a centipede without having to touch it or think about it wriggling around my house.

ilxor's in the nyc area, is anybody interested in taking on a cat? posting for a friend

Catpig?!?!!!?

nah! for another friend.

here is an album of 4 pictures

http://imgur.com/a/klUC8

Aw, cute! What a scamp.

That last one is too cute.

yeah! if youre interested webmail me w/ your email and I will forward the descrip.

bump for nyc ilxors who are considering a cat

i love when i am sitting on the couch and cat makes herself as tiny as possible to sit in the 4 inch space between me and the armrest

i got her a catnip taxicab

http://www.cfa.org/photogallery/photogallery_26072012085652PM4.jpg

http://www.cfa.org/photogallery/photogallery_26072012085425PM9.jpg

http://www.cfa.org/photogallery/photogallery_26072012085900PM3.jpg

http://www.cfa.org/photogallery/photogallery_26072012085652PM3.jpg

I'm sure Sphinx cats are lovely once you get to know them but I find it disconcerting to see the musculature behind a cat's weirdo facial expression.

It's the Sphinxes' unfortunate resemblance to scrotums that I have the most trouble with.

Scrotes with grumpy faces.

Testy testes.

that cat looks like ruth bader ginsburg

http://www.cfa.org/photogallery/photogallery_26072012090102PM4.jpg

marcus wtf?

my cat is such a weirdo; she keeps trying to eat the hair i pull off her with the furminator

time for cats to sleep on the radiator

I was cleaning a closet last night and I found the little pillow that one of my cats thinks is her mother! It was such a joyous reunion.

my cat put her catnip taxi on a shelf in the bathroom

myrrha won't stop attacking my bf as he walks around the apt. she'll even block doorways and yowl and swipe at him if he tries to pass. it's bad.

my cat swipes at me in the morning sometimes. she hides under the bed. she doesn't use her claws though, it's just a game. that sounds different.

ilxor's in the nyc area, is anybody interested in taking on a cat? posting for a friend

― barthes simpson, Saturday, October 6, 2012 10:47 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I met this cat last week and he was totally cool, and he has a home now, but I think he made his old home smell like cat pee

yeah it's gone beyond cute now and into annoying. we had to peroxide the claw marks on his foot. :(

Considering cooking for a cat(s).

Kitties have been eating a nutrition-nazi-paleo-worthy canned food diet from Whole Pets, which is exactly what it sounds like.

Cats are happy and healthy and the perfect weight on this diet, which will be UNAVAILABLE to them when we are in rural Mexico. I mean I guess we could take a billion cases down with us, the space plus the weight plus the gas milage of El Trucko is NAGL.

So, I'm gonna make a raw food diet based on http://www.catinfo.org/?link=makingcatfood and see how it goes. If they are down with it, it will be cheap to feed them with chicken from the Mexican butcher.

Am I crazy or?

i think jaq knows about this. not too crazy but i would not do that. it would make me hate my cat. like this is why i don't want a baby, you can't just feed them the same thing from a bag/can every day.

well maybe i would if i was in mexico and didn't have a job! how do you help a cat emigrate to mexico? do they make you quarantine them?

Oh I would not consider this one bit were I not going to be somewhere where the cat food choices are extremely limited and uniformly crappy. Basically I either have to buy 6 months worth of cat food (heavy, bulky, expensive), feed the cats the equivalent of kitty cheesy poofs, or cook for them myself. I will only be working like ~10 hours a week, so I will have plenty of time on my hands. And the idea is to cook up a big batch once a month, freeze it in individual feeding portions, then thaw/feed until it is time to do another batch. No way would I do like daily cooking for the cats, I don't even do that for myself.

Oh and apparently Mexico could not care less if you cross back and forth across the border with pets, but the cats will have international vet paperwork just in case. No quarentine. But it will be v. interesting to travel 3600 miles with one spouse and two cats.

I make raw cat food for our two rotten old guys, possibly because I feel guilty about wanting them to just die already. I use this powder, mixed with ground chicken thighs and usually make up a giant batch at a time and freeze it in 1-day's-worth containers. It's not too bad to make up and our cats are definitely healthier on it than they have ever been.

If you have any questions about emigrating your cats, my daughter moved hers down to Monterrey a year or so ago and moved them back two months ago - I'd be happy to ask her.

There was something about having to have proof of vaccination (rabies maybe?) with some kind of time restriction, so she had to have it done right before she crossed in Texas.

Coming back was apparently absolute hell, because the US border guards made her unpack every single box in her truck - she's a teacher, it was full of books in addition to 2 unhappy cats.

Also, she used to make shopping runs to the US for cat litter. Mexico does not have a very pet-centric culture at all - all the neglected animals everywhere really got to her after awhile.