Ok We Need An Addiction Group!

[DrKym]

Ok so last thing we need in our life is anything more high maintenance, period. Agreed? Us too. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what the he11 were we thinking today? All I wanted to do was get some hay, a bigger keet cage, some toys and LUNCH. Not tough. Actually pretty easy. for normal people :rolleyes:
Our local shelter is moving, so they had people at Petco. I should have run, I knew to run, I tried to run. But...........................Jasper threw down a challenge, He bet me a dollar I couldn't go in look and leave. :eek: WELL I will show him I said. Then told him I cannot wait to take your money. To make it interesting double or nothing you have to look and leave also. He said No problem.

LIAR

So we added the 2 Kitties that no one wanted ever, at all. WHY???????
Because one is a psycho, she is afraid of her own shadow which sucks cause she is white.I think she may have been another color she just became white from so many self inflicted frights. Her name is Snow in my head I call her Casper.

I was attacked by a 20 pound blind orange tabby who had no thoughts of staying the weekend at the shelter again. EVER. I kept trying to hand him back and I think I have scars, Alexander fell into fits of giggles as he has never seen something not listen to me
Me; Ok hunny get off ok back to them
cat: NO
Ok hunny now is good what a cutie...
Cat: NO
Me: Ummmmmmmmmm can I get a bit of help here?
Cat : I am all the help you get lady now shut up and pay

Me: help..................................
Cat: I will dig my claws deeper while I rub my face into yours and you will not scream. this is a hijacking I have your heart now move toward the front of the line..................................

So he won. I think he paid off all the staff.
We got home unloaded boxes and bags and stuff and things while my son kept giggling and saying Daddy if Mere said no to the cat why is she still holding him? :rolleyes: to wit his father replied amidst giggles because Mere wasn't really saying no.( like that will help when I say it is bedtime later!)
Cat gets down walks up to dogssniffs them and goes into Rustys crate and lies down. Both dogs looking at me like I and the Cat lost our minds. Snow has stayed in crate in bedroom even with door open she is happy to stay there like a NORMAL cat.

Anyway this cat was thrown from a moving car and has some nerve and brain damage, the accident resulted in hom losing both eyelids so his vision is poor at best, but what he lacked in vision he made up for in chutzpah and is now as I type sitting his fat bottom in my lap. Where if I am blessed he will remain for many years, MORAL to this story?
Cats are like chips why stop at one or 4 or 6 or 7 (if my wish comes true one more may join our crew) Pics as soon as scanned and uploaded. :D

[drothergoodnow]

Snow left the crate, and has blended into one of our white walls. we have no idea where she went. she could be standing in front of us, mocking our weak eyesight. Perhaps she went through the wall and will come out around midnight to haunt us. Perhaps we will end up on an episode of Sightings, as we are apparently haunted by snow (casper) the ghost cat. Stranger things have happened. I'm not sure what is stranger than this, but I have to tell myself that or disappear into a surreal world of my new cat's creation, and I just can't let that happen...

[orangemm]

I was laughing along with you until I read the last paragraph and then the abject cruelty of man towards animals hit me in the face. I just pray that there is a very special place in HELL for those who threw that helpless baby out of a car.

No one wanted them because they knew you would give them a loving furrever home.

Bless you..........

Am looking forward to pictures :)

[catmandu]

Snow left the crate, and has blended into one of our white walls. we have no idea where she went. she could be standing in front of us, mocking our weak eyesight. Perhaps she went through the wall and will come out around midnight to haunt us. Perhaps we will end up on an episode of Sightings, as we are apparently haunted by snow (casper) the ghost cat. Stranger things have happened. I'm not sure what is stranger than this, but I have to tell myself that or disappear into a surreal world of my new cat's creation, and I just can't let that happen...
Its the Cats that dont come to you right away that you will treasure the most.
You will have not only the satisfaction of having tamed a scared Cat, but a Great Friend as well.
Precious had come from a noisy home, and took 3 years to calm down.

Now she runs to me.

[DrKym]

I agree Orangemum however he has put that past and is fat and self confident so we are taking names for him, Cat just doesn't seem fitting.......

[Dorothy39]

I've got to hand it to you two, what--- with a cat who needs taken care of, and has now been given an appropriate name, Casper!!!!!


No doubt, he has physic abilities yet to be known!!!!

Casper, the Friendly cat,

The Friendliest Cat we know,

H e Clawed at our hearts, and can walk through the walls,
Oh, all of us love him so!!!!!


That story was great!!!!! :D

[jenluckenbach]

CONGRATULATIONS times two. :D :D

Such wonderful new additions. (and great story)

[DrKym]

Thanks to you all (however I must admit that "
Snow" hates me, I think she knew I was making fun of her she is happily being petted by Jasper who should name her
casper how cute (barf) would that be? I leaned over to kiss hubby and too pretty for herself BIT me (grumbles about jealous women grrr *(&))*&(&(^*%&%%%^&&0) I of course do not care (wails) but I am in control of the Pounce (evil chuckle) , and besides eventually he has to go back to work and the bribery with tuna can begin........................................muuuu uuhaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :eek:

[drothergoodnow]

As I was calming Snow, it suddenly hit me what her full name is. Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present... Moonlight on Snow.

I have a song on one of my albums called that, and it was going through my head as I was petting her. She's wandering around checking out our bedroom, while I have Kym's vast rascal sleeping peacefully on my lap. :D

[Karen]

Which of you has read Heinlein?

What better than a Cat Who Walks Through Walls?

[DrKym]

Jasper knows it better than I Karen, Stranger in a strange land?......... I have 2 questions for you though Miss birthday mayor. 1st is from Adrian 9 what kind of bunny is Miss Hoppy? second question from both brothers, can the be trained to be an inside animal ? (can we tell that boys have been asking mum for a bunny since last xmas?)
still need a name for this orange tabby with a silver haze to his to his coat............................................. :confused:

[Karen]

Jasper knows it better than I Karen, Stranger in a strange land?......... I have 2 questions for you though Miss birthday mayor. 1st is from Adrian 9 what kind of bunny is Miss Hoppy? second question from both brothers, can the be trained to be an inside animal ? (can we tell that boys have been asking mum for a bunny since last xmas?)
still need a name for this orange tabby with a silver haze to his to his coat............................................. :confused:


Miss Hoppy has been my birthday bunny for 9 years now! So she and Adrian are the same age! Our best guess is that she is a mixed breed, maybe Netherland Dwarf/Rex mix. She is bigger than a ND, smaller than a Rex, with ears halfway between. She is her own very special kind of bunny - MY bunny!

She is a house bunny. This means she is litterbox trained and hops around the house. She was easier to housebreak than any pup or human I've dealt with, we just had to bunnyproof the house! http://rabbit.org is a great resource for that.

Kitty name - Io - the orange satellite of Jupiter that sometimes has a silvery haze?

[DrKym]

IO it is! what an amazing thought! Thanks. As far as getting a bunny goes I will relay the information and require the boys to do what we have always done show me you have researched it needs. (my ? will it need another box to itself or can it share the boxes the kitties use? ) Bunny proofing isn't a worry as we are gummy pig proofed(read guinea pig but Alex cannot pronounce guinea) . :p So we have have gummy piggies!

[Catty1]

ummm....I was hoping for "Vast Rascal" c/o theotherdrgoodnow. :D

But...a MOON (albeit heavenly) works on several levels...

okay, slap me!

I can hardly wait for pics!

Catty1

[DrKym]

CATTY! shame on you! lmao ! Vast Rascal? i could maybe tolerate the rascal part but my hips and his aren't too far apart :( LOL so Vast is not an option rofl ! Isn't enough that I agree he is huge? his paperwork stated that on 6/17 he weighed in at 22 pounds?)can we say caloric overload? I will of course have Dr. Pope look at him mondayand follow his advice(to a point ) and I will also put him on the RAW diet (with treats of course. .......................whistles innocently!

[drothergoodnow]

So we have two cats named in such a way as to relate them to moons. Interesting. Io and Moonlight on Snow. Io is so huge, he has his own weather system! That is one heavy boy!

[DrKym]

Sweetie? love? hunny? now you are telling tales out of school I promised him we wouldn't talk about his ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm full figure. :D

[drothergoodnow]

Well, I mean, c'mon already! He's HUGE! Catty, I thought about refering to him as a hippotanic landmass, but he's really quite a bit, um, BIGGER than a landmass! I swear he exerts his own gravity! :D

[DrKym]

:eek:

[Karen]

You'll have to ask Lady's Human (who is also owned by an orange fluffball of about that size) about his theory of cat gravity.

Oh, welcome to the Good Life, Io and Moonlight on Snow!

[DrKym]

NOW Karen who said good life? Do I sound like a person who devotes (what was that thread ? too much time money or attention) I am going to parcel out affection based on a solemn calendar of who gets what when ......oh forget it I can't even type this malarcky! they will be ruined! Now to think of the name for the support group for shameless suckers like me................................................ lmao

[drothergoodnow]

Thank you, Karen! We're actually rather excited to have these two love thieves in our lives.

I had a friend of mine who proposed an anti-gravity device based upon a cat and a slice of buttered toast. Since buttered toast only falls butter side down and a cat always lands on it's feet, if you attach the buttered toast to a cat's back and drop the cat, it will never hit the ground, no matter which side you drop it!

Anyway, thanks again. They will be shamelessly spoiled.

[Lady's Human]

Io sounds like a distant relative of our oldest cat, Pippen, AKA Big and Stupid. He's lost weight since we moved into a MUCH bigger house , and he's down to a svelte 18 pounds. When he didn't have as much room to run in, he weighed 20 lbs.

Just watch out for happy paws, with the meathooks that accompany a cat of that size they can be dangerous! :D

[DrKym]

What a beautiful
Cat!

Oh the part when the "land mass "kneads me and I am bleeding? No worries I know that
1 he will get claw covers
2 eventually the bleeding will stop
LOL!

[jenluckenbach]

You guys are a hoot! (Do people still say that?) :confused:

ummmmm, but where are the PICTURES!!???!?!?

[Dorothy39]

I use that saying a lot!!!!


oh, and I just get a kick out of your avitar!!!!!


That Cat is just a HOOT!!!! :D

[moosmom]

Okay, what I wanna know is, who won the damn bet???

The name Moxy came to mind, but I guess it's a little late, huh??

You two crack me up!

[smokey the elder]

Thanks for the cute story and for rescuing these two precious babies. LOL at "hippotanic land mass"! How delightfully geeky is that? :) :p

[Bengalz]

Well, I mean, c'mon already! He's HUGE! Catty, I thought about refering to him as a hippotanic landmass, but he's really quite a bit, um, BIGGER than a landmass! I swear he exerts his own gravity! :D


LOL Does that mean the "love quota" increases proportionately in relation to the size of the "landmass"? Sounds like a good deal to me :D As for the gravity equation - I'd suggest you prepare for the "landings" :p

Congratulations on two great acquisitions :D

Betty

[sirrahbed]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/sirrahbed/smilies/1.gifWhat a funny thread!!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/sirrahbed/smilies/1.gif

Did anyone warn you that hanging around on Cat General at PT causes you to acquire more kitties?? :D

How wonderful that these two shelter babies are now in a HOME and will now be surrounded with love and fun!

Little Moonlight on snow sounds like a feisty girl - already laying claim on daddy as her person.

But Io claims MY heart!! I am convinced that nothing is so loyal, loving and loveable as a big ole ORANGIE. I am now owned by a 20+ pound hunk of fluffy orange...my Dylan (who is draped over my siggie below)

Will surely be looking forward to pictures.... ;)

[DrKym]

Donna the bet was a Draw so we spent the money along with a bunch of other money on toys for them!

Now that I know it is all PTs fault that we went insane and adopted these 2 bringing our Kittie total to 6 :eek: I shall have to require Oodles of adoration to them as befits moving continents!

As for Pics I will post them this upcoming week as I only finished one cameras film up and that was on Moonlight :rolleyes:

[Catty1]

Ah - and you have to attach the wide-angle lens of course.

Or record an IMAX video??? :D

Catty1

[DrKym]

ROFL yes but I told IO that the camera subtracts 10 pounds................the dog went into fits of giggles so he knows I was lying. I made the dog go play at Ladys' house, maybe Lady will teach him manners towards guests!(he loves the cat already but laughing at his weight is not nice!)

[DrKym]

wow going through all the paperwork we just realized that Moonlight was adopted out UNSPAYED! soooooooooooooo we will call vet in AM and make an appt! I thought all animals had to be altered to be released?

[doolittleky]

LOL. Sounds like something I would do. I can't wait to see the pics. My deaf white little by I just got from Utah is named Caspurr too.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y137/JamaicaJim/May28thCaspurrPurrl001.jpg
Melissa

[Catty1]

CATASTROPHES

Cats Anonymous

Note: These twelve steps of those faced with CATS (Cat Adoration Totally Syndrome) are still a work in progress. They don't seem to be doing much for those with CATS, and should therefore be viewed as a work in progress by those crazy few who wish to relinquish their grip on CATS.

The Twelve Steps of CATS

1. We admitted we were powerless under the rule of our cats - that our lives had become periods of servitude interspersed with frequent chances to devise new playthings for our "owners".

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our cats could restore us to our sanity (Of course this isn't true! Who could believe it?!?)

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him (but since our cats are God already, this step was completed in the very beginning... this should have been Step 1!)

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our household, and still can't figure out how the dead bird appeared on our pillow, the kitty litter in the water-dish, and the cat-hair on everything!

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs - but since all three were CATS members already, we ended up swapping anecdotes for the rest of the night!

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character, but decided against it when that furball climbed into our lap again.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings - so we could better entertain our feline friends.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all - no matter how much all those tins of gourmet cat food cost.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when they wouldn't deign to be scratched or petted.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it to our cats... who knew it from the start and had been telling us all along.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with cats as we understood them, praying only for knowledge of their will for us and the power to carry that will out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to those faced with CATS and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Newcomers are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so.

(Note: This parody is based on the original twelve steps of alcoholics anonymous, which can be found at the Alcoholics Anonymous website. In no way, shape, or form should this be looked on as a slur against those with a drinking problem. Warning! Actually following these steps will only make you more popular with the cats around you, and should not be attempted by those who wish to be anything other than cat people for the rest of their lives.)

Copyright © Ross P. Goldberg
July 12, 2001

[DrKym]

OH MY! I am beyond help as I have always believed in dual god/dess so I am equally subserviant to the canine half! ::wails :: I was at one point a very well educated (5 count them 5 Doctorates a PhD and several B.S. degrees) I am now reduced to perusing sales for kitty litter and knuckle bones! I once gave lectures to students that hung on my every word, I now prattle to hear myself talk as the cats yawn and consider it background noise, I lay down the law and they promptly shred it. I repeat the laws and the glance at the dogs who carry it to them to re shred it. I feel accomplishment when People say how well trained the dogs are. I smile knowing that they have no Idea how well trained I AM. The dogs and cats in their wisdom continue to show us off to new members of all specie and make us do our tricks (look at this if I meow like sooooooooo she will hurry over and scratch on command!) (if i whine in this tone she will abandon he knitting and walk me I don't have to go I just wanted to see the neighbors)
sigh

[Catty1]

It's ok, Kym...I have a BA with a Drama major, so I was trained to be owned by cats.

Worked in a boarding kennel for over two years and scrubbed and sanitized a LOT of boxes!

At least we can bear our lot, er, intelligently.... :D

Catty1

[AbbyMom]

I am now reduced to perusing sales for kitty litter and knuckle bones! I once gave lectures to students that hung on my every word, I now prattle to hear myself talk as the cats yawn and consider it background noise, I lay down the law and they promptly shred it. I repeat the laws and the glance at the dogs who carry it to them to re shred it. I feel accomplishment when People say how well trained the dogs are. I smile knowing that they have no Idea how well trained I AM. The dogs and cats in their wisdom continue to show us off to new members of all specie and make us do our tricks (look at this if I meow like sooooooooo she will hurry over and scratch on command!) (if i whine in this tone she will abandon he knitting and walk me I don't have to go I just wanted to see the neighbors)

So life just keeps getting better and better, eh? :D

:D

[Karen]

I had a friend of mine who proposed an anti-gravity device based upon a cat and a slice of buttered toast. Since buttered toast only falls butter side down and a cat always lands on it's feet, if you attach the buttered toast to a cat's back and drop the cat, it will never hit the ground, no matter which side you drop it!

Wouldn't you have to attach it to kitty's feet, butter side down?

And for either Io or Pippin, that'd have to be one BIG hunk of toast!

[DrKym]

Karen I think that is why Jasper is looking for the largest loaf of french bread............................................. ...Io on the other hand has decided that if found he will request French toast from it with bacon :eek: He is settling in fone and seems to like his name (thinking of having him watch Hitchikers guide to the Universe) Moonlight on the other hand is playing hard to get Kitty (just enough time out from under the bed so that we really want to play and talk and then zoom! while smiling to herself :rolleyes: (it is funny to watch Jas on all fours talking to her and feeding her tidbits and cajoling her I think he will do better with flowers and chocolate :p )

[drothergoodnow]

Ok, if you put the toast on the cat's back butter side up and drop the cat, the cat will try to land on it's feet. The buttered toast will try to land on the butter side. The effect will be that neither can land, and they will hang in the air, rotating gently, uanble to reach the ground as we bat them about the house like balloons. :D

[Terminalvelocity]

Stop! Please!! My cheeks are hurting and my neighbors are calling the police. They haven't heard so much laughter from this apartment in years! I'm sure they think I've gone insane.

Now I'll try to go to sleep, but I know I'll be dreaming of a big, orange cat with a huge slice of buttered bread stuck to his back floating around looking for the Door Into Summer. Petronius Arbiter will rescue him and fall in love with Moonlight and everyone will live happily ever after.

[DrKym]

Falling in love with Moonlight is not an option our little grey girl Iris has claimed him (she is the tiniest of the rescued ferals) and he seems to be partial towards her(really quite sweet as she is quite the priss) she sings and chirps telling him all the good places to find hidey holes (he cant fit) the schedule of treats, the times the cocker is crated so he can annoy her easier :rolleyes: Kind of like a kid charged with showing the new kid in school the ropes......................................what is kinda strange though is the male kitten wants to be friends in the worst way! kind of like yay another boy thank heaven! and Io gives him this lidless intent stare like he is an infectious bug..............poor Hyacinth his sister rule and no support from a big guy :(
(hehehehehe)

[DrKym]

well it is offical ...........(sad music of choice here) The animals have now taken over. We were offered 1000.00 (no joke) for our vizla (we don't have one. The "vizla" is a natural eared red dobe neutered no less) however Rusty has heard his value and has now made all the furries understand he "could" support them. I am in the process of copying the vet bills for last month to poke a hole in his thinking.......................................... .................
spay for goofy 218.00
antibiotics 21.00
pain meda 12.00
his thyroids meds 17.00
his vetting for bloodwork 112.00
raw food for Rusty 209.00
Kibble for goofy 55.00
Cat litter 32.00
Shall I go on????????????????????????????????????????????

[Dorothy39]

Thank-You for sharing the trama of bills , besides the usual flood of paper work that arrives in the mail!!!

I think I will do what my Mother used to joke about.

"Stand on Main street, with a tin cup in my hand" :D


I can sing, dance, tell jokes, play the guitar pretty darned good, !!

My Grand doggies depend on me for their care!!! As usual, I transport and pay!!!

I am now looking for that tin cup, It is in this house, somewhere!!!! :D

[DrKym]

hands back the tin cup..................................sorry I needed it for the weekend (blushes)

[DrKym]

Taps Kathy to see if she has any donations in the tin cup :p ::whispers that Petco is having a clearance sale::

[Dorothy39]

That's good news, I'll take the ol tin cup to the PetCo corner , sit it down on the cement, and play the guitar for quarters!!! You just lost the tin cup my friend!!!!

I have a Method for my Madness when the bills exceed the income!!!

Wish I could find that talking frog right now!!!! :D