How do your kitties beg??

[Miss Meow]

Beg? What's that? Ours just jump on the dining table and stick their heads in the plates and bowls to see what they're missing It's OK if we don't have visitors at the time

[Cataholic]

Miss Meow,
That reminded me of my dinner last week with my mom. We were having salmon salad, and the salmom was being kept away from the table cause of the temptation for the kitties. So, we are talking in the kitchen, getting ready to sit down, and look over at the table to see her faded creamsicle Washy with his head IN the bowl of salad greens, munching!!! Plain salad greens. Just like a horse with his head in the feed bag!!

Of course, we just sat and watched cause it was so funny. Had 'real' people been there, we would have gone into threatre mood, 'Oh my! Mom! The cat! Quick! Now we have to wash the greens again! OH, I have never seen him do that before!".

Fortunately, it was just us, and away we ate...he he he...

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by Cataholic
Miss Meow,
That reminded me of my dinner last week with my mom. We were having salmon salad, and the salmom was being kept away from the table cause of the temptation for the kitties. So, we are talking in the kitchen, getting ready to sit down, and look over at the table to see her faded creamsicle Washy with his head IN the bowl of salad greens, munching!!! Plain salad greens. Just like a horse with his head in the feed bag!!
...

LOL!!! And all that time you were protecting the salmon from them

[jazzcat]

Ripley has excellent table manners and will wait for you to offer him some food. Since ice cream is all he really likes he usually walks off offended if you offer him something else.

Jazz is in your face until she knows what you have. If it's milk, cheese or any type of meat she will practically steal it from you. I've lost many a glass of milk due to her paw dipping in it for a taste.

Scout has only been here a couple of weeks but so far she loves all people food and is slowly learning a few manners but she will beg and bug you to death for a bite.

Jazzcat

[RedHedd]

Fox-Gal your Trouble looks a lot like my Mitzi -- that half black, half gold nosie! Too cute! My two don't usually beg, although Mitzi thinks she wants what I'm having and will squeak at me and sometimes paw at my leg. Mishi just boldly stretches up to my cereal bowl in the morning and starts lapping up the soy milk. I will post a pic later -- had a digicam "accident" yesterday and erased the pics before I could upload them! ARRGH!

[Lerah021399]

Both of my cats beg, but in different ways. Ali is very polite about her begging: she'll sit at your feet and just look at you as if to say, "Are you going to let me have some of that?" Jack on the other hand is a very rude beggar. He is all about being up in your face smelling what you have to eat. He once jumped right in the middle of my dinner plate. He's funny though, he doesn't usually like what we have to eat, he just wants to smell it

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by RICHARD
beg????
my cat DOES NOT BEG......he demands!!!

Aahhh...Richard. I see you've meet Tubby!

Tubby is very vocal when he begs, and very up-front and in your face. Peanut just stands a little bit back and lets Tubby do all the work knowing she won't be left out when the handouts start.

This is what we get for kitty company every night when we eat.


Tubby sits so close you think he'd get a sore neck!

And to think.....way back when, when it was just me and Tubby, I taught him to stay out of the kitchen while I was cooking and eating. He learned quickly and would sit right at the very, very edge of the kitchen - as close as he could inch in without me telling him to get back out. I absolutely did not want a beggar kitty. Well....all that went to he.. in a hand basket when Tubby stayed with my parents while I made a temporary move to Florida. "Grandma" just couldn't resist with the handouts, and I now have a professional beggar on my hands.