You know you're a true cat lover when...

[RICHARD]

You tell visiting relatives to keep their feet off the furniture, yet let the cat shed all over the house?

[katladyd]

Richard, I know that one well. One Thanksgiving we grossed some guests out when we sat a place at the table for one of the cats. Hey, he usually ate with us and he had better table manners than most of the guests!

[cassiesmom]

Wow, you all took my answers! Let's see... I know I'm a true cat lover because ...

--I wear black pants to a birthday party at my brother and sister-in-law's house, yet I grab their orange tabby cat and plop him down in my lap for a snuggle;
--I don't go on vacation anymore because I have a cat;
--I wait to run the vacuum cleaner until the cat is in the other room;

You go to the store to get something for YOUR dinner and wind up spending more on cat food/litter/treats than you do for yourself.

--Corollary to RICHARD: I go to the store for something for my dinner and come home with cat food, litter... but oops, I forgot to bring home something for dinner!
--Second corollary to RICHARD: I order take-away from the Chinese restaurant, even though I don't really have the extra money to spend, because she likes their chicken;
--I have a file for the cat's medical bills right behind the file for mine;
--I search the Internet using Goodsearch to earn a few shekels for the shelter from which she was adopted;
--This blue sweatshirt stayed in this exact spot on the floor for over two weeks because she napped daily on it. ("Wear something else, Mom! This one is mine!")

[krazyaboutkatz]

When you feed your cats before you feed yourself.
When you stay at home for vacations because you have cats to care for.
When you spend more money on your cats than yourself.
When you only allow yourself a small area on your queen sized bed so that your cats can have the rest of the bed.
When you always leave your bathroom door open so your cats can come in and visit you while you're using the toliet or taking a shower.
When you use a door stopper on your bedroom door so your cats can come and go as they please during the night.
When you have more pictures of your cats than you do of your family.

I'm sure there are many other things that I haven't thought of.

[cassiesmom]

Auntie KAK, I forgot about always leaving the bathroom door open!

I know I am a true cat-lover because ...

my cat has her own set of dishes (dry food, water, canned food, and a special china plate used for "people" food and for holidays)
I can quickly go through the supermarket, but a trip to Petsmart takes longer because I have to ponder her options
she's hard to leave in the morning, but sooooo easy to come home to at the end of the day!
My home-from-work routine: pet/snuggle cat, feed cat, check litter pan, feed meowmie
My idea of an ideal vacation is a week at the Found CAts' Hotel
I can relate to everything else that all the other true cat-lovers have written in this thread!

[Don Juan's mom]

Auntie KAK, I forgot about always leaving the bathroom door open!

I know I am a true cat-lover because ...

My home-from-work routine: pet/snuggle cat, feed cat, check litter pan, feed meowmie

That's almost mine, except mine adds "brush kitties."

[momcat]

At work the very first thing my co-workers and I talk about every morning is the cute things our kitties did the night before.

[cassiesmom]

...my cat has her own set of dishes (dry food, water, canned food, and a special china plate used for "people" food and for holidays)
...I can relate to everything else that all the other true cat-lovers have written in this thread!

I'm bumping up this old thread because my parents just moved, so my cat got a new dish (actually a hand-me-down from my mom). It's a little sauce dish from my childhood, from a set of dishes my mom no longer has. She specifically told me that she was giving me the dish so I could use it to feed my cat. So Cassie will have a new dish for "people" food and the upcoming holidays.