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old2soon
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« on: December 08, 2016, 07:56:52 AM »

When we moved here to Missouri we brought a orange male tiger stripe cat with us my youngest daughter had gotten as a kitten. Even though I was only getting home every other weekend the cat was "mine" after everyone went to bed. Cat was named-Go Cat-cuz my youngest had a habit of picking him up by his neck. He NEVER once scratched her even with his eyes bugging out and short on breath. Had a recliner chair and I'd be sitting there with my right ankle propped up on my left knee and here sits Go Cat looking up at me and would meow once just loud enough for me to hear over the T V. That meow meant for me to put down my right leg so he could git up in my lap. He would promptly settle over the boyz and go to sleep. He'd stay there til I went to bed. In the morning that weight on my chest was Go Cat lookin straight at me when I got my eyes open-bad kitty breath and all!  2funny Cat even liked ridin in the car. Don't remember the exact date but I was out in the country somewhere and after upper I called home. Wife asked me-you sittin down? And I'm like who's sick? My Wife informed Go Cat had crawled up on the front porch and died.  Cry It was a punch in the gut Got home a week and a half later and they had already buried him near a tree on my now ex B I L place. Took about 4 or 5 months for me to realize Go Cat was no longer gonna meow at me to drop my leg so he could git up on my lap and I was never going to feel his weight on my chest in the mornings or ride in the car with me anymore.  Undecided Had a couple other cats but have NOT found one for ME! RIDE SAFE.
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2016, 08:17:47 AM »

Right up front, I'm not a cat lover. In almost 59 years there has only been 1 cat that liked me. (Maybe as many people, that's a different story). When I was 10 we went thru hurricane Celia in Corpus Christi. Our place and much of the town was badly tore up. We had a big 4 car garage that was lifted up 10 feet in the air and set down on our 64 Nova Station Wagon. Some time later before the wreckage was removed a stray cat had kittens in there. We kept the cat and named her Charlie.  Grin She liked us all, even my Dad. When a teenage neighbor shot her with a pellet gun I thought my Dad was going to whip him. Later on our move to Alaska, Charlie survived a twister that destroyed our tent and campsite while we were fishing. Charlie ended up surviving 8 brutal winters and finally just laid down and passed. Charlie was a good cat even if he was a girl.  angel
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2016, 08:46:20 AM »

Had a couple other cats but have NOT found one for ME!

They're all different. It takes a special one to be the one who
seeks you out to sit on your lap every day...

-Mike
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baldo
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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2016, 11:43:20 AM »

It does take a special cat to take up that lap space.

We have four cats, two are brothers from the same litter. One of the others is a sister from a previous litter. The fourth is the kitten we gave to our daughter for her 12th birthday, 14 yrs ago.....She's pretty much my cat. Every morning she's by my side until I provide a minimum five minutes of ear and belly rubbing. Then she won't leave until I share the milk from my cereal.

Back to the brothers. They're both tabbies, one gray the other orange. The gray, Wally, is so named because when born his rear legs were 'deformed'. They were splayed out behind him like a walrus...We took him to the vet and got x-rays. He determined there was nothing wrong and they would probably straighten themselves out. Well, they sure did. He's a 15 lb moose and fast as lightning, with a great persoanlity. His brother is even bigger, he sure knows his way around a food dish.

Anyway, sorry for the long story. As you can tell, I like my cats.

PS: We also feed two strays, have been for five years or so now. We're pretty sure the male is the Dad of the three sibs.
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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2016, 01:18:41 PM »

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baldo
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2016, 02:12:59 PM »



Good story, Willow....
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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2016, 02:20:34 PM »

I never had much luck with cats, my wife tells me that's why they seem to come to me just to show me up. My sis had a Siamese many years ago, when I'd visit them that cat was like a wart on my hip. On one visit I noticed a small square pillow on the couch that didn't match the rest. It was a vibrating pillow but she had taken the battery out. Just for fun, I stuck a battery in it and found out it still worked but you had to concentrate the pressure in the center. At one point I played "tug of war" with the pillow and the cat, that left the cat unsuspecting since I just let it go. He dropped it, looked at me with that King Of The Mountain look and stepped on the pillow. No vibration. He then sat down in the middle of it.....WOW! I've never seen a cat levitate straight up and disappear like a shot....until that day.

He got back at me all that night. Somewhere he found a bell, picked it up and carried it everywhere in my room. All night long I would fall asleep, soon as that happened the cat would jump on the bed, run across it with the bell jingling, off the other side and disappear. Next morning right at sun-up, I'm greeted with this ungodly screech that Siamese make....right in my face. The rest of the day, I fussed over the cat, we fell asleep on the couch with him purring like a bowling ball going down an alley. I slept good the next few nights I was there. Cat=1, John=0.    Grin
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