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Post by stephan on Aug 7, 2021 12:00:14 GMT -5
Got to smell it first: Sizing it up: To the floor: He purrs loudly while doing this. Will kitty be cutting this for the cab contest?
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 7, 2021 12:54:09 GMT -5
Got to smell it first: Sizing it up: To the floor: He purrs loudly while doing this. Will kitty be cutting this for the cab contest? He will he judging for solidness of material. We shall line up all of the cabs atop his 7' tall cat tower and he will proceed to knock them to the floor, one by one.
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 7, 2021 13:27:56 GMT -5
Mine is terrible. It is his goal in life to knock rocks off of high places onto the floor. Your posts are really making me miss my boys who passed away 3 and 4 years ago. Our smaller guy "Junior" would terrorize my wife in the morning by clearing her nightstand to make sure she got up to feed him. Funny thing is he really didn't care about food, he would have about two bites and go take a nap. It was all about sending a message. First of all, you should get another cat! Both of ours literally showed up at our door, the big buy at 3-4 years old, and Javier at 10 weeks old. If they hadn't come to us, we probably would have adopted a shelter cat. One of the great things about cats is that they don't need pedigree to be cute and good pets. They seem to adapt to the pampered domestic life regardless of their troubled past on the streets. As to your feline alarm clock Junior, cats like predictability and control, especially regarding food. Ideally, they like to be fed at exactly the same time, from the same person, at the same place, in the same dish... Although this seems capricious, I have read that it is the domestic adaptation of a good survival strategy in the wild: once a wild cat discovers a safe and productive time and place to hunt, it will hunt at that same time and place, day after day, until it proves to no longer be safe and productive. Knocking things off a nightstand and similar deviant morning behavior can become a very hard habit to break if it results in being fed. Plus it's just fun. Many cats seem to genuinely enjoy making things fall to the floor.
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Post by stephan on Aug 7, 2021 15:05:37 GMT -5
Mine is terrible. It is his goal in life to knock rocks off of high places onto the floor. Your posts are really making me miss my boys who passed away 3 and 4 years ago. Our smaller guy "Junior" would terrorize my wife in the morning by clearing her nightstand to make sure she got up to feed him. Funny thing is he really didn't care about food, he would have about two bites and go take a nap. It was all about sending a message. LOL. That reminds me of Simon’s cat:
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Post by stephan on Aug 7, 2021 15:30:19 GMT -5
Your posts are really making me miss my boys who passed away 3 and 4 years ago. Our smaller guy "Junior" would terrorize my wife in the morning by clearing her nightstand to make sure she got up to feed him. Funny thing is he really didn't care about food, he would have about two bites and go take a nap. It was all about sending a message. First of all, you should get another cat! Both of ours literally showed up at our door, the big buy at 3-4 years old, and Javier at 10 weeks old. If they hadn't come to us, we probably would have adopted a shelter cat. One of the great things about cats is that they don't need pedigree to be cute and good pets. They seem to adapt to the pampered domestic life regardless of their troubled past on the streets. As to your feline alarm clock Junior, cats like predictability and control, especially regarding food. Ideally, they like to be fed at exactly the same time, from the same person, at the same place, in the same dish... Although this seems capricious, I have read that it is the domestic adaptation of a good survival strategy in the wild: once a wild cat discovers a safe and productive time and place to hunt, it will hunt at that same time and place, day after day, until it proves to no longer be safe and productive. Knocking things off a nightstand and similar deviant morning behavior can become a very hard habit to break if it results in being fed. Plus it's just fun. Many cats seem to genuinely enjoy making things fall to the floor. Indeed. Shelter and other rescue pets are the best. I’ve had purebred dachshunds, but those came from the shelter, too our current crop of felines was rescued from the street: mother and babies. She appears to be a pure Turkish van — likely discarded because she got with another. The boys have definite tabby tails. The “auntie” was adopted from a farm (yep, she was born in a barn).
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 7, 2021 23:38:16 GMT -5
Lest I be accused of using a few rocks as an excuse to entice others to talk with me about cats, here are photos of some Royal Imperial Jasper slices. As in the real stuff, from Mexico, that can only be discovered during a blood moon, on a leap year, using truffle sniffing dogs brought in from France. I got some story like that from the guy who sold me the material for $17 a pound and promised it was a good deal. For every nodule that looks like one of these, there are at least 5 that are a solid color or horribly fractured. This low yield makes the high price especially hard to justify. But there really is nothing else like it, so maybe it's worth it? Sorry Utahns (people from Utah -- I had to look that up), but your "Imperial Jasper" is neither imperial nor jasper. Also a photo of an Oregon limb cast free form cab with moderate iris effect, although you can't see the iris without it being back lit. The mother limb cast is on the top left. A real nice one about 8" long that looks almost just the cab throughout. And no trim saw cutting required. I just sliced it off and cabbed it up. These photos have nothing to do with cats, but they ought to buy me another page of posts about cats without getting the thread moved to the Life in General / Off Topic page.
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 7, 2021 23:48:07 GMT -5
First of all, you should get another cat! Both of ours literally showed up at our door, the big buy at 3-4 years old, and Javier at 10 weeks old. If they hadn't come to us, we probably would have adopted a shelter cat. One of the great things about cats is that they don't need pedigree to be cute and good pets. They seem to adapt to the pampered domestic life regardless of their troubled past on the streets. As to your feline alarm clock Junior, cats like predictability and control, especially regarding food. Ideally, they like to be fed at exactly the same time, from the same person, at the same place, in the same dish... Although this seems capricious, I have read that it is the domestic adaptation of a good survival strategy in the wild: once a wild cat discovers a safe and productive time and place to hunt, it will hunt at that same time and place, day after day, until it proves to no longer be safe and productive. Knocking things off a nightstand and similar deviant morning behavior can become a very hard habit to break if it results in being fed. Plus it's just fun. Many cats seem to genuinely enjoy making things fall to the floor. Indeed. Shelter and other rescue pets are the best. I’ve had purebred dachshunds, but those came from the shelter, too our current crop of felines was rescued from the street: mother and babies. She appears to be a pure Turkish van — likely discarded because she got with another. The boys have definite tabby tails. The “auntie” was adopted from a farm (yep, she was born in a barn). Photos please. Don't get me thinking about your cats without showing them off. Preferably with a rock or two in the photo so we can pretend this thread is appropriately located on the rock tumbling photos page.
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Post by stephan on Aug 8, 2021 1:52:37 GMT -5
Indeed. Shelter and other rescue pets are the best. I’ve had purebred dachshunds, but those came from the shelter, too our current crop of felines was rescued from the street: mother and babies. She appears to be a pure Turkish van — likely discarded because she got with another. The boys have definite tabby tails. The “auntie” was adopted from a farm (yep, she was born in a barn). Photos please. Don't get me thinking about your cats without showing them off. Preferably with a rock or two in the photo so we can pretend this thread is appropriately located on the rock tumbling photos page. I can post some. Most won’t have rocks, though: DSC_4250_Mama Cat and Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3996_La la la.... by sdttds, on Flickr Can we go out and play, please? by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3940_Abbott... he's got legs by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3516_I'm a chicken, too! by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2915_A bowl-full of Costello by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2054_The Christmas Day Backyard Bird Count by sdttds, on Flickr World Animal Day by sdttds, on Flickr Hope this tides you over
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 8, 2021 2:47:43 GMT -5
Photos please. Don't get me thinking about your cats without showing them off. Preferably with a rock or two in the photo so we can pretend this thread is appropriately located on the rock tumbling photos page. I can post some. Most won’t have rocks, though: DSC_4250_Mama Cat and Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3996_La la la.... by sdttds, on Flickr Can we go out and play, please? by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3940_Abbott... he's got legs by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3516_I'm a chicken, too! by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2915_A bowl-full of Costello by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2054_The Christmas Day Backyard Bird Count by sdttds, on Flickr World Animal Day by sdttds, on Flickr Hope this tides you over I love them. The photos and the cats. The three in front of the sliding glass door makes me want to see what they are seeing, although I know from experience that it could be an insect, a squirrel, a bird, leaves blowing in the wind...
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 8, 2021 2:50:31 GMT -5
Photos please. Don't get me thinking about your cats without showing them off. Preferably with a rock or two in the photo so we can pretend this thread is appropriately located on the rock tumbling photos page. I can post some. Most won’t have rocks, though: DSC_4250_Mama Cat and Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3996_La la la.... by sdttds, on Flickr Can we go out and play, please? by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3940_Abbott... he's got legs by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3516_I'm a chicken, too! by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2915_A bowl-full of Costello by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2054_The Christmas Day Backyard Bird Count by sdttds, on Flickr World Animal Day by sdttds, on Flickr Hope this tides you over So how many cats do you have? The photos are inducing a bit of cat envy.
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Post by Rockindad on Aug 8, 2021 7:18:36 GMT -5
Your posts are really making me miss my boys who passed away 3 and 4 years ago. Our smaller guy "Junior" would terrorize my wife in the morning by clearing her nightstand to make sure she got up to feed him. Funny thing is he really didn't care about food, he would have about two bites and go take a nap. It was all about sending a message. First of all, you should get another cat! Both of ours literally showed up at our door, the big buy at 3-4 years old, and Javier at 10 weeks old. If they hadn't come to us, we probably would have adopted a shelter cat. One of the great things about cats is that they don't need pedigree to be cute and good pets. They seem to adapt to the pampered domestic life regardless of their troubled past on the streets. As to your feline alarm clock Junior, cats like predictability and control, especially regarding food. Ideally, they like to be fed at exactly the same time, from the same person, at the same place, in the same dish... Although this seems capricious, I have read that it is the domestic adaptation of a good survival strategy in the wild: once a wild cat discovers a safe and productive time and place to hunt, it will hunt at that same time and place, day after day, until it proves to no longer be safe and productive. Knocking things off a nightstand and similar deviant morning behavior can become a very hard habit to break if it results in being fed. Plus it's just fun. Many cats seem to genuinely enjoy making things fall to the floor. Someday we will get others but all of us took their losses pretty hard. They were truly our first kids as we had them for years before having any of the human variety. George came from a shelter and Junior came from the backyard. We noticed a cat started hanging out by the shed and would go underneath it and pop back out over and over. She seemed to be getting larger as time went on. Before you knew it there was a whole family. We ended up getting a rescue shelter involved and I thought for sure there were 6 little ones, must have counted them dozens of times. So they came out and got all 6, with the provision that we would adopt one. Unfortunately mom had very advanced feline leukemia and was euthanized. That is when we adopted Junior. That is also when we realized there was one more we missed. "Sonny" would come back to his home more and more as he started to trust us. There was no domesticating him so I converted a dog house to keep him out of the elements. Eventually the father "Poppy" joined the party and they shared the house.
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Post by stephan on Aug 8, 2021 10:49:34 GMT -5
I can post some. Most won’t have rocks, though: DSC_4250_Mama Cat and Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3996_La la la.... by sdttds, on Flickr Can we go out and play, please? by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3940_Abbott... he's got legs by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_3516_I'm a chicken, too! by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2915_A bowl-full of Costello by sdttds, on Flickr DSC_2054_The Christmas Day Backyard Bird Count by sdttds, on Flickr World Animal Day by sdttds, on Flickr Hope this tides you over So how many cats do you have? The photos are inducing a bit of cat envy. Six: Mama Cat, Abbott, Costello, Clementine, Sophie & Mittens (not pictured in this stream). It was seven until little Winston (the cat in my avatar) was taken from us in January
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Post by stephan on Aug 8, 2021 10:58:18 GMT -5
First of all, you should get another cat! Both of ours literally showed up at our door, the big buy at 3-4 years old, and Javier at 10 weeks old. If they hadn't come to us, we probably would have adopted a shelter cat. One of the great things about cats is that they don't need pedigree to be cute and good pets. They seem to adapt to the pampered domestic life regardless of their troubled past on the streets. As to your feline alarm clock Junior, cats like predictability and control, especially regarding food. Ideally, they like to be fed at exactly the same time, from the same person, at the same place, in the same dish... Although this seems capricious, I have read that it is the domestic adaptation of a good survival strategy in the wild: once a wild cat discovers a safe and productive time and place to hunt, it will hunt at that same time and place, day after day, until it proves to no longer be safe and productive. Knocking things off a nightstand and similar deviant morning behavior can become a very hard habit to break if it results in being fed. Plus it's just fun. Many cats seem to genuinely enjoy making things fall to the floor. Someday we will get others but all of us took their losses pretty hard. They were truly our first kids as we had them for years before having any of the human variety. George came from a shelter and Junior came from the backyard. We noticed a cat started hanging out by the shed and would go underneath it and pop back out over and over. She seemed to be getting larger as time went on. Before you knew it there was a whole family. We ended up getting a rescue shelter involved and I thought for sure there were 6 little ones, must have counted them dozens of times. So they came out and got all 6, with the provision that we would adopt one. Unfortunately mom had very advanced feline leukemia and was euthanized. That is when we adopted Junior. That is also when we realized there was one more we missed. "Sonny" would come back to his home more and more as he started to trust us. There was no domesticating him so I converted a dog house to keep him out of the elements. Eventually the father "Poppy" joined the party and they shared the house. I understand completely. I’ve been devastated every time I’ve had to bury a fur baby. Thanks for sharing the heartwarming story.
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 8, 2021 14:33:47 GMT -5
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Post by stephan on Aug 8, 2021 16:07:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the story and pics. Animals know when their lives have been saved. Sophie, our 15 yo cat was hit by a car, back in 2017. When she came home, after 10 days in the ICU, I fed her through a feeding tube for two weeks The vet thought she’d be able to have a pretty good quality of life for a while. It wasn’t clear that she’d get back on kibble, jump onto the couch…, though. Today, she jumps fine, catches the occasional mouse and sleeps on my chest almost every night (except when it’s too hot). I often get my arm hairs and eyebrows groomed at 2AM. IMG_4548_Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 9, 2021 0:34:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the story and pics. Animals know when their lives have been saved. Sophie, our 15 yo cat was hit by a car, back in 2017. When she came home, after 10 days in the ICU, I fed her through a feeding tube for two weeks The vet thought she’d be able to have a pretty good quality of life for a while. It wasn’t clear that she’d get back on kibble, jump onto the couch…, though. Today, she jumps fine, catches the occasional mouse and sleeps on my chest almost every night (except when it’s too hot). I often get my arm hairs and eyebrows groomed at 2AM. IMG_4548_Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr I think so too. My mom always says that "rescue" cats are the best pets because they especially appreciate good care. My wife, who loves our cats dearly but nevertheless has something of a dog-owner mentality, says that if this is how appreciative cats act, she would hate to see unappreciative cats. I think cats can be appreciative, they just don't slavishly seek your approval the way dogs do. You just have to earn cat's appreciation, often by letting them walk all over you (literally).
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Post by stephan on Aug 9, 2021 0:54:27 GMT -5
Thanks for the story and pics. Animals know when their lives have been saved. Sophie, our 15 yo cat was hit by a car, back in 2017. When she came home, after 10 days in the ICU, I fed her through a feeding tube for two weeks The vet thought she’d be able to have a pretty good quality of life for a while. It wasn’t clear that she’d get back on kibble, jump onto the couch…, though. Today, she jumps fine, catches the occasional mouse and sleeps on my chest almost every night (except when it’s too hot). I often get my arm hairs and eyebrows groomed at 2AM. IMG_4548_Sophie by sdttds, on Flickr I think so too. My mom always says that "rescue" cats are the best pets because they especially appreciate good care. My wife, who loves our cats dearly but nevertheless has something of a dog-owner mentality, says that if this is how appreciative cats act, she would hate to see unappreciative cats. I think cats can be appreciative, they just don't slavishly seek your approval the way dogs do. You just have to earn cat's appreciation, often by letting them walk all over you (literally). I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. People who don’t like cats often simply are expecting them to act like dogs. Cats are definitely appreciate (more so than many people), but they aren’t dogs, so they show it differently.
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Post by paulshiroma on Aug 9, 2021 10:03:41 GMT -5
paulshiroma Don't encourage me or I will start hi-jacking threads with cat photos. Until now I've tried to include at least one rock in each photo as a pretext. This is Javier and Big Brother. Big Brother is big into surveillance and psychological manipulation; hence the Orwellian name. If you don't know where Big Brother is at, chances are, he is watching you. He is also quite big. About 15 pounds and not really overweight. Just big. LOL! these are genuinely beautiful animals. Great markings and colors! Gotta love our fur babies!
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Post by holajonathan on Aug 9, 2021 17:04:36 GMT -5
paulshiroma Don't encourage me or I will start hi-jacking threads with cat photos. Until now I've tried to include at least one rock in each photo as a pretext. This is Javier and Big Brother. Big Brother is big into surveillance and psychological manipulation; hence the Orwellian name. If you don't know where Big Brother is at, chances are, he is watching you. He is also quite big. About 15 pounds and not really overweight. Just big. LOL! these are genuinely beautiful animals. Great markings and colors! Gotta love our fur babies! They are cute boys and kind enough to share their house with us humans.
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Post by stephan on Aug 10, 2021 13:03:20 GMT -5
Costello, in his favorite bed, discovers a dopped Prarie agate heel cut. it may or may not have been staged. Costello & a Prairie Agate preform by Stephan T., on Flickr "Oh, cool, a rock... hi, I wasn't doing anything... hey, look, a ceiling fan...." Usually, I'll make collages square or wide. Decided to do this one "photo-booth style." I might still change it....
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