CAT NEWS HERE!!

My other cat is also large but his weight hangs in a floppy way from his belly. He is solid white and is scared of strangers. He likes catnip, sunny days and hissing at the dog. He is seven years old and will hide from you.

(I've never been allowed pets)

Now that she's getting on a bit, when she's happy she dribbles. Loads. I mean like wet patches on your trousers loads. And as she has the stinky catfood breath thing too, that drool doesn't smell too nice.

But I still love her.

Kitty is on the porch.

That's the news and I'm stickin' to it.

They slept on her humanless bed last night rather than coming to sleep on my bed, those little bastards. I see how it is.

We have them on Hairball control food right now, but maybe her stomach just can't handle the switch from regular kitty food. I dunno.

Most of the time though she's just a cute cuddle bug. That's right, I said it, a cuddle bug.

Like emanate cat-hating waves?

But when we both sleep in her bed, they can't get enough. Fickle little things.

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In Norway my friend and I got it into our heads that traditionally you throw a cat into a fjord. No cat was big into it

I've avoided posting pictures of our oldest cat, Zippy, because he has a really ugly mass over his right eye that I never got treated because it never bothered him. He developed a really disgusting golf-ball-sized mass on a back leg that I had the vet remove last week -- it was the first time this vet had seen Zippy, so he was kind of concerned about the thing over his eye. But when I told him he'd had it for at least five years and never shown the slightest discomfort, he said "well, I can't argue with that." Esp. since CBC and chem panel otherwise showed him in perfect health for a 16-year-old cat. He purrs so loud that the vet had to wave an alcohol swab under his nose to get him to shut up so he could listen to his lungs.

So I think I'll post some cat photos later today.

Sorry to hear about the kitty losses. Sigh.

My kitty is purring away on my lap right now, which is making it difficult to get up and get some breakfast.

aw, me wanna a kitty. my lease doesn't allow me to keep pets, sigh.

this is gertrude. she really likes shoes.

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this is biff. he is fluffy and extremely sassy. he likes to get in the way when i'm trying to vacuum.

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this is our street cat stella. she is a bit cuckoo in the coconut.

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that's it. no more cats.

omg grey cats i love them

okay:
holding cats against their will in front of photobooth: c/d?

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har

"sigh...I damwell better gets cheezburger for this."

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^^^ this is my kitty!

haha

that bedspread/duvet cover is awesome!
and cat is adorable - i call cats like these cow cats :)

rrobyn's cat looks enormous in that shot

this is Spike, helping me figure out if my camera was focusing correctly

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I got a new "rescue" kitty Saturday. She's a snowshoe Siamese, 13 months old. When she's less shy, I'll put up some pix. She's very cute and a little cross-eyed. The current queen of the house (16yo traditional Siamese) isn't so happy about the new arrival. Lots of hissing and growling, but no actual altercations yet.

aw yaay that is good cats news

New cat on left and old cat on right:

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breaking news! my cats are cute!

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and they're getting along pretty well these days!

omg cats

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my cat hates headphones! i thought it was just a kitten thing, so i haven't had any headphones lying around for months.

there are TONS of cords in my room, computer cables, iPod, usb stuff, and she hasn't chewed through anything in a long time. i bought some headphones last night (Sony cheapies), and the cord didn't make it through the night! why, kitka, why?!

Maybe you shouldn't buy bacon-flavored headphones anymore.

cat's don't know it's not bacon

ohguys my cat noam (my older black cat who is the best cat in world) is sick and i am scared :(
can't get vet appt until 10:30 anywhere - so made one with my vet, which is close by at least - and emerg animal hosp is far far away and it snowed yesterday so traffic sucks (and i dont' even have a car)
it is terrible to have to wait and sit with my poor cat who is obv in some kind of pain (he is just laying v still breathing quickly in kitchen and has been since 6 am) that i can't do anything about except call friends and write this and cry and feel bad for not having taken him to a vet for years and fuck

one of these came in the post this morning

oh rrrobyn, i hope noam is okay. i'll be thinking of both of you this morning.

good luck robyn :(

good luck rrobyn and noam.

Any news? Hope everything is OK.

Me too. Best wishes for both of you, rrrobyn and Noam.

thanks guys
i took him to the vet and they checked him out for a while and took some blood, will get back to me soon (prob in the morning) re: results. lots of possibilities but right now all i know is that he isn't able to really move, though is not paralyzed, stroke is/was a possibility though, as is heart or kidney problems. all i can do is watch him and give him water in a dropper, try to make him eat some wet food, but he's not into any of that.
am hurting in my heart
and on top of it feeling guilty for not being at work where it's really busy right now. but my poor kitten, what can i do really but leaving him for a few hours doesn't seem right either.
sigh
tragically enough, a very good friend's cat died yesterday night :(
oh cats

poor puss :(

i'm sorry rrobyn:-(

:(
noam died at 5 am here at home after about a 45 minutes of difficulty breathing, and then his heart just gave up. i don't know, it was fast but it was difficult. i wished i had some morphine or heroin or something around.
a friend is coming with me to the vet for his cremation. waiting is hard but it'll be better to have a friend there. i'm not getting the ashes though; i wldn't be able to deal with that. he was a very very good cat and there with me from age 20-32, which i imagine aren't the most fabulous years to be someone's cat, but he did a good job. oh cat. sigh :(

im so sorry robyn :( :( :( pp and I sometimes talk about what bad sad times it will be in our house when my black cat goes and when his orange cat goes.

i'm so sorry:-( condolences.

RIP noam

oh no rrrobyn!

*hugs*

We buried ours in the garden and planted plants on top. He always loved the garden

oh robyn, it breaks my heart to hear that. poor kitty. i hope you are okay...

So so sorry Robyn. RIP Noam, I bet he loved those 12 years he was with you though :( :( :(

i am half okay and half hurting all over
i took him in to the vet's so now he is gone for real - they were v v kind. test results showed it was diabetes but at a quite far-gone stage of ketoacidosis, though he exhibited no obvious symptoms until yesterday (and my bro is diabetic so i am pretty aware of the signs plus was around all of sunday (he re-watched some of the bourne supremacy with me) and half of monday morning and he wasn't going to the bathroom a lot or drinking more water than usual or anything different. i began to 'what if...' myself after learning diagnosis but what's the point in that). but dude was freakin strong from day 1. born on a farm and raised to 6 wks or so by a doberman! he ruled.

i feel a little silly and odd abt posting so much on this thread but i guess i talk through grief? somewhat. your condolences mean a lot and are helpful to me.

my friend who came with me is part of the couple who are the other two people in my band - and they are the ones whose 16-yr-old cat died on monday night. she said that their cat is hanging out with sun ra and everyone in space, which is the place, as we know, and i think this is where noam is and we all are/were/will be in some way and it is full of awesome love.

aww, i'm sorry robyn. :( i've got a great old cat and i'm totally scared of him going.

I think old cats see the winter coming and just think, "Ah, fuck it. Thanks for the food and love folks, and don't forget me, but it's getting cold so I'm outta here."

Feeling for you, robyn. The pain diminishes over time, but boy howdy the first couple weeks after a cat death SUCK.

Awww, rrrobyn, condolences. This sucks. (Cat life expentancy != human life expectancy) == proof there is no God.

oh, rrrrobyn i'm sorry :( i just saw the news second-hand on nzbrd. having a kitty pass away is super difficult. i know he wouldn't want you to be toooooo sad for toooo long, though. all my best wishes.

Yes fuck I concur caek, how can anyone argue for 'intelligent design' when kitties have such short lives but Reagan lives to be 88?

V. sorry rrrobyn, I hope you feel calmer soon tho I understand being v v sad for a long time after death of pet (I am sensitive abt these things so I got empathy here for you by the bishel).

thanks again everyone. i was in a crazy amount of shock yesterday, whoa, but did not really know i was in shock, as i guess it plays out slightly differently depending on the situation. and though not really 'okay' today, am doing a lot better, or at least a lot less freaked out. going to go out in the world, go to work, etc, and be. it is a very weird and sad adjustment to have to make, and the lack of his presence, esp here at home is obvious, but it's true that he was all about being and staying happy (though cool about it, haha), so i will honour that for sure and be happy that his time on earth happened with me, which was a really beautiful and amazing coincidence - life's some wild stuff :)

My cat took a shit on my roommate's couch this morning. The fact that I find this very satisfying notwithstanding (he spent all last night proudly crowing that my cat was afraid of him), it's pretty much the last straw as far as his behavior is concerned. He's been acting up a lot since I moved to the new place, and I suspect it's because I'm never home.

My ex worked from home and was able to spend the whole day with the two cats, but after we broke up I took "my cat" (which I never even wanted to begin with but eventually grew to love wtf wtf) with me to the new place. I'm out of the house 9-10 hours a day for work, not to mention the time I spend out socially & the time I'm sleeping, so the poor guy spends the majority of his time alone or around my roommate who has apparently done his asshole best to terrify him.

I need to find him a new home. I'm gonna ask the ex first to see if she wants to take over. After that I have a handful of friends who might want him. If they won't have him I'll put a few ads up on CList, and failing even that I might just say a little prayer and hand him over to the Humane Society.

I really really don't want it to get to that last option.

:(

aw hoos. beg your friends, they'll do it.

It's Bob's birthday today! he is two years old. Yesterday he got bitten on the lip be a bee! He is OK though.

I hope your cat finds a new home, Hoos.