Cats and dogs.....my cat....

[mtngunr]

My last pet was a beloved Border Collie of 18yrs who outlasted two wives. I have never tried to replace her but ended up with a kitten who had been thrown out of a car and was starving and who ran up to me sitting on my porch and immediately attempted to nurse on my pants leg.

That was a couple of years ago now and he is still growing. Behaves more as a dog and follows me around the house when he is not killing anything which moves. He is the fastest cat i have ever seen, and i grew up on a farm with a herd of barn cats and several dogs.

I was still chuckling over the cat tail pulling cartoon, which reminded me of times past with comics and white-out and the things i left on school and work bulletin boards.

But with this "little" kitty, i would about pay to see somebody wake him up by pulling his tail....but i could not afford to pay the environmental clean-up service folk to get all the blood off of walls and ceiling....

he has a ferocious name, Puff The Adventure Cat (MISTER Kitty, to strangers), who will get into anything i own and leave open, this includes boxes of books to donate, suitcases, dufflebags, etc when preparing to travel....the extra weight gives him away....when contents double in weight...as with all youngsters, he is starting to get too big for daddy's lap....

That is a size 12EEEE foot next to his head.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Looks like the one who wandered into our garage, stayed three days, and was "adopted." Only he is a lazy bones. Very talkative - especially when he imagines he is starving.

 

[Dobe_1]

Good look'n kitty you got there. Looks a little spoiled too.
Also, I'm hoping that last picture needs adjustment or my eyes do.

 

[mtngunr]

The last photo is low light and handheld shooting backward but cat size is proper....as are paw sizes...

He is actually quite hyper and and runs around the walls a great amount of the time....making things to destroy, tearing boxes apart by the mouthful and spitting it out in a new floor covering for me to admire....playing with wrenches batting them around the house at 3 am...you know....CAT stuff....like staring at invisible things until you finally look and then laughing at you....

 

[Dobe_1]

It must be TapaTalk or my iPad. The photo is upside down on my screen. It has to be on my side, or you would see it. Any way, animals have a way of bringing the best out of us, or do they put the best in us? Sometime, I think it's the latter.

 

[mtngunr]

They can sure inspire us to care when a lot of people do not....

The photo posted correct way....which can be iffy at times with postimage.org

 

[Dobe_1]

The photo error is on my side. It must be TapaTalk

The sleeping Lizzie.

Don't get me started on dogs.

 

[snowwolf]

I don`t know if this is a fact or just of a coincidence but every "yellow" cats I have known were very kind and friendly.

 

[mtngunr]

Most big punkin cats i have known were friendly. This one will play you to death if you pet much more than head and TOP of back, get too close to belly and he thinks GAME'S ON!!! and he does not pull claw or tooth, you would think a killer alien got ahold of you it happens so fast....he had run wild and scrapping for food in his litter and too late to change, as small as he was....still cannot leave food unattended but i DID break him of habit of snatching food from guest's dinner plates which did happen once.....he had figured out not to do it with family after a few lumps but strangers seemed fair game....

He seems half mountain lion by the size of him and this is his "i just spotted something to kill!!" look and the last look smaller critters ever see.....




As for dog's, i already mentioned my Border Collie, Mollie Cianon, smart as any human child including recognizing photos and i about died when i had to put her down as she knew and shivered all the way to vet office and head in my lap out in car until the injection hit...best friend i ever had after high school

 

[Dobe_1]

I know the pain. I had my Doberman put down about seven years ago. These things are not easy.

 

[Fenris_Wolf]

I had to put down my 15 yr old Rottweiler a few years back and it was the heart breaking!! .. he was smarter and more trustworthy than most people I know.
I now have 3 cats that think they're dogs ( 25 pounds each) and a 3 month old English mastiff puppy who is scared of the cats
I truly love animals and find comfort in their presence... this was a great thread mtngunr thanks for sharing.

 

[mtngunr]

It is good to be human every once in a while....and as with your cats, this one makes a pretty good dog, follows me everywhere and purrs just being in same room.....even as i type this, MISTER Kitty is over in my captain's chair (my late dad's, i remember mom buying it for him in the mid-60s), purring himself to sleep and just happy i am in same room.....a better pal than most.

After Mollie The Border Collie, it'll be a while, if ever, before i get another dog....even Puff was truly unintentional....

Besides, i am in the middle of a midlife crisis (that is when you are 7yrs/7% of retirement income from retirement, tired of working for people who would kill their own grandmother for brownie points, and 3wks away from separation and telling them they can....well...and doing something actually helpful somewhere rather than being a parasite), and really need no more "kids" to take wherever than neccessary, not fair to them either....

 

[philllll]

Here's my boy Sugar currently sporting the Cone of Shame

 

[Fenris_Wolf]

It is good to be human every once in a while....and as with your cats, this one makes a pretty good dog, follows me everywhere and purrs just being in same room.....even as i type this, MISTER Kitty is over in my captain's chair (my late dad's, i remember mom buying it for him in the mid-60s), purring himself to sleep and just happy i am in same room.....a better pal than most.

After Mollie The Border Collie, it'll be a while, if ever, before i get another dog....even Puff was truly unintentional....

Besides, i am in the middle of a midlife crisis (that is when you are 7yrs/7% of retirement income from retirement, tired of working for people who would kill their own grandmother for brownie points, and 3wks away from separation and telling them they can....well...and doing something actually helpful somewhere rather than being a parasite), and really need no more "kids" to take wherever than neccessary, not fair to them either....

I'm sorry to hear about the midlife crisis.. but I totally understand.
I've been in law enforcement for 15 years and know people that would cut your legs out from under you just to make themselves look less incompetent.

I hope that whatever or whoever is causing you grief is removed from your path.

Keep your head up brother,, I'll keep you in my prayers.

 

[Fenris_Wolf]

That's a good looking cat Philllll... I hope the cone of shame comes of soon.

 

[Fenris_Wolf]

Hopefully tomorrow sometime I can post a few pics of furry family members .. ( no smart comments please)

 

[mtngunr]

I am thinking personally this is more a "crisis" more folk should join in and am not sorry at all except in regards to the years wasted on a job which really was a waste thanks to the incompetent self-seekers making it so.....it would not be this way if folk did not stick around for it....the self-serving and otherwise useless type could have it all to themselves and then the folk who actually get stuff done would be highly sought.....this was waaaay overdue by 10-15yrs on my part.....7%? Please don't throw me in that briar patch, Farmer Brown!

I never did get cones of shame, Phil, having never used one?.....this is to prevent pulling own fur out or scratching head or biting on own skin or something?....if i put one on Puff, he would be laying around in such a manner but only after pinging off of everything in the house trying to run out of it and collapsing in exhaustion....from what i can see, the Sugar Daddy looks quite cool with the rig.....that is a WHITE cat....

 

[philllll]

The cone is to keep him from licking a wound. It'll be off in a few days once he heals up. He's used to it now since he's had to wear it a few times. He's got issues with the scent glands by his butt.

Here he is sans cone.

 

[mtngunr]

He looks more miserable with the bow than the cone.....typical kitty.....he is just gorgeous white.....snow hunter.....

Sorry to hear of his affliction, and am hoping you all can get is cleared up/excised?.....thanks for explaination as i have seen the cones even in movies but never knew what they were for.....

 

[ndoghouse]

Looks like a happy cat mtng. Ive never known a mean yella cat either might be something to that?
Good luck with your kitty phillll. Thats a good looking kitty. My dogo didnt like the cone thing either. He was bouncing off the walls and dang near trashed the livingroom for the first few minutes of wearing one. It had to come off so we duct taped him a pair of pants and he was fine with it. Dig the tail hole.

Here is what my couch looks like when the dogs run us off. Andromeda strain!

This is my new pibbul. Shes a great girl. Full of energy for sure. She gets along great with the others well except for the Jack Russell. That was to be expected tho. Nothing gets along well with a Jack Russell.

Not sure what color those spots are. They seem blue sometimes then grey or even brown. Camellion i guess?