Walking Man
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WOW!!! I can't believe this thread has made it this long without a cat hater mentioning ketchup. :barf:
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Our newest cat pictures - probably a Bengal - Warning, HUGE pics.
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TheKnifeCollector said:
People hate things they can't understand. When I ask people that don't like cats why they don't it becomes readily apparent that they don't understand cats or cat behavior. Often they want to compare cats to dogs and judge cats on the scale that they would judge a dog by.
I have seen several cat hating friends of mine do a 180 degree turn when they get to know a cat or two on a personal level.
My first cat, Hazel, died a couple of years ago after being my buddy for 13 years. She never weighed more than 8 pounds but she had 20 pounds of attitude. She was very friendly to just about anyone, but was an incredible judge of character. If she didn't like someone they usually turned out to be bad news in one way or another. She gave me warnings about several women that I dated that I should have heeded, but I had to learn the hard way. When she first met my lovely wife I left the room to come back and find Hazel curled up in my future wife's lap.
Hazel also liked to attack me like Kato in the Pink Panther movies. She would ambush me from the strangest places. In one apartment I had she figured out how to open the kitchen cabinets that went down to the floor like a closet. She would jump from shelf to shelf inside the cabinet and come out the top onto the refrigerator. She would then go to another cabinet that she could only reach from the fridge and climb into it and go to the top shelf. The first time she ambushed me from there I almost had a heart attack.
It took me a couple of months to figure out how she got up there.Her best trick was for me to ask her if she wanted a treat at which point she would run to the cabinet where they were stored and open it and then sit and wait. If I was too slow she would knock the treat container out and try to open it.
We have two cats now, the ones that came with my wife when we got together. Our big, grey tabby we have finally gotten down to 18 pounds. He cracks me up because he isn't afraid of anything. Our 75 lb dog just irritates him, and he'll let you run the vaccuum cleaner right up to him refusing to move until you push him out of the way. Our female cat is slightly demented. She came from the pound and we think she was probably abused a little because she really only trusts my wife.
I've had people try to tell me that you are either a cat person or a dog person. Bull. I've liked most animals since I was a kid. About the only critters I would never have as a pet are spiders and monkeys. I don't hate monkeys but I don't want a pet that knows how to throw its own poo.
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Thanks, Paul, That was a GREAT post.
Here's a few well-deserved smilies for you:
Here's a few well-deserved smilies for you:
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Hehe..... Mr. PeeWee was messing around in the bathroom today, and he wouldn't leave after I told him to get out. I know he's smarter than that (he just doesn't like to listen too well) so I decided that it was time for him to meet his worst enemy, Mr. Hairdryer.
Don't worry, folks, I'm not that mean, I had it set on cool, and he ran out too fast to get burned even if I had set it on high.
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The answer is that you're probably trying to hard. The more attention you give a cat, the less they like you, at least at the beginning. They're normally rather skittish, because in the wild they're targets as often as hunters.Way-O said:Nice cats, though. I like cats, but they don't like me for some reason.
There's also the fact that cats take eye contact as an aggresive act, so don't stare at them so much, it'll help.
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I'm updating this thread to complain that this cat WILL NOT leave me alone and driving me totally bonkers! It was a sheer accident that we acquired a Bengal, and he will NOT sit still!
IF anyone is considering buying a Bengal, PLEASE, for your sake, buy 2, they're just too high energy to get just one. They NEED other high energy playmates or you will suffer for it! Please take a look at the top 10 on my first post, and take it seriously. Thanks. This has been a public service message.
IF anyone is considering buying a Bengal, PLEASE, for your sake, buy 2, they're just too high energy to get just one. They NEED other high energy playmates or you will suffer for it! Please take a look at the top 10 on my first post, and take it seriously. Thanks. This has been a public service message.
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I'm pretty sure that's not on my agenda.TheKnifeCollector said:
It might be a good idea, but I don't want to pay the $ to get another one. Maybe I'll drag a bobcat out of the woods, he might be able to keep up with my kitty.