Beware the Beast Man
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:02 PM
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Poll question: Your cat's petting threshhold? |
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Edited on Tue Jul-13-04 02:03 PM by Beware the Beast Man
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fairfaxvadem
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:05 PM
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1. In between Medium and Short |
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Likes to be petted when HE wants to, but then after a good petting, CHOMP! Let the biting begin!!!
The 2 year old never bites, ever. Just licks me to death, but he won't sit still for serious petting like the older cat. He does roll over on his back like a dog, though, with that "Rub my Belly" pose.
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jedicord
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:05 PM
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2. How many times can I vote? |
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I have 5 cats and they are all different in this regard. The girls are the lap cats, the boys vary from loving petting for a while to liking play instead.
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Beaverhausen
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:07 PM
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3. My cats like belly rubs |
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very unusual for cats but there you go.
My older cat Geneva would let me do it for hours.
Annie, the younger tolerates it for a while then lets me know when she's had enough.
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:09 PM
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she doesn't want to be "held". She comes to me when I go to bed, and if I didn't push her away after a while, I'd never get any sleep--she just wants me to rub her belly.
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fairfaxvadem
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:10 PM
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I wondered about that. It's as though he lived w/dogs before coming to live with me. It's the darndest thing.
If I ever figure out how to post a photo here, I will.
I love DU's cat posts.
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Beware the Beast Man
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:07 PM
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Edited on Tue Jul-13-04 02:08 PM by Beware the Beast Man
Can't get enough loveins. Coleman, on the other hand, goes after the fingers after a few seconds, so I'm split down the middle.
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Cobalt Violet
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:09 PM
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5. I've got 2 very different cats. |
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Edited on Tue Jul-13-04 02:10 PM by Cobalt Violet
One loves to be babied even though he is a huge 20lb. ocicat. And the other is petable but never for long and just a few pats and is overwhelmed very easily.
So I didn't vote. But you can just add one more to each catagory in your head.
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ET Awful
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:10 PM
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8. Quinn is an absolute attention sponge for . . . . |
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the first 20 minutes or so after I get home from work, then he just wants to play.
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sybylla
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:17 PM
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9. My Mickey is a little kitty ho |
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If you'll rub, scratch, poke or play, he not only loves it but will put up with anything for you to do it. But when the new kitten is around, he's like Garfield with Nermal, sticking his nose up in the air and walking off as if being cute for attention is beneath him.
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ok222
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:21 PM
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10. I really wish I could answer that, |
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Edited on Tue Jul-13-04 02:31 PM by ok222
He has his own schedual for me...:) GRRRR I misplaced my reply, bare with me while I get used to this forum set up....lol.
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sybylla
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:45 PM
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Don't worry about it. We've all done it at one point or another.
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ok222
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Tue Jul-13-04 10:33 PM
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15. Thanks for the welcome |
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The real funny thing is.....all cats that I have had were either abandoned, runt of litter, or the only one that survived hmmmm I must be a cat sympathetic and the cat Gods see me as a foster home LOL
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:35 PM
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I have five cats. Actually I had three, but I couldn't marry anyone who wasn't a cat lover, so when I got married my household became a five cat house hold. Talk about tension in the house for the first three years. Finally, they have sort of accepted each other.
My husband's cats, one of whom I have emotional stolen from him, could be petted and have their bellies rubbed all day long. My cats were all strays that found me. The one that found me while it was a kitten can hang around for over an hour, but the other two....well living on the street can be rough. My cats are survivors, but they still carry the emotional scars of life as a homeless being.
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sybylla
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:46 PM
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13. And another big Welcome |
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I know what you mean about strays. Some cats never get over being abandoned, for what ever reason, by their mothers or their caregivers.
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Tue Jul-13-04 02:51 PM
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14. my cat never seems to get tired of attention |
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... whether we're playing games or I'm holding him, he never really wants to stop or go do something else. When I have to go somewhere, he cries loudly if he can't come too. I don't think he has the solitary, 'aloof' gene.
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Tue Jul-13-04 10:42 PM
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I find that my cats' petting threshhold is the point where I'm pulling their top eyelids up to the top of their skull. :P
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More Than A Feeling
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Tue Jul-13-04 10:42 PM
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17. My cats, Ginger and Andy |
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Ginger: sometimes I can't get rid of her because she is following me around in hopes that I will sit down so she can jump on my lap. Other times, she will run if I make a move toward her
Andy: He will let me pet him for awhile, then bite. But he will let me scratch him, especially his face and belly, for all eternity.
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Tue Jul-13-04 10:55 PM
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One likes to be lap kitty for five minutes when I get home, ignores me the rest of the time.
The other one was auditioned to be a lap kitty. Problem was, it had just been fixed and wasn't feeling well. As soon as that wore off it's ignored me ever since. Between that and pissing fucking everywhere, he's going back to kitty jail if he doesn't smarten up.
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