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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:26 PM
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Does your cat have a dangerous job?
My cat does.

He flies the helicopter for our county's rescue team - you know, the guys who go looking for lost hikers, or help pull people out of forest fires, or go to the top of the mountains to help people, and such.

Every time he goes out in that damn I die a little inside from worry.

I wish he'd stop, but he's so committed to helping others, how could I ever ask him not to do this?

How do you deal with your cat's dangerous occupations?
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:29 PM
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1. I use catnip... and he just flies around without his helicopter... lol....
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:32 PM
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3. ever wanna sneak into a zoo at night with a couple bales of the stuff
Edited on Sat Jul-09-05 01:33 PM by havocmom
and test it on BIG kitties? :evilgrin:

edited cuz I am a dope
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:35 PM
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5. You are bad... you really are... now stand in the corner until those
thoughts are out of your head!!!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:38 PM
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8. That particular thought has been in my head for DECADES!
There is not a corner big enough to chase it out.

Wanna see pictures of my garden patch... where I grow BIG catnip crops?
Seriously, I can keep every cat within 4 miles stoned... All part of my research.

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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:39 PM
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10. Why yes, yes, I'd like that very much.....
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:44 PM
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14. I have been pulling up catnip plants for years
but the patch keeps getting bigger. Do you know how many seeds one catnip plant produces? Gads, it would take a nuk-lar blast to kill them off.
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Patchuli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:31 PM
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2. My cats' most dangerous occupation
includes rolling off the top of the pillow they sleep on on the top of my couch to the couch cushions! Sleeping...it's a dangerous job but someone has to keep the back of the couch covered in fur!

Please elaborate more on Rescue-Cat!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:33 PM
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4. Spike Kitty wants to work for the Red Cross blood drives
She is very good at drawing blood.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:38 PM
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7. That is very noble, indeed!
Cats are so selfless. Always out helping others.

Just be sure to tell kitty that she needs to be careful with other people's blood, not get any on her, in case they have infections or AIDS or something transmittable.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:40 PM
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11. She also strives to make the world safe from attack
shoe laces and red fruits & vegetables.

Wanna see her collection of small tomatoes, chilis, strawberries and beets?
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two gun sid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:37 PM
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6. My cat 'claims' he's involved with Homeland Security...
and he's hardly ever home at night. Personally, I think he's a liar.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:40 PM
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12. My "other cat" is a panther. He does whatever the hell he wants.
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Fiona Donating Member (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:38 PM
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9. My guy is
part of a special-ops team that clandestinely roams the neighborhood at night, beheading terrorist gophers.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:44 PM
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13. My cat wears his DU t-shirt and sits on SUV's & pick up trucks with
Bush/Cheney stickers on them and pee's on the windshields. He does in in broad daylight.
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purr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:50 PM
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15. Mine begs for food.
Will sit there and beg for food. Wont get a job and no one will hire them - they cant write and only speak cat.

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The Great Escape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:56 PM
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16. My Cat Is A Food Tester For P Diddy....
he tests anyones food for that matter.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 01:59 PM
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17. My cat Grumpy (RIP) was a submarine driver..

...in WW2. Got a little water logged a time or two, but damn it, he fought for our freedom. Came home with only two or three teeth in his mouth.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:01 PM
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18. My cat has a burning ambition to free the world from evil birds.
Edited on Sat Jul-09-05 02:03 PM by hickman1937
Unfortunately, he's not allowed outside. He's hell on spiders that manage to penetrate the outer perimeter(the door wall).
edit for crappy english.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:02 PM
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19. My cat unfortunately sells dope in Baltimore
and she is a junkie :cry:

She makes me suffer to no end
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:03 PM
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20. Tough love...

...is the only thing you can do sometimes.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:04 PM
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27. Those damn cats.
Maybe if you were edgier, the cat would stop being a junkie.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:11 PM
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21. My cats job is to protect me from creatures both real and invisible..
well, that's Evita's job. Abbott is a typical male who sits around on his furry fat ass all day making Evita do all the work while he just licks himself.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:37 PM
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22. Yes, but I can't tell you about it....
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:47 PM
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23. She's a muck about clown, quick change comedian, tightrope walker
and acrobat.

She has no regular occupation, she makes her home in Victoria Grove.
That's merely her center of operation, as she is incurably given to rove.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:53 PM
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24. My cat hunts terrorists
Usually diguised as rodents or avians, sometimes cleverly posing as lizards or snakes. We do a body count regularly - he has personally saved the nation from some 1000+ dangerous terrorists in his illustrious ten year career.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:18 PM
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28. My cat can beat up your cat..... pic....
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:59 PM
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25. Yes.
Edited on Sat Jul-09-05 03:11 PM by Jamastiene
My cats comfort my wimpy ass while there is a thunderstorm. I am such a wuss that storms scare me to death. I am not one of those people who freaks out over seeing snakes in the yard or even wild animals in a forest, but let that rolling thunder start and my knees get weak. My cat, Domino, got on the couch and actually used her paw and petted *ME* the other night during that bad storm the other night here in NC that spawned all those tornadoes. She instinctively knew I was nervous and scared. I'm normally sort of neurotic, but she was able to distinguish between my normal neuroses and my fear of the storm...I love my cats. They love me like no human ever would, unfortunately.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:02 PM
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26. Yer darn right he does!
It's his job to get me out of bed at 3:00 a.m., and if that's not dangerous, I don't know what is.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:19 PM
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29. I wouldn't want that job!
Well, actually, yes I would, now that I think about it.

But not the danger part.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:32 PM
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30. My cat's job is to wake me up in the morning
which qualifies her for triple hazardous duty pay :D
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 12:53 AM
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31. He sure does
Here he's guarding my wifes lap.




Dangerous work I tell ya.
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evlbstrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 12:59 AM
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32. My cat's job is defending me from the attic fan.
Unfortunately, he lost. But he's doing quite well now. He's back on dry food.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 01:05 AM
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33. All three of my cats have jobs
Dora protects us (through windows) from bluejays and geckos. It is also her job to bring me undergarments that I might have forgotten. She generally thinks that I forgot a thong, but sometimes she brings me a bra. Right out into the living room.

Bear protects us from tree roaches (those big, flying roaches). We live near woods, and they tend to get in. He catches them, and then plays with them until we kill them.

Scribbles tests the water that comes out of the bathroom sink. I cannot brush my teeth until she has made sure that the water is safe. she also makes sure that I don't drown by pawing open the shower door when I'm in there.
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tonekat Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 01:29 AM
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34. He makes sure the bombs disguised as chipmunks
have no fuses, which are cleverly disguised as tails.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 01:31 AM
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35. We're not allowed to discuss Ginger's work. (nt)
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