Your pet(s)'s personalities?

[Archae]

What are your pets like, personality-wise?

Here, I have two cats, Lucky and Salem.
Both are very affectionate, and love being lap spuds.

Salem, the black cat is the vocalist here.
"Hi Salem."
"Meow"

Lucky, the b/w cat is a quiet goofball.
Even when she does meow, it's very quiet, and high-pitched, almost like a kitten's mew.
She gets the "crazies" on a regular basis, running around, jumping up and toys go skittering across the floor or simply get airborne.

At least once every day, I'll hear Salem complaining because she's been tackled by Lucky. :-)

[ikojo]

1. As Bruce Willis said to Cybill Shepard in an episode of

Moonlighting...that's not a personality that's an affliction...well that pretty much describes my cat.

Actually as she has gotten older (she's 14 this year) she's pretty much mellowed out. She meows when she needs food and water and when I get home at the end of a long day.

[baby_bear]

2. Do your cats know they are named after cigarettes?

And do they like each other?

I have one cat, Rocky Ricardo. He is a 15 year old tabby. He loves lying on his back on my lap while I sit at the computer at my dining room table. He doesn't know that cats don't like that position and I am not about to tell him.

He bites me when I don't pay enough attention to him.

He is a brat and I love him more than anything!

s_m

[WildClarySage]

5. My Tucker used to lie like that

my current crop of puddie's are too dignified to try it.

[thom1102]

14. LOL... My Tucker is like that too!

While not a lap cat, when he wants affection he rolls right over onto his back for a belly rub. Tucker's kinda crazy and noisy, and loves the third level of their trilevel condo. He is a grey longhair with a white belly.



Calvin is a sweetheart. He is a lap kitty and a motor constantly running: he purrs all the time. He is a bit of a fatty, at 19 lbs, black and white, and loves to eat.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19. That Tucker is a beautiful kitty.

Calvin is too, but that is one beautiful picture of Tucker, Thom.
Duckie

[thom1102]

21. Thanks!

I am very proud of that one.

[Archae]

7. Lucky and Salem

Actually naming my cats had nothing to do with cigarettes.

Salem got her name because she looks exactly like the TV cat from the Sabrina show.

Lucky got her name because she was damn lucky I saved her from an attack by a pack of 3 dogs. (She's a stray, and declawed.)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. Two male cats, both very different

Black Cat Reno is also a vocalist. Lots of chirrups, grumbles, sighs, and meows. Reno is frightening intelligent at times. He is the man of the house-very regal and handsome. He is fearless, friendly, and affectionate. He is also a food whore. If you are eating something he wants, he'll grab your hand with his paw and pull the fork toward his mouth.

Noah is mostly white with black spots and a cute little black scarecrow nose. He is also a meower, especially to communicate to his humans about a squirrel or bird he is watching out the window. He also has different meows for "I want to play" vs. "I want the lap". He is babyish-even at seven years old-and very kittenish. He loves to play! He chases flashlights on the wall, jumps high to catch toys, and chases feet under the covers. He loves to snuggle, and follows me around the house during the day.

Neither Reno nor Noah bite or scratch, and they love people and little kids. Noah especially love kids because they play with him nonstop.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Dupe

[undergroundpanther]

8. my three cats

FOR MY 3 CAT FRIENDS
By Underground Panther in the Sky

RUSTLE

Caramel creme with golden silk,
Shimmery sweet with a whipped creme plume,
Super sized soft surprise,purring all the time,
Gentle joy, simple fun, playful tongue,
Green eyes on an ocean's day
look into me from his burnished sugar brows
Spreading out into a whiskery grin.
A bowl full of custard, tail curled up like a bow.
Warm and fuzzy pink toes,pink nose!
Lounging in my way,belly on display,
Sweet as honey with a teaser's bite,
Rustle is the ultimate dessert
He takes the bitterness from the hurt
and makes moments turn golden.

VINNIE

Midnight hour,
Darker than the dark
Cat shape surfs on in,

All of the sudden Happy spark
jumping up cat shape of wild thing surprise!
A flicker of static blue on night velvet,
a belly dot and a white hair,golden heart
perfect soul.

Two white whiskers outline this face
Yellow eyes glow like jewels in a cave
I rub his belly, he holds my hand,
he sparkles, he purrs and curls in delight
This explosion of love in the middle of my life
Vinny is my stealer of hearts
in darkness or broad daylight.

SPARKLE

He's just..
A little cloud with 4 feet
Slinky smooth,sauntering like a drag queen..
His perfect paws come together,neatly
As he settles in,shaped like a dome observing.

Is he a sprite or a light? Maybe..a fuzzy butt?
A bit of fluff missing from a milkweed plant?
Professional eyelid licker and underwear sniffer,
A tail tipped in blue white stripes.
Wakes me up,just to go to sleep near me.
Contrary, my cat fairy.

Sparkle settles in upon my chest.
I am his favorite chair.
His sweetly scented fur,it tickles my nose
while joy tickles my heart.

His hair is part of my daily attire,
so that I might not forget him!
Sparkle imposes himself in any room
with his insistent voice,
making sure,he will not be ignored.

A tiny cat shaped hurricane
breaks upon my lonely shore
Unspoken storms within my spirit subside
as my despair runs and hides,
Sparkle demonstrates to me as only a cat can,
What is really most important in life.

copyright 2004 Underground Panther in the Sky

[Rowdyboy]

6. One 5 year old dog (springer spaniel)-5 years old

Very sweet tempered and VERY polite. He was so glad to get a gig indoors (his first year was spent outdoors on a farm) that his behavior has always been exceptional.

Extremely cuddly too. Loves to sleep at our feet until early AM snuggle time (5:45am-6am)

[slinkerwink]

9. My dogs are very affectionate

My 13 year old miniature toy poodle, Maxsie, is very affectionate and a bit moody sometimes. If I'm reading with a book in my lap and he wants some attention, he'll crawl into my lap and put his paws on top of my book. He also likes to fight the big bad pillow when he's very excited, which is really cute. Since I'm not home for most of the year (away at college), my mother provides interesting entertainment for him. He'll follow her everywhere and watch her cook in the kitchen with his head cocked to the side.

My little brother's dog, a half-mix of Pomeranian/shih tzu, Suki, who's about eight years old is very neurotic and needy. She craves attention, and basically sits right in your lap, arches her neck back, kind of sits back on her haunches, and paws the air with her right paw. It's too irresistible not to pet her when she does that. She also gets very sad-looking when she doesn't have someone paying attention to her. Suki is also a *huge* flirt with male visitors. She totally fawns over them.

Suki gets along very well with Maxsie. Max's a bit more submissive so he'll let Suki eat out of the dog bowl first, and he lets her hump him when she gets in the mood which is quite funny to watch because of the bored expression on Max's face. They really love to cuddle together or they'll sleep together. They are basically inseparable.

[hlthe2b]

10. My little girl, my blue merle Aussie-Lab mix is, in one word, "sassy!"

My family always laughs that she's the daughter I never had, since she is a rough and tumble "tomboy," who kicks "a--s" with the boy dogs, but can be affectionate and tender with both people and the "wee ones--" rushing in to break up fights and to gently teach the pups how to play. She truly is appopriate to her namesake (the 40's filmstar, Tallulah Bankhead, who was said to be the "wildest woman" fellow star Marlena Dietrich had ever met!)

While the 1/4 lab in her mix slows her down slightly on the "straight ways," she amuses me with how quickly she can pivot and turn, evading all the other dogs in their "keep away" games. Independant to the core, she still manages to keep an eye on her "mamma," who, she knows, will step in, if things get too rough.

If she has a fault, it is that she is often too darned smart for her own (and her mamma's) good. This one KNOWS how to get what she wants!

[NJCher]

11. results-oriented little manipulator

My cat Bitsey is a game player. She is calculating. If she doesn't get what she wants, she'll ratchet the stakes up a notch. For example, if she knows I'm awake in the a.m. but I don't get up in time to suit her, she'll start clawing on the couch. She knows that gets me out of bed fast.


Cher

[Adams Wulff]

12. My dog = co-dependent.

Emma is a 3 year old yellow lab, and is more of a people dog than a pack dog. She has absolutely no interest in other dogs, except for the occasional butt-sniff. But that's rare. She loves people though, and I mean everybody. Every person is a friend she has not met, and isn't afraid to show everyone how much they mean to her.
She is a strong swimmer, and lives for going to the lake to retrieve whatever I tell her to get. Life, to Emma, is what happens in between those trips.
This mostly consists of a constant plea for attention, and her requests can be very insistent, and specific. Pet me here, a little lower, and to the right, thank you very much, and please don't stop, ever.
It's not that Emma hates cats, she just hasn't found an appreciation for them just yet. Even so, yesterday, she went after a bull mastiff at the dog park who got a little too friendly, and then came home only to scream like a little girl when the cat walked by within the 5' bubble she likes to maintain between her and those things she doesn't trust, like the vacuum cleaner.
She enjoys car rides, but gets nervous during sudden stops, or when the Jeep makes funny noises. this is a trait we both share, by the way.
All in all, I guess if I could pin her down between goofball and sweetheart, I could have saved myself a whole lot of typing.
Oh well.

[Kat45]

13. My bird, Grace, is full of personality,

as pacific parrotlets often are. They're tiny 4" birds who think they are big tough guys--not afraid of anything. She is very curious and keeps her eye on anyone in the room and has to know exactly what they are doing. If you put something new in her cage, whether a new toy or a new kind of food, she marches right over and checks it out immediately. She absolutely loves broccoli and goes nuts devouring it when I give her some.

She loves to get her little head scratched, and will turn it in various directions to let you know where she wants to be scratched. BUT--she only likes it on her terms: sometimes she's in the mood for scratches, sometimes not. If she's not in the mood she will give you her little birdie growl to warn you and then commence biting you.

[RebelOne]

15. My Rottweiler is her own dog.

She is very aloof and does not like to be loved on, only when she is in the mood and then that's only for a tummy rub. She does not kiss or lick. Sometimes I think she only tolerates me because I am her meal ticket. But I love her anyway. And I think in her own way, she loves me. She seems to be bonded to me, though.

[veganwitch]

16. my cats

inanna likes to talk alot. she can be very bitchy and will whine if you take too long doing something she wants (making dinner, playing). she will squirm and act like she hates it but does well being held and likes to sit in my lap while im on the computer or reading. she is the more active one when there are people watching. she was the first to be friendly with me and jeremy.

dumuzi doesnt talk but i think hes trying. everyonce in a while he will open his mouth and hiss (in a non-threatening way). i call him "slow." he doesnt seem to be with it sometimes. but hes a sweetheart. he loves to be brushed and will poke my butt when he wants to be petted. and currently he will "stand-up" on the computer chair but not completely jump in my lap. he doesnt like being held but will do it for some time. he can be very active and playful if he thinks noone is watching. our current morning routine is him waiting outside the bathroom when im taking a shower and then when i open the door he will come in and rub up against my legs and then he will "heel" as i walk from the bathroom to my bedroom and then jump and the bed and just follow me around as im getting dressed.

[ironflange]

17. OK, here are my kitties

From left to right:

Nicki (Crackerz) - 15 lb brown tabby girl. Six years old. Rather aloof to some (me) and outrageously affectionate to others (the rest of the family). I probably get the short end because I do the claw clipping duties. Deep rumble of a purr but meows like a 6 week old kitten. Loves crackers of all kinds, has been known to rip into a box of saltines to reach the delights inside. I have trained her to "play dead." She does not acknowledge the existence of dogs, it's like they are invisible to her. Terrified of the vaccuum.

Cleo (Bonehead): Black with white star on chest. Three years old. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Big big talker. Will wander the house yowling for no apparent reason, but also makes some very unusual sounds; we swear that she's trying to talk, to call us by name. The inflections are there. It's a low sort of gutteral groaning sound she makes, very hard to describe. Loves to have butter smeared on her paws. Very affectionate, loves my lap especially. Extremely fast runner. Very scared of dogs, loves to be vaccuumed.

Amber (The Evil One): One year old fuzzy tortie. Softest fur I've ever felt, it's like chinchilla fur. Still a kitten, extremely mischievous, likes to pull fast ones on the other two. All fur, there doesn't seem to be much of a body in there. Loves to chew on boxes; there's always little bits of cardboard everywhere. She is deathly afraid of strangers; when the doorbell rings, she heads for the hills. Loves to catch and eat all sorts of bugs, the crunchier the better. Likes to play with the neighbor's dogs through the fence. Scared of the vaccuum.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

18. Ours...

My boyfriend's dog is a mix breed that looks a lot like Murray on Mad About You. And he is the most rottten dog you will ever meet. He likes people, just not the mail man. Especially if they'll rub his belly. Scooby's always excited when they have visitors and he has wanted to go home with me more than a few times, because he lives for riding in the vehicle.

He's not really happy with his people because they moved in this wild pit bull into the backyard and she's mean to him. He's an old dog, and the Pit, Eva, is too excited all the time. His mom says he likes Eva. Scooby told me he hates her in no uncertain terms.

Scooby is obsessed with our pet rat Willow. She's this cute little rat with a brown head and stripe down her back. She lost her cage mate in August. Ever since she's been a little more well adjusted and has stopped biting. She lives to run around on the bed making me and my boyfriend nervous she's going to fall or get away. Her other favorite activity is taunting Scooby when he comes into the room. He loses his mind and whines because he just doesn't understand why we won't let him play with her. Willow acts completely satisfied and goes back into her hiding spot about half way through this tirade of his.
Duckie

[mvd]

20. My dog Reba is..

a mixed breed (German Shepherd and Golden Retriever with maybe some Collie or Border Collie,) with these traits..

- Affectionate, licks (kisses) most all times you want it
- Friendly with all people
- Genius or near-genius level intelligence for a dog
- Can be funny
- Doesn't like other dogs, but I think she just makes a lot of noise and probably wouldn't bite
- A bit timid
- Alert
- Loves walks and belly-scratches (even knows and sticks to her walk path - crosses over at the right place)