What good are CATS?

[Gregorian]

I was going through my photos, and found a few pictures. I love cats. They're special. They have personality. Each one is unique. They're crazy. Bart is the one on the floor (no, he's not glued to the ceiling). Farnsworth is peering down from his bedroom. They have the entire second floor to themselves. When I moved in, they immediately went up there. It's their cat command post. The last one is living proof that cats do not make good sentinels.

[ET Awful]

1. Hehehe, they certainly are well fed aren't they? :)

Do you spoil them as much as I spoil mine? Somehow mine work off all their calories though (probably by playing cat tag at 3:00 AM).

I love the pics, for some reason that second one really gets me though, I like that alot :)

[Gregorian]

3. Ouch!

I was hoping noone would notice. Farns is 23 pounds. It doesn't seem like I overfeed them. Maybe it's the livers... But I've started cutting back. They were both feral cats born in the forest. I guess I want them to feel loved. They are not playful. Only the last couple of days has Farns ever exhibited playfulness. I'm pretty excited. (Didn't mean to go into a diatribe, here). I think feral cats might lack in the playfulness department. Their mother was all work.

[ET Awful]

6. I didn't mean that in a bad way :)

They're big,b ut I don't think they're too fat. It looks like you take great care of them.

Mine both play too much to ever gain weight for real :).

They look like great kitties :).

[Gregorian]

9. They're mouse disposal units.

Even if I didn't feed them at all, they'd be big. And the worst part is, this new place has more moles and mice than the last one. I can't wait for warm days, so we can all get some excercise again.
Hey, this is fun being around other people who love animals. I literally treat my cats like people. Yes, they're spoiled rotten. :)

[ET Awful]

10. Mine are spoiled too.

Hell, they had more toys growing up than I did :).

[Gregorian]

11. I LOVE your gallery.

Your photos and your cats are just beautiful. I see you are in as much awe with them as I. Funny, I didn't want cats. They just came into my life. I fell in love with them, and we became a family.

[ET Awful]

13. Thanks!

As to cats, I didn't much want them either. For a while I had a roommate with a cat, and her cat (which was old and really didn't like people that much other than my roommate), for some reason took a liking to me and would come in and sit on my lap while I was working on the computer. When that roommate moved to Boston, I missed having a cat around.

So, a lady at work brought Quinn to me, and he needed a home, so I took him in. Then, my roommate at that time (different roommate, this one had 2 cats) moved out and Quinn seemed lonely, so I got Althea to keep him company. They get along great, but have very different personalities. I love having them around. If I had a house and yard instead of an apartment, I'd probably have dogs too, but I'd feel guilty keeping the dogs locked up all day while I'm at work :(.

[meow2u3]

17. Cats are also first-rate depression busters

So much so my shrink prescribed me one--and my friends tell me I'm far less depressed since I got my Boots.

[Beaverhausen]

2. I love those pictures.

Whenever my Geneva lays on her back like Bart in the first pic, I know she is a happy girl.

I love the alert look on Farnsworth's face in the second.

and that one with the deer is priceless!!! How close did the deer end up getting to the kitty?

[Gregorian]

4. Farnsworth is a special one.

He had to have surgery after getting into his first fight with a barn cats, recently. The vets just loved him. You know, I think Bart does that upside down thing when he's feeling bored and unloved. If I ignore him, upside down he goes. Weird. As for the buck, he got a couple of feet closer, and I don't remember what happened. But the cats and I have lived in and around forests. They grew up with animals wandering in and out of their room. Once I looked outside, and Farnsworth was lying smack in the middle of about fifty wild turkeys. He looked like he was in heaven. I'm just waiting for them to discover the muskrat that lives here. Cats are trouble sometimes. :)

[bvar22]

5. Love your pics.

Especially #2. Great kitty shot!


Also love your home. From the little I can see, nice house in a GREAT location.
If you left you door open, I believe that young buck would walk right in!.
It doesn't appear your sentinel would stop him.
LOL. :)

[ET Awful]

7. Yup, that picture rules :)

It looks like he's doing a child-like temper tantrum of holding his breath til he turns blue :).

[Gregorian]

8. Thanks.

I just moved from that last property. And now I'm on a extremely beautiful ranch. I have elk that come down out of the hills. The cats have only seen them a few times. But they sit on the front grass, mesmerized, watching the big animals. I think animals need each other. The variety, the beauty.
Also, Farnsworth (the cat poking his head out of the slats) is really special to me because as a kitten he was lost in the forest for three months! I cried every day. Then one day, like a ray of happy light, he came trotting into the yard. I better stop, because I can go on and on about real estate and my cats.

[SW FL Dem]

12. That last pic is priceless!! n/t

[demnan]

14. Lily disapproves of the laziness of your present charges

and provides this blog to show you what a cat really should be.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=243x4874

[bertha katzenengel]

15. wonderful critters

I love the "ceiling" one!

[Zuni]

16. Those pics are wonderful. I even saved the last pic for my own!

I am going to e-mail the last pic to my mom, who is a cat freak. She would get a kick out of that last one