Ins-purr-ation for Cat Lovers

Cats are the natural companions of intellectuals.  They are silent watchers of dreams, inspiration, and patient research.
                                                          --- Dr. Fernand Mery

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Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration - and get between you and it.

                                                                                                                       ---- Arthur Bridges

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Sign seen in a veterinarian's office:

ALL CHILDREN LEFT UNATTENDED

WILL BE GIVEN A FREE KITTEN.

SRHC

Mom says I'm an SRHC.  She says that stands for Spoiled Rotten Hound Cat.  Hey, I'm just a cat and I do what cats do!  If I'm spoiled rotten, then it's Mom's fault!

Mom's Foot/Ankle

Mom injured her right foot/ankle again last week - and Sunday it was really bothering her.  She stayed off of it as much as possible.  She mostly laid on the bed with it elevated and she put an ice pack on it.  I knew she didn't feel good, but I tried to keep her company as best as I could. 

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A purring cat is a calm cat!

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The cat could very well be man's best friend 

but would never stoop to admitting it.

                                                  -- Doug Larson

How to Train a Human

http://archive.mail-list.com/petwarmers/message/20110316.134804.39b4afbe.en.html

 When you first acquire your human family, it a big help if you
are a cute little puppy.  (Not that you can't train them once you reach
doghood, but it takes longer.  They expect more from an adult.)
 
      Humans train easier if you give them lots of big ole sloppy kisses
to reward them when they get something right.
 
      When I arrived at my forever home, I was a cutie, weighing in at
two pounds at eight weeks old.  A little Rat Terrier, brown and white
spotted like a Pinto pony, plus giving lots of kisses to everyone --it
made me an attractive package.
 
      Once you have gotten this far, and won their trust, the next step
is in basic training.

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It's really the cat's house--

we just pay the mortgage.

                             -- Unknown

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Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities,

nor do they settle finally for limitations.  Cats, I think,

live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

                                       -- Irving Townsend

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To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, 

it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things

about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget.

Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.

                                            --- Cleveland Amory

Stormy Night

It was a stormy night last night here in Central Mississippi.  Our housemate kept bringing Rusty in and out of her bedroom - she was stashing him in her bathroom because he's afraid of thunder and lightning.  One time I was in the hallway when she opened the door to bring him in and it was like oops!!  He's big and so I'm afraid of him.  I went scurrying back into Mom's bedroom even though he didn't try to come after me [he was on a leash] and it was a little while before I would come out from under the bed.  Mom was in bed reading.  I figured with her in there doing that, I was safe from him, so I joined her in the bed.  She petted me and reassured me that I was safe and that she loves me.  

It stormed pretty much all night - thunder and lightning and heavy rain.  Mom wore our housemate's daughter's "duck shoes" to work today due to all the rain.  She said the garage had flooded again.  Our housemate wasn't amused by that!  Fortunately, the stormy weather seems to be out of here for a few days.

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Ash Wednesday

I'd like to think I owned the cat,
that condescends to share my flat;
I give him of my rationed food
and cater to his every mood.

I'd like to think he'd go to seed
if I weren't there to meet his need
And yet the fact is plain to see --
that pesky, doggone cat owns me!
                                                        -- Ruth M. Outwater

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Purring would seem to be...an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.  Whose happiness "automatic safety valve" might you trigger today with a phone call or a visit?  
                                                                            -- Monica Edwards

Rusty and the Brownies

Yesterday that retriever we live with, Rusty, took a notion to get into the brownies our housemate had baked Saturday night.  She and Mom had left them in the pan on the kitchen counter covered with tin foil.  After eating lunch, Mom came back to our bedroom and joined me.

She had a bad headache and so she laid down and took a long nap and woke up feeling better, but not completely over the headache.  When she went back out to the kitchen, she found our housemate in there and she told Mom that Rusty had tried to get into the brownies.  She had been on the couch in the den watching TV, reading the newspaper and half dozing off when she heard a noise in the kitchen and got up to check it out.

She found Rusty with the tin foil off of the pan and in his mouth.  He hadn't gotten into the brownies themselves - thank goodness!  She got the tin foil away from him and threw it away then covered the pan with Saran wrap and relocated the brownies to on top of the stove at the back where Rusty wouldn't be able to reach them.  

Fortunately no harm - no foul.  Mom says that chocolate isn't good for doggies and for kitties - she won't let me have any. 

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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull toward the human.  The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.                                                                                                                      -- Lloyd Alexander