Got cats?

[chrispenycate]

Originally Posted by Metryq

Did I miss something else in the thread, or were you referring to the animated GIF I posted above of Ellie kneading her pillow? I imagine you know that Siamese come in two basic breeds: "Traditional" (a.k.a. "appleheads," the original breed that is built much like other cats) and "Moderns" (very pointed heads, skinny limbs).

I bought Elegance from a breeder who specializes in "preserving" the Appleheads. Since Ellie is a mix between Appleheads and Moderns, the breeder could not use her in the breeding program. The breeder acquired Ellie from someone else, and Ellie chose me while she was only six months old. She walked right up and howled in my face while I was taking my winter boots off, and she rattled like a diesel engine when I picked her up. (She knew how to get adopted.)

I've had cats all my life and know the basic proportions. Ellie's head and ears look pretty typical. If her ears look big in the GIF, perhaps it is the camera angle. She looks more like an Applehead than a Modern. If anything, the mix gives her slightly high cheek bones. I had an orange Maine Coon with a slightly pointed face like that—it made Wriggley look a bit like a fox.

And Ellie does not have to worry about collars; she's an indoor cat. She's actually afraid to go outside, but she'll sit in a window and yell at me the whole time I'm outside doing yard work.

No, I was on an earlier part of the thread, where we were discussing collars on cats, and I was remembering how rapidly siamese could get out of them.

Ellie is beautiful – that's an extended "mrouch", if you want to tell her I said so, and would have fitted splendidly into our tribe, had she been a blue point.

[AE35Unit]

Our two snuggling up

[anivid]

AE35UNIT - real cute :-)

See here -- great cat entertainment

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4e9_1227389341

[paranoid marvin]

Ode To My Cat

Felis Catus, known as She
Dost thou wonder who made thee?
Arméd thee with sharpest claws
Hidden in thy tender paws
Sightéd thee with pupils bright
Lighting up the darkest night
Voiced thee with a mewling caw
'Til your dish gets filled once more

Felis Catus, known as She
Cares not who her maker be
Throned upon a favoured chair
Whilst the world revolves 'round her

[anivid]

Nice verse, PM – you don’t mind me continuing, don’t you ??

Felix Catus, lucky you
Just let out a little mew,
the Butler will report to you,
make open doors plus serve you stew

You lay there dreaming all day long
Preparing for your evensong
Then suddenly you yawn and stretch
Parading out the night to fetch.

Felix Catus IS, but WHY ??
- sent from unknown world to spy ??

[J-Sun]

This appears on the Chrons a couple of times, but I don't think it's made this thread yet. Data's "Ode to Spot", from the Star Trek episode "Schisms":

Felis Catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aide in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array,
and though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

[Extollager]

I've just stumbled onto this "Got Cats?" thread.

Yes, we do, four of 'em, from a maximum enrollment at one time of seven. One nominally belongs to one of our children.

C. S. Lewis observed the feline tribe with affection and wrote:

"We were talking about cats and dogs the other day and decided that both have consciences but the dog, being an honest, humble person, always has a bad one, but the cat is a Pharisee and always has a good one. When he sits and stares you out of countenance he is thanking God that he is not as these dogs, or these humans, or even as these other cats!"
--Letters to an American Lady, (Mary Willis Shelburne, March 21, 1955) p. 40

[anivid]

Originally Posted by J-Sun

This appears on the Chrons a couple of times, but I don't think it's made this thread yet. Data's "Ode to Spot", from the Star Trek episode "Schisms":

Very nice, very enlightening, J-Sun :-)
- but ours were good too - WHY ??
because we made it ourselves

[J-Sun]

Originally Posted by anivid

- but ours were good too

Yep - I wasn't contradicting - just adding.

[anivid]

Originally Posted by J-Sun

Yep - I wasn't contradicting - just adding.

Appreciate it

[paranoid marvin]

A cat called Spot? I think Data had a screw loose. Or perhaps he had his wires crossed.

[Lenny]

Me mam picked up the new cats on Friday, and has uploaded a fair few pictures of their first day in the house. They seem to be settling well.

This is Charlie, eyeing up our chickens:



And this is Max stood next to Charlie, also eyeing up the chickens:

[crystal haven]

They are really beautiful cats, Lenny.

[anivid]

Yes nice silk fur - and big ears - congrats, they seem to be cute :-)

[Metryq]

Lenny, are they Abyssinians? They're certainly ambitious.

"Charlie, how do you like your eggs?"
"Hatched and matured."