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Bevhippy wrote: While settling down on your chest cats will pause for about 10 seconds with their puckered starfish about 10mm from the end of your nose.
Mwahahahahaha! I'm always pulling her tail down and yelling, "Get your a** out of my face!"

She wants to curl up around my neck like a scarf. Right now we're in the midst of a horrible heatwave, and I sure don't need a muffler!
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OMG, too funny :rollin Just about everything that was mentioned, I've seen it happen. I've grown up with cats all my life, but now since I got my new place, I'm sad to have no pets at all. At least, I get visitation rights to see my parents' cats :)
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dbzmomma wrote:
Bevhippy wrote: While settling down on your chest cats will pause for about 10 seconds with their puckered starfish about 10mm from the end of your nose.
Mwahahahahaha! I'm always pulling her tail down and yelling, "Get your a** out of my face!"
*giggle* ... yep, so true. I regularly tell the one who's most inclined to do that "Hey, silly, I don't want to talk to THAT end!"

I guess it means something in "cat." :P
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Well from talking with Wendy at Comic-con I know she so misses her little furballs. I know she would never have made the trip if you had not been willing to cat sit Gabe.

As the current house sharing with 3 ( one never trully owns a cat they allow you to live with them) I know our 16year old starts yelling in our ears a half hour before the alarm goes off, The 8 year old Seal Point Siamese plants herself next to my wife's head and starts the kneading kick while turning on he loud purr motor. Our latest long haired tortose shell perches upon my wife's bad shoulder (the one she dislocated thats almost fully healed) and looks at her for any sign of life.

After being fed they all have their post meal ritual with the 16 year old finding my wife's lap. The Siamese finding a sunbeam and Josie the 1 yearold finding a window to look out of even if she has to stick her head through the binds to do so.

Through my life I have had numerous dogs and other animals. Cat's to me are special for they truly choose to live with you.
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Well - I don't know much about cats at all. I go in a house where a cat has been - and I have an allergic reaction - well not huge if I just go near them - then I just end up sounding like I have a cold. Don't remember the last time I held one. I had one as a child sleep near my face. I woke up and people freaked. I looked hideous. My face was swollen - I couldn't see out of one eye. I looked like a after shot from a horror face-lift.

My eyes look like a goldfish's - big bulgy and red.

They look so cuwte - especially kittens... but I end up itching my eyes - sniffing and coughing.

funny - that is basically my only allergy now (used to have more - but grew out of them)
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Cats stick their butts in your face because they have scent glands near the base of their tail. You may have noticed that cats sniff each other there. I think they identify each other by the scent. Sometimes they get that funny expression after doing it with their tongues rolled and their mouths open because they have some scent receptor that they are using to analyse the scent. They are especially apt to do it if one of the cats was gone and comes back (like from the vet.) and they simply HAVE to sniff the butt of a new cat before getting all ticked off that it is there. (We don't know this smell!)
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Apparently, cats don't understand the command "fetch !"

Or there is something wrong with their ears and they keep hearing : "Scratch !"

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In_Gabriel_We_Trust wrote:Apparently, cats don't understand the command "fetch !"

Or there is something wrong with their eard and they keep hearing : "Scratch !"

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Here's another thing I've *never* understood...

Why can't cats deal with pointing?


Point at something for a dog, and say "look over there, Spot," and the dog will look at whatever it is (and chase it, if it's a cat).

Point at something for a cat, and the cat comes over to sniff your finger.

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:rollin

So I decided to check this and it's true :D

When I point at something, both cats just look at eachother. I would swear they are thinking : " Have you got the faintest clue what he is on about ?"
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Dalek : But you have no weapons ! No defenses ! No plan !
The Doctor : Yeah ! And doesn’t that scare you to death ?
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...and then they rub their little scent glands in the cheeks all over it: "this is now MY finger" , or "I was here".
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Gabe to a cat , you are just Furniture that does Tricks :hitting:
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I think there might be a few exception.
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Cloud wrote:I think there might be a few exception.
Your right cloud he is also a source of food :evilblk
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