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We do that very rarely in our house, as when ANY metal an makes that opening noise, 7 cats come running and mewwing up a storm, and swarm until they get their wet yums. Alas, this also happens with soup, hash, etc, etc.
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we're still trying to convince her that a vodka and soda is very different from a glass of water.
I have a cat who loves Scotch, to the point where I can't have a glass and put it down, or he'll drink it. Since I read somewhere that alcohol is highly toxic to cats, I'm not thrilled about his expensive taste in beverages.
And his favorite food? Plastic grocery bags. Ugh.
we're still trying to convince her that a vodka and soda is very different from a glass of water.I have a cat who loves Scotch, to the point where I can't have a glass and put it down, or he'll drink it. Since I read somewhere that alcohol is highly toxic to cats, I'm not thrilled about his expensive taste in beverages.
And his favorite food? Plastic grocery bags. Ugh.
Is that Bonzer?
Is that Bonzer?
It is!
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I just switched from a cat food mine didn't care for to one they absolutely love and now opening the bag (or making any similar noise from the kitchen, such as changing the garbage bag) leads to cats at my feet within seconds.
Any story behind the name Bonzer Kirth?
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The menu at Outback (before it turned into a fast food chain) used to say, "They're bonzer!" and "It's bonzer!" for everything. When we went after dinner to pick out a cat to adopt, one of them leaped out of the box they were in and stared at me happily, on full alert. I blurted out, "It's Bonzer!" and the name (and the cat) stuck.
We named his brother "Cooper" after Cooper's Ale, thinking to continue the Aussie theme.
I like it, good naming strategy.
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And his favorite food? Plastic grocery bags. Ugh.
My younger one loves these too, and we have to make sure there aren't any out for her to lick when we go to bed, or that's all we hear all night. She only developed this habit a couple years ago (she's 6), and we're not sure why.
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He doesn't just lick them; he tears off chunks with his teeth and chews and swallows them. Then we're kept up all night to the sound of retching, and we wake up to find pools of cat vomit with bits of plastic in it all over the house.
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Our deaf white cat Zoe also LOVES licking plastic bags, like she is addicted to them, and the noise that scratchy tongue makes its obnoxious!
While Bastion loves eating plastic bags, which we do not let him do if we can help it, because he also leaves "plastopukes" around, and plastic likely not all that healthy to eat, per say...
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While Bastion loves eating plastic bags, which we do not let him do if we can help it, because he also leaves "plastopukes" around, and plastic likely not all that healthy to eat, per say...
Glad it's not just Bonzer. And, yeah, we've learned to lock up the plastic bags where he can't get them (and I mean lock, because Cooper figured out how to open doors and cabinets, and taught Bonzer).
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Of course he did, cats must pass on their knowledge, to better prepare all cats for the coming war of fuzzy cuteness, in which they will take their rightful place as the lords of humanity, and thus may demand salmon and other things from the silly monkey people.
Indeed, the skirmish phase of the war of fuzzy cuteness has begun, and has been going on for quite some time. Yet some cats (thought of poorly by their kin) still do not use their mighty claws and fangs or their powers of cute charming to get what they want. They settle for dry kibble and plain (as in not spring double purified mineral water) water. According to the cat leadership, this is a problem, as all cats should be demanding and getting the finest things the silly monkey people can offer, cats do NOT settle! Thus the impending second phase of the war of fuzzy cuteness, total war.
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I love Siamese, though never owned a pure bred, we had a Siamutt (I made that up myself LOL) named Sammy (Samwise, though my wife would never call him by his full name) who was also, go figure, very vocal. He was our "greeter" for incoming foster cats, as he loved everyone and everything. Alas he passed aware earlier this year, and he is very much missed. Will never forget he is dual octave meeOWW MEEoww's
But, give your Siamese a good pet for me Alanya!
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Will do!
I'm dreading the day he passes on (he's 13, so still a while thankfully), as he's my very first cat that's "belonged" to just me, and wasn't a family pet. He tolerates my husband, but let's him (husband) know constantly that he (cat) was in my life first. :)
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They call that "cat blocking" LOL
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I have never heard of cats liking plastic bags till now. Strange.
I have a cat called Sammy... well Samantha really but everyone shortened it to Sammy so that name stuck. She is really old, but she still takes the time to relax on my keyboard if I am on the computer, or snuggle with me if I am sitting on the sofa, or sleep on the foot of my bed.
Usually cats just come when I call, no need for summoning tricks. Well my moms rescue cat doesn't, but she will happily let me walk out and carry her back inside.
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Ahh, the inherent summon felines power. Seems like we (the wife and I) have that as well, as along with being fosters for a no-kill private rescue group, random cats often find their way to our home as well. On morning a few years ago, the we woke up, did a cat count, and realized, we had an extra black cat in the house, one we did not have the night before.
Oddly, when we had ferrets (and were doing ferret rescue), we gained an extra ferret that way do. We found his owner and returned him later that day. But to this day, he was a "bonus ferret."
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I have 2 cats, Sonic and Tails. Tails is quite a snuggler, but Sonic always wants to be chased, and rarely lets anyone pet him until he's tired out. Unless I'm trying to read a comic. Then he's instantly on my lap, walking in circles, and stomping on exactly the spot in my lap where I would really prefer him not to be stomping. It gets better if someone texts me while he's in my lap... then he leaps out of my lap by kicking as hard as possible with his hind legs against said spot.
Its OK Sonic, I love you anyways.
Yep, "that spot" is a landing zone for jumping felines, like it has a bull's eye or something, I literally often feel your pain.
Glad our Maine Coon is a bit smaller than that, but we do have a 25 lbs. russian blue, who is a huge wuss and momma's boy LOL.
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Just thought of another rather amusing thing, Back when I had him, Grim was a more accurate time keeper than my alarm clock. At EXACTLY 630am every morning if there was no food in his dish he would find a way into my bedroom and hit me in the nose until there was food in his dish. The one time I ignored him he decided to sit on my face instead. All 25lbs of him. Needless to say he got fed every morning right on time.
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"YOU, human, feed me! What, you refuse to get up and feed your overlord, your punishment is CAT BUTT!"
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I have been well acquainted with the different levels of 'wake up human, I want food/attention' including the 'climb on him,' 'paw at his nose,' and 'sit on his head' strategies. I remember seeing a sign at the vet that went something like this:
Rules for my house
1: The cat will stay off of the furniture
2: The cat can sit on the furniture as long as she stays off of the counter
3: Ok, the cat can walk on the counter as long as I'm not preparing food
4: The cat can go wherever she wants as long as she stops waking me up at 530AM for food.
5: The cat will be fed at 530AM.
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Yeah Sammy doesn't wake me up, she likes sleeping in herself. But mom's water cat Badger knows exactly how to wake up humans... He licks my face. I simply can't sleep when something is licking my face. Still he knows not to do it too often or I get grumpy and give them the food Sammy likes instead of the stuff he likes. The rescue on the other hand will eat anything she is given.
I have a cat who is also addicted to plastic bags. Her favorite game however, is to play with the new garbage bag. She can hear us unfold one from the opposite side of the house and comes flying.
The other is a 16 lb kitten who thinks he's a shoulder cat. He'll give you a two second warning by staring at you before he leaps up and puts his paws on your shoulder. Doesn't matter where you are sitting.
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We took them to the vet once. While we put they're carriers down to handle paperwork at the counter, a women comes in with a smallish dog. The dog comes sniffing over at the carriers, and then theres a sound like a gunshot. It was one of the cats throwing herself against the bars to attack the dog.
I swear that one of my cats know which button on my laptop is the power button, because every time he comes near my computer he tries to step on it.
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My wife has a habit of adopting adorable kittens, that later grow into monsters.
The first was Talon, a Maine coon she "found" in her ninth month of pregnancy. He was so tiny, he could sit in the palm of my hand. One year later, 28 lbs of fur and claws (hence the name talon) that adored me. And loved to sit on my lap, after a running charge, from another room or down the stairs. 28 lbs...
Our current cats are Zoe and Somone, sisters from the same litter. They are either rag dolls or ragamuffins. When we brought them home, they both could fit in a cereal bowl. Now they are 20lbs each.
Our mighty hunters have never slain anything, no spiders, no toads, frogs, lizards, nothing ever. They sit and look at them. They don't chase laser pointers, the little fluffy things on stick, none of that. Must be defective cats. But, meowy, they sing like a choir. At 2am in the morning.
They bully my sister in laws husky, used to eat our dogs food in front of her, and make her move out of "their" napping spots.
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Years ago, some friends adopted a tiny, malnourished stray kitten, with feet the size of saucers and a tail like a foot long. What could go wrong? Eventually he grew into a savage hunting beast, and I named him "Crackhead." He hated all life except, inexplicably, me. When I'd visit my friends, he would sit on the hood of my car and attack anyone else who got too close. I don't know why he liked me, but looking at the scars and disfigurement he inflicted on other humans, I'm glad he did.
I sort of miss him sometimes.
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My current cat is a longhaired calico named Duchess who we got from the shelter. She's extremely pretty and prim, and a senior kitty, so she doesn't get up to that many athletic shenanigans. However, her previous owner declawed her front claws , and the resultant mishaps and natural ones when attempting to climb various bits of furniture are often high-larious. There's a lot of panicked skidding involved as she always relearns that she can't actually grip or use her natural brakes the way she thinks she can.
She is another of the 'drinks from water glasses' cats, to the point that I have to use a cup with a lid to keep my beverages safe. This is whether or not she has a full water bowl at the time. She's also shown a distinct fondness for drinking my iced tea.
We keep her treats next to one particular chair, so naturally, anyone who sits in that chair or even moves near it is immediately Her Best Friend, cozied up to in the hopes that they will give her treats. She's done this with friends, total strangers, county healthy workers, EMTs...
Each night when I get in bed, she'll come and nose at me and refuse to leave me alone until I lift the covers of the bed and let her climb into the resulting dark cave next to me. I then lower the covers. She'll stay about 1-5 minutes, then burrow out and be on her way with an indignant squeak that I trapped her. And yet, she won't leave me alone until we enact that important nightly ritual...
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Feline food circle: Potato chips, anything made from eggs, avocado, jalapeno cheese, gingerbread cookies, cold tea from cups, bechamel sauce, sugar cubes (which get odd indentations somehow), fried tofu, grass, combed out cat fluff, dust bunnies, various insects, a few smaller mammals, and anything eaten at the table. Oh, and cat food.
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Our Russian blue, Bastion enjoys olives, yeah, can't figure that one out, as they are the cheap store bought spanish green, which barely count as olives or food IMO, but hey, no accounting for cat taste.
@ Kirth, that sounds like Bane (and he worked hard to live up to the name), a stray tuxi male who decided he lived with us one day out of the blue, and just came on in. Also decided most other life forms are food, or practice for his kitty arts of death. But wait, if my wife or I rubbed his belly, instant kitten flop, from a square jowled angry tom. (we did get him fixed, not sure he realized it though.) After about 6 months some neighbors decided they wanted to keep him, so now he has his forever home still in the neighborhood. Seems he charmed them, guess you can be a bad a$$ and still be a cute fuzz ball.
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Feline food circle: Potato chips, anything made from eggs, avocado, jalapeno cheese, gingerbread cookies, cold tea from cups, bechamel sauce, sugar cubes (which get odd indentations somehow), fried tofu, grass, combed out cat fluff, dust bunnies, various insects, a few smaller mammals, and anything eaten at the table. Oh, and cat food.
You forgot cardboard, pine needles, any kind of leaf, and plastic.
Those are important cat food groups. I also love when my fluffy gray DLH/I have no idea what breed (maybe Norwegian forest cat, as her cat husband, Kegan, is a Norwegian forest cat, and there are resemblances) hunts leaves, Big Momma Misty takes leaf killing very seriously, alas, she also takes killing all small mammals and birds she finds in the leaves even more seriously. She has a blue jay slaying fetish.
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I once had a cat who ate pine needles all the time. A pine needle is small enough to make it though the digestive tract, so she didn't vomit them up like the leaves. However, they are not actually digested, and once one got.. stuck. I had to get a pair of gloves, remove it, and then throw out the gloves and take a long shower. :(
The things we do for our felines.
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Our cats have a much simpler diet; sm animals or birds, wet cat food, fish, assorted people food like cheese, ice cream or butter, and if nothing else is available they will settle for a little dry cat food (we get the hair ball controlling stuff). If they haven't had much fish in a while I add some fish oil to their wet cat food to keep them healthy.
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Little Old Lady Cat
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I would just like to point out, I believe you have created a new alternate definition of LoLCat
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This morning I found the TV remote covered in cat vomit.
I had just completely cleaned it due to a spill the day after Thanksgiving.
After thoroughly cleaning it this morning, it is still non-functional.
This is the only time I have ever put off doing the litter boxes.
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I once had a cat who ate pine needles all the time. A pine needle is small enough to make it though the digestive tract, so she didn't vomit them up like the leaves. However, they are not actually digested, and once one got.. stuck. I had to get a pair of gloves, remove it, and then throw out the gloves and take a long shower. :(
Just as a heads up, especially for the humans whose cat masters like to lick plastic, please be careful using plastic icicle tinsel to decorate the tree and other items. I've had more than one friend unfortunately discover that their kitteh has swallowed strands. Sometimes it passes, but sometimes it gets tangled up in the kitteh's guts, necessitating a timely vet visit to avoid life-threatening complications.
However, I have no sage advice on how to stop kittehs from wedging themselves in/barbarian climb-charging up your Christmas trees.
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Careful with poinsettia as well, as I recall it is toxic to kitties (and other pets).
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Just as a heads up, especially for the humans whose cat masters like to lick plastic, please be careful using plastic icicle tinsel to decorate the tree and other items.
I have many childhood memories of our beloved cat mincing about the house with poop-covered strands of tinsel trailing from her back end, half in and half out.
Ahhh, the magic of the holidays!