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Here is one of three, Evan, in my new (at the time) package. The two brothes, Murray & Evan, love to lay on boxes, bags, and shoes! I also have to occassionally lint roll my Stampin' Scrub.
My cat Mischief lives up to her name. She sits in front of me until I pet her and the hair flies everywhere. While she is being petted she will pull markers and papers from their spots on the desk. She loves to take things like lids, markers, small stamps and other things that fit into her mouth, walk to the edge of the desk and drop them off on to the floor. Then she can bat them around for a while. She has a permanent bed in the window seat and sleeps in it a lot.
Since she adopted us (she was feral) I have had to learn to put my exacto knife in a drawer with the cap on between uses. I have had nightmares of Mischief trying to pick up the exacto by the blade and cutting off her tongue. SHUDDER just thinking about it.
Thanks everyone for sharing your stories and pics! This has been a great thread - definitely put a smile on my face!
I have 2 'helpers' as well. Simba is the orange. He likes to lay on my papers - it expedites the crafting process when you have fewer papers to choose from! The gray one is Wicks. He was sitting on my craft counter trying to look all regal with ribbon curled around his ear! He also exhausted himself one day trying to "help" me he finally laid down on my table next to a cricut cartridge. Ahhhh...I love my boys!!
I would love to have 1 more kitty - in a soft gray. The name - Pearl snap. My DH keeps saying NO, as well. One day, I will have that kitty!
Well if you lived in Ohio I know where you could get 2 little grey kittens.....yep - we not only have our two indoor cats that we claim as our furbabies.....but now we are feeding an brood outside.... it started because we kept seeing a cat living in our neighbors garage but it started looking very skinny. When we asked them if they were still feeding it, they said no - so we put food out (can't see a starving kitty). It's feral - no picking up or petting this cat. Anywho, the cat ate....and then a few hours later it was back....with a small orange kitten. Well, no way - this had to be a "friend". The next day - 2 more little grey kittens. No wonder the kitty was looking thing - she had had kittens!!! So now we are feeding "mama-kitty" and her 2 kittens (only the grey ones are still around - don't know where they orange one went....in my "happy world" I'm going to think that someone took her inside) and now Mama-kitty has a friend - Fuzzy-kitty. Ok, I know the names are corny - but they aren't are cats and we don't know what to call them. The black fuzzy one we don't even know if it's a boy or girl.
AWWWW. Several years ago, someone tossed out a bunch of baby kitties - they had to be, cause one day they just appeared - and so I started feeding them. DH caught most and took them down to the police dept. 1 - a small little black thing, we never saw again and 2 gray tabbies we couldnt catch. So, what did I do? I named them and kept on feeding them - I would just sit outside on the front steps and eventually they knew when supper time was and would let me touch to eventually hold. Dh and I just loved them, but when they became very tame, he took them down to our human center. I hope they were loved by someone. Their names were George and Georgette
There is no way to tell male cat (that I know of) until his "balls" start coming out -(sorry, only way I know to put it). They got to be the sweetest things.
One morning I went out with the food - and there was Mr Racoon waiting by the empty supper bowl. He was a big fat thing.
__________________ Karen - proud owner of 3 cats and a 80 lb, German Shepard Owner of an unorganized scrappy place I CAN ONLY SHIP IN THE USA
All these pics make me miss my kitties. I have a dog and I love him to pieces but just this morning I was thinking about the two cats that were in my life and now gone.
My dog has a way of looking at me and doing a very loud yawn when he thinks it is time for me to take my attention off of card making and onto him.
This is the best thread! Here's a photo of my sweet boy, Kokanee, in a Stampin' UP box. He loved cardboard boxes and would chew holes all the way around the flap edges. He also loved to play in the brown packing paper. Well, mostly he just sat in it because he was a lazy fatso. My stamp room used to be in a room he wasn't allowed in, which he didn't like. So he would shove his paws under the door and rattle it and sing pathetically, "Ow-oooooo! Owwwww!" Eventually I'd let him in to sit on my lap until he wanted to get down and mess around, so out he'd go. I miss that big sweet goofball so much. He made me laugh every day.
Deeann,
You really must post some pics now of your menagerie! Especially that guinea pig. What a scream!
Your Kokanee looks just like a cat I had named Sadie. Oh I loved her alot. I miss her still. It has been years since I lost her but still talk about her and how she had to be in the middle of whatever I was doing. That was the hardest thing to get over because you expect them to be there.
I am a catless cat lover. Oh how I have enjoyed seeing these photos!
I miss my big boy (a fat black and white) lap cat. He's been gone 10 years and I still think about him often.
Now, I have a dog that doesn't play well with others, canine or feline -- but he's part of the family and I love him loads. He stays out of my craft stuff, EXCEPT for my flowers. Weird dog. He'll get a hold of one and will chew on it like gum.
My Mischief still has feral tendencies. If someone comes to the house she is gone. It took us over 2 months of working at it every day to finally get to touch her. Friends fed her and cleaned the litterbox for 3 weeks and never once saw what she looked like. They just knew she was there because she was locked in the house. She thinks our RV is hers. She doesn't like the travel to where we go but once there she owns the place.
She is what is called a tortoise shell. Dark with streaks of rust, brown, gold & white. Can't get her still enough to take a photo.
My Mischief still has feral tendencies. If someone comes to the house she is gone. It took us over 2 months of working at it every day to finally get to touch her. Friends fed her and cleaned the litterbox for 3 weeks and never once saw what she looked like. They just knew she was there because she was locked in the house. She thinks our RV is hers. She doesn't like the travel to where we go but once there she owns the place.
She is what is called a tortoise shell. Dark with streaks of rust, brown, gold & white. Can't get her still enough to take a photo.
I had one once with feral tendencies. I had her and her sister. Bridgette was sweet, cuddly and loveable and her sister Ellie was wild. They loved each other but Ellie just didn't ever get around any of us even tho she was in and out of the house. That was when I was a lot younger, I just thought she was crazy.
I hadn't heard anything about feral.
All these pics make me miss my kitties. I have a dog and I love him to pieces but just this morning I was thinking about the two cats that were in my life and now gone.
My dog has a way of looking at me and doing a very loud yawn when he thinks it is time for me to take my attention off of card making and onto him.
Besides Alex and Chloe (our indoor cats), we now have an outdoor cat, Lizzie, who just wandered in. We live in the country. When I tell people about Lizzie they all say like Lizzie Borden! I say why not like Lizzie Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice"!
LOL at the person who said a raccoon was waiting to be fed one day!
Oh, I love it! Nothing like a feline friend keeping you company while you stamp. My cat loves to check out all the bling and embellishments I have on my workspace.
i am lovin' this! i have three cats, but it's my 16 pound maine coon that likes to get in my space. the last time, i just happened to be stamping images of cats, and he just plopped himself right on top of it all! we lost our himalayan last year. i have a precious picture of her curled up in my scrapbooking cabinet! if it was on the 'puter, i'd down load it.
Kala loves cellophane. Unfortunately he loves to eat it. Yesterday I had to fight with him to get a long strip of cellophane (from a ribbon roll) away from him.
Kala loves cellophane. Unfortunately he loves to eat it. Yesterday I had to fight with him to get a long strip of cellophane (from a ribbon roll) away from him.
Kala likes small boxes too.
My kitty's favorite thing is boxes! Even if he's too big to fit into it, he gets as much of himself into it as possible and lets the rest of him hang out!
My kitty's favorite thing is boxes! Even if he's too big to fit into it, he gets as much of himself into it as possible and lets the rest of him hang out!
My cat Chloe loves paper bags. Not to crawl in, but to lay or sit on. This morning my allergies were bothering me and I put a paper bag my my chair in the living room for my Kleenexes. Later I was in the kitchen and I heard paper. She had knocked the bag over, flattened it and sat on it. I would think the couch, love seat, chair, or even carpet would be a softer place to lay on that a paper bag!
My cat Chloe loves paper bags. Not to crawl in, but to lay or sit on. This morning my allergies were bothering me and I put a paper bag my my chair in the living room for my Kleenexes. Later I was in the kitchen and I heard paper. She had knocked the bag over, flattened it and sat on it. I would think the couch, love seat, chair, or even carpet would be a softer place to lay on that a paper bag!
Does your kitty destroy toilet paper and tissues if you are ignoring her?
For the past couple of weeks my little Hoboski has been waking me up. With his little meow that he does. It's so soft and sweet.
He really doesn't like to be held. Just on his terms.
(A little note about my little Hoboski) He was born in my backyard under our Truck camper. There were 4 kittens born. Out of the 4 he was the only one that would let me play with him.
As he grew... He started coming into the house. Which he loved. He never stayed inside over night.
One weekend we needed to be out of town. So I asked a friend to stop by and feed him the other's.
He came every day to feed him. But on Monday afternoon. Hoboski wasn't anywhere to be found.
So when we got home. I called for him....He never came. I ended up crying a lot for a long while.
Until one cold winter night (right before Thanksgiving).... Hoboski found his way back into our lives. He was gone for 2 years.
It took a while for him to feel comfortable around us again. He's now been back 4 years. He is now an indoor cat.
And he is traveling with us when we go to Grandma's house. My MIL Loves him!!!
I'm so HAPPY he came back into our lives. He is very special too me.
I have 2 but only my "son" will be near me when I an crafting. He LOVES paper so I give him a piece of scrap paper and he will go nuts, then I use his creations in some of my projects so they can be from both of us.
Does your kitty destroy toilet paper and tissues if you are ignoring her?
***Disclaimer for this post; I did not know at the time how awful it was for a cat to declaw them. I would NOT have done this if I had.***
When I got my cat, Kinsey, as a kitten, I also had her littermate, Katie. Katie really did a number on our furniture, I just couldn't break her of scratching on it. She also loved to shred rolls of paper towels (never bothered tp or tissues). I thought declawing her would fix the problem, and it did as far as the furniture. She never did stop destroying rolls of paper towels if we accidentally left them where she could get at them. She must have used her back claws. We'd come home and there would be nothing but a pile of little bits of paper on the floor or table. I lost her a few years ago to kidney failure, but Kinsey is 16 years old and going strong.
At least I am not alone in my misery! LOL. I forgot about the many rolls of paper towels I have had to pick up! I used to have a roll hanging above my dryer until I cleaned up the pieces one too many times and that was it! Thanks everyone for sharing stories and pictures!
This has to be my FAVORITE thread!! Don't ya just love them to death!! I have to keep the door to my stamping room closed or it would be complete chaos - lol. Mushy knows even if the door is open, he shouldn't be going in there so he sits in the entranceway and stares at me making me feel guilty. Daisy will come in and walk around and I don't throw her out. Duke, my greyhound, doesn't do stairs (greyhounds are not thrilled with climbing steps) so he can't get to my bedrooms. He would just lay down up there even if ventured up. It's his tail that would do the damage - lol. One wag could wipe out a shelf. I love all the photos. How could I not?
Originally Posted by Lazorkay
I would love to have 1 more kitty - in a soft gray. The name - Pearl snap. My DH keeps saying NO, as well. One day, I will have that kitty!
You have 5? So listen.....get your soft gray kitty and maybe DH won't notice - LOL. I had 7 at one time and 17 outside cats who technically belonged to the irresponsible witch who lived behind me. So we took over the feeding of them. My garage was a kitty hotel because winter is really cold in NY and I couldn't stand the thought of them being outdoors day and night. I would leave the garage door open during the day so whoever wanted to could come in. They all took turns coming into the house but never did I have all 24 in the house at one time. I have two cats now and one, Daisy, who is 17 is from the original cats I took over from witchface behind me. The lady is deceased now. Ah shucks! Yeah I know...not nice. To say she neglected them is putting it mildly. Within the last year I lost two of the 17 year olds, Penny and Sadie who were cousins. I don't regret taking care of all those cats or bringing litter after litter to the North Shore Animal League. That was heartbreaking because we never wanted to give them up but I would have been one of those ladies you read about in the newspaper who had 100 cats. All the kittens were born in my garage or my bedroom closet and at one time I had two sisters delivery 5 kittens each a week apart. Ten babies in my closet and it was the absolute best!!
