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It's that time of the night... the tiny cat is holding her evening split from reality. So far she's fought with a dirty sock, knocked over a bucket of water (luckily it was in the bathtub) and seems to be having a conversation amongst herself. Hopefully some of her personalities will fall asleep soon, as she is rather noisy right now! Cats! Gotta luv 'em!!!! Wish I had one, want to get one for boys for Christmas, hubby thinks it will be too much, but I am persevering! Miaooooowwwwww - Janie.XXX LOL.. I have four ..and when they get together to play.. it sounds like a herd of elephants romping through the house... That's too funny JR! Sounds like my son's kitten who is visiting and tearing up my house! LOL. I just gather her up and tell her in a stern voice- see you are acting too wild and now you have to go to your room(as she is grabbing my wrists with her little claws and biting my hand). I take her upstairs and give her bottom a little spank and close my son's door.

I get a kick out of her really but she is going up on the table and into my Creche and I just know one of these times it's going to crash to the ground and all my figurines will smash. Then I will be mad. So far she has left the tree alone...

[QUOTE=wanttobeRAfree]That's too funny JR! Sounds like my son's kitten who is visiting and tearing up my house! LOL. I just gather her up and tell her in a stern voice- see you are acting too wild and now you have to go to your room(as she is grabbing my wrists with her little claws and biting my hand). I take her upstairs and give her bottom a little spank and close my son's door. [QUOTE=janiefx]Cats! Gotta luv 'em!!!! Wish I had one, want to get one for boys for Christmas, hubby thinks it will be too much, but I am persevering! Miaooooowwwwww - Janie.XXX [/QUOTE]

Oh you should get one. I can't imagine life without them! Much more independent than dogs, but very fun!!!
Ah yes, kitties. Our new baby Marley is quite turned on by the Christmas trees. Yes I said trees! We have 2 real trees. Marley has been pretty good considering his personality, but he has stolen glass icicles etc. So we lock him up every time we leave the house, and at bedtime. Oh yeah, it is apparently extra fun to wrestle the old cat under the trees. Thank god my husband wired them to the walls! We wire our tree too. One year for NO REASON at all our live tree fell down twice in the middle of the night- 2 different nights. We lost a lot of sentimental ornaments that year. Maybe a Christmas humbug spirit was walking the house?????two christmases ago.... I had two young kittens (they are now 2 1/2) who would actually climb our 9 foot fake tree to almost the top... H and I would watch to see who would get highest.... luckily... this wasn't our first rodeo and we had tied the tree to the window sill....

it was funny!!

I had a cat that ate tinsel one year. He was tearing around the house acting insane, took a sharp turn near the chair where I was sitting drinking my coffee - something flew off him and landed with a plop on the table next to me. I looked over to see a turd with a trail of silver hanging off it. Apparently that turd had been chasing him all over! I laughed myself sick. My big boy cat has appointed himself the guardian of the tree and is found almost all the time snoozing on the skirt under the tree. Warning for all: Eating tinsel can kill a cat.

I found early on with him that if I were to get a good nights sleep that he would have to be tired out at my bedtime. We have play time every night before bed where he fetches his toy mice and I throw them. Then we play "gotcha'. He chases me and whacks me on the ankle with a paw and turns and runs while I chase him. We are both exhausted and ready for bed after 15 minutes or so of playtime.

Ann

Hobo gets wallow time on the bed. He jumps on the bed and I roll him over and over while tickling his belly. He jumps down runs to the end of the room, does a quick turn, runs and leaps on the bed and we do it all over again. Sometimes he runs the full length of Stan and then gets wallowed. Loki had decided to take up residence in a large box that I had Christmas decorations in. All I see is the tips of 2 little black ears sticking out of the box. He's spending about 22 hours out of 24 in the box and that's ok because he's 15 years old.

We also had the tinsel butt syndrome many years ago when Loki was a kitten. He whizzed by me and I caught a glimpse of bling. Took me a few minutes to chase him down and give him some relief. Lindy

I don't have cats, but I do have two huge dogs and one little on that just love to romp in the house and have already knocked over my tree. One is a German Shepherd that is around 130 pounds and the other is a pit bull mix that is about 60 pounds. Just the German sounds like an elephant when she moves around upstairs. I call her my big horsie, she makes the most strange grunts and groans sometimes. My little one just sits and watches the others get into trouble but secretly I think she is the mastermind and puts the other two up to it.

Bob

Bluehour, that is too funny....poor kitty!

All these stories are making me miss my psycho kitty One more story. I have a new cat (all my cats are strays that just show up) who's a young fellow, probably about a year old. My husband went out to shovel the walk last night, and when he returned to the house, Roman was between the door and the storm door! He was standing on hind legs, staring at my husband and waiting for rescue. A cat under glass. What a goofball.

We haven't used tinsel since the Mercury flying turd incident, even though we don't have cats inside any more.

bbkroo-I had an Aby many years ago. They call them "little clowns" with good reason. Sierra was one of the funniest, smartest, most playful cats I had ever lived with. And now there's Marley...
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