| User | Comment |
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| supplicant | | posted 15-Nov-1999 12:24am |
My cat basically never meowed. It had it's jaw broken when it was very young and had been bitten several times by snakes... but it survived long enough to die of old age. |
| Avocado | | posted 15-Nov-1999 12:25am |
My cat had very unusual coloration... a tabby-point siamese. Basically looked as though a siamese cat had been given a tabby tail; also, there were very faint tan stripes across her cream-colored body. |
| Mariah | | posted 15-Nov-1999 1:58am |
My cat thinks that it is a dog and it is also a pothead. I also used to think that it was possessed, but it only acts like that at my friend Melissa's house. |
Frostbrand  | | posted 15-Nov-1999 2:03am |
My catcan open my bedroom window. |
| kirst | | posted 15-Nov-1999 4:38am |
My cat will come to me when I whistle. She also has unusual markings. Her face and tail are calico, but the rest of her body is white with a couple of large spots (one black, the rest tan). |
| gilly | | posted 15-Nov-1999 7:50am |
I chose some of the responses, but the fact that other people did too tells me that these traits were not unique. |
romkey  | | posted 15-Nov-1999 8:25am |
My cats proved Fermat's Last Theorem. My cats scaled the Empire State building, using only a toothbrush. My cats circumnavigated the world in a paper bag. My cats starred in Babylon 5. My cats run a multinational conglomerate. My cats went to Harvard and MIT. My cats are dentists. My cats are working at Gillette to design the Mach 4 razor. My cats broke the sound barrier, several times. My cats lunched with the Queen of England. My cats got their fingers kissed by the Pope. My cats are currently on a mission in space trying to find Moonbase Alpha. |
| magbast | | posted 15-Nov-1999 9:46am |
our cats are priceless, and they don't do any tricks...they're just themselves...:) |
| seanhuxter | | posted 15-Nov-1999 11:12am |
I've had a number of cats in my life. One used to ride like a mink stole, draped across my shoulders, but each of my cats has had a very unique personality.
Of my current two, both are huge. They're larger than your average cats.
Spike is a black and gold tabby (gorgeous!) and was raised (I kid you not!) by a Newfoundland Dog, as her own puppy. So he acts in MANY ways like a dog. Very friendly, and not too bright.
Charlie is a blonde tabby, incredibly intelligent. He looks into your eyes, and you can tell he knows what you're thinking. When he was a kitten, he burned his paw pretty badly, and needed a lot of treatment, which required him sitting in a warm sink, soaking his paws, then getting saline IV solution squirted directly onto the affected areas, which was agonizing. But one day after a couple of weeks of this, (over which time he became dirty, and had basically stopped taking care of himself) I came home, and he bounded down the hallway to greet me (as he USED to do before his injury) all clean and fluffy, so we knew he had turned the corner into full recovery. And his paw healed totally.
To this day, because of his innate knowledge that water cured him, he always likes to be in the bathroom when I'm taking a shower or bath, and loves it when I pet him with wet hands. He refuses to let me take a bath or shower unless he's a part of it. When taking a bath, he will sit on the edge of the tub, and drape his tail into the water, and sometimes idly drift his paw through the water. It's funny.
Also, when he was a young kitten, he used to fetch coke bottle-tops. I'd throw them down our long hallway, and he'd dart off after it, and bring it right back to me in his mouth. VERY CUTE! |
| seanhuxter | | posted 15-Nov-1999 11:13am |
Of course I can't beat Romkey's answer... |
| gilly | | posted 15-Nov-1999 12:46pm |
Romkey: your cats were on Bab5! |
| pandora | | posted 15-Nov-1999 1:41pm |
My cat is the most beautiful cat in the world, and I'm not even kidding. |
| ILJ | | posted 15-Nov-1999 4:43pm |
My cat has very large and frightening thumbs. |
| Lauren | | posted 15-Nov-1999 5:25pm |
I have two cats. One of them used to try and climb my kitchen walls, it had vines for wallpaper. That same cat has asthma. |
| Gamera | | posted 15-Nov-1999 5:50pm |
My cat allows me to pose her in whatever position I feel like (if, for instance, I'm drawing her, or her leg is just in my way) and doesn't really react or move after I've done it. It's like having an exothermic teddy-bear. |
| Frostbrand | | posted 15-Nov-1999 6:26pm |
romkey: My cats broke the sound barrier, several times.
Your's too? |
| magbast | | posted 15-Nov-1999 10:04pm |
 ain't they pretty  |
| Avocado | | posted 16-Nov-1999 3:23am |
Awwwww.... |
| fooyun | | posted 16-Nov-1999 8:29pm |
My first cat thought she was a human; she shunned other cats and acted like quite the lady. |
| drdt | | posted 16-Nov-1999 11:59pm |
My cat does not exist, that is pretty unique..
I had a cat who was a rabbit once.
My family has a cat which rode on my shoulders once.
My mother had a cat I could stand once.
Those are all pretty unique.
Oh! The guys across the street have a cat with no bones.
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| drdt | | posted 17-Nov-1999 12:03am |
Fooyun: or did other cats shun her because she was hobnobbing with the riff-raff? |
bill  | | posted 17-Nov-1999 11:57am |
My cat can jump very high. My cats seem to talk to me (in meows). My cat likes to sit on top of the shower door while I'm using the shower. My cat seems to like being held. My cats not only play fetch, they demand that you play fetch with them (meow meow). My cats have spots on their tummies. My cat like to sit on the top edge of open doors. My cats are a breed that didn't exist 25 years ago, they were created by mixing a wild cat with a domesticated cat. Pictures |
they  | | posted 17-Nov-1999 2:08pm |
I love the shower pic :) |
| mandy | | posted 17-Nov-1999 7:45pm |
bill...a voyeuristic kitty! |
| romkey | | posted 17-Nov-1999 11:46pm |
the world trembles before their combined might |
| Mariah | | posted 18-Nov-1999 12:05am |
Hey, can Tipsy join? She's been feeling kind of lonely. Plus, she's tough. :) |
| SueBee | | posted 18-Nov-1999 1:12am |
Our cat doesn't like any other cats so she chases them away. I'm convinced that she plotted against our other cat to get rid of him. He just disappeared...she never did like him. |
| Matt | | posted 18-Nov-1999 6:39pm |
my cat was a tuff one hehe he owned the neighborhood! And he'd bring us lil gifts like squirrels and things like that... |
| Avocado | | posted 18-Nov-1999 10:01pm |
Does anyone have experience with those furry Siberian cats that are supposed to be ok for lots of people who normally have cat allergies to be around? I'd like one or two of those when my life gets settled... but they are way expensive. And I'll need to do a test exposure before I adopt... to make sure I'm really non-allergic and non-asthmatic around them... not everyone is ok with them. |
| SueBee | | posted 19-Nov-1999 7:35pm |
bill & jen - I finally had time to look at the pics. Your cats are WAY cool! |
| fooyun | | posted 20-Nov-1999 3:07pm |
Drdt: There were no other cats. ~sniff~ turns nose up :P |
| Lauren | | posted 27-Nov-1999 5:25pm |
One of my cats, Memphis, tried to kill the other cat, Max. She would hit Max across my floor. They sort of get along now that Max is big, but Memphis still chases other cats around. Cats are extremely territorial.
Magbast: your cats are really cute! |
| imagination78 | | posted 28-Nov-1999 7:17am |
My cat rings the doorbell when he wants inside. If you don't let him in the first times he rings it, he sits there and yells(meows) at you when you do let him in. |
| they | | posted 29-Nov-1999 10:58am |
Lauren: Thanks. |
| APiscean | | posted 14-Dec-1999 1:52am |
my cat opens doors(with knobs) and says milk... mee ilk |
| moondragon | | posted 14-Dec-1999 10:07am |
She *hated* being tummy-scritched. She'd claw you to get you to stop... |
| SueBee | | posted 19-Dec-1999 8:40pm |
jen - You have travelin' cats? We took our cat with us to the Taco Bell drive thru a couple days ago. She seemed to kind of like it. All my other cats have HATED riding in the car. I never knew they could meow so loudly until getting them in the car. |
| eris | | posted 10-Jan-2000 10:06pm |
If it were unique, it wouldn't be in this survey... |
| supplicant | | posted 17-Jan-2000 3:07pm |
SueBee: our cat used to love car trips, he'd roam around like a dog  |
| SueBee | | posted 25-Jan-2000 1:17am |
supplicant - Maybe it was a dog in a cat suit. |
| supplicant | | posted 26-Jan-2000 9:29pm |
That would explain the lack of meowing and the day I caught him threatening a Rottweiler five times his size, who was actually cowering away from him  It's a conspiracy! A conspiracy I tell you! |
| SueBee | | posted 28-Jan-2000 2:52pm |
supplicant - It's all in the attitude. (cattitude?) ...And the sharp claws! |
| supplicant | | posted 28-Jan-2000 10:41pm |
Those claws... *shudder* We had a puppy... about twice the size of the cat. He was very friendly and liked to go and stick his face near the cat... sort of to say "Hi, lets play!" - the cat used to stick his claws in his nose and hang off it  The cat used to like having his belly scratched, so on the way to school one day I leant over and scratched him, but he must have had a cut there or something, as he latched his claws into my wrist... I had to forcibly pull his paw out with the other hand. So yes, personal experience indicates those claws are indeed very sharp (and this was a *friendly* cat... would hate to have a grouchy one ) |
| SueBee | | posted 28-Jan-2000 11:48pm |
Ouch!! |
| phi | | posted 31-Jan-2000 2:19pm |
My cat goes positively apecrap over laser pointers, more so than other cats I have seen. This is especially unusual given her otherwise extremely sedentary nature. |
| they | | posted 31-Jan-2000 9:21pm |
phi: It's weird that I just now came across your comment since right this very moment I am playing with my cat with a laser pointer... she races from one end of the room to the other. |
| magbast | | posted 31-Jan-2000 10:18pm |
our dog digs the laser pointer too! |
| gilly | | posted 31-Jan-2000 11:02pm |
Try it on penguins some time. I've seen them go nuts for it. |
| SueBee |
Well, if anyone had pet penguins it would be they! |
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| bill | | posted 9-Feb-2000 10:23am |
My cats like to "entertain" when guests are over. |
| Frostbrand | | posted 10-Feb-2000 12:28am |
My kitty Keylehr is very needy. The way she acts when I walk in the room, you'd think she never gets attention. |
| they | | posted 10-Feb-2000 12:37am |
My kitty is sick . |
| SueBee | | posted 13-Feb-2000 2:19am |
they - Oh, no. What's wrong with kitty? Nothing serious, I hope. |
| they | | posted 13-Feb-2000 3:07am |
He's better... He was just barfing up a storm for a few days. |
| Frostbrand | | posted 13-Feb-2000 3:07am |
I got a new kitty. A pastel calico named Meg. She's only a month old, and very tiny, but she sat on my lap yesterday and watched Blade Runner with me. My old cat Sweetpea (Rest in peace) used to sit on my lap and watch Babylon 5 with me. I still miss her. |
| SueBee | | posted 13-Feb-2000 2:22pm |
they - Hill's Science Diet has a new Hairball Control cat food out that seems to work really well. I tend to forget to give my cat the stuff out of the tube, so this works out great. She stopped trying to cough stuff up all the time. |
| they | | posted 13-Feb-2000 4:28pm |
It wasn't a hairball.. I think he might have been eating something he wasn't supposed to... or swallowed something.. Hairballs have an entirely different texture.. If I feed the cats anything other than their regular Cat Chow, they get diarrhea. They caught another mouse today.. Luckily I was able to rescue the little guy and set him free outside. |
| gilly | | posted 14-Feb-2000 11:21am |
Brian: what's a pastel calico? Pink and lavender? |
| Frostbrand | | posted 14-Feb-2000 1:59pm |
gilly: Normal calicos are black and orange, with tiny bits of white. A pastel calico is mostly white, with beige and grey patches. Like with normal calicos, 99% of them are female. |
| mary |
I had the most wonderful cat who ALWAYS came when I called here and would jump in the pool when I was swimming. Someone stole her, I was so bummed out. |
| mary |
Oh, I did have a huge cat, he was like 20 pounds or something. In the summer I guess he sneaked outside and we heard all this noise, we went out there to find a fox running away. Bear, our cat, wasn't harmed at all. He was a sweet little big guy. |
| mary |
Bill: Those are the cutest cats. |
| Oscar | | posted 14-Mar-2000 4:34pm |
My favorite cat had a crick in her tail from where I shut it in a door when she was a kitten. She had a sagging belly from where she had surgery. She would always follow me around and she cried whenever I left or went in a room where she couldn't come in. She also came when I went zzzzzzzzz, but that's because making that noise was the only way I could teach her her name, Zebedee. The zzzzzz got her attention. |
