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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2004What a wimp
Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for annual booster jabs. Marble is a typical male - all mouth & no action :-Þ In the car going to TED's Marble howled the entire journey...ooh.. all of six/seven minutes. Once in TED's waiting area, Marble howled and mewed pathetically the entire time. Once in with TED Marble shut up, put on his best, "Woe, I am an abused cat!" expression - reminiscent of those 1970's naff prints of large headed kids with big eyes with tears rolling down their cheeks and decided to go into semi-liquid state and see how close to the floor he could get the part of his anatomy where his spine should be. TED was bearly surpressing laughter at this pathetic specimen of the mighty feline in front of him. On the way home from TED's, Marble howled the entire epic six/seven minute journey back home and once inside home, he howled for another half-hour and clawed the carpet. Then he promptly slept for the rest of the day. What a wimp. No wonder Waffles has a permanent look of disgust when it comes to the mere mention of Psycho Cat's name ;-) Francis, on the other hand, just ignores him. Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove dependency on fame & fortune h*$el*$$e**nd***$o$ts***i*$*$m**m$$o*n**s@$*$a$$o**l.c**$*$om$$ > Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for annual booster > jabs. Marble is a typical male - all mouth & no action :-? Bless him :) >Bless him :) Not my words of choice, but there you go ;-) Next time I'm considering putting him in the cat carrier & securing it to the pannier rack on my bike so I can cycle in with him. Could be an "interesting" experience. On another NG I subscribe to, one about cycling, there's a lady there who transports her cat this way and she says he is better being transported by bike than by car. It'll take me longer to get to TED, but I may just give it a go. Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove dependency on fame & fortune h*$el*$$e**nd***$o$ts***i*$*$m**m$$o*n**s@$*$a$$o**l.c**$*$om$$ > Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for annual booster > jabs. Marble is a typical male - all mouth & no action :-Þ What a wimp, indeed. I hesitate to say this, as I know a certain ladycat may take offence, but Frank is exactly the same. He yowls all the way there and in the waiting room, but when we get in to TED, he is quiet as a mouse and flinches at TED's every move. Then he yowls all the way home (on the bus, 30+ minutes), but when we get home he usually curls up to sleep at once.  SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki >What a wimp, indeed. I hesitate to say this, as I know a certain ladycat may >take offence, but Frank is exactly the same. No, no, no... Frank *sings* and he *sings* *exquisitely*. Marble, on the other hand, *howls* Purrs Waffles (quite able to make the distinction between Frank singing and Marble howling) --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove dependency on fame & fortune h*$el*$$e**nd***$o$ts***i*$*$m**m$$o*n**s@$*$a$$o**l.c**$*$om$$ > > Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for annual > booster [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > flinches at TED's every move. Then he yowls all the way home (on the bus, > 30+ minutes), but when we get home he usually curls up to sleep at once. I think you'll find Frank is not being a wimp, he's just singing. Sometimes humans can be so dumb. SignatureSnoopy A house is not a home, without a cat. In news:20040121031947.17180.00000485@mb-m03.aol.com, dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers <wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom> radiated into the WorldWideWait: > Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for > annual booster jabs. Marble is a typical male - all mouth & no > action :-? Freddie just LOVED going for car rides. At least during daylight - if it's dark out, there's MONSTERS trying to get you, donchaknow. He was happiest the years I had a Le Sabre. It had a very wide, carpeted shelf under a large rear window. He'd spread all over it and watch everything out there. I often noticed in the mirror kids spotting him and being delighted - a bright yellow/orange cat being "gorgeous" on gray carpeting makes a nice picture. I used the same vet for many years, until he retired. As soon as I was withing about 6 blocks of TED, no matter which route, Freddie would *know* where he was (going where they do undignified things with cold thermometers) and I had to drive the rest of the way with him (literally) climbing all over me and frantically trying to persuade me to turn around. Once inside, though, he would just "give up all hope" and quietly suffer. BOY, could he suffer! >In news:20040121031947.17180.00000485@mb-m03.aol.com, >dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers <wafflycathcs@aol.comcomcom> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >and being delighted - a bright yellow/orange cat being "gorgeous" on >gray carpeting makes a nice picture. Sort of reminds me of Sammy. As long as she can watch out the windows she's having fun, but if it's dark or she's inside the carrier, it's a terrifying experience. >I used the same vet for many years, until he retired. As soon as I was >withing about 6 blocks of TED, no matter which route, Freddie would [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >to turn around. Once inside, though, he would just "give up all hope" >and quietly suffer. BOY, could he suffer! SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for annual booster >jabs. Marble is a typical male - all mouth & no action :-Þ <snip> Glad to hear he survived this awful cat abuse episode. Rocky pretty much gives up the fight after he's in the carrier. Last time he was in the carrier, lucky for me, was when I went to pick him up after his neutering - took two of the vet techs to get him in LOL. Once inside there's not a peep out of him, I wonder if he's hoping I'll forget about him if he just keeps quiet. Course he's a lot calmer not that he's a part of the family. I just hope that next summer, when time for his shots/checkup, he'll go quietly. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >Yesterday I took Psycho Cat From Hell, a.k.a. Marble to TED for annual booster >jabs. Marble is a typical male - all mouth & no action :-Þ [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >to get correct one remove dependency on fame & fortune >h*$el*$$e**nd***$o$ts***i*$*$m**m$$o*n**s@$*$a$$o**l.c**$*$om$$ Perhaps a little reverse psychology would work. Try telling him what a big, brave, wonderful boy he is-- like your BF! |
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