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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2004Francesca Fascinated by My Printer
Hi all, Just had to share this tidbit. While I was printing a document just now, Cesca came over to watch. The expression on her face as she saw the sheets feed out of the printer was priceless--she was mesmerized! If she could have talked, I'm sure she'd have said "Wow! will you look at THAT? Wow! It's incredible!" The only other times she looks that intense is when we're playing with her favorite fishing pole type toy. I had a friend over for a kitten viewing yesterday morning, and Cesca dragged the toy over to me by its leather tassle. Then she sat and stared at it, waiting for it to start playing with her, again. There are moments when I think this cat is amazingly smart, and other moments when I wonder if she's quite right in the head. =o) Melissa > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Melissa Sweetie goes after the printer part as it shoots back and forth. She can be sound asleep downstairs and across the house, but if the printer starts, she's right there on top of it. TBird <---- often has to move the cat so the paper can come out Some people said things, and then:- Melissa Houle added >Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >amazingly smart, and other moments when I wonder if she's quite right in the >head. =o) ;-) But you got off easy. Dusty, a previous cat, came home with a mouse, very much alive, which he placed at my feet and then looked up and "mrrrp"ed at me. He just sat there and watched as it headed for cover under the furniture. Something he'd never done before. With a sigh I set to, lifting up various items of furniture to find the darn mouse, and all the while Dusty was beside me, looking on and "chrrrping" encouragingly. Even when I pointed at the mouse and I *knew* he could see it he wouldn't take a step towards it, just "chrrrped" at me even louder. In the end I gave up and caught the mouse and gave it back to him whereupon he promptly put it down at my feet and "mrrrp"ed at me once more. So yes, we went through the whole routine again. I'll *swear* that he was teaching me how to catch mice!  SignatureRichard, whose Squeaky Chair can be seen at www.squeaky.demon.co.uk "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt > Some people said things, and then:- > Melissa Houle added [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > once more. So yes, we went through the whole routine again. I'll > *swear* that he was teaching me how to catch mice! That's exactly what it sounds like!! You were in need of education. Honest though, that is how they do it for there babies in the wild. Don't you feel honored. You are an honorary son. Some people said things, and then:- Karen added > In the end I gave up and caught the mouse and gave it back to >> him whereupon he promptly put it down at my feet and "mrrrp"ed at me [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >though, that is how they do it for there babies in the wild. Don't you feel >honored. You are an honorary son. Yep ;-D though perhaps more a wayward child - he really seemed to get exasperated at my amateurish attempts to catch the mouse, making no allowance, I might add, for how much furniture I had to shift! And yes, I know that's how they do it in the wild; provide one mouse with a limp and then encourage the untutored in Catness 101. SignatureRichard, whose Squeaky Chair can be seen at www.squeaky.demon.co.uk "We turn clay to make a vessel, but it is the space within, where there is nothing, that the utility of it depends." -Tao Te Ching >Some people said things, and then:- >Melissa Houle added [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >once more. So yes, we went through the whole routine again. I'll >*swear* that he was teaching me how to catch mice! That is exactly what he was doing. What else has he taught you? MLB Some people said things, and then:- m. L. Briggs added >On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:57:47 +0100, Richard <Richard@pridge.uk.uk> >In the end I gave up and caught the mouse and gave it back to >>him whereupon he promptly put it down at my feet and "mrrrp"ed at me >>once more. So yes, we went through the whole routine again. I'll >>*swear* that he was teaching me how to catch mice! >That is exactly what he was doing. What else has he taught you? MLB He didn't have time for much else really, I lost him when he was just over two. Went out one night as usual and never came back. ;-( SignatureRichard, whose Squeaky Chair can be seen at www.squeaky.demon.co.uk Hit user with keyboard to continue. SNIP> ;-) But you got off easy. Dusty, a previous cat, came home with a > mouse, very much alive, which he placed at my feet and then looked up > and "mrrrp"ed at me. He just sat there and watched as it headed for [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > once more. So yes, we went through the whole routine again. I'll > *swear* that he was teaching me how to catch mice! SNIP LOL!! I'll bet he was thinking. "Okay, he didn't get the concept at ALL the first time. Let's try this again.... Honestly, he can SEE the mouse, why doesn't he at least TRY to pounce?? Does he expect me to do EVERYTHING????" Isadora once brought a live rat into the apartment and was busy playing with it in the kitchen while I tried to sleep in, one morning. I went out to investigate and shouted "ISADORA!!" in such a horrified tone that she grabbed the rat and bolted outside. She never tried THAT one again, although she did bring down a few birds in her hunting career. I know cats are natural predators, but I discouraged this practice as much as was in my power. Melissa Some people said things, and then:- Melissa Houle added >SNIP> ;-) But you got off easy. Dusty, a previous cat, came home with a >> mouse, very much alive, which he placed at my feet and then looked up [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >first time. Let's try this again.... Honestly, he can SEE the mouse, why >doesn't he at least TRY to pounce?? Does he expect me to do EVERYTHING????" Yep, you could almost hear it as he talked to me all the time... ;-) >Isadora once brought a live rat into the apartment and was busy playing with >it in the kitchen while I tried to sleep in, one morning. I went out to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >are natural predators, but I discouraged this practice as much as was in my >power. Hah! You got off easy. Have I said that before? ;-) Sally, my cat, is very much a little miss hunter and has recently taken to bringing her mice home, live and unharmed as usual, but instead of losing the things under the furniture she now loses them IN my bed. While I am IN it! Dammit. Getting woken up at some ungodly hour in the night by a cat raking your back trying to hook out a mouse that has taken shelter there is not the best joke I know. The BEST joke I know is waking up to find that that wet squishy thing I'm lying on is a half eaten corpse... Luckily it's now her butterfly season, frog season being over thank goodness, and Sally catching butterflies is one of the most amazing things you can see. There's a grassy bank opposite my house and Sally will lurk in the long grass waiting to ambush a passing butterfly... ..she leaps into the air and catches the butterfly between her paws and WHILE STILL IN MID AIR will transfer the butterfly to her mouth and then land, as all good cats do, on all fours. She'll rush around the side of the house, burst through the cat flap and gently lay her prize on the kitchen floor. Whereupon it promptly flies away!! Later in autumn is the moth season, same thing as with the butterflies but usually in the dusk and even dark, well dark except for some minimal street lighting, and the moths get the same chance to make a bid for freedom but rarely make it because she eats them. Loves them. Is often in and out for hours, catching a moth about once every twenty minutes. An amazing critter she is ;-) SignatureRichard, whose Squeaky Chair can be seen at www.squeaky.demon.co.uk You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word. > Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > amazingly smart, and other moments when I wonder if she's quite right in the > head. =o) I think the same thought crosses the minds of parents of precocious children! (Intellectual curiosity plus lack of fear - due to lack of experience - can be a volatile combination.) >Hi all, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >amazingly smart, and other moments when I wonder if she's quite right in the >head. =o) Sammy has been known to follow me from room to room, dragging her fish pole toy demanding to have a game. Course she always gets her way ;-) 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 >Just had to share this tidbit. While I was printing a document just now, >Cesca came over to watch. The expression on her face as she saw the sheets [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >amazingly smart, and other moments when I wonder if she's quite right in the >head. =o) Betty also gets that intense look when playing! http://home.comcast.net/~Takayuki9z/toys.html I think that Cesca is probably still smarter than my Betty, because she drags her toy to you. Betty will just wait patiently next to her toy, even if I'm in another room. :) In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", Takayuki > http://home.comcast.net/~Takayuki9z/toys.html Whatta cutie! Yer right, intense! :) SignatureCheryl >Betty also gets that intense look when playing! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >she drags her toy to you. Betty will just wait patiently next to her >toy, even if I'm in another room. :) Sammy's favorite started out like that third one from the left. I say started out because the string has been replaced at least once, and the toy on the replaced several times with the cheap little fur mice. It's the one she always drags to me, even though she has a couple other very much like it. She just won't let the old one go. The only other toy, if you can call it that, that she brings me when she wants to play are bottle caps. 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 >Sammy's favorite started out like that third one from the left. I say >started out because the string has been replaced at least once, and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >other toy, if you can call it that, that she brings me when she wants >to play are bottle caps. I wish Betty would do that bring me toys! I always have to initiate the play. Another toy I got since I took that picture that has turned out to be very popular was labeled a "cat charmer". It's a long, elastic, multicolored felt strip attached to the end of a stick. One of our games involves me whipping it at Betty, and Betty rearing up and catching it between her paws. > >Just had to share this tidbit. While I was printing a document just now, > >Cesca came over to watch. The expression on her face as she saw the sheets [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > she drags her toy to you. Betty will just wait patiently next to her > toy, even if I'm in another room. :) Those are great pics of Betty--you really captured the "mighty hunter" expression on her face. I also like Betty's little white toe gloves. =o) With the help of a friend, I hope to get some pictures of Cesca at play. She's very light on her feet, and with all the energy of youth, play sessions last quite a while, around here. Unfortunately, my cheap crap camera does not always snap the picture when you push the button. I need a new camera! (Unfortunately, the bills also need to be paid.......) The present camera still takes pictures, but you have to keep pushing the button, and sometimes miss the picture you were trying to take because the cat moves. Melissa >Those are great pics of Betty--you really captured the "mighty hunter" >expression on her face. I also like Betty's little white toe gloves. =o) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >button, and sometimes miss the picture you were trying to take because the >cat moves. Imagine Cesca's kitten at play! She's not at that stage yet, but when she is, she'll probably want to play even more than her mother. :) >>Just had to share this tidbit. While I was printing a document just now, >>Cesca came over to watch. The expression on her face as she saw the sheets [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >http://home.comcast.net/~Takayuki9z/toys.html Betty is a beautiful girl. Her white whiskers and dainty white mittens reminds me of my late Mimi. The insane glare, too. ;) Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >>Betty also gets that intense look when playing! >> >>http://home.comcast.net/~Takayuki9z/toys.html Oh my gosh! I'd never seen a picture of Betty. She is beautiful. She looks like Bootsie's twin! Except Bootsie *definitely* isn't polite. She's a little hussy when things don't go her way. I don't have any good, close pics of her uploaded, but you can tell what she looks like from these. http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg >>>Betty also gets that intense look when playing! >>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg It took me a while to find Bootsie in the painting picture. I was looking on the ground I didn't know that she was supervising so closely. >>http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >>http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg >It took me a while to find Bootsie in the painting picture. >I was looking on the ground I didn't know that she was supervising so >closely. Isn't that how a lot of those Pepe LePew cartoons start off? :) >>>http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >>>http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Isn't that how a lot of those Pepe LePew cartoons start off? :) yep it sure is. >>>>http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >>>>http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>Isn't that how a lot of those Pepe LePew cartoons start off? :) >yep it sure is. We always thought my Mimi-- a tiny tuxedo, with a very expressive little face-- looked just like the cat who always gets striped in the Pepe LePew cartoons. When she felt like it, she could squirt right out of your hands just like that kitty. ;) Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >We always thought my Mimi-- a tiny tuxedo, with a very expressive >little face-- looked just like the cat who always gets striped in the >Pepe LePew cartoons. When she felt like it, she could squirt right >out of your hands just like that kitty. ;) Was she equally averse to getting smooches? :) >>We always thought my Mimi-- a tiny tuxedo, with a very expressive >>little face-- looked just like the cat who always gets striped in the >>Pepe LePew cartoons. When she felt like it, she could squirt right >>out of your hands just like that kitty. ;) > >Was she equally averse to getting smooches? :) Well, she was selective. ;) From my then-BF-- very much yes. From Stinky-- decidedly no. ;) Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg I love it when kitties supervise. When I work I frequently have feline supervisors 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 >>http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >>http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg > >I love it when kitties supervise. When I work I frequently have feline >supervisors One of Mimi's nicknames was "The Chief Inspector" ;) Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >>http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >>http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg > > I love it when kitties supervise. When I work I frequently have feline > supervisors So does any plumber, repair person or computer tech who walks into my apartment! (Unfortunately, half of them are allergic, and Melisande is not content to supervise from afar, she's an in-your-face kind of observer!) >>>Betty also gets that intense look when playing! >>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg >http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg Thank you. Betty looks like Bootsie, acts like Biskit. :) I've seen the first pic before, and I love it, but I haven't seen the second one, and I love that, too. Also, wasn't it Bootsie who was in the big tree pic? The pics from my web pages are pretty old, as I haven't been taking pictures of Betty lately, but it seems that there are a few people who haven't seen them yet, so you can navigate to all of the pics of Betty, including a short home movie, from: http://home.comcast.net/~Takayuki9z In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", Takayuki > The pics from my web pages are pretty old, as I haven't been > taking pictures of Betty lately, but it seems that there are a > few people who haven't seen them yet, so you can navigate to all > of the pics of Betty, including a short home movie, from: > > http://home.comcast.net/~Takayuki9z I hadn't seen the video yet, but I have to tell you that when I just viewed it, Shadow looked up and around when he heard your voice. I think he likes you! SignatureCheryl >I hadn't seen the video yet, but I have to tell you that when I just >viewed it, Shadow looked up and around when he heard your voice. I >think he likes you! I'm so flattered to have a kitty fan! :) awww, so cute! I love the little black dot on Betty's chin! That's a neat set of pics. Sort of Betty's journey from that sad little cage with the two little toys...to being queen of the house. I wish it happened that way for all of them. Sherry >awww, so cute! I love the little black dot on Betty's chin! >That's a neat set of pics. Sort of Betty's journey from that sad little cage >with the two little toys...to being queen of the house. I wish it happened that >way for all of them. Doesn't it always happen that way? :) I'm surprised you noticed the black dot on Betty's chin. It's actually a fairly striking feature if she has her head lifted up, but in most of the pics, it's not very evident. >I'm surprised you noticed the black dot on Betty's chin. It's >actually a fairly striking feature if she has her head lifted up, but >in most of the pics, it's not very evident. Oh, that's a wonderful attribute for a lady. Very Marilyn-Monroe-ish. :-) Sherry >>>Betty also gets that intense look when playing! >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg I love this. You all so obviously need her help, or you'll screw everything up. ;) http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil? ;) Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg > >Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil? ;) Actually, it was more like "No, we don't want out. No, we don't want in either. We want to sit here and sniff. You want to shut the window? Too bad." Sherry In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", > I don't have any good, close pics of her > uploaded, but you can tell what she looks like from these. > > http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg > http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg Those pics are great! I can see she's a daddy's girl. The pic in the window is too funny. I've tried to do that but when everyone is in the window and I go outside, at least one will follow me to the door. Then Bonnie will get spooked by "someone" looking at her from outside and then it is all blown. SignatureCheryl >Those pics are great! I can see she's a daddy's girl. The pic in the >window is too funny. She follows him around like a dog. I have noticed something that's either coicindental or amazing, I'm not sure which. But Bootsie starts sitting in the window at 6:30 p.m. She sits there till he gets home at 7:15. I honestly think she is watching for him. Sherry "Sherry " <sriddles@aol.comkitty> wrote in > Oh my gosh! I'd never seen a picture of Betty. She is beautiful. She looks like > Bootsie's twin! Except Bootsie *definitely* isn't polite. She's a little hussy [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg > http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg LOL! She really is Daddy's girl, isn't she? The other picture's funny, too, with all the cats in a row. What were they watching? SignatureMarina, missing Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki >LOL! She really is Daddy's girl, isn't she? The other picture's funny, too, >with all the cats in a row. What were they watching? Oh, who knows? That window doesn't have a screen. I think they sit there just so I can't shut it. Sherry > >LOL! She really is Daddy's girl, isn't she? The other picture's funny, too, > >with all the cats in a row. What were they watching? > > Oh, who knows? That window doesn't have a screen. I think they sit there just > so I can't shut it. LOL! Wouldn't surprise me. SignatureMarina, missing Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki > I don't have any good, close pics of her > uploaded, but you can tell what she looks like from these. > http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg > http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg These are so cute! I have to admit that having a cat underfoot while I was doing something potentially dangerous might get on my nerves, but she does look adorable sitting just under the eaves (is that the right word?), no doubt making sure the paint is applied just so. The 3 cats in the window is hilarious! They have all that window space, but the 3 of them have to cram into one small space together. Joyce Love the first one, Sherry! And the second -- you have such a handsome crew! Christine > >>Betty also gets that intense look when playing! > >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > http://members.aol.com/sriddles/lpainting.jpg > http://members.aol.com/gladyss5/catswindow.jpg Awwww -- such a pretty girl! Christine > >Just had to share this tidbit. While I was printing a document just now, > >Cesca came over to watch. The expression on her face as she saw the sheets [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > she drags her toy to you. Betty will just wait patiently next to her > toy, even if I'm in another room. :) Takayuki <Takayuki9z@yahoo.com> had some very interesting things to say about Re: Francesca Fascinated by My Printer: >I think that Cesca is probably still smarter than my Betty, because >she drags her toy to you. Betty will just wait patiently next to her >toy, even if I'm in another room. :) I don't think it's intelligence, I think Betty's simply being her usual polite self. Cesca seems to be more the assertive type. :-) Signature"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing (or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL |
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