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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2004Being adopted by every cat in town
About 4 months ago after many weeks of thinking I decided that it was time for me to get a cat. Where I live you have to pay a 200 dollar deposit per animal. So I saved paid the deposit and got a little kitten from my best friend. She is nothing but pure evil, her name is sadie, we call her sadism. 3 weeks later my girlfriend called from work, She works at our county park, someone had dropped of two 2 to 3 month old kittens. How could i resist and leave these two homeless. So I went and got them and now i have 3 cats. Granted I don't have the deposit for them yet. I call them the twins, Max and Ginger, both are long haired and very sweet tempered. Then on the fourth of july i hear the most heart breaking whining, mewing sound coming out from underneath a car. Of course I have to save this horrible noise. Its raining and I feel bad because i know it is a kitten. I try all night and by morning my neighbor knocks on the door saying her dog cornered this little 4 week old kitten. She was scrawny, dirty and had discharge coming from her eyes..She was so skinny and scared i thought for sure she was going to die. She didn't of course. Now Tessa is 6 weeks old and growing strong. I keep saying i'm going ot find homes home for them, How can i afford another 600 dollars for cats. I think every cat in town knows i'm soft hearted and is out looking for me. I'm scared to leave my house for fear they will find me. My only hope is my landlord doesn't come in and see that my apt has been over taken by these furry culprits. I most definately cannot give them up they all have my heart. Maybe when we are living in my car i can plug my computer into my cigarette lighter in my car :) Anyhow just wanted to share my storie of how i've become infected with cats. :) Since I am new to this group. I will prolly be posting lots since I don't leave my house anymore. The insane one http://photos.yahoo.com/lnsanecat Welcome!! I hope you can scrape up the deposit. They all sound very sweet. Karen > About 4 months ago after many weeks of thinking I decided that it was time > for me to get a cat. Where I live you have to pay a 200 dollar deposit per [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > http://photos.yahoo.com/lnsanecat Welcome! and welcome to my world. I could be a cat collector so easy and never actually aquire one on purpose. It just happens. In the interim time that you don't have a deposit up for the extra kittens, may I suggest you just work extra hard at their housecat manners and make sure they don't soil or scratch anything. Then if your landlord does drop by and find out you've got extra cats, she/he may be so impressed with your responsible pet ownership and excellent clean litterbox skills she'll cut you some slack. I hope so. Sherry > Welcome! and welcome to my world. I could be a cat collector so easy and never > actually aquire one on purpose. It just happens. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > ownership and excellent clean litterbox skills she'll cut you some slack. I > hope so. Never did understand the pet deposit and/or "no pets" rule in rentals. You are still responsible for all damage to the property, whether caused by pets or anything else, and AFAIC, kids cause *far* more damage than dogs or cats (and annoy neighbours more), yet no-one charges extra or bans rugrats. Yowie > > Welcome! and welcome to my world. I could be a cat collector so easy and > never [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Yowie Rules are made by landlords who well know they aren't getting any repair money out of anyone after they move out. And who have experienced first hand the absolute squalor some pet owners manage to live in. They need some defense against anyone who has five or six pets, puts open cans of pet food on the floor and never picks them back up. Never changes litter etc so the apartment has to be completely repainted and recarpeted when it is vacated. At least with kids, neighbors will look out to their living conditions to some degree, and most kids are at least toilet trained. I remember visiting one couple who had a couple of small dogs. They never bothered to let them out. Just changed the newspapers covering the living room floor once in a while. Jo > > > Welcome! and welcome to my world. I could be a cat collector so easy and > > never [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > bothered to let them out. Just changed the newspapers covering the living > room floor once in a while. Fair point. I forget that not everyone cares for their pets like we do here. Yowie > > > > Welcome! and welcome to my world. I could be a cat collector so easy > and [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > Yowie Also, there are some apartment buildings and complexes that are adults only - no children allowed. Joy > Also, there are some apartment buildings and complexes that are adults > only - no children allowed. > > Joy Heh, not here in Memphis there aren't. Those adults only complexes were outlawed in the 1990's as being unconstitutional. Lucky for me (a childless middle-aged woman who really doesn't want someone elses screaming kids near her) there is nothing from housing us in separate sides of the complex. It's not an official rule, they just do it. Lots of older folks in this complex don't want to deal with kids. BUT they had to remove the hot tub; sorry, that's not accurate. They didn't remove it. They cut a pass-through to the regular pool. The water is cold and they had to turn the jets off. There are still seats where you can sit, which is okay when it's 100 degrees and you want to chill without swimming. Doesn't keep the kids from coming over and pestering folks like me. This is one reason I don't use the complex pool much at all. I had one cheeky little girl in a hideous green and orange bathing suit come over and tell me my black & white swimsuit was ugly! Where IS this child's mother?! Get her away from me, now! Mama-Fatso was sitting off blabbing with friends and wasn't paying a bit of attention to her children. GRRRRR. If she has pets, she probably doesn't pay attention to them, either. Jill > > Also, there are some apartment buildings and complexes that are adults > > only - no children allowed. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Jill I hear ya on that one. I like swimming laps for exercise, but this is impossible when the apartment pool is filled with small, screaming children. I keep telling myself they live here too, and have a right to use the pool, but it still irritates me when they're ALWAYS in the pool whenever I might want to use it. We have two pools at my complex, the second of which has finally been resurfaced after being inoperative all last year and most of this summer. Hopefully, once they get it working again, there will be a pool that grownups can use in peace without being splashed all the time. Cats are NEVER so rude! =o)Although Cesca pats the surface of the drinking water in a really cute way before she takes a drink. I won't even get started on the parents who pay no attention to what their children do in a public place. All aside from its being annoying to the people around them, it's not exactly safe for the kids, either. Melissa Melissa >>Also, there are some apartment buildings and complexes that are adults >>only - no children allowed. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > It's not an official rule, they just do it. Lots of older folks in this > complex don't want to deal with kids. It's against the law to "discriminate" here in California, too - however, if you're old enough, there ARE "senior" apartment complexes, and I think they are allowed to set an age limit for their tenants (not renting to anyone under "x" years of age). > BUT they had to remove the hot tub; sorry, that's not accurate. They didn't > remove it. They cut a pass-through to the regular pool. The water is cold [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jill >It's against the law to "discriminate" here in California, too - >however, if you're old enough, there ARE "senior" apartment complexes, >and I think they are allowed to set an age limit for their tenants (not >renting to anyone under "x" years of age). 'fraid that wouldn't help me with my neighbor brats. I would imagine it would be both hard to enforce, as well as unpopular, to try to restrict the age of visitors, and it's visiting kids who bug me. This complex is all small one bedroom apartments, which means that it's rare for any children to live here. I have a young grandmother living upstairs, and when her grandsons come to visit they end up being sent outside to play (probably so the adults can carry on a conversation without having to shout to be heard inside). Since grandma lives on upstairs, the kids end up downstairs next to my patio, and usually "on" my patio. For awhile one boy would actually just walk on into my apartment (without knocking), supposedly to look at the birds and play with the cats. That was easy enough to stop. Like cats, these little kids can sound like a herd of elephants going up and down the stairs. So, when I hear elephants on the stairs I lock the doors. Like Melissa said in her reply, well actually I guess she said something like "don't get me started on parents who let their kids run loose in public". And that's what happens with these kids.  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 SNIP> > > > Never did understand the pet deposit and/or "no pets" rule in rentals. You > > are still responsible for all damage to the property, whether caused by [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Jo ICK!! I'll just chime in and say, I liked my apartment complex better when they allowed cats but no kids. It was a LOT quieter around here. I was allowed to keep my cats, as I was grandfathered in. ANd the management is back under the control of the owner after having been under the control of a management agency for a number of years. the owner is a lot more understanding about pets than the agency was. I haven't mentioned Cesca to my apartment manager, but then, he hasn't asked about her, either. Nor have I mentioned little Nina's arrival. =o) I guess he figures I'd already paid the pet deposit for two cats at the time I moved in, and one cat is very like another. I'm vigilant about keeping clean litter boxes, and I have plenty of scratching posts around the apartment. I've been a good, virtually trouble-free tenant for almost fifteen years now, so it's unlikely they'll kick me out. Nor do my cats keep the neighbors awake the way my teenaged neighbor does, or the various screaming infants and toddlers do. Melissa >Never did understand the pet deposit and/or "no pets" rule in rentals. You >are still responsible for all damage to the property, whether caused by pets >or anything else, and AFAIC, kids cause *far* more damage than dogs or cats >(and annoy neighbours more), yet no-one charges extra or bans rugrats. > >Yowie Speaking as a landlady, I prefer people with pets. They're more stable and responsible. (I mean, the ones with pets like us, not the idiots who decide to get a pit bulldog after they move in). All the damage we've had so far has been from children and adults. I could write a book. Rental properties was an idea which was good on paper, but bad in reality. We gave one house to our son decided this week to sell the other one. Most interesting current development is, our tenants painted the entire interior Flaming Whore Red, then knocked out a wall "so they could hear the baby better". Legally, the paint job isn't damage, but I"m plenty assed-up over them knocking out a wall. Ack. I'm prattling. Just to say, YES I agree, kids are as much a risk as pets. Probably more. Sherry In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", Jul 2004: > Rental properties was an idea which was good on paper, > but bad in reality. We gave one house to our son decided this > week to sell the other one. What they always say, you have to try to make a go at your ideas and if it doesn't work out, at least you gave it a shot. I bet your son is thrilled! > Most interesting current development is, our tenants painted the > entire interior Flaming Whore Red, then knocked out a wall "so > they could hear the baby better". Legally, the paint job isn't > damage, but I"m plenty assed-up over them knocking out a wall. Knocked out a wall?? That takes real nerve (would have put cahonies but I don't know how to spell that). SignatureCheryl > In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", > Jul 2004: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Knocked out a wall?? That takes real nerve (would have put cahonies > but I don't know how to spell that). IIRC, it's "cujones". But I'm sure others here would know better. ;-P - Denise (who seems to know some of the more interesting words in a few different languages - and should consider learning some of the more useful words, too!) Cheryl <jlhshadow@nospamhotmail.com> had some very interesting things to say about Re: Being adopted by every cat in town: >Knocked out a wall?? That takes real nerve (would have put cahonies >but I don't know how to spell that). "cojones" [I usually don't comment on spelling, but you *did* ask :-)] 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 >About 4 months ago after many weeks of thinking I decided that it was time >for me to get a cat. <snip> >Anyhow just wanted to share my storie of how i've become infected with cats. >:) Since I am new to this group. I will prolly be posting lots since I >don't leave my house anymore. Welcome to the group, and will look forward to hearing more about your kitties. Maybe the landlord will give you a break on the $200 per animal rule... I paid the deposit for my first two, but when I was adopted by Rocky they didn't ask to the additional deposit. 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 Welcome to the newsgroup, Insane One! :) You'll soon find that being insane doesn't really distinguish you in this group, especially when it comes to cats. :) Is the cute black kitty in the first picture ("milk") Tessa? Joyce no tessa is grey and white... that was matilda one of my friends kittens. I had gotten a glass of milk and she had decided she wanted some. I had to put the pic in with the ones of the rest of my cats because it is so cute... Tessa doesn't have any pics except of her taking poops in the litter box she's camera shy but i keep trying... Tonight all the babies have gone to grandmas house. I have an inspection tommorrow thank god for grandma's :) > Welcome to the newsgroup, Insane One! :) You'll soon find that being > insane doesn't really distinguish you in this group, especially when [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Joyce In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", "Dhelderman" <lnsanecat@hotmail.com> artfully composed this message within <news:10fo6okl743qk0a@corp.supernews.com> on 19 Jul 2004: > Anyhow just wanted to share my storie of how i've become > infected with cats. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://photos.yahoo.com/lnsanecat Infected with cats. I LIKE it. lol Yup, you've been marked by the mothership and more will come. :) SignatureCheryl Welcome to the group! I look forward to reading more stories of Sadie, the twins, and lil Tessa... :) SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >About 4 months ago after many weeks of thinking I decided that it was time >for me to get a cat. Where I live you have to pay a 200 dollar deposit per [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >http://photos.yahoo.com/lnsanecat Welcome, fellow sucker with "Cat Lover" tattooed on forehead ;-) There is a "Kitty Underground Railroad", you know, where they tell each other where to go. I swear it's true. Ginger-lyn <SNIP> Anyhow just wanted to share my storie of how i've become infected > with cats. :) Since I am new to this group. I will prolly be > posting lots since I don't leave my house anymore. > > The insane one > > http://photos.yahoo.com/lnsanecat Welcome to the group and welcome to slavedom. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat.
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