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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2006Huey got me back
Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches or shots to her relief, but antibiotics and thick bandages on her left thumb for a while. I knew that Huey was going to get Mandy back, and was waiting to see what he was going to do to her. Instead the two of them forgave each other right away. I was perplexed and pleased at the same time. At ten pm I was climbing into bed and needed to move Huey, who was sleeping draped on my side of the bed and with his head on my favorite gooshy pillow that I usually go to sleep hugging. Ok, we've done this before, I gently move Huey, he gives me that "you're so lucky I'm such a nice cat" look and settles down where I place him. Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S NOT BREATHING!!! I hell for Rob and start chest compressions. Rob dashes into the room and laughs I'm so busy giving Huey's chest massages that I don't see that his tail is moving in time to the compressions. I stop, lay the little guy down on the gooshy pillow and he slowly opens his eyes and then winks at me. It was Huey's first b*st*rd cat trick and it was a doozy. Pam S. still a little shook up > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset cat > and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches or [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > It was Huey's first b*st*rd cat trick and it was a doozy. See, its all in the timing. Jake > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset > cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Pam S. still a little shook up Thanks for the laugh, Pam, I needed that. :-)  SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset > cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Pam S. still a little shook up Oh! Yoda did that to me one time! I really thought he was comotose or dead. Why do they DO that? Do you think they're just sleeping really deeply or what? I even *shook* him and he was still limp at first. Sherry >> Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset >> cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Sherry Ivy (RB) did that while she had CRF... I really did think she was dead, since she was ill. It was in the wee hours of the morning and she was in bed with us. I was used to petting her in the night, and she would start purring. This time she didn't. Scared the bejeezus outta me. Had to shake her *three* times before she woke with the startled "huh? whassup" look on her face! I told her "Don't *do* that Ivy, you scared me!", and continued the pettins, and she started up her purr-motor (and for such a tiny thing, she could be loud when she wanted to! You know, cats go into deep REM sleep like humans do, their brains detach from their bodies so they don't start acting out their dreams, as humans also do...you probably just caught him in REM sleep. Has anyone ever tried to wake you from REM sleep? Not an easy task!!! > >> Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset > >> cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > the pettins, and she started up her purr-motor (and for such a tiny thing, > she could be loud when she wanted to! > This does not sound like a trick...are you sure he didn't have a mild > stroke? I have never heard of a cat that would sit there and let you > wail away on his little chest without some kind of physical or verbal > protest, if possible In another post, the same person wrote: > You know, cats go into deep REM sleep like humans do, their brains > detach from their bodies so they don't start acting out their dreams, > as humans also do...you probably just caught him in REM sleep. Has > anyone ever tried to wake you from REM sleep? Not an easy task!!! Doesn't these two posts strike you as rather contradictory? Is this a b*st*rd human trick or something? Joyce > > This does not sound like a trick...are you sure he didn't have a mild > > stroke? I have never heard of a cat that would sit there and let you [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Doesn't these two posts strike you as rather contradictory? Is this a > b*st*rd human trick or something? There've been a few posts from the same poster on other threads that seemed kind of "borderline" trolling. So far, I've given him/her the benefit of the doubt, since he/she's a newbie here. Time will tell. > Oh! Yoda did that to me one time! I really thought he was comotose or > dead. Why do they DO that? Do you think they're just sleeping really > deeply or what? I even *shook* him and he was still limp at first. > > Sherry I think that Huey was physically and emotionally exhausted and wanted to get me back at the same time. It worked. Today I was laying on the bed, reading, and Huey was snuggled between Rob and I. Next thing I know he's right up to my face and I'm loving on him. Then he shoves his head up to my head, so that my nose is right in his ear. I shifted my face a little so that we're still snuggled, but my nose isn't in his ear. Huey shoved his ear back over my nose, so I lay there loving on him and breathing in his ear. He purred loudly and had a huge grin on his face. It was a strange but lovely session of cat and Pam pampering. Pam S. Tanada skrev i meddelandet ... <snip> >Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, >no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Pam S. still a little shook up LOL!!! Elisabet This does not sound like a trick...are you sure he didn't have a mild stroke? I have never heard of a cat that would sit there and let you wail away on his little chest without some kind of physical or verbal protest, if possible. > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset > cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Pam S. still a little shook up > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset cat > and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches or [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > It was Huey's first b*st*rd cat trick and it was a doozy. Shmogg wishes to welcome Huey into Bastard Cats International, and says he couldn't have done better (which is high praise from Shmogg). Yowie > Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, > no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > stop, lay the little guy down on the gooshy pillow and he slowly opens > his eyes and then winks at me. > It was Huey's first b*st*rd cat trick and it was a doozy. Eeek! First Rob, now Huey. Does everyone think it's funny to scare you to death?? Smudge did this once when she was a kitten - about 4 months old. I had just adopted her, and of course she slept in bed with me every night. One night I woke up and felt something underneath me. I sat up and saw Smudge lying on the bed, right under where I had been lying. Now I am not the most lightweight person on the planet, and I'm certainly quite a bit heavier than Smudge in any case. She looked *flat*, I mean, two-dimensional, lying on her side kind of pressed down onto the mattress. I panicked and started shaking her. Nothing. I called her name, shook her harder. Still nothing. I was going to dash for the phone and call an emergency vet, when she started to struggle to her feet, very slowly and groggily, looking like she was slowly beaming back from another planet. She didn't even have the wherewithal to give me that "Huh??" look. I guess she was just in a very deep sleep. Could she have been a bit oxygen- deprived, being underneath me, and that's why it took her so long to wake up? If that's true, then if I hadn't woken up at that time, it might have ended badly, I don't know. Fortunately, she never slept underneath me again, so I never had to test that theory. Joyce >One night I woke up and felt something underneath me. I sat up and saw >Smudge lying on the bed, right under where I had been lying. Now I am not [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >ended badly, I don't know. Fortunately, she never slept underneath me again, >so I never had to test that theory. LOL! Smudge kitten was a grand master of this trick! How could that possibly have been comfortable? Although I slept with Betty every night, it would have been impossible for me to roll on top of her, because she slept in my right arm. Holding her pushed my elbow out like a kickstand, so that I couldn't roll to that side. >Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, >no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Pam S. still a little shook up It sounds more like he's a very gentle and trusting kitty, unless you try to give him a bath. :) I wonder if when he was playing dead, he looked anything like this: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tanadashoes/detail?.dir=bdf0&.dnm=fb5b.jpg&.src=ph > >Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, > >no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tanadashoes/detail?.dir=bdf0&.dnm=fb5b.jpg&.src=ph Oh, that's so cute. Here's my favorite tummy pic of Cherokee. He laid under the ceiling fan like this all the time. I used to drag him by his back legs out of the way and he never woke up. He was my first tuxedo cat. http://members.aol.com/cherokee1.jpg Sherry sridd...@aol.com wrote: > > >Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, > > >no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Sherry Oh darn. I messed up that link. Here's the correct one. http://members.aol.com/sriddles/cherokee1.jpg Sherry >sridd...@aol.com wrote: >> Oh, that's so cute. Here's my favorite tummy pic of Cherokee. He laid [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Oh darn. I messed up that link. Here's the correct one. >http://members.aol.com/sriddles/cherokee1.jpg What a large and fluffy belly! >>Oh, that's so cute. Here's my favorite tummy pic of Cherokee. He laid >>under the ceiling fan like this all the time. I used to drag him by his [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Sherry OMG, That is so funny. I'm glad that Huey hasn't gone there yet. I'd disturb him to the point where he would hork a hairball on my head while I was asleep. Pam S. > >>Oh, that's so cute. Here's my favorite tummy pic of Cherokee. He laid > >>under the ceiling fan like this all the time. I used to drag him by his [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Pam S. Cherokee is the one I talk about who loved to be vaccuumed. I could take the hand attachment and run it over that big fuzzy belly and he'd just stretch, then roll over so I could vacuum his back. I miss that cat. He went RB in 2000. Sherry >> >Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, >> >no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >cat. >http://members.aol.com/cherokee1.jpg Friday evening, I snapped a picture with my cell-phone camera of a little boy asleep with his legs in the air. I haven't posted it anywhere since I didn't get his parents' permission to photograph him. I ate supper Friday in a Chinese restaurant near my house. A little Asian boy, about three years old, was asleep on two chairs next to an electric fan. He was asleep on his belly, with both legs balanced in a straight-up-from-the-knee position, and his thumb in his mouth. I presume that he was the son of one of the restaurant workers. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >>>> Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye >>>> movement, [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>> >>> I wonder if when he was playing dead, he looked anything like this: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tanadashoes/detail?.dir=bdf0&.dnm=fb5b.jpg&.src=ph >> Oh, that's so cute. Here's my favorite tummy pic of Cherokee. He laid >> under the ceiling fan like this all the time. I used to drag him by [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > a straight-up-from-the-knee position, and his thumb in his mouth. I > presume that he was the son of one of the restaurant workers. It sounds cute :-) it always makes me smile when I see toddlers asleep in public, often in the most odd positions. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >>Not this time. I pick him up and he is totally limp. No eye movement, >>no leg, tail, or paw movement. His chest doesn't move. MY GOD, HUEY'S [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tanadashoes/detail?.dir=bdf0&.dnm=fb5b.jpg&.src=ph Nope, he looked more limp than that. I'd forgotten about that picture of Huey. That's how he often sleeps. Pam S. > Nope, he looked more limp than that. I'd forgotten about that picture > of Huey. That's how he often sleeps. Back when my Aunt Mary and Uncle Howard kept pigs, my aunt saw a baby pig (they always could find even the smallest hole in the fence) stretched out on the driveway. She found it completely limp. Thinking someone had run over the pig with a car, she picked up the little corpse to dispose of it. The pig woke up with a squeal and scampered away. It had just been taking a nap in the sun. >> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tanadashoes/detail?.dir=bdf0&.dnm=fb5b.jpg&.src=ph > >Nope, he looked more limp than that. I'd forgotten about that picture >of Huey. That's how he often sleeps. I like the little orange scritch target on his belly. :) >>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tanadashoes/detail?.dir=bdf0&.dnm=fb5b.jpg&.src=ph >> >>Nope, he looked more limp than that. I'd forgotten about that picture >>of Huey. That's how he often sleeps. > > I like the little orange scritch target on his belly. :) So do I, but you have to scritch or love on it slowly. Huey takes exception to vigorous tummy rubs. Pam S. ooooooooooooooooooo....that's CRUEL!!! ...but funny! Kristi Rusty gave me a similar scare when I first adopted him. One day I found him laying in his carrier not moving him. I thought he was dead and panicked. Turned out he was just napping and for some reasons I couldn't see any breathing. But then he is the first cat I keep on my own. Winnie > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset > cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Pam S. still a little shook up <snip> > At ten pm I was climbing into bed and needed to move Huey, who was > sleeping draped on my side of the bed and with his head on my favorite [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Pam S. still a little shook up How scary! Calming purrs and best wishes, Polonca and Soncek Pam, tell Mandy, purrs for her "paw" to heal quickly. Christine > Mandy gave Huey a flea and tick bath yesterday that ended in an upset > cat and Mandy at the ER getting a cat bite taken care of. No stitches [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Pam S. still a little shook up |
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