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Does anyone's cat like to fly?

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Margaret Fine - 21 Oct 2004 19:23 GMT
Oliver and my husband Steve should start a comic book called Flying
Kitty.  Every night Steve takes Oliver "flying" thru the apartment.
Oliver will run up to him and lift his front legs off the floor,
stretching as far up as he can go.  Steve grabs Oliver just under his
front and back legs and lifts him into the air, over his head, which is
pretty high since Steve is 6'3".  They then commence to "fly" around the
apartment, Oliver held aloft.  They stop at all the vents in the ceiling
for a sniff, look on top of book cases, pat pictures Oliver can't
normally reach.  They then reach the master bedroom where Oliver
inspects the top of the door frames and then move on to a boxing match
with the ceiling fan.  Finally there is a call to the control tower for
permission to land and "Kitty One" makes a soft touch down on the bed.
Oliver loves it.  He looks pretty funny, his body stretched way out and
almost 7 feet in the air. Totally relaxed and happy!
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Kreisleriana - 21 Oct 2004 19:51 GMT
>Oliver and my husband Steve should start a comic book called Flying
>Kitty.  Every night Steve takes Oliver "flying" thru the apartment.
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>Oliver loves it.  He looks pretty funny, his body stretched way out and
>almost 7 feet in the air. Totally relaxed and happy!

That is so cute. ;)    Stinky doen't like that so much as he likes to
be walked around, slung over my shoulder, and looking back over it. ;)

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com
Nik Simpson - 21 Oct 2004 21:03 GMT
> That is so cute. ;)    Stinky doen't like that so much as he likes to
> be walked around, slung over my shoulder, and looking back over it. ;)

I call Emily my "shoulder launched kitty" as she likes to move around the
house perched on my shoulder, then when she gets board or sees somehting
that interests her more she just launches herself from shoulder (ouch!)

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Enfilade - 22 Oct 2004 02:06 GMT
> >Oliver and my husband Steve should start a comic book called Flying
> >Kitty.  Every night Steve takes Oliver "flying" thru the apartment.

Bitties LOVE to be lifted up high by their MomDad, particularly if
they can find spiders on the ceiling to eat.  They love the new
perspective on their home.  Kumani particularly will look at the
ceiling and cry for a lift.

Smokey does not care what we do to him as long as we feed him.

Nocturne DESPISES this kind of undignified behaviour.  The proper
place for a feline is enthroned on a pillow, with humans laid out in
worship before her.

--Fil
O J - 21 Oct 2004 22:50 GMT
On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:

>Steve grabs Oliver just under his
>front and back legs and lifts him into the air, over his head, which is
>pretty high since Steve is 6'3".  They then commence to "fly" around the
>apartment, Oliver held aloft.
---------------------<snip>----------------------

That sounds like a pretty good kitty-game.  Oliver is lucky to have
such an inventive human companion.

Regards and Purrs,
O J
Dan M - 21 Oct 2004 23:58 GMT
> On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
>
>>Steve grabs Oliver just under his
>>front and back legs and lifts him into the air, over his head, which is
>>pretty high since Steve is 6'3".  They then commence to "fly" around the
>>apartment, Oliver held aloft.

Not exactly the same, but Amelia enjoys doing "high hunting". When she
sees a moth on the ceiling, she asks me to pick her up and hold her high
while she hunts the moth.

And she's named for Amelia Earhardt. When we first got her, the first
thing we noticed about her is that she loved to leap from high place to
high place. Nancy named her the Flying Kitty.
bonbon - 22 Oct 2004 15:17 GMT
>> On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
>>
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>sees a moth on the ceiling, she asks me to pick her up and hold her high
>while she hunts the moth.

Louie loves that flight plan also.  

>And she's named for Amelia Earhardt. When we first got her, the first
>thing we noticed about her is that she loved to leap from high place to
>high place. Nancy named her the Flying Kitty.

So, is Amelia a good pilot?  Or have all of your knick-knacks been
glued back together at least once like ours?

-bonbon
Howard Berkowitz - 23 Oct 2004 05:10 GMT
> > On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
> >
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> thing we noticed about her is that she loved to leap from high place to
> high place. Nancy named her the Flying Kitty.

Clifford (RB) gained steadily in intelligence and wisdom to be one of
the brightest cats I've ever known, but he started from a fairly low
point. I should have understood his tendency to mimic when I learned
that once weaned, he socialized with the puppies on the farm where he
was born, and seemed to believe he was a Brittany Spaniel.

When he first saw moths, he was fascinated. When the moth was flying
over the floor, Clifford would redeem his general incompetence as a
mouser by being an excellent...ahem...mother. He could leap and snag a
moth on the wing, five feet in the air.

Unfortunately, when he saw a moth fly over the stairwell, he apparently
concluded "Moth can fly. Clifford should be able to fly."  He'd then
stretch out in midair, clearly expecting to sprout wings -- and then get
a shocked expression as gravity set in.

It also took him a while to learn that squirrels were more adept in, and
among trees, than he was.  This took several embarrassing episodes of
jumping out upper-story windows in hot pursuit.
Kreisleriana - 23 Oct 2004 16:16 GMT
>> > On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
>> >
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>Unfortunately, when he saw a moth fly over the stairwell, he apparently
>concluded "Moth can fly. Clifford should be able to fly."  

Stinky has a couple of "Boogie Mats"-- little mats that have a
zippered pocket to fill with catnip.  I call them his "magic carpets."
See: <http://tinyurl.com/4ybp9>

One of them has printed on it "Birds can fly-- So should I!"

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com
jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 22 Oct 2004 00:03 GMT
> ...Steve grabs Oliver just under his
> front and back legs and lifts him into the air, over his head, which is
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> inspects the top of the door frames and then move on to a boxing match
> with the ceiling fan...

Sounds like Oliver has a lot of fun doing this! It's so cute that he begs
Steve for a "flight". Oliver sounds like a smart kitty, that he understands
what the game's about and knows he's going to get to visit all these
ordinarily inaccessible places.

I used to hold Smudge up high so she could reach bugs on the wall that
she would otherwise be sitting on the floor far below and meowing at
loudly. I don't seem to have that many bugs these days, though - maybe
because I also have Licky dispatching them?

Joyce
 
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