Hi Lori! Your furry family sounds wonderful. Got any photos to show
at alt.pictures.binaries.animals? Or maybe a URL to a photo website?

ROFL!! We used to have a kitten that loved to swat at the pirates in old
pirate movies. They all sound wonderful. Welcome to unlurkdom.

Pik-shers!
Pik-shers!
Pik-shers!

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Hi Lori and welcome to the family.  Hmmm, I have a furfamily much the
same as you. I have Sam who is a big, goofy, sweetheart. There is Selena
who is a beautiful, very proper, goddess. Then we have Lacey and
Barnabus. Barnabus just joined the family and is fairly young so he's
still kittenish and Lacey is a teenage terror.  The old man of the
family is Hobbes, a very large, orange tabby who just wants to be with
his hoomans.  He'd prefer the household to consist of his two hoomans
and Selena but I think has resigned himself to the others.

I love the description of Oreo trying to catch the cartoon characters.
Lacey likes to chase Formula 1 cars across the television screen.  She's
the only one who shows much interest in the television.

Looking forward to more stories about your owners,
Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey, Sam and Barnabus

Hi Lori!  Welcome.  My name is Lori too, but I go by "CatNipped" here.

Yep, cats, like kids, never let you record their cuteness for posterity!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Hi Lori; glad you de-lurked :)  That's too cute!  My Persia never pays the
slightest attention to the television.

Jill

Welcome Lori, Oreo, Harry, and April.  I'll eagerly wait to see the
pictures as well as read more stories.  Oreo sounds like a funny girl.

Pam S.

Hi, Lori, and welcome to you and your family! Soncek (which is Slovenian for
Sunshine) has only recently started to show interest in TV (he is 5 and a
half years old).
Looking forward to more of your stories and maybe some pics of your kitties,

Hi to Lori and Oreo and April and Harry! I love your story about
Oreo jumping the TV screen! I've had kitties that watch sometimes
(Shamrock was intrigued by the old Orkin commercials where a roach
walked across the screen) and one of my RB kitties, Marley, used to
chase game characters when my son would play Super Mario Brothers.

Hi, Lori.  Welcome to the bunch. I'm Sam just outside Seattle, WA, USA who,
along with dearest wife Ramona are "owned and operated" by Smokey ( 14 YO
solid black altered male), Mistletoe (6 YO spayed dilute tortie) and Scooter
(14YO long-haired chihuahua).
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

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Obviously, we're seeing kittens that are mutating to catch up to and
be at home in the electronic age.  If you see her start to program
your VCR to record the "Animal Planet" channel's special on housecats,
I'd start to worry.

Regards and Purrs,
O J

PS: Glad you're out of lurk mode!  One more person to share things
with.  Yay!!

Cats  do watch telly. My cat Fugazi (RB) used to love car chases, we'd
even call out to her "Gaz-gaz- vroom-vrooms" and she'd come running to
watch them. Her sister Isis (also RB)loved cartoons (another Tom and
Jerry fan- how come when the mouse wins every time?)

And they both loved wildlife documentaries. Isis even used to
understand the idea of a commercial break, when she would get off your
lap, go for a drink maybe a snack and use her box and be back before
the programme came back on.

I wish I'd had a camera for the time they were both watching a
wildlife programme and they're both staring up at the screen avidly
when the camera suddenly pans to a close up of a golden eagle. Fugazi
took several steps back and Isis ran for it!

My friend Mick's cat Sam would sit on top of the telly during snooker
matches and when the camera did a close up on the ball going towards
the pocket, he would reach down and try to flip the ball off with his
front paw. When it went into the pocket he would look behind the back
of the television wondering where it had gone.

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

That sounds both funny and cute.
Suz

Hi! Donna here. Your cats are beautiful! :o)

I'm the Meowmie to two boykitties, brothers who will be 11 months old in a
few days, named Captain and Stanley. I brought them home from the shelter
on January 21, and they wasted no time in taking over the house and making
it theirs. :o)

Prior to adopting the boys, I had three other cats, all females. Misty
(1976-1989), Melody (1990-2000), and Harmony (1990-2004) were three of the
most wonderful kitties ever, in my admittedly biased opinion ;o). I still
share stories about them here, because they had amazing personalities
(purr-sonalities?) and their legacy provided me with enough stories to
last for at least nine lives.

Captain and Stanley are pretty good at generating anecdotes themselves,
and they've only been here about six weeks. :o) They're a delightful pair
of furballs, and I'm greatly looking forward to spoiling them for as long
as humanly possible.

I set up a couple of online albums for the boys. One of them consists of
pictures from the night I brought them home:

http://members16.clubphoto.com/donna674416/2979870/guest.phtml

and the other is the pictures I've taken since that time:

http://members16.clubphoto.com/donna674416/3060819/guest.phtml

Anyway, welcome, and keep spoiling those kitties and sharing stories. :o)

Donna, Captain, and Stanley

Welcome!  DH and I are owned by Gossamer, the spoiled princess and
Jeeves, who is large, lovable and at least *thinks* he's in charge of
the kitchen and dining room :)