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Cat Forum / General Topics / April 2008Kitty Wrestling Matches
Well, I found myself a cheap source of entertainment. I attack my Deetoo with a roll of paper towel. She goes nuts and bear hugs it while ripping it to shreds with her rear claws. All the time I'm laughing hysterically while shreds of paper go flying into the air. I can get a good ten minutes of wrestling out of a single paper towel roll. Most enjoyable .99 cents I've ever spent. > Well, I found myself a cheap source of entertainment. I attack my Deetoo > with a roll of paper towel. She goes nuts and bear hugs it while ripping [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Most enjoyable .99 cents I've ever spent. till you come home and find TP all over the house and WTF no pictures ;-) These sounds like a pretty good idea. All the reward with none of the risk. Are you using a nice full roll of paper towels? How far does she take it? Down to the cardboard innards? I'd like pictures of this. <-: <-: Mike of Illinois >Well, I found myself a cheap source of entertainment. I attack my Deetoo >with a roll of paper towel. She goes nuts and bear hugs it while ripping it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Most enjoyable .99 cents I've ever spent. "Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message > These sounds like a pretty good idea. All the reward with none of the > risk. Are you using a nice full roll of paper towels? How far does she > take it? Down to the cardboard innards? Nah! I poke her with the end of the paper towel roll she will wrestle, rip and tear it down about 6 sheets at a time. I'll then rip off and mostly clean up the shredded sheets and we start again. When there's too many little bits of paper around it's a distraction and she won't wrestle as much. > I'd like pictures of this. <-: <-: It will be a little difficult prodding her with a roll of paper towel and taking the pictures at the same time. I suppose I can set it up on the tripod and use the remote to get some images. I'll see what I can do. Sounds like this is a two-man job. I have a lot of fear and respect for the grab and slash maneuver. You get your hand in the wrong place during all this and you can kiss it goodbye, as you know. I'd probably want some gloves on before I start poking Isis in the tummy. The next time Isis goes wide-eyed on me and gives me that "I wanna play" look I'll give this great idea a try! (If your camera takes movies I'm thinking that would be nice . . .) <-: Mike in Illinois >Nah! I poke her with the end of the paper towel roll she will wrestle, rip >and tear it down about 6 sheets at a time. I'll then rip off and mostly [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >taking the pictures at the same time. I suppose I can set it up on the >tripod and use the remote to get some images. I'll see what I can do. > Sounds like this is a two-man job. I have a lot of fear and respect > for the grab and slash maneuver. You get your hand in the wrong place > during all this and you can kiss it goodbye, as you know. I'd probably > want some gloves on before I start poking Isis in the tummy. I use welders gloves when brushing our feral male cat......He whines and growls and bites and scratches, but he loves it, and always comes back for more. It obviously hurts him while I'm doing it, but it's just as obvious that he feels great afterward, so he wants more......I am trying to get the courage up to give him an anti-flea bath......But something tells me that I'd need a suit of armor for that! "Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message > Sounds like this is a two-man job. I have a lot of fear and respect > for the grab and slash maneuver. You get your hand in the wrong place > during all this and you can kiss it goodbye, as you know. I'd probably > want some gloves on before I start poking Isis in the tummy. Not with Deetoo she doesn't like to wrestle much, at least not when I'm grabbing her stomach. It takes some prodding and stopping her from running away before she will respond. She will be three years old this Monday. For the first 18 months she liked to wrestle, but my masochistic nature had me wrestling her back even more and now she almost never responds with wrestling, at least not to my hand. As well, I trim her front claws about once a month. The only thing I have to really watch for is her crunching down on my fingers with her back teeth. She gets me once in awhile, but never enough to draw blood from biting. She's about the most even tempered gentle cat I've ever met. I only know she's ready to wrestle when she gets that wild, glazed looks in her eyes. Right now, the paper towel prodding is new so she responds to it, but I'm guessing if I over do it, she will start to avoid it. Kitty wrestling. Can there be a more dangerous sport? It's just like putting your hand into a box of vipers and razor blades. What makes it dangerous is you push a little and then you get a nip. Then you push some more and BOOM they sink those front claws into your tender arm flesh immobilizing you. You CANNOT move. Then those rear legs kick into action. Those powerful rear legs that can propel them 12 feet high. It reminds me of The Tazmanian Devil on Bugs Bunny. Remember when he started spinning? I'm glad Deetoo is so even tempered. That's good for you. But I bet one day you are gonna be real sorry. Maybe she'll be having a bad day, or a real good day, and she's gonna let ya have it! <-: Isis only had to grab and slash on me ONCE and I was trained for life. <-: I still like to give her little tummy pokes just for fun to see what might happen. I guess it's some kind of death wish or manliness test. I call our little game "Danger Dan". <-: Mike in Illinois >Not with Deetoo she doesn't like to wrestle much, at least not when I'm >grabbing her stomach. It takes some prodding and stopping her from running [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >new so she responds to it, but I'm guessing if I over do it, she will start >to avoid it. "Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message > like to give her little tummy pokes just for fun to see what might > happen. I guess it's some kind of death wish or manliness test. I call > our little game "Danger Dan". <-: Well "Danger Dan", when you're not feeling so brave, try out the paper towel attack and let us know how it goes. It doesn't happen often enough that one gets to laugh his head off without fear of pain or repercussion, so go for it. I don't know if you've seen the movie Edward Scissorhands, but if you have, you might remember the part where he's doing ice sculptures for the girl and all the ice chips come floating down. The first time I went after Deetoo with the paper towel roll, all the floating paper reminded me of that part in the movie. And with her rear legs churning, I was also reminded of a wood chipper with all the pieces of wood shooting out in a flood. It was pretty funny. I near passed out from lack of oxygen from laughing so much. Upscale, I tried it. I took a roll of paper towels and provoked Her Majesty a little. She didn't quite know what to do. She took a small tear out of the paper towels but then walked away, confused and disgusted. I wish I had more exciting news but this was a fizzle. Isis is a sophisticated cat with specialized tastes. With no offense to Deetoo, Isis is not attracted by plebeian activities. She used to catch bugs. No more. She used to coming running when I came home. That is over. The only thing I can do for some Fast Kitty Action is catnip. I don't know how long that magic will last. Give my best to Deetoo. Mike in Illinois >"Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message >> like to give her little tummy pokes just for fun to see what might [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >chipper with all the pieces of wood shooting out in a flood. It was pretty >funny. I near passed out from lack of oxygen from laughing so much. "Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message > I wish I had more exciting news but this was a fizzle. Isis is a > sophisticated cat with specialized tastes. With no offense to Deetoo, No offence taken. How old is Isis? Deetoo was 3 years old yesterday, so she's a young cat and still has some kitten left in her. I hope she keeps it for a long time. Isis should be 10 or maybe 11 by now. I picked her up at the Oak Park Animal Shelter in 2000. In her younger days I saw her come flying into a room, climb up seven feet of curtain, do a MIDAIR one eighty, and scamper down against the laws of gravity. Now she sleeps a lot and plays only a little. 3 years old, huh? What a hoot! I bet Deetoo is tons of fun! Mike in Illinois >"Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message >> I wish I had more exciting news but this was a fizzle. Isis is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >she's a young cat and still has some kitten left in her. I hope she keeps it >for a long time. "Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message > 3 years old, huh? What a hoot! I bet Deetoo is tons of fun! Yup, she's a great cat. I named her after the last cat I had twenty years ago because of her similar colouring and markings. His name was Dirtyface, so Deetoo is Dirtyface2 => D2 => Deetoo. Sometimes I think I should have adopted another cat a long time ago, but then I'd likely not have this cat. All my friends think she's great and one even commented that if he was ever going to have a cat, Deetoo would be the cat he'd have because of her general nature. We play all sorts of games like her sneaking up on me and I catch her in the act. She does a sideways up the wall reverse backflip and then runs away only to try and sneak up on me again a minute later. But of course, I'm ready for her and I catch her again. I can get a good dozen backflips out of her before one of us gets tired of playing that game. :) > His name was Dirtyface, > so Deetoo is Dirtyface2 => D2 => Deetoo. omg...lol...dirtyface and D2...that's so bad it's good. It's a good thing cats don't understand our logic, for if they did, they'd probably be pissed. I was always thinking R2 came from R2-D2 but I see now that is wrong. I miss those early wacky days. Isis would stalk me pretty frequently. She'd hide behind doors and when I walked by WHAMMO she'd jump up high with her claws and legs poised for a take down, smack me, and then run away. At times it was getting pretty frightening. I didn't know which door was safe and which wasn't. We also played a little game called "Is Anyone Hiding Around The Corner"? I'd crouch down and wait for maybe 10 minutes. I'd wait as long as it took. You have to outwait a cat. They are very very patient. Then I'd hear her claws on the tile floor. Clickity clickity click. Here she comes. Hee hee. When she got to the corner BLAMMO I'd jump out. I saw her front legs go into full blast slidey reverse on that slick floor and she'd run away like crazy. Gotcha! If there's a way you really should catch these backlips and acrobatics on a digital movie or something. You know when she gets mature, and they do grow up fast, don't they?, she's going to turn into a Queen who wants full service 24 x 7 and forgot those silly games. Mike in Illinois >"Mike" <mike@spambegone.com> wrote in message >> 3 years old, huh? What a hoot! I bet Deetoo is tons of fun! [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >ready for her and I catch her again. I can get a good dozen backflips out of >her before one of us gets tired of playing that game. :) |
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