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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15899 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Sat, 09 May 2009 19:14   |
 b_twin_1
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LOL That makes for rather interesting feline social dynamics at your place!
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15902 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Sat, 09 May 2009 20:04 |
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Mean Cat is AWESOME. Scary, I mean. I wouldn't pet her. (Okay, I'd probably try anyway.) She sounds a lot like Miss Suzi, actually. Mean just because she can be.
Snuggles to Big Cat and Orange Cat!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15907 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Sat, 09 May 2009 22:43 |
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she reminds me of my cat,now when we got our dog tasha, minoew didn't like having competition in the house and to this day she will out of the blue go up to tasha and cuf her just to show her whos boss,the only good thing is she never uses her claws.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15909 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Sat, 09 May 2009 23:51 |
librarykat
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Wow, Mean Cat is awesomely mean! My cats come nowhere close to her in temperament! I, too, have three cats (all foundlings) - but this is a household of several humans as well as cats, and somehow we're all getting along. My marmalade tabby Boychik is the largest and oldest, weighing in at 15 pounds, he's also a longhair. My tuxedo cat is sleek, panther-like Domino (he's just so gorgeous!). And our female is a medium hair, fluffy and chubby black and white with a funny/cute face named Gizmo. She likes to THINK she's a mean cat, but she really isn't.
I really enjoyed your guest post, Black Bear. And I'm so glad none of my cats are like Mean Cat. ^_^ But you love her, don't you? Yeah ... that's what we do.
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15940 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Sun, 10 May 2009 21:50 |
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Melissa Mead
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Sounds like a cat my sister had. We have a video of her dozing peacefully in a basket next to a bowl of nuts. I reach for a nut...
:Whapwhspwhapwhapwhap!:
...I withdraw my bloodied hand...
[Updated on: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:50]
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15944 is a reply to message #15940 ] |
Mon, 11 May 2009 02:48 |
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Hi Black Bear!
You really had be laughing there. Mean Cat sounds wonderful, as long as she's properly worshiped. 
Thankfully my house is ruled by a fat cat and an orange cat.
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 Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15955 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Mon, 11 May 2009 11:54 |
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Hahahahaha! As someone who also shares a home with three cats, I can readily identify. My mean cat started life as a lovely, playful, cuddly, endlessly entertaining kitten and stayed that way for nearly six months. Then her "other" personality began to surface, and suddenly there was no more kitten, only Zuul. She used to guard doorways, punish us for being gone too long by chasing us around the apartment, biting our feet, and if anyone had the temerity to touch her-blood and outrage, in equal measure. Weirdly, she has never seemed to understand that she is a cat, and while she made it violently clear that she wanted nothing to do with my other two foundlings whenever they tried to approach her, she has never really pursued them, so they just avoid her and tussle with one another.
Now, however, Sophia has mellowed to the point that she almost can't be called mean. When we adopted a dog, all the cat social dynamics underwent a radical shift. Friendly Cat became Hidey Cat (she's getting better), Scaredy Cat suddenly realized that he is a 20lb tomcat and decided that he would not be pushed around by a giant dogmonster,and Mean Cat-in a truly flabbergasting turn of events-decided that she likes said dogmonster and (more flabbergasting) it turns out that on reflection, people aren't all that bad either. Yesterday, I touched her tail. More than once! So take heart, all those with Meancats-it may not be forever.
[Updated on: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:56] by Moderator
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15957 is a reply to message #15892 ] |
Mon, 11 May 2009 12:34 |
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Blogmom
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I, too, have a Mean Cat. Callie Roo(1) is beautiful (see avatar). Over the years she has mellowed into an Occasionally Mean Cat.
She was a Mean Kitten. At four months, she and her sister played nicely most of the time until her eyes would suddenly turn black and she would get very aggressive. We kept a cat crate handy for those times and would warn her sternly "Callie? Do you need a timeout?" before popping her into the crate(2).
One day she went crackercat again and we issued the usual warning. She took herself into the crate and sat waiting for someone to close the door.
-- Karen
(1) Callie because that's the name she came with as a second-hand stray. Our neighbor who had found her in a cornfield discovered that her son was allergic to cats. Roo, as in Kanga and Roo, for the roo-roo noise she makes and for her love of being tucked into a pouch of a turned-up shirt.
(2) Don't try this with an adult cat in mid-fit, btw, or you'll be very, very sorry.
"...the Renaissance was just something that happened to 'other people', wasn't it?" -- Lord Blackadder
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| Re: Guest post by Black Bear [message #15998 is a reply to message #15957 ] |
Tue, 12 May 2009 11:11 |
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shalea
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| Blogmom wrote on Mon, 11 May 2009 12:34 |
(2) Don't try this with an adult cat in mid-fit, btw, or you'll be very, very sorry.
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I volunteer in a no-kill cat shelter. The very idea amuses me greatly.
Nonetheless, we have had, at the shelter, our share of Mean Cats, and it has been my responsibility from time to time to extricate volunteers from situations where they were told "Please, when you go to clean Mean Cat's area, call me so I can move her." "Oh no," the volunteer will say (to themselves, and after I've moved on to my own tasks). "I've volunteered here for two whole months and know better. I can move Mean Cat all by myself."
No, they generally can't.
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