And They Say To Keep PETS On Leashes

[McGoddess09]

Herbie is doing his Herbie things, which include (but are not limited to) purring at nothing, staring blankly into space, and being fucking huge, which I imagine takes a lot of energy given how much time he spends sleeping.

1. I giggled at that.

2. Our cats may be brothers or something. You seriously just described what my cat does on a daily basis.

[candyshopgirl]

1. I giggled at that.

2. Our cats may be brothers or something. You seriously just described what my cat does on a daily basis.

I swear we need a fat,lazy and crazy cat club.
Mine is the same way.I swear she sleeps like 10 hours a day.She only gets up long enough to bite the dogs and poop.She purrs at nothing and shes so fat.But hey close to death(she had to be dewormed 6 times) when I got her,so if shes fat and sassy let her be.

[McGoddess09]

I swear we need a fat,lazy and crazy cat club.
Mine is the same way.I swear she sleeps like 10 hours a day.She only gets up long enough to bite the dogs and poop.She purrs at nothing and shes so fat.But hey close to death(she had to be dewormed 6 times) when I got her,so if shes fat and sassy let her be.

But my cat isn't fat. He voluptuous (sp?). He doesn't like the word fat. He gives me evil looks if I use that word.

[GiftShopGirl]

Hehe maybe they should look into adopting a mountain lion. I bet that'll teach the kid a few things about cats.....

Seriously though, that woman needs to stop haggling over the price of a kitten, and focus on turning her son into a well-mannered young man. You can adopt a cat anytime, but kids learn fast and sheesh he seems to be taking after his mom....

[Kogarashi]

Last time we took our Shar Pei to the vet there was a kid walking around petting all the dogs.

This one family I babysat for in high school had a Shar Pei that was a rehabilitated fighting dog and, thanks to necessary eye surgery, rather nearsighted to boot. This dog got along quite well with her family, but anyone over to babysit learned very quickly (from the parents) not to make any sudden moves around her lest we end up with a set of dog teeth in our legs or arms. She gradually got used to me, almost even to the point where I could pet her without fear of repercussion, but I still wonder how they ever took her to the vet where there are goodness-knows how many other animals and their young owners. This dog would've almost certainly removed the kid from the OP's hand before anyone else could blink.

[The Last to Know]

can't wait to see kitty pics!

[JoitheArtist]

I sometimes house-sit for a friend of mine with two lovely cats. One is a standoffish calico, who tolerates me. The other one is a big orange longhair cat. His owner told me that he hates new people and probably wouldn't come out from under the bed. After a day, he and I were fast friends. He's incredibly solid, and in his prime. His name is Little Boy (I usually call him BoyCat), and he is puuuuuurty.

See the kitty pic!

[Cat]

I took one of my cats, Herbie, to the vet today for a routine checkup. Herbie always garners a fair amount of attention wherever he goes just because of how massive he is -- not fat, but incredibly long-legged and slinky, with the blunt, wide face reminiscent of one of the larger feline families

Must see pics of Herbie He sounds like a Savannah.

I warn people when they visit that The Tabby Bites!!! Morgan is known to be......moody, loving one sec, drawing blood the next. Riley, my other cat, is the lover.

[Ree]

Kids with parents grow up to be the SC in the pharmacy story the other day.

Huh?

Did you miss a word or two in there?

My kid grew up with parents, and she didn't behave like that.


Oh...and I agree...show us pics of this incredible cat.

[Kyree]

I don't know how you managed to not hurt that kid. I would have either shoved and/or kicked that kid away just on instinct to get him away from my cat. They're scared enough at the vet. That probably would have set my poor old cat into a stroke or something. She's terrified of outside, of vets, and of strangers. And yes, I would have cursed like a sailor telling him to get away from my cat carrier....

[Becks]

Some people.

[Cookiesaur]

I will post photos as soon as I figure out which of the eleventy-million connector cables my husband has laying around actually goes to this damn camera.

"But honey, we might need one of them!"

LIAR.

[CaroPhoenix]

I will post photos as soon as I figure out which of the eleventy-million connector cables my husband has laying around actually goes to this damn camera.

"But honey, we might need one of them!"

LIAR.

Oh Emm Gee! Your husband and my husband must be related through the inner cosmic justice of just being men! (Why yes, I am sick and on OTC meds, why do you ask? ) My husband does/says the same thing. My theory is that when they figure out where that cable goes, they'll feel manly and feel like they accomplished something. But that's just a theory.

[Cookiesaur]

Okay. All of these are about six months old, which is pretty terrible because this was a very expensive camera we got as a present and we should really use it more often before the guilt from my mother-in-law just crushes us. I also can't find the battery charger, so I can't take any more (preferably with size comparison of the cats) until I find it. But anyway.


This is Herbie the day we brought him home from the shelter. For the first few days all he did was sleep on soft things. We thought it was because he was relieved to be out of that cage, but turns out it was due to his awesome pancreatitis, bronchial infection, and infected tooth which cost a gillion dollars to fix. THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP SPCA.


This is Herbie . . . playing. The thing he's sitting on has a ball that runs around on the track for the cats to hit, and . . . well . . . every now and then he just goes and sits on it, staring blankly at nothing. I don't think he can wrap his brain around such a sophisticated toy. The disc itself is fairly big though, so you can get some idea of how big he is. He's not the biggest cat I've ever seen (that honor goes to a mammoth persian someone I knew used to own, that thing was half fucking pony), but he's pretty long.


Here's a face shot. You can't see it from this angle, but he has a ring of bald skin on his neck. When they put one of the identifying collars on him at the SPCA when they found him, all the hair promptly fell out. Nobody knows why. It still hasn't completely grown back in.


And this is our other cat, Milo, who's old and fat and just wants to sleep. His idea of affection is to maybe be in the same room as you and sort of glance in your direction now and again.


OH GOD YOU WOKE IT UP.


And to make up for all the cat photos, here is a picture of the Mona Lisa made of toast at Ripley's Orlando.

It took me a while to go through all the photos on here. There's over 800, most taken at Universal Studios or the Zoo, or of our garden. We're pretty lame. There's another photo of Herbie in my album doing one of his many weird things; he likes to curl up against my husband and I and suck on the end of his tail until he falls asleep. While doing this, he doesn't actually close his eyes; just stares blankly ahead. He especially does this when my husband is wearing that white robe. CAT YOU ARE WEIRD.

[Dreamstalker]

Herbie and Milo are both adorable (I love Herbie's face!). That sucks that you weren't told about his pancreatitis et al...the shelter I volunteer at does checkups on each cat regularly and when they're adopted out.