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    Cat Hate

    The love of my life - Rosey had to go on without me.


    I now have 4 cats who just showed up.
    What type people dump out a cat?


    No one wants cats as they are ?
    Please do not read this and judge me. I am Ok with cats, just don't want one.
    Cats have been forced on me. I am not an "old cat woman/guy".
    The cats here demand constant attention. One would be too many, 4 is disaster. All these go in and out freely and have acres to roam in.
    I put in a "cat doorbell" because - well I don't know!


    Their personalities are very different, almost to the point of being different critters. Cats might be aliens in disguise checking us out.
    The thing they have in common is demands on me 24/7. They pretend to love me, but I had a dog and know the difference.


    'Percy' is King. He loves everyone. He is slim, quick, and 17 pounds. I know the weights as they need visits to the vet for shots, etc. My vet bill greatly exceeds my personal health bill. It is cheaper to find a new cat than to take one to the vet.
    If you visit, Percy will race out to greet you. You will never see the other cats. Percy is the one who visits neighbors. I have had an on going campaign for years using things like Christmas, birthdays, and new neighbor gifts "from" Percy so they will be nice to him. They all are. They all know Percy and know how upset I can get over him.

    'Percy' has a collar tracker ($400) I put on him in the afternoon. I hunt him down EVERY night for fear of Coyotes. Percy sees it as making me walk and helping my health. He sleeps near me at night and is positive he has control me.
    The others do not leave the yard as much, but visiting "all" is what Percy must do. I try to adjust and protect him as best I can.
    I hate cats.


    'Prancy' arrived with Percy. She is small around 7 pounds. She is demanding! The others (except for her sweetheart Percy) fear her. She is the only one who likes to sit on my lap as I watch TV, and that gets old. She is suspicious and goes berserk if any other than her gets brushed. Cats need a lot of brushing to avoid hair balls. Dogs are smart enough not to eat their own hair.


    'Crazy' showed up after dark as a 1 pound kitten on the coldest night seen here in my 18 years. Who ever put him out in that weather should be hanged. He was starving and would not have made it through that night. Percy and Prancy were clawing at the door or I would not have noticed. I was OK with him dying out there in the cold, but not K. I brought him in, and my Bride promised to find him a home as I surely could not take on another cat. Women are soft! They also lie.

    His new home turned out to be my home. He is now the biggest cat, but still a baby at heart. He checks in a million times a day to, insure he still has a home. He believes his best friend is me. He requires a lot of attention. He and Percy hook up and roll around the floor like huge sumo wrestlers bouncing off the walls. They are best buddies.


    "The Devil" is new and K will find him a new home soon?
    He is the youngest and more feral. K said if I could catch him she would do the rest. I did, and so far she has not. He will bite and hit you with claws in a second. The other cats hate him and their goal is to kill him. This has only been going on for several months as K decides.
    He often jumps in bed and hunkers down beside my face to sleep and feel safe from the other cats, and I am afraid to move. He trusts me, but I don't trust him. He believes I am his true friend. He does not know I hate cats.
    He is a very good looking cat if that is a "thing".


    No matter as soon K will "place" all the cats and I can get me a dog.
    I want a big one that kills cats.

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    I am old and ready for the sweet sleep of death.
    - but NOOO!!!--
    Now I have to get up every day to see to the cats and make sure they are happy.
    If I die, no one would take these assholes in, so I am stuck in this World until,they pass on.
    How long do cats live?
    I am the only guy in a tie

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    Used to be a cat agnostic. Now I like them (loving a cat is harder than a dog as cat's like you, but rarely go beyond that..) and would be very sad for a while if our current cat (Marmalade) ever got eaten by a coyote here (one cat near by was beheaded and half eaten by coyote last week, which is worse then totally eaten/gone 'cause at least then you can imagine that the cat just 'moved on' but when you see half a corpse, you know what the poor thing faced).

    So for that reason, Marm's is an indoor cat that we only let out into the backyard for supervised romps once or twice per day. I don't believe in this but daughter - her owner - insists on this. The last two cats we had were strays who adopted us and were very street savvy and knew to stay up high at night and avoid the coyotes. Meow-meow started burrowing in the blankets we put out for her one cold winter about 15 years ago and was a very ferocious part large Siamese fighter who probably could have defended against one coyote but they hunt in two's and three's out here and even take down some dogs! My larger hunting dog Apollo "encountered" three of them at local open field park where I let him roam free there. They all ended up in a hollow about 50 yards from me. I heard a lot of howling and yipping from there and then one coyote emerged and limped away and then the other two took off in opposite directions. Apollo had only two small teeth puncture wounds on two of his legs but other than that was unharmed. Having just had his rabbis shot, I just treated the small wounds with peroxide and he was fine. Keep him leashed there now, 'cause I don't want any other coyote's hurt... Love that dog; he'd die protecting us at home but has a heart of gold as well. Cat's are nice, but they would just sit by cleaning themselves and watch your family get slaughtered by MS-13; Apollo would tear them apart with his strong jaws and teeth to his dying breath. You just have to love them for that and vow to do as much for them as you can when it's "their time"!
    Ode to 2020 (sung to the tune of "Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting") - ELG:
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    This virus panic struck like lightening
    Although the future seemed too frightening
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    It's the book of your life that you should have been writing
    (Life that you should have been writing)"


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    I have always liked animals, period. I had a cat 45 years ago and she had to go because of my wife at the time. Should have kept the cat. My wife now of 15 years had 2 when I met her and they were her cats. The female ended up liking me because I gave here food all the time while she was on a diet. She was a fat cat. The male cat lived in fear of me and I never knew why. They died years ago and 5 years ago we got another cat. She was a holy terror as a kitten. Now she is a fairly nice cat and greets me at the door every time I come home. We got another kitten 2 years ago and the female hid for 2 weeks hoping the kitten would leave or die. She plays with him some but mostly wants him to leave or die. Now my male cat, booger, is very different. He is sort of like a dog. He comes when called and plays with everything. He is mostly attached to my wife as she is home all the time and I am gone much of the time for work. Right now he is sleeping in a shoe box next to my chair. I got some shoes in the mail yesterday and put the box on the floor and he took it over. He is very friendly but does not like most strangers but no one comes here so he is fine. My female cat growls at the door bell. These cats never leave the house. If one got out while I was here my wife would never forgive me if anything happened to one of them. I will never have another dog unless I move out into the country. I had dogs for years when my kids were small and now 4 of my kids have dogs and my youngest daughter has a dog and a cat. If we had a dog it would be mine and I would have to care for it. That would be ok if I were home all the time but I am usually gone 3 or 4 days a week and my wife will not walk a dog. My yard is fenced in but I refuse to clean up dog crap. All the dogs I had were very protective. My english shepherd who was about 50 pounds would watch over my kids and no one would come in my yard who did not belong. A neighbors dog which was a lab hated other dogs and would attack them. He made the mistake of charging my little dog and I had to literally save his life. It was like he charged into a pack of badgers. I loved that little dog. She was great and was by far the smartest dog I have ever seen. If I ever get another dog it will probably be another english shepherd. They were bred to heard cattle and sheep. Watching a little 50 pound dog chase a bull through a fence is pretty funny. Cattle had fear and she didn't. My cats would run and hide at the first sign of danger and leave us on our own. Cats are sort of like millenials and dogs are like WW2 generation people and some of the really early baby boomers. Cats believe they are entitled while dogs are always grateful.

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    Good summary, Marty, re "dogs vs. cats". As to "My yard is fenced in but I refuse to clean up dog crap.", I got real "lucky" with our current dog Apollo: he will NOT poop in "his house" and only when I walk him or at a dog park! He'll actually store it up if I miss one of his twice daily walks and just poop twice as much on his next walk. Never have any poop to clean up in the back yard like with our last dog (I'd just scoop it up with a shovel and fling it into the garden area, but still a real nusance!). Once or twice - only! - he has (pooped in the back yard) if for whatever reason he just couldn't hold it or maybe it was raining and he missed two walks in a row, but that's extremely rare and in general he just won't crap where he lives! Smart dog!
    Ode to 2020 (sung to the tune of "Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting") - ELG:
    "Everybody was Kung Flu fighting
    This virus panic struck like lightening
    Although the future seemed too frightening
    (Seemed too frightening)
    It's the book of your life that you should have been writing
    (Life that you should have been writing)"


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    I wish that made me feel better. I would like to get another dog when I retire. I started last night to work on my wife to move out away from town and have some room for the critters to roam. I know I can train a dog to crap in a specific area as I have done that before. Bill has a great location on a lake. I have to work on that. A great idea would be a cabin in the foothills on a lake. Cool in summer but not too cold in the winter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Gass View Post
    I refuse to clean up dog crap.
    Quote Originally Posted by elgrau View Post
    he will NOT poop in "his house"
    My two main dogs here were Rosey and Tubby. Neither crapped in the house.
    They were not house dogs as they came and went freely. My place is "natural", no lawn. I have no idea where they crapped, but fertilizer is good anywhere it falls.

    The cats crap in and out. I don't know who does what as the cats are K's. She has two litter boxes and it is not a problem for her.

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    It is amazing and still works.

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