Checkoutmyblogaboutmydog (Pet thread: TNG)

[mixed cats]

He was just doing that! Now we are snuggling. But I really want to get up and eat breakfast. Aaaagh why does he have to be so sweet?

[peacocks]

[ausdemfenster]

Best photo of any kitten, ever. Peacocks, you did so much for these kittens and I hope this one grows up to be an awesome source of frustration and joy for your friend!

[fishjim]

Peacocks, your kitty rocks.

[G.C.R]

Gah, peacocks. So beautiful!
I am looking after the two cats next door for a month, and one of them has decided that our house is her house now and will just swan in and keep me company whenever, but the other one misses his people and just sits waiting for them to get home every night in a way that just breaks my heart. I want him to come and hang out in my house and he seems keen, but the first one is getting all territorial. Can I make her stop so they will both come and sit on my bed at night, or is that a silly expectation? I have no experience of living or staying with more than one cat.

[Em]

Oh guys, guys, guys, I feel so awful. I was taking my dogs out for one last walk before we went to bed. We were on the sidewalk. One of them barked, once, at a black cat I didn't see that was standing between two parked cars. I scolded the dog, and the cat hissed and arched its back. I go halfway around the block, 'cause that's all the further I like to go late at night and my dogs had done their thing, and when I come back this same cat is lying in the road twitching, having been hit by a car. My dog must have scared it into the street.

I didn't have a phone on me and the cat clearly wasn't gonna make it, and I had no real plan of action. Then this other cat comes and sits next to the dying cat in the middle of the road. Not wanting that cat to get hit as well, I try to scare it off by making all kinds of racket, but it just sits there staring at the dying cat. By the time the cat that got hit is finally dead, there's yet another cat who's come to sit next to it. Now I go into the street with my dogs, hoping they'll chase the cats out of the road. But the dogs won't even bark, whereas usually they make some commotion where cats are concerned, and the cats are utterly unperturbed by the dogs. Cars are coming down the road and honking and dodging the cats, but the cats aren't moving. Finally a couple that I presume to be the dead cat's owners come up with a shoebox but when they see the cat is dead they start cursing and throw the shoebox at a parked car.

Eventually a couple of guys come up the way and I ask them who I should call when I get inside and one of them gets out a cell phone and says he's calling sanitation. Oh man. I didn't mean to kill anyone's cat. 

[fishjim]

I'm so sorry, Em. That's sad. You did everything you could.

Just to be clear, though: You didn't kill the cat, & your dog didn't kill the cat. Cars killed the cat.

[G.C.R]

If you heard and saw the cat hiss and arch its back, but didn't hear/see it getting run down, is it possible this happened after you and your dogs passed and it geting run down was just an unfortunate coincidence? As jim says, it wasn't you or the dogs that did it, but it also sounds like the two events (cat being scared, cat getting hit) might not even have happened that close to each other?
The other cats coming to sit with it sounds super surreal. 

[Em]

I guess you could be right, but we only barely turned the corner and came straight back to where the cat was, maybe three or four houses down. It would be a pretty big coincidence. But yes, cars killed the cat. And my dog who barked was probably just as scared of the cat as the cat was of the dog (if you knew my dog you'd understand this to be true). Still, I can't help but feel like I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and so the poor kitty died. Its people were so sad. But such is life. And yeah, the other cats' behavior was totally surreal.

[Greg Nog]

Heads up, pet owners: KGBdeals has a half-off deal for Furminator dog and cat brushes today.  I own one, and it's maybe the best cat-related purchase I've ever made; it gets a massive amount of the undercoat brushed away, and the cats seem to like being brushed with it.

[jebreject]

My cat hates it

But he hates pretty much everything

[elpollodiablo]

Criiiiiiimbooooooo

[Em]

The Furminator! My savior! You'd never know it from looking at her, but somehow my 12-pound very-short-haired blonde dog would shed her body weight in hair every week ... before the Furminator. Now I take her outside and fill up a small garbage bag with hair regularly and things are not quite so ... hairy. My long-haired dog doesn't seem to shed that much at all. Something about fur vs. hair. I have no idea, that's just what someone told me.

/not sponsored by the makers of the Furminator

[mixed cats]

sauce face! not a real cat!

[G.C.R]

Hanging out in my house like she lives here

[Em]

So dignified!

[Greg Nog]

BEAUTIFUL PUFF CAT

[Thermofusion]

That cat is a movie star!

[peacocks]

christ Grace! when did the cat from hausu take over?? stay away from any and all pianos/wells/mirrors/staircases!

[G.C.R]

She ripped a rather expensive wall hanging we have today, and she got a smudge on her face yesterday that she hasn't bothered to wash off. The enormous ginger lion that lives with her has been much shyer about coming into our house, but he did have a wander about to check out all the corners.

[peacocks]

 ime giant orange cats are generally more cautious but also super friendly and cuddly once they trust you. i lived with one named mickey for about 6 years as a tot.

[clare]

Grace, does she really have a stripy tail? She's cool.

[jess]

ime giant orange cats are generally more cautious but also super friendly and cuddly once they trust you. i lived with one named mickey for about 6 years as a tot.

The giant fluffy orange cat that I had would run up to anyone and be all "HI I LOVE YOU DO YOU HAVE FOOD?" I called her a puppy cat, since in addition to that, she would eat anything and had about the elegance of a puppy too.

[Greg Nog]

ime giant orange cats are generally more cautious but also super friendly and cuddly once they trust you.

At first the TNG confused me and I thought this was the Star Trek thread and I got excited that you were maybe talking about Spot.

[peacocks]

Spot is one of my real life examples