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20513. thoughtful - 11/9/2006 10:43:45 PM congrats on the new family member. kitties are very different from dogs, but no less lovable. 20514. arkymalarky - 11/10/2006 12:07:25 AM I loved my Siamese (Jasper) when I was a kid. I became allergic to them after moving to AR, and he died not long after we moved here. 20515. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/10/2006 12:16:53 AM He sounds like a good lap-cat and they're the best. Is he cockeyed, vociferous and a climber?–three very typical Siamese traits. 20516. judithathome - 11/10/2006 2:25:19 AM Seems to be al three right now. I am taking him to the vet tomorrow and he may come home as Lulu...my neighbor thinks Albert is a girl. 20517. wonkers2 - 11/10/2006 6:42:03 AM The more you handle him the better. Or her. 20518. judithathome - 11/10/2006 5:09:14 PM It's hard NOT to handle him...he's on me all the time. He likes to watch TV and the computer screen. Already using the litter box and eating very well. Coming from a litter of four and being the runt, I'm sure he never got enough food.
I'm thinking of changing his name to Harley (or Lulu if he's a she) because he purrs like a motorcycle. 20519. judithathome - 11/10/2006 5:18:52 PM Okay, just talked to Keoni and Harley it is...even if it's a female. 20520. Magoseph - 11/10/2006 5:48:10 PM Better have Harley spaded--a little harlot you don't need around the house? 20521. judithathome - 11/10/2006 9:07:10 PM I will, when he's six months old. But no de-clawing! 20522. wonkers2 - 11/10/2006 9:14:44 PM What a coincidence, we had a beautiful huge Siamese cat which we named Harley. Sadly, he was flattened by a car at around age 6 in the street in front of our house. 20523. thoughtful - 11/10/2006 10:06:24 PM be sure to take pictures...they're little for such a short time. 20524. wonkers2 - 11/10/2006 11:34:04 PM We've never de-clawed our cats. But we've never figured out how to stop them from shredding our furniture. 20525. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/11/2006 12:08:27 AM De-clawing just their front paws still allows them to defend themselves and your furniture will be spared. 20526. arkymalarky - 11/11/2006 1:49:37 AM Great name, Judith! 20527. wabbit - 11/11/2006 1:51:11 AM I've taken to adopting adult cats that nobody else wants. I have three adoptees now and one dumpee (tossed out of a car in front of my house several years ago). I wouldn't trade any one of them for the world.
I've also long since decided that having cats means no special furniture. No chair or sofa is more important to me than the cats, though I have to say my cats are remarkably good about not clawing the furniture. They go to town on my large Oriental carpets, but they can't really hurt them. One of the black bed cats is a chewer; she has to taste everything and chews on plants (no poisonous plants here), candy wrappers, coins, edges of rolls of toilet paper...she is a small whackjob. I adore her.
I remember going to the Hammond Castle as a child and seeing the damaged leather chairs in the dining room. A tour guide said that Mr. Hammond allowed his cats to claw whatever they wanted. He also built a very high stone wall around part of the yard and called it the "cat garden". He didn't let the cats just wander anywhere outdoors. They had the run of the castle, but were confined to the cat garden when they wanted to be out. btw, the castle is said to be haunted by the ghosts of his cats, and he was buried with one of them.
Back in the day, I used to encourage people who wanted kittens to get two and throw out the tv. 20528. Ulgine Barrows - 11/11/2006 9:50:57 AM Better half made a huge tower of carpet and rope from a design we found on the internet. Well, huge 4 ft tall and it looks like a centerpiece, kinda, where it is placed.
It's quite ugly in our living room, but they've left the furniture alone.
The same website noted, the mistake most people make, is puttin a scratching post in an out-of-the way place.
Anal as I am, I took their advice to heart. The big ugly scrathing post is there, and my furniture is perfect. 20529. Ulgine Barrows - 11/11/2006 9:52:40 AM Cuz the kitties want to S-T-R-E-T-C-H in front of the humans.
Show offs!
It's so difficult to stretch. 20530. Magoseph - 11/11/2006 1:55:39 PM Fascinating site, Wab! I'm curious to know if you're partly English and that's why you visited England as a little girl. 20531. judithathome - 11/11/2006 3:11:38 PM SUPERTELEVANGELISTIC SEX-AND-DRUGS PSYCHOSIS
Parody of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (Sherman/Sherman) Lyrics by M. Spaff Sumsion
I used to be a master of the anti-gay crusade
Until a butch disaster blew my pastor masquerade
But if it's true I'm pounding more than pulpits, don't blame me
It's 'cause I caught my hooker-tweaker-stud's infirmity
It's.....
Supertelevangelistic sex-and-drugs psychosis
Worse than plague and bird flu crossed with osteoporosis
We were playing doctor and he gave this diagnosis:
Supertelevangelistic sex-and-drugs psychosis
Umm Haggard Bakker Swaggart umm Tammy Faye
Umm Haggard Bakker Swaggart umm Tammy Faye
I found the perfect therapist, the kind that gives massage
I like to drive my Escort and I park in his garage
I swear he only serves me crank when all his Coke is gone
And then he helps me straighten out my Peter, James, and John
Blame....
Supertelevangelistic sex-and-drugs psychosis
That's my greatest guilty pleasure next to Guns N' Roses
Good thing there's no ban on it in all the books of Moses
Supertelevangelistic sex-and-drugs psychosis
Umm Haggard Bakker Swaggart umm Tammy Faye
Umm Haggard Bakker Swaggart umm Tammy Faye
It seems all pious public figures bugger on the sly
But Jesus loved republicans and sinners; so must I
Say "Holy moley, Mister Foley! That boy's underage!"
But I believe the congressman has turned another page
Oh!....
Supertelevangelistic sex-and-drugs psychosis
Next time, better cut me off at handshakes and Mimosas
No more meth or men for me (at least in overdoses)!
Supertelevangelistic sex-and-drugs psychosis! 20532. robertjayb - 11/11/2006 8:05:21 PM Have you hugged a vet today, judith?
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