This is a good one!

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

LOL!!!!!!! She really stuck her finger in there? LOL!

No, I don't want and can't have a cat. Cat allergies in this family. I actually have two neighbor cats that think they have two homes, mine and theirs. They never have come into my house, but one really, really wants to. She is afraid to go home because she'll be bullied by their newest cat, so she comes here and sleeps outside my deck door. The other one, as soon as he sees the kitchen light come on in the morning is right there on the window ledge, banging on the window with his paw. We had to feed these cats once, while their owners were on vacation........

Firecracker · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:48 pm

Fang should have his own thread! Laughing

I don't even know him and I love him! He totally cracks me up! Sorry about your hand getting cut though Adrift Crying or Very sad

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Adrift · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:47 pm

Sky wrote:

LOL!!!!!!! She really stuck her finger in there? LOL!

No, I don't want and can't have a cat. Cat allergies in this family. I actually have two neighbor cats that think they have two homes, mine and theirs. They never have come into my house, but one really, really wants to. She is afraid to go home because she'll be bullied by their newest cat, so she comes here and sleeps outside my deck door. The other one, as soon as he sees the kitchen light come on in the morning is right there on the window ledge, banging on the window with his paw. We had to feed these cats once, while their owners were on vacation........

Sounds like you have some little furry friends for life there Sky !!
Grrrrrrrrrr.. my ex-neighbour had 2 cats & in 2002 he got a job in Wales so asked if I would go in & feed the cats for him for a couple of weeks while he found them somewhere to live which was no problem for me, except it went on for 6 months!!!He emailed or text me the first month ..then nothing!After 6 months I text him asking if he was ever gonna collect the cats (I was pretty grumpy coz I had been ill for sometime with what turned out to be infected Gall Bladder...& Gall stones) I had a very short sharp text back telling me that he would collect them that weekend which he did, didn't actually speak to me...but he took them.
His house stood empty for a long time (he did have a mortgage but didn't seem to want to sell) & suddenly he turned up in December 2006 with a truck & the cats!!!!
He moved back in his house, but at the start of Feb 2007 I saw the cats in my garden...looking up at my window.I thought it strange, so went out & saw the house was in darkness.I went over to the back door to try & persuade them to go back through the catflap, but it was locked shut!!!!
Anyway..to cut a long story short...his house was repossessed & the estate agents basically kicked the cats out!
Now don't get me wrong...initially I had every sympathy for the guy, but the day he turned up on my doorstep saying he was going off on holiday to the US for a week & would collect the cats when he came back made me VERY angry!! (and of course never saw him again after that only heard from him via texts with so many contradicting stories!)So the poor cats lived under a bush in my garden.The weather was awful ...so I made a makeshift house for them under there...using wheelie bin on it's side & kept them well fed & watered.I tried to get the RSPCA involved, but they would do nothing to rehome them as they belonged to the guy!!!! It was soooo sad...there was no way could I have them live in my little house with Fang & of course for Fang..."his" garden" had been invaded!!
Well eventually in the April I managed to "embellish" the truth & get them into a cat rehoming centre & in the August they managed to be rehomed together Very Happy

http://www.rats-animalrescue.co.uk/Gallery/CAT%20Re-homed%20Ginge%20&%20Poppy.html
As you can imagine...I heard nothing from the ex neighbour!!!!
The worst thing of all was I had mentioned to the guy right at the start about rehoming them, or even a foster place until he sorted himself out...but he was adamant that he wanted to keep them!!

People!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Adrift · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:48 pm

Firecracker wrote:

Fang should have his own thread! Laughing

I don't even know him and I love him! He totally cracks me up! Sorry about your hand getting cut though Adrift Crying or Very sad

Gawd please don't encourage him!!!!! His own thread....??? Oh & the hand recovered...I'm kinda used to Fang battle scars Wink

Anyway ...back to funnies....saw this today & made me laugh! I have to add, I'm not a "cat" person...I'm an animal person...would love to have loads but work & home doesn't permit *sigh* (although there are a few things on this I do actually do!! Laughing

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You know you're a cat person when...

...you refer to going to the bathroom as "using the litter box."

...you do not consider an outfit complete without some cat hair.

...you consider cat hair in your food as extra fiber.

...you apologize when you step on a fuzzy cat toy in the dark.

...you snap your fingers and pat the sofa beside you to invite your guests to sit down.

...you sleep on one edge of the bed because the cat is sleeping in the middle looking soooo cute!

...you accidentally put your child's dinner plate on the floor.

...you spend more money on toys for your cats than on the kids or grandkids.

...you decorate your Christmas tree with dangly cat toys.

...your neighbors refer to you as "the crazy one with all the cats."

...you have more pictures of your cats than your kids in your wallet.

...you refer to your cat as your furry child.

...your parents wind up with a four-footed, furry "grandchild."

...you plan your vacation around the cat show schedule.

...you accidentally call your spouse by your cat's name!

...you set a place at the dinner table for your cat.

...you have a set of towels with "His" "Hers" and "Kitty's."

...you call home and leave a message on the answering machine for your cat.

...you have the cat meow on the outgoing message of the answering machine.

...you and kitty have matching outfits.

...your spouse says, "Me or the cat!," and there's no hesitation.

...you never go to the door unless it's to let a cat out.

...your favorite friends have fleas.

...you chose a house to buy based on it having a good location for the cat box.

...you think cat fur makes a wonderful garnish to any meal.

...you own 17 varieties of kitty-nail-clippers.

...you are lost for conversation with non-cat people.

...you meow so well, you confuse the cats.

...you bore the neighbors with discussions on the exact nutritional differences between 9-Lives and Amore ... at length.

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

One of the neighbor's cats, Jewel is always over here looking for food. She is so hungry because she doesn't like going to her house when the "one" other cat is there, so she won't, and therefore she doesn't get fed regularly. I know I shouldn't, but I do feed her. She has the loudest meow I have ever heard, it's a hungry meow. She also is the most 'skittish' of their three cats and normally you can't even get near her before she'll run away, so it makes it very hard for the owner to catch her. She has just recently let me at least pet her as I put out something for her to eat. I'm a softee for animals too..........

Firecracker · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:55 pm

WOW! What a story about that neighbor man! Poor kitties Sad

Good thing they had you to watch over them and get them to a proper home! You are a good soul Adrift!

Funny about "cat people"!

You are a good egg Sky! I love you

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Adrift · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:04 am

Awwwwwwwww Sky...that is sweet (that you could pet her)!! Poppy...one of the cats abandoned, was a very nervous cat too.It was amazing that she must have remembered me feeding her the 4 years previous because she would come to me with no problem :). I was really angry because I had asked the RSPCA to call me at work if they wanted to come & see the "living arrangements" for the cats & I would come home (I'm about a 10 min drive from work...or 5 mins if I'm in a hurry Wink

) ...but nope...the bloke turned up......blundered into my garden (even though I wasn't there).....& then said later on the phone "Oh I saw them...but they ran off"

BLOODY USELESS!!!

Adrift · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:08 am

Firecracker wrote:

WOW! What a story about that neighbor man! Poor kitties Sad

Good thing they had you to watch over them and get them to a proper home! You are a good soul Adrift!

Funny about "cat people"!

You are a good egg Sky! I love you

Awwww...thanks FC...but I hate to see animals in distress etc!

Pstttttt..methinks that Sky is getting a little attached to Jewel Wink

- it is a lovely feeling to manage to get a nervous animal to trust you Very Happy

horselaydee · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:49 am

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- it is a lovely feeling to manage to get a nervous animal to trust you

Wholeheartedly agree with you on this! That is why I love working with horses and have rescued cats, dogs, and horses.
It is a heart and mind expanding experience for sure.

Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

I'm safe in befriending 'Jewel', she does have a home and I can't have a cat in the house because my Son, DIL and Grandson are allergic to cats. I just don't want her to go hungry.

RoseCandle · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:13 pm

Awww those poor kittys. I get so annoyed when I hear
of people abandoning their animals like that.

Thank goodness there are people like you around Adrift
who will try and help them.

The only creature I ever got to rescue was a pigeon !
I think it was a racing bird and I found it some years back
in my back garden - apparently exhausted.

I got a makeshift cage from a neighbour and brought it
into the house. Got some proper pigeon food and let it
stay a while.

Do you know - I used to open the cage and let it out into
the living room and it used to lie on the carpet by the fire ! Laughing

One day it had run out of water and I went to the kitchen to
get some - as I walked into the living room - it flew across the
room to meet me, landed on my arm and had a drink ! Laughing

Of course - eventually I had to offer it the chance to leave and
it flew off - probably headed home if it was a racing bird.

I missed that bird like mad for a while afterward.

Firecracker · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:21 pm

WOW! How wonderful of you RC! My mom and I used to take care of the outdoor birds that we would find wounded.

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Adrift · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:57 pm

Love the funny of the day FC!!!!

Firecracker · Subject: Re: This is a good one! Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:18 pm

Thanks Adrift! Very Happy

I cracked up at that one too!

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Sky · Number of posts: 4931 Registration date: 2008-08-10

It's very funny! where do you find these?