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Time for a POLL: Cats More

Time for a POLL: Cats

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  • F) 6 (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 ) *
    I have six cats [astradyne.co.uk]. From the left:
    • Thor
    • Sigurd
    • Skadi
    • Loki
    • Sleipnir
    • Heimdal
    • Thor, Sigurd, Skadi, Loki, Sleipnir, Heimdal

      Ooooo! Wait! I think I see a pattern!

      So the next one will of course be named "Bubbles".

      And shouldn't Sleipnir have eight paws?

      Cheers,

      Ethelred

      • Re:F) 6 (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Tet ( 2721 ) *
        And shouldn't Sleipnir have eight paws?

        She acquired that name because as a kitten, she used to run around the house making far more noise than was plausible for any creature with a mere 4 legs. She's become a little more sedate with age, but she still has an odd gait that makes her sound different to most cats when she runs.

        • She acquired that name because as a kitten, she used to run around the house making far more noise than was plausible for any creature with a mere 4 legs. She's become a little more sedate with age, but she still has an odd gait that makes her sound different to most cats when she runs.

          Hmmm...have you had her X-rayed to see if she has an extra set of legs, cunningly concealed?

          The first cat with an extendable extra set of legs...

          Cheers,

          Ethelred

  • We once had a cat. She was called "Samba", no I don't joke... That was really her name.
  • With all those options, you still missed out the non-integers: 1.5 ;-)

    (One actually lives here, and is curled up under my chair - the other is half-feral and lives just across the street, but does eat here.)

    • With all those options, you still missed out the non-integers

      Because clearly, mathematically, cats are integers. When's the last time you saw a half a cat running around?

      Wait, I see! You're using accounting mathematics and booking the cat as only half a cat, no doubt as a clever tax dodge.

      the other is half-feral and lives just across the street, but does eat here.

      Yes, and you thus can write off the kibbles used as an expense and claim the half a cat as a dependent. *smacks head* Brilliant!

      Er, can

      • mathematically, cats are integers

        how can integers be so irrational?

        i have two, loki and brio. they're sweet, but i'm thankful that they never developed opposable thumbs.
      • Schrodinger's cat. Until you open the box ...

        So, since if it is alive, it counts as 1, and if it isn't it counts as zero, while it's in the box it can have a value somewhee between 0 and 1.

        But all cats are like that - if nobody's looking, they aren't really there. You have to make the sound of a can-opener to call them back into reality.

  • Z (Score:1)

    by daniil ( 775990 )
    At the moment, there are two cats living here, but i only consider one of them (named Behemoth) to be really mine. I was the one who gave him this name, after all. He's quite an old cat (maybe seven years or so), and the veteran of many a fight. The other one (called Rubik)... well, he just lives here, ya know. Noone really cares that much for him, whereas he sees us only as a source of food.
  • That's the maximum allowed in this space by OSHA (and by my poor furniture)
  • Both my cats are now guarding the fruit bushes... :(

    -MT.

    • Same here.

      First one, Pluis (Furry), was put to sleep because of a pretty annoying human-transmittable desease (which we all got)..

      Second one, Garfield, was a kitten we found in the wild. Then, when it was 'that time' again, it ran under a car, broke his back, was fixed up, ran around 1 year with a bad back, myseriously recovered, ran around a second year, then ran under another car. Sadly, that was the end for the cat that was mine and that I loved the most.

  • Cats are evil horrible creatures which make me break out in hives and cause my contacts to pop out.

    Dogs forever!
    • You are of course a raving unwashed heathen lunatic and should depart from this journal immediately.

      Or we shall have you escorted out by our feline guards.

      Cheers,

      Ethelred "I Am Perpetually Covered in Cat Fur" Unraed

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  • Though at any given time we have between 3 and 0 cats around us.
  • 2 cats. Both are my daughter's. We had three and one was mine, but she went off to die, I think. I replaced my cat with two cannaries...lol.
  • My roommate has 1 future cat, with which I will be living. I'm not sure what that is, but I'm sure it's not a number.
  • Hubby had a cat when I met him & moved in. We had a mutual dislike for one another. In a final, desperate protest, she went under the sofa and died about three days before we got married.

    Needless to say, we didn't delay the proceedings.

    No, I don't like cats. Have no use for them. I am nice to other peoples' cats, and might actually find them charming -- but it's a very very bad thing to have me cohabitate with one.

    ....Bethanie....
    • No, I don't like cats. Have no use for them.

      Heh. I was thinking of you when I came up with the Q option. ;-)

      Cheers,

      Ethelred

    • Hubby had a cat when I met him & moved in. We had a mutual dislike for one another.

      And you're still together? My other third has long made it clear that if it ever comes down to a choice between me and the cats then I'm out of the door. Fortunately, I feel the same, and I think we're unlikely to reach that situation.

      • My other third has long made it clear that if it ever comes down to a choice between me and the cats then I'm out of the door. Fortunately, I feel the same, and I think we're unlikely to reach that situation.

        Ah, but what if you throw each other out, leaving just the third third and the cats?

        Then the cats throw out the third third?

        This is clearly part of their evil plan.

        Cheers,

        Ethelred

  • My wife has three (Tsaio Tao, Ash and Padme) and I have one (Solaris).

  • L) (Score:2)

    by sielwolf ( 246764 )
    nothing to say about it. I have no pets. Basically I don't want to care for something that won't, in time, be able to care for itself (human children technically fall into this realm) and I don't have an aching need to be needed.
  • Maybe I have a cat, maybe I don't.
    • Maybe I have a cat, maybe I don't.

      I never believed in this Schrödinger stuff. I know full well whether you have a cat or not, and whether it's alive or not.

      I just won't tell you.

      Call it the Ethelred Certainty Principle.

      Cheers,

      Ethelred

    • I have an indeterminate number of cats somewhere between 0 and 3, depending on how you observe the system in question.

      (The reason for this is that all three of the cats are in a superposition of [mine] and [not mine] states.)


  • O) Memory, by Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • I'm allergic to them unfortunately. I don't mind cats otherwise, the neigbor's cat comes on patrol every once in a while, and where I lived in England they had 4 cats.

    They are fascinating animals.


  • Stefano has been sleeping in the closet lately; we figure he's ashamed to be seen as he's shedding (again).

    Murrie's just plain cute. She's my little shadow (and follows me around the house all the time, at a safe distance).
  • I have no pets, but I like cats. I just don't like animals in the house. I don't like having pet hair everywhere. I would like to get one of those Egyptian hairless cats (like Mr. Bigglesworth after the freezing in Austin Powers), but they cost too much.
    • I would like to get one of those Egyptian hairless cats (like Mr. Bigglesworth after the freezing in Austin Powers), but they cost too much.

      To me, breeding such cats borders on outright cruelty. It's rather like breeding noseless Persians -- because the nose is so shortened, the cat has a hard time breathing, and Persians as a result are susceptible to all kinds of sinus and eye problems. (We have a Persian, but one with a nose -- albeit a somewhat shortish one.) Similarly, boxer dogs are bred to have suc

      • Probably shouldn't mention that my mother used to breed persians, huh? :-)

        I understand the persian thing because of the health problem, but what health problem comes from the cat being naked if it's to be an indoor pet?

        • I understand the persian thing because of the health problem, but what health problem comes from the cat being naked if it's to be an indoor pet?

          The fur isn't just for keeping warm, but it also protects the cat's skin, which is usually thinner and more vulnerable than our exposed skin. (Think of your scalp, which is also thinner and more brittle than the skin on your arms or hands.)

          Hairless cats as a result have a greater risk of rashes, scrapes, skin infections and so on than "normal" cats, and in part

          • Yeah, Like I said, too expensive for me anyway. ;-)

            As for the persians, we didn't try to breed specific traits into them. We just bred them with other persians that were registered. I think only 1 of ours had the breathing problems. She wheezed a lot.

  • Pets.

    Blah.
  • Bullet and Kitty. Kitty's "real" name was Kesema, but my wife always called her Kitty, so that's her name now. I call Bullet his name, but she calls him Pookie. Who even knows? He responds to both names, though, so that's good.
  • I like cats, and I'm neo-pagan so I would just love to have a cat.

    I can't handle it so I just appreciate my friends' cats.

    One friend has 2 cats, Willow who she's had for a while, and Kitty one adopted less than a year ago from a neighbor who moved. (Kitty is a Calico and was named by the neighbor who moved and did not appreciate Kitty as much as she deserved.) Willow is just an overgrown kitten, very hyper.

    Another friend also has 2 cats: Bob and Kira. Bob has diabeties and can only eat low-carb food. The
    • I have the obvious cure. Just take a cat, any cat, put 'er up against your nose, and SNIFF real good. Repeat.

      If you're still alive, you may well no longer be allergic. ;-)

      All kidding aside, my wife used to be mildly allergic to cats -- she could be around them, but couldn't pick them up and especially couldn't let herself be scratched. Then we got Cleo-Kitty, and somehow her body adjusted. Now she can cuddle with Cleo all she wants; if she gets scratched, sometimes she gets a mild bit of eczema, but tha

  • Two with me. One recently passed away.

    Luckily, these two are mere pups in comparison to Rip's 17 years.

    -buf

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