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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

3465.0. "We have a "SUPERCAT". Anyone else have one??" by ASABET::MCDONOUGH () Wed Mar 28 1990 14:18

    
      I realize that some of the readers of this entry will think that my
    "elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor", but I think some of
    you will understand what I'm trying to say......
    
      We have four cats....three of them are absolutely fantastic little
    fur-balls, and the other is a "SUPERCAT"!!!!
      No, she doesn't wear a cape and leap over tall buildings, but she
    DOES have a "presence" and "aura" that transcends normal kittyhood.
    
      When we got her from Concord-Adopt-A-Cat, she immediately decided
    that the "Feed-a-cat/Water-a-cat" setup was beneath her dignity, so she
    proceeded to utilize the dog's watering dish. This is a large dishpan,
    and she was so amall at the time that she literally had to do a
    balancing act to get tot he water. SHe'd hook one back leg over the
    side, grip with her two front paws, and leave the other back leg
    dangling as a sort of anchor...and calmly drink. She did get some
    rather puzzled looks from the dogs for awhile.
    
      I can be sitting on the couch...and think "Wonder where Cookie is?"
    and invariably within 15 seconds I feel this little cold nose on my
    ear....as if to say "You called??"
    
      She's the only cat of the four that has an addiction to Entenmenn's
    Oatmeal-Raisen cookies... She can smell them as soon as we open a box,
    and if she doesn't get a few little crumbs from one of us she has no
    problem sticking her head in the box and "appropriating" one.  
     
      We have a large bookshelf, and one narrow shelf was where I kept a
    lot of personal junk... Cookie decided that this shelf was a neat place
    to leap to and lie in "queenliness"....so she proceeded to appropriate
    the shelf and simply scrape everything that was there off on the floor..
    
      We got Cookie as a "handicapped" kitty, since she tested FeLV
    Positive. We have two of these positives, and it seems that both are
    simply carriers...since one has tested positive for 5 years in a row
    and she shows no signs of any problem, but we also realize that they
    COULD contract the damned disease at any time...but whatever time we
    have them for will be "good" time, however long that may be. 
    
      Does anyone else have a "special" cat that stands out above the
    rest??  I don't want to infer that our other three are abnormal or
    stupid or anything, cause they are really great kids, but this
    one...this Cookie....there's something "extra" about her that I am not
    having very much success in describing....
      I guess the best way to say it is that if I ever decided to become a
    Warlock the first cat I'd look to for my "familiar" would be Cookie...
    
    JM
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3465.1there own traitsFLOWER::PIERCEWed Mar 28 1990 16:5621
    
    In my opinon, cats have personalitys just like people do.  Eveyone
    is different.  I have 2 cats, and they are as different as night and
    day!
    
    Chammie is the QUEEN of the house.  I'm the only one who can touch her
    eveyone elese gets a scratch and a hiss.  I have to pick her up and
    give her,,her food or she wont eat.
    
    Carmel..loves eveyone! and she will ask for her food..and I know what
    you mean about the cookies...when we put the popcorn in the  microwave
    Carmel will sit in fount of it and wait for the popcorn..then she will
    follow you where ever you go w/ the bowl..Chammie could care less.
    
    My Carmel also drinks out of the dogs bowl..she wont touch her water
    bowl..and Chammie refuses to drink water..only milk.
    
    When my friends come over..they look for Charmel..becasue she is just
    like a human..but Chammie will always be my baby...
    
    LKp
3465.2I know EXACTLY!MEMIT::MISSELHORNWed Mar 28 1990 17:3830
    I know EXACTLY what you mean!  And, our Brittany is one of them.
    
    And, I also know what you mean when you say you can't describe it.
    
    All I know is that there is something about Brittany that is
    different.  It's not just us either that notices it--almost 
    everyone who comes to visit comments on her.  Part of it is
    that she never lost that "kitten" appearance--she just looks like
    a slightly larger kitten.  (She is on the petite side anyway.)
    She certainly is one of the cutest cats that I've ever seen.
    
    But, it's really more than that.  And, as much as I love Melody
    and Missy, Brittany is just, "special".  
    
    One thing, (and I've never said this to anyone), is that there
    is something inside me that tells me that Brittany may not be
    with us as long as the others.  Call it intuition or whatever,
    and I hope to H*** that I'm wrong, but it's there.  When I read
    that poem that was posted about the kitten in heaven, I cried
    and thought about Brittany.  And, I've called her "Angel Kitty"
    for almost as long as we've had her.
    
    Funny that this subject came up today because just this morning
    I said to her, "Brittany, you are a typical "Cats" (as in the
    play or book by T. S. Eliot) cat. 
    
    And, that about summed her up!
    
    
    Barbara
3465.3This is really hard to articulate!!ASABET::MCDONOUGHThu Mar 29 1990 13:5210
      Re .2
    
      Yeah....it's not that they "DO" anything that other cats DON'T do,
    but when these "supercats" do something, it's the WAY they do it that
    seems to stand out.. I realize that if you haven't experienced one of
    these "special" kittens, you won't really know what we're talking
    about. Like...Cookie can simply walk through the room...and it's like
    the Queen of England has been there...
    
      JM
3465.4ah yes, my dancing lady...FORTSC::WILDEAsk yourself..am I a happy cow?Fri Mar 30 1990 17:1619
Oh yeah....the minute Hannah looked at me I knew she was different...she
had been through three homes and noone wanted to keep her - but when she
came to our house she was HOME.  She immediately settled in with the
other cats and moved into my room and bathroom as her domain.  She also
immediately became Nickie's "protector" - he is at the bottom of the
pecking order and Hannah doesn't let anyone else bug him.

It's wierd, but everyone notices her "difference" ....even my friends
who aren't particularly "cat lovers" (a cat/dog hater could never be
my friend, but I do have friends who don't live with cats).  Sometimes
when I'm working in the kitchen or reading, Hannah will walk into the
room and call out to me with a "question" in her voice...sorta like,
"what's happening?" and I have the strangest sensation that she is
much more than a cat.  I can't explain it, but she truly acts as
if she is my equal, and friend, much more than my cat or "child".
  
The closest I can come to describing it is that Hannah seems like 
she hasn't ALWAYS been a cat - perhaps a "gypsy" in a past life? 
This cat can make you wonder about reincarnation.....
3465.5SANFAN::FOSSATJUTue Apr 03 1990 23:098
    I call it presence.  When Pippin walks into a room every one knows
    it.  The other two have their wonderful ways and romp and play like
    boys do and get the immediate attention of who ever is there, but
    when that special lady enters the room ....... well what can ya
    say but .. what a special kittie!!!
    
    
    Giudi
3465.6my superkittyWFOVX5::BAIRDMon Apr 09 1990 17:3834
     
    Yes, we have one too.  Her name is Sable, cause that's what she
    looks like.  She's a lover and the only one to come whenever you
    call.  The others come when they "feel" like it.  Sable has to always
    sleep with us and she talks to me all the time.  She's usually the
    first to greet me at the door (after the dog is done jumping and
    wiggling); and has to be in the bathroom when one of us takes a
    shower.  
    
    She really has an aura about her and lets us know when she's around.
    My lap is usually not empty for long and sometimes she's so quiet
    when climbing into your lap, that it takes a minute or two to realize
    that she's there...unless she wants ATTENTION --NOW mommy!!!  Then
    it doesn't matter what you're doing, she wants to be rubbed.  I
    got woken up with a cold, wet nose and whiskers the other morning--
    whereupon Sable looked at me and said "Oh, mommy!  Are you *awake*???"
    mumble mumble d**n  "oh, in that case, you can pet me now!!"
    
    She also gets very indignant if she is left on the enclosed porch
    for too long (5 minutes in cold weather!), and rushes through the
    door all the time "yelling" at me--meewww, meewww, meewww.  Meaning,
    "How *dare* you leave me out there that long!!??  Didn't you know
    I could freeze or starve to death??!!"  But she forgives quickly
    and comes over to talk to me a few minutes later.  She loves high
    places and I suspect that she would be a tree climber if she were
    let outside, so one of her favorite places is on top of the tv in
    the bedroom which is on top of a high dresser.  
    
    She's such a love, and obviously my favorite one of the five that
    we have.  Don't tell the other four, they'll never let me forget
    it!! 
    
    Debbi  & Sable, Jasper, Momma Kitty, Duchess and Isis --oh, and
      Nikki too!  (can't forget the "puppy")
3465.7Attack CatsELMAGO::RSTOLLIf it ain't one thing, it's anotherMon Apr 09 1990 20:0819
    This event happened over the weekend.  I got to share it with other
    cat-lovers.
    
    I have two cats, Rocky & Smokey.  Seeing that the weather was nice
    over the weekend, (I work at DEC in Albuquerque) I decided to leave
    the front door open so the "kids" could go in and out when they
    wanted to.  Well, all of the sudden, I heard this comotion by the
    front door and saw this Dalmation dog heading for the door with
    the kids sitting there.  Before I got there, Rocky had already ran
    up to the dog hissing and growling.  Well, while Rocky was getting
    his attention, Smokey came up from behind the dog and let him have
    it with a couple swats.  Then they chased the dog away running
    *sidewards* with their backs up and their fur standing out.  The
    dog took off like a bat out of hell.  It was the most funniest thing.
    And Smokey is such a wimp, I was really surprised at her.  Does
    anyone else have any "Attack Cats"
    
    Robyn