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Title:Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
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Moderator:JULIET::CORDES_JA
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1079
Total number of notes:28858

936.0. "Annual Halloween Poll - 1995" by MPGS::WOOLNER (Your dinner is in the supermarket) Mon Sep 25 1995 15:53

    Now that it's officially AUTUMN, we can start listening to our kitties'
    plans for Halloween!
    
    Humor me for a moment while I remind everyone that, unfortunately,
    there are still some human sickos out there who are looking for
    unsupervised cats outdoors.  If your cats *must* go outside as the 
    season approaches...please watch over them.
    
    That said, how have your feline owners decided you will entertain them
    this year?  How would they dress if they deigned to don costumes (and
    how would *you* dress them if you only could)?  What pranks do you
    expect them to pull on you?
    
    I confess I need to give this some thought, and of course I must confer
    with "the boys" at home before publicizing their plans.  ]:3
    
    Leslie
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936.1Emperor and EmpressAKOCOA::NELSONTue Sep 26 1995 09:365
    I plan to keep mine indoors, give them as much cuddling and nuzzling
    as they'll put up with, perhaps buy a "kitty video" to entertain them.
    
    I think I'd dress Oscar and Misty as Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress
    Josephine.  I mean, they're the one who REALLY run our household!
936.2The Marx BrothersPCBUOA::WESTONMon Oct 16 1995 14:2721
    
    Well my two boys do go outside, but I try to keep the best EYE on them,
    as much as possible --- I do have some good neighbors, but we do live
    near allot of woods.  We are very watchful and my step-daughter is home
    tending to them as well as our strays...
    
    For Halloween----we do look like the BLACK CAT place.  Our boys are
    black and white:  Dot is ALL black except for the "dot" on his chest. 
    Smucky is a tuxedo kitty with a mustache.  We have 3 others outside
    black and black & white, the rest are a mix.
    
    Our boys would dress up as "Groucho" Marx and "Harpo" Marx.  Smucky has
    the appropriate mustache and Dot is the quite, but a silly clown!!!
    
    The outside guys I can see as a hit gang, jumping into a large black
    Cadillac convertable with water guns for the DOGS in the neighborhood!
    
    			HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Carol Weston
    
936.3The FIRM's HalloweenHELIX::SKALTSISDebThu Nov 02 1995 09:3215
    well, I had a class on Tuesday night (Halloween), but I've managed to
    piece togeather what the Firm did.
    
    The black cats were very active this year. Being very traditinal, Nikoloas
    was flying around on the electric broom. Panther, being a more "90s"
    kind of cat sped around on the vaccuum cleaner. Artie went haunting with
    his brother Billy (all white with an orange tail and slash of orange on
    his head). Billy claimed to be the "ghost of pumpkins past". And as
    always, Kostas stayed home and guarded the candy from trick or treaters
    (I understand that he gained a pound or two in the process). Mikael, a
    routund orange tabby, stayed home with Kostas and played the pumpkin.
    
    Zoe, Jimmy and Harry (stayed home and watched TV)!
    
    Deb
936.4MPGS::WOOLNERYour dinner is in the supermarketThu Nov 02 1995 11:2521
    My boys didn't deign to dress up this season, TYVM, holding the
    position that they are naturally what millions try to emulate on
    Halloween (all-black cats).  I tried to get Veto to wear felt tie-on
    bat wings, but no dice.
    
    Skrufy mingled a little with the guests at my daughter's party, the
    Sunday before Halloween, while Veto has spent the entire *week*
    meowing loudly (and hurling himself) at invisible monsters on our
    walls.  I doubt that they're monsters of the mouse persuasion *behind*
    our walls, as the traps go untouched.
    
    On Halloween proper I tried to get a portrait of Veto.  Of course he
    wouldn't cooperate; he waited in position politely until I got the
    tripod set up and all the controls ready.  He then jumped down and
    proceeded to rub against the tripod legs with single-minded frenzy.  I
    kept trying to rub the (dust? cobwebs?) off his face--until I realized
    it was frizzled eyebrow-whisker-ends hovering over his face! 
    Apparently he got a little too close to the candle he was investigating
    (which is what prompted the portrait attempt)!
    
    Leslie