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Conference misery::feline

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

1013.0. "Cat Olympics" by TROOA::TEMPLETON (Realistic Dreamer) Fri Jun 28 1996 23:54

    We had a bug in the house last night.
    
    The kitten would have won every gold medal in his efforts to catch it.
    
    
    Long jumps.
    Back flips.
    Head rolls.
    The fifty yard dash.
    Running up-right on back legs.
    Boxing.
    Soccer.
    
    And all the while keeping up a running comentary of what he was doing.
    
    This brings back memeories of all the odd things Boots used to do when
    she was after something she could see and we could not.
    
    I suppose most of us sit in wonder at some of the things the kids do,
    when we can see no reason why they are doing it.
    
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1013.1I also have sportive cats...BPSOF::EGYEDPer aspera ad astraMon Jul 01 1996 05:207
    I would add
    
      Metacommunicative UFO chasing
    
    as well.
    
    Nat
1013.2Maybe if we got rid of the bugs! Nah;-)TROOA::TEMPLETONRealistic DreamerMon Jul 01 1996 23:3915
    Nat,
    
    
    Yes, I should have entered flying, along with the other odd moves they can
    (or think they can ) do.
    
    To-days effort was making it around the living room, without once touching
    the floor.
    And if you could see the layout of the room, you would know this is no
    mean feat.
    
    Screen climbing can be now entered as another accomplishment.
    
    joan
    
1013.3LJSRV1::MARXMon Jul 08 1996 12:309
    I am kittysitting for a week.  My son and his wife have a white
    Oriental.  He's seven months old and can move faster than the speed of
    light!  He could win a gold medal in the floor routine when he's
    capturing a bug.  He even made an attempt to jump to the top of the
    kitchen door - but didn't quite make it!  I've never had an Oriental
    before and had no idea just how athletic they are!
    
    Donna
    
1013.4TIGGER CAPTURES A GOLDCSLALL::MHOLMESMon Jul 22 1996 09:157
    Tigger gets a gold for the high jump.  When I come home from work, he
    follows me into the bedroom and get up on the bed.  Then I have to toss
    his mousie in the air and he jumps up bats it down and hisses at it and
    waits for me to do it again.  Most times he just about hits his head on
    the ceiling.  I think he should get a 10 for the performance.
    
    Marilyn
1013.5PIET01::DESROCHERSpsdv.pko.dec.com/tomd/home.htmlWed Jul 31 1996 15:4217
    
    	fyi, there's a cartoon movie from the early 80's call
    	"Animalympics".  The music is by Graham Gouldman of
    	10cc.  He also wrote songs like "Bus Stop" by the Hollies
    	and "For your Love" by the Yardbirds.
    
    	It was pretty fun back then at least.  Elephants as weight
    	lifters, cheetahs in the 100 yard dash, monkeys as gymnasts,
    	etc...  The marathon was over the African continent if I
    	remember correctly.
    
    	It was full length and just might be at video stores.
    
    	Anyone else see it?
    
    	Tom