Do your cats ever...

My cats do all of the above Meowman. Plus, last week after I got all the checks wrote out for the bills and sealed up the envelopes, they spilled a huge glass of water on the table and soaked everyone of them. I had to rewrite checks and dry out the bills as best as I could. They are ornery for sure. One likes to sit in my lap when I'm on the PC. She can't sit still either. Most of the time she tries typing for me. ha! ha!

Originally posted by Sarah Brown
One likes to sit in my lap when I'm on the PC. She can't sit still either. Most of the time she tries typing for me. ha! ha!

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LOL. Socks does that too. If there's ever any nonsense posts under my name (like 'askeldkdjfoaiureknvnakgj135753732kj;lkajfoidsaufa;fljk~!"), you'll know Socks helped. :tounge2: Sometimes, if I'm on the computer and I leave to fix a cup of tea or something, I come back and it looks like she's been trying to talk to someone in catspeak or something because sometimes she hits the space bar and comes up with things like this:
"dkladfjd ieou/ldn dklakjdfioul ldfjalkjdil. kdfjoaidl."
I often wonder how to decode it.

Socks only jumps up on the table when there's company, which is usually my grandpa and he thinks it is soooooo gross to have a cat that jumps up on the table and is soooo unbehaved. He doesn't believe me that she's only like that when he's there. Grandpa is a retired vet and reckons he knows how to discipline a cat. But then she hops up in his lap and gets scritches and purrs and grandpa falls asleep and forgets to "discipline" her. I should post a picture of it sometime. "Discipline" indeed.

Sockiesmom, maybe your cat and my 3 should get together and "cat chat", sometime. Ha! ha!

Yeah, grandpa tries to be the tough guy, but he probably just gets all warm & fuzzy when his grandbaby hops in his lap for a nap. My dad, who has professed NOT to like cats, asks how his grandkids are doing everytime we talk. So does mom (It may be because they know thats the only way they'll ever get to say 'grandkids').

Sockiesmom, This is your lucky day! I happen to understand "cat." Let me see---askeldkdj--oh, dear! Maybe I shouldn't tell you what he's saying. Let's just say that you're ok for a human being, but he can wrap you right around his little dew claw...Do you remember the time you were eating that chicken and he just sat and looked sad? Well, he said he's good at that, and it works quite often!

Don't feel bad. One of my cats left a card on my bedroom door that was much worse...I often wonder if my teenaged son helped her... No, he wouldn't have done that! (Would he?) Well, it was something about "Right! Feed me, stupid!"

Originally posted by Jeanie G.
Sockiesmom, This is your lucky day! I happen to understand "cat." Let me see---askeldkdj--oh, dear! Maybe I shouldn't tell you what he's saying. Let's just say that you're ok for a human being, but he can wrap you right around his little dew claw...Do you remember the time you were eating that chicken and he just sat and looked sad? Well, he said he's good at that, and it works quite often!

Don't feel bad. One of my cats left a card on my bedroom door that was much worse...I often wonder if my teenaged son helped her... No, he wouldn't have done that! (Would he?) Well, it was something about "Right! Feed me, stupid!"

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LoL, are you physic Jeanie, or do you really understand cat?
I'm asking because I was just eating chicken last night, and Sockie looked real sad, and you know where that went...

Oh, I can't tell you that, Sockie's mom. It's against the rules! All I can say is that my kitties speak the same language as yours does!

Yep...you both have that same problem that I do: SUCKER!!! How can you not share???

Rowdy throws a fit, if anyone closes the bathroom door. We have had to start closing it, when we're in the shower because, Rowdy bats at the drops on the shower curtain and falls in. Once we get the doors installed, we'll let her in, again.

At the moment, she has dug some styrofoam peanuts, out of my wastebasket and is throwing them around the room. Opie is sitting here, with a disgusted look on his face.

My two not only think that I should share, but give me dirty looks when whatever I'm eating isn't to their liking.

In my house, it is absolutely unacceptable to close the bathroom door when we're in there. Hubby hasn't gotten this through his head and often has a two kitty waiting party when he comes out.

They also tell us when it's time to go to bed. Hubby sometimes stays up late on the computer and Ophelia will go in there are yell at him something fierce and only quiets down when he comes to bed.

Well, Heidi, I had to report Kiwideus to the cat police for this very offense! Her kitty wanted to share the only comfortable seat in the room. And now your hubby and Cindy are both forbidding their kitties from doing their assigned jobs as bathroom monitors. It is written in their unwritten contracts on page 223, paragraph 10, sentence 3, that they must monitor every function in the bathroom from the brushing of teeth to the taking of showers.

I can only imagine the emotional pain these poor kitties are suffering. Is there no justice? One shower would problably be enough for Rowdy, who would then take his own kind of bath and play with his styrofoam peanuts. (which were invented to torture cat lovers.) And Ophelia and Trent would only sit on the bathroom counter and watch, as they should. TSK, TSK, (grumble, mumble, some people's children....) Heidi, just take the door off the hinges. We'll give Cindy a few days to get that shower door on....

Jeanie - you made me laugh til I cried - you are so funny!

My boys also despise closed bathroom doors...but, when they're ready 4 bed, they go & I have to try & sqeeze silently into THIER bed with them and not wake them, so they won't get upset at me & give dirty looks for being awakened...:-)

Now it's my turn, MeowMan! Boy did you strike a chord! Have you found a way to make your self thinner? Letting my feet hang out in the cold and allowing the blanket to stay down around my waist keeps me out of trouble at times, but when I'm really careless, I lose my little bed buddies, who tell me all about my awkwardness as they leave in a huff! Of course, they're soon back--if and when I lie very still. Shhhhhhhhhhh! Oh, and you must have a repentant attitude, also.

Seat stealing - as soon as I stand up there is a cat just where I have been sitting, all curled up looking as if they have been there for hours. How can I dare move a sleeping mitten? I'll just sit on the floor, in the draft, unable to see the TV, unable to get my book (as the other cat is asleep on it), as I can't disturb one of my mates.

Yep, flimflam, I've done that exact same thing..."Fine...I'll just sit on the floor....oh damn, my smokes are WAY over there" Heavy sigh!!!

Boy, aren't we all trained little minions? Aren't cat people the funniest. And what makes it more funny is that WE ALL DO THE SAME THING! lol.

Actually, Rowdy has had several showers. Water doesn't seem to faze her. Night before last, she got a big blob of toothpaste foam on her head. She just HAD to stick her head in the sink, as I was spitting!

She, also, likes to roll up in the bathroom rug. I have found it in the living room, on occasion. I can live with the peanuts. At least, when I step on them, they don't hurt my bare feet.

Faile: lays on the computer keyboard, or walks back and forth on the pull out thingy it sits on. Complains loudly if I pick her up and cuddle her for too long. The other night, I was grading a bunch of papers, and she had to lay on my grade book. Somehow, I convinced her that the stack of already graded stuff was better. She obviously thought I still needed it.

Molly: chews on envelopes, now if only I could get her to chew on the bills inside. . .

Both cats used to love Dan's computer chair. That was because he insisted that they stay off of it, too much hair. Now that the chair is not an issue, they're not interested.

I got a new futon for my bedroom on Thursday. It's black. Sock's underside is white. Now, she couldn't possibly lay on the pillows like she would if the futon were white, because then her lovely fur wouldn't contrast as well. But I can't bring myself to shoo her off, and I usually end up cuddling next to her and petting her and giving her treats.

My cat doesn't rule me... no, not at all.

What's that, Sockie? You want the bed tonight?
Okay, I'll sleep on the floor...

As you can see from the picture in my signature, Snowball is another cat who just loves computers. He also loves to cuddle in my lap. This is what happens when I am reading threads here at TCS:

Snowball will get into my lap...

then a few minutes later he will decide he would rather lay in front of the monitor...

After ANOTHER few minutes he will decide he would rather be in my lap again after all...

After he has been back in my lap for awhile he starts acting really determined to get back to his place in front of the monitor...

He just keeps going back and forth, and right now while I'm typing this he is sleeping soooo peacefully in a nearby chair.