You Know Your A True Cat Person When...

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1. You leave a bowl of fresh water on the counter next to the sink so your cats feel like they're doing something they shouldn't.

2. You sleep on the couch because your cats all looked so comfortable on your bed that you couldn't bear to disturb them.

3. You leave a nightlite on so they can see when they get up for a snack/litter box run in the middle of the night.

4. You speak CAT and have complete conversations with them.

5. You carry pictures of them in your wallet/purse.

6. Your gone from them for more than 4 hours and can't wait to get home to see them. A vacation of more than one night is unbearable.

7. Most of the pictures you take with the roll of film for the birthday party this weekend ends up being of your cats because they are doing something cute, you have to take (another) picture of it.

8. You may be starving and have no food in the house, but the cabinet with the cat food has every imaginable kind and flavor as well as treats.

9. When you are gone away from home you call and talk to them over the answering machine or you'll call the friend that's cat sitting and tell them to tell your ccats you love them, miss them and to kiss them for you.

10. You go to the store and can't help but to check out the kitty toys or something else that makes you think "My baby would just love that", as if you needed one more thing on the floor for the kitties.

11. You can't go to bed without a cat and keep treats on the night stand to shake and lure them to the bed.

12. Your home isn't only ordained with multiple pictures of YOUR cats, but also of all your nephews and nieces. (I have a caloge frame w/ all my "other" kids in it).

13. You apologize to your cats when you come home smelling like another cat.

14. Even if your cats don't like their tummy rubbed (Socrates in my case), you can't help but to rub it when they're lying on their backs, even if only for a few brief moments before those back legs start protesting, because its just so darn fuzzy and cute.

15. Your non-cat friends look at you strange when you tell them what funny expressions your cats have when they're using the litter box (It really is cute).

16. You like the smell of kitty breath (contributed by my friend Laura).

17. When you accidentally slap/kick your cat while your sleeping and wake up to apologize repeatedly for your error and to ensure they will go back to sleep, thereafter which you cannot.

18. When you have food left on your plate at a restaurant you ask for a box so you can take the leftovers home to your cats as a special suprise.

19. You have Christmas stockings for each of your cats (guilty here).

20. Even if your busy and doing something, you'll put everything else on temporary hold when your cat comes up and gives you THAT look (love me now).
 

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Originally posted by MeowMan


2. You sleep on the couch because your cats all looked so comfortable on your bed that you couldn't bear to disturb them.

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4. You have complete conversations with your cats and talk to them as if they REALLY spoke english and understood what you were saying.

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6. Your gone from them for more than 4 hours and can't wait to get home to see them. A vacation of more than one night is unbearable.

7. Most of the pictures you take with the roll of film for the birthday party this weekend ends up being of your cats because they are doing something cute, you have to take (another) picture of it.

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9. When you are gone away from home you call and talk to them over the answering machine or you'll call the friend that's cat sitting and tell them to tell your ccats you love them, miss them and to kiss them for you.
Those fit me to a "T". Especially the not wanting to disturb sleeping cats part. Satey usually sleeps right up against me or on top of me, and when he does I'll lie in bed for hours after I wake up, even when I have to pee so badly, so I won't disturb his sleeping. Not like he doesn't sleep all day anyway :laughing:

And if I am gone for more than four hours I just know that I will find something knocked over or misplaced
 

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Wow all of these fit me to a T.
Mostly number 9.
When I am gone on vacation I call and say hello to my kitty's, I do this to let them know I love them and I am thinking about them. I came to doing this for I noticed while at work when I would come home my phone would be knocked off. This was happening when I would call and check my messages. My cat would hear me punch in my code and then knock it off the wall, LOL, I know it sounds crazy but it is true. So now know if I am going to be gone, if I call and talk to them they sit in front of the phone and meow. I taped this with my cam corder. Maybe I should send it to animal planet on thier show "Funniest Pets"
I love all of these, thanks for sharing this. I know I am a true cat person.
 

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Very simply put...My cats are my life(besides hubby and child). Just about every aspect of my life revolves around them.
 

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I too am guilty of all of the above, especially #4. Of course my cats understand everything I say. The only one I kinda disagree with is #1 and this is only because I don't put a bowl of water next to the sink, see my boys just jump up next to the sink, meow, and then when I turn it on, they drink directly from the tap. I know, they certainly rule the roost around here.
 
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Aaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! Cat, that is so cute!!! I wanna a little kitten!!!!
 

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So, I'm not alone! Ha Ha! My kitties also sleep with me & somehow I always end up sleeping on the edge of the bed
I have a table top fountian that I leave on for them to drink out of. They like the flowing water. I talk to them ALL the time, & yes I know they understand me.
 

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Dear Chuck,


AAwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...you'll never believe who's kitten that is!!! Remember Terricar05...I think she has 9,000,306,420 cats now and it makes it a bit difficult to get on.... , but she sends her regards!
Love & Hugs...Hey where was my CALL!!!
 

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Guilty as charged!

I opened as suitcase to pack it today. Joey naps in there sometimes. There was so much cat hair in it, the bloody thing looks like it's fur-lined!
 

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YES, YES, YES, I agree with everything said here!!!!

Thank You Chuck, for reminding us how hooked we are and loving every minute of it.

Catarina, That little Bab is so precious. . . .Like MeowMan, I MISS having kitens. . . .

I am so-o-o-o-o-o glad I came on the Site tonite. It has really lifted my spirits!

Thank You, again, MM . . . . .
 

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The kitten is sooooooo cute!

LOL, "the suitcase so full of cat hair" I wouldn't know what to do if I left my lint brush at home.
 

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Every single thing is true about me! I know I'm obsessed with my sweet furball but I have to admit it's best thing that has happened to me and I love every minute of it!!!
 

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Some people give me one of those "what planet are YOU from" looks when I gush about my cats. I can't help it! We don't have children and don't plan to for a while yet, so our cats ARE our kids! Hubby and I BOTH talk to them all the time, we have conversations with them and they respond (wish I could understand them all the time!)...

I've got as many pictures of our babies on my wall in my office as I do my hubby! Ha! People come in here and see the pictures and just shake their heads at me! What can I say? I'm a very proud momma!

When they were babies they slept with us, but I can't take it anymore. Hubby always wines to let them stay in the room with us, but after he falls fast asleep, they crawl over to me and I have one fur ball on either side of my neck purring so loudly it keeps me completely awake! Then Mishu nuzzles me in the face until I lift up the covers for him to crawl in and sleep down by my feet, but he's so darned fidgety that after about an hour, he crawls back to his post at my neck. Sometime around midnight I always end up making them go to their bed in the living room! There's hubby, sleeping away, oblivious and me wide awake with two motors at my ears! On the weekends, though, they know they can wake us up and we can't resist!

They'll both sit at the bedroom door and wine to be let in - at 6AM mind you! I let them in and they both crawl right over to momma and purrrrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr while the 4 of us watch cartoons - they LOVE The New Adventures of Batman and Pokemon the most!

As for the food - I can't even tell you the amount of times our cupboards have been bare, except for the kitty cupboard - that's always full and stocked with all kinds of yum-yums! ;-)
 

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awwwwwwwwwww...JadeKitty, Ya'll are soooooo cute!!!!!

You're hubby sounds like an old boyfreind of mine when I was actually sharing my babies with someone...He was a real cat lover too!


I'm so happy to hear that you're as eccentric as me
Actually, you're in love with your babies...


Love &
 

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can you blame us cat-lovers? i mean, they look up at you with those furry little faces full of adoration and bump your forehead to tell you "i love you" in their special little way... i can honestly say that between my cats and my honey (who's as crazy about them as i am), my life is pretty complete!

people who don't have cats really do NOT know what they are missing! and now that i'm part of this forum, i don't feel like hubby and i are the only two people who think of our cats as our kids!

as soon as i get some pictures developed, i will post them so you guys can see (I must have at least 3 full rolls of just us and the "kids" lol!)!
 

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It's great to hear from other cat obsessed people. My desk at work has three framed cat photos, my screensavers are always cat related. All my colleagues think I'm crazy. I don't have kids. Never wanted them, and don't regret the decision. Cats are much better.
 

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Oh Chuck.....I LOVED that!!!

Catarina.....what a cute photo!!!!!! That little yellow kitten looks exactly like my yellow kitten, whom I have named Milo.
 

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aahhhhhh.. 'jadekitty'!.. smiles.. does my heart most good to see your 'signature' also!............. although you DID continue it further than i did!...... but?.. allows one to 'see' those that are most.. 'in tune' with self!....... thank you.. for.. sharing part of yourself w/ your 'signature'............ hope to speak to you in the future possibly........

i remain... myself..
gata_amore.. (female cat lover)......
 

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Jadekitty. sounds like heaven to me! if they stopped doing it you would miss it! I love it when my kitty crawls under the covers with me. It's amazing the amount of body heat a little fur ball can put out!
But then the normal body temp. for a cat is like 103* compaird to our 98.6
Meow
 
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