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When I first met our angel Calo, he turned up in our yard accompanied by a red tabby kitten and a white juvenile cat.  It was always as if he was their protector.  He was built like a weightlifter or a bull dog, so he got the nickname of "the bullcat".  He was always very protective of that red tabby, who was quite a little pistol; the white juvenile developed a skin issue which we were not able to cure with medication, so he was accepted into Best Friends in Utah and eventually adopted by a wonderful family in Canada, where the lower light was good for his skin/coloring.

Here is sweet angel Calo.

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Before I knew about low cost spay and neuter clinics, Sweet Thing went into heat.  We tried to keep her inside, but everyone here knows just how hard that is, so she got pregnant.

Now, normally, Sweets would sleep in bed with me, cuddled up under the blanket, snuggled against my belly or in the curve of my knees, but after the kittens were born she needed to stay with them, of course.  This bothered her.  She was a good mother, and didn't want to leave her kittens, but she really felt that she needed to be close to me at night, so she developed a plan.  When the kittens were one week old, she moved all four of them into the water bed!

It was one thing when it was just Sweets; I could roll over in bed, and she would just move to the other side.  But I couldn't trust kittens to be able to do that, and it would be so easy to smother the little things in a water bed.  Fortunately, our water bed was in a simple frame on the floor, so I got a box, padded it with newspaper and rags, and moved it right next to the bed.  Then I put Sweets and her kittens into the box.  As long as I managed to sleep with one hand hanging over into the box, Sweet Thing was okay with that.  Not totally happy about it, but willing to let it stand until the kittens were old enough to sleep on their own at night.  Then she moved back into bed with me, and if the kittens needed a meal they could darn well find her.

About a year later, we still had Nimbus, the only male kitten, a short-haired gray tabby.  By this time he was larger than his mother, and Sweets was, of course, no longer producing milk, but Nimbus still insisted on nursing and he was big enough to bully Sweets into allowing it. 
  He continued that until he was adopted by a neighbor.

Margret
 

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I'm pretty Murphy thinks he's human.  I already mentioned how he likes to sleep in my arms like a baby.  He also likes kisses.  When either of us is about to leave, he climbs up onto the table by the door and tilts his face for a goodbye kiss and he insists on touching his lips to ours.  Last night I was extra tired so I was going to bed a little earlier than John.  We stood next to the bed so he could give me a good night kiss, and Murphy was right there, standing on the bed on his back legs and his front legs on my waist with his face tilted up for his kisses.  He's a very affectionate cat.  I hope he stays that way as an adult - he's about 9 months old now.
 

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ENTRY   From the day she was adopted in February 2015, Chula has been entreating me for food, attention and playtime by sitting up on her back haunches and waving her front paws at me.  She doesn't meow so this is her way of getting attention.  At first, I was worried that she was begging for something I wasn't giving her and I called her previous human for advice but it seemed Chula had never done that before.  For whatever reason, this adorable behavior is just for me.  Several times throughout the day, I will be doing something and suddenly be aware of motion in my peripheral vision.  Sure enough, there is Chula, upright, gazing at me with pleading eyes and waving her front paws all around.   I've posted pictures of her before but here's a different one with blurry paws showing the motion. View media item 391422
 

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I've posted this before, but I just love it so much, I will post it again.  This is what Diamond does when he wants something.  The first time he did it was the second day he was here.  I was feeding snacks. What a surprise!  He does it when there is a moth in the room and he wants to catch it.  He does it when he wants snacks.  He did it at the vets when he wanted to get up on the table.  Very charming

kitty!

 
 
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We've never had a problem with mice since we've always had a small herd of cats.  However, when we bought a new dishwasher, a mouse somehow got in during the installation process.  We had three cats at the time:  Daisy, Speck, and Marshmallow.  I was in the kitchen and saw the mouse run behind the refrigerator.  I stooped down in the floor with a flashlight, shining the light on the little space between the refrigerator and the kitchen cabinet.  The cats joined me.  It was a dramatic scene.  We were all concentrating so intently that when the mouse stuck his head out, it startled me.  I screamed and fell backward on my butt.  I scared the cats with my screaming and falling.  The mouse ran behind the stove.  He was never seen or heard from again.
 
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For some reason, Connor loves playing in the bathtub.  We keep the bathroom door shut because if we don't, the bathroom trash gets dumped and the toilet paper gets shredded.  But every time I go in there, the cats accompany me.  I guess they're afraid the toilet monster will get me.  And Connor jumps in the bathtub and kills invisible pray.  He pounces and slides all over the bathtub.  He's my fierce predator.
 

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I'm sure I mentioned this a couple of other places on the site, but here it is again. When the kittens started venturing out of my room to explore the rest of the house, they met RB for the first time--and fell in love with his feet. I don't know why, I've seen nothing that explains it, and for the first two months or so after the kittens started venturing out he pretty much ignored them, which was difficult to do. They would roll on his feet, lie on his feet, push their heads against his feet. and every time he sat down anywhere but his room (which was, and still is, a cat-free zone) they would all scrunch together so that they could all fit on his feet. It was one of the most bizarre and heartwarming things I've ever seen, and while I don't have a picture of it, I do have pics of them at that age.






(The only time they stopped moving enough to be photographed was when they were sleeping.)
 

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Max loved digging the dirt out of the houseplants. I finally put a plastic spread down in front of a bedroom window. I moved them all there and tried to remember to keep the door shut. I was laying across the bed there one day which was next to the window and where the plants were. In came Max. He started his digging. I reached down and popped his paw, like you might pop a child on the hand. He popped me back on my hand. I thought to myself, no he didn't do this. So I popped him again. We went at it back and forth. I knew then he really did know what he was doing. I lost that battle and gave the plants to a friend at church. :lol3:
 

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ENTRY: Baby loves to play, and most the time I play along with her. Her favorite toy that we play together with is Mr. Mousey, and we usually play with him at bedtime. Lately baby has developed the habit, when I'm busy doing something else that doesn't involve her, of dragging Mr. Mousey out to me so that I will stop whatever I'm doing and play with her. If I still ignore her after this, she will start meowing in a very loud and deeper than normal voice until I pay attention and play. She is very insistent about it and will even get up in my face and between me and whatever I'm doing to get her point across. She is so silly about it, that I end up giving in and we enjoy a good half-hour of play. She only does this with Mr. Mousey and only when I'm paying attention to something other than her. If I laugh at her because of it, she pouts.
 

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Awww!  My Sun used to love "bathtub football".  I'd throw one of his little foam soccer balls in the tub and he'd launch himself into the tub, batting furiously at the ball, back and forth.  He loved that game!
 

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(I  hope it's okay to post another story about Tarifa)

We have two big clay pots full of sparkle balls on the living room coffee table, and they've always been very popular.  Tarifa will jump on the table, get a sparkle ball in her mouth, and parade it down the hall, "yargling".  I praise her for having "caught prey!"  She is an excellent provider View media item 391561
 

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A year or so after Sweet Thing crossed the bridge, I decided I was ready for another cat, so we went to the Cat Care Society (the local no kill shelter).  Roger found a chair and sat down while I wandered around looking at cats and kittens.  They were all adorable (of course) and I was having trouble deciding, so I went back to Roger to talk about it, and found him with a cat on his lap, a short-haired orange and black tabby.  She had seen Roger sitting there, had immediately jumped in his lap, and had attacked every other cat who came over to greet Roger!  Well, that was pretty obvious. 
  So we adopted her.  We got her home and she seemed rather unsure and worried about this new environment, but then she found the kitchen and suddenly all was well.  There would be food!

So that was how we came to adopt Pretzel.

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I was not letting my cats into my kitchen because they would turn the trash can over and make other messes.  But one day I saw a mouse in the kitchen. I had two cats, the best natural mouse catchers.   Diamond and Seal had both had to rely on their hunting skills to survive.  I thought they would be the best way to deal with the rodent problem.  I let the cats back into the kitchen.  On the second day they were patrolling the kitchen, I heard a quiet growl from behind me.  I turned around and there was Seal with the mouse in his jaws!  Since then they regularly patrol the kitchen.  I haven't seen a mouse since, and the kitties rarely make a mess in the kitchen anymore, either.
 

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The Mouse's most recent act which which would have resulted in me inhaling a cup of coffee had I been drinking one at the time was the one I used to start a thread with a few days ago.    

Being a little more rounded than he should be due to having more than one human to con in to feeding him for a couple of months Mouse was put back on strict rations again a couple of weeks ago.  He isn't a fan of eating his food from a bowl and has to be starving before he will resort to eating there.   As a result his cute attention seeking behaviours where he tries to get me to throw his dry food around the sitting room for him to chase after have increased quite dramatically.   

Having learned that biting and bouncing don't win him food he has a wide repertoire of cute poses, snuggle techniques and ploys for squeaking and meowing and then pointing towards his various biscuit tins in whichever room we are in.  The hungry eyes and looks trying to con me in to thinking I've forgotten to feed him for weeks have been purrfected.  The other night I was being particularly mean and despite all tactics being deployed I continued to sit on the sofa, occasionally giving him a little look and then continuing to type away on my lap top.  I had his biscuit tin next to me on the sofa and the lid was off, so when I saw him sneaking up towards it, putting his paws up on to the front of the sofa and stretching his nose in to the tin with a cheeky look in his eye I thought he was going to do his usual trick of snatching a biscuit from the tin and then racing off in to the hall to eat it.   

Nope.  He gripped the biscuit in his front teeth, flicked his little head and let loose the biscuit so it was thrown directly at my arm.   Hit me pretty hard too.  
  
 

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One day as I was busy in the dining room my female  cat Cucumella came up to me miauling and then running away. She kept doing this several times to my surprise because she had never done that before. When I finally decided to follow her I ended up in the bathroom and discovered that my 95 years old husband who had taken a bath could not get out of the bath by himself. He was surprised that I had taken so long to come to his aid "since Cucumella had gone to fetch me so many times"  I had heard about dogs behaving in similar situations but I would have never expected that from a cat!!!  She is 14 years old and came to us 5 years ago. 
 

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All right, so I've been working with yarn to crochet scarves for my coworkers (going about as well as you'd expect). Normally the kitties ignore the bag with my yarn in it, because when they've tried to play with it in the past I've ignored them until they stopped. Well, the temperature has been dropping, and one night when I got up to get ready for work (I work third), AWM showed me this pic.


Apparently, Asia decided the inside of my yarn bag was warm. Then, AWM showed me this pic.


Asia did not like being woken up from her nap. Of course, a couple hours later, I had to borrow AWM's phone and get a couple of pics myself.




So now my yarn bag is an unofficial cat bed. I must say, there are worse ways to lose one! 
 
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