Yeah, I have webcams set up to alert me if there’s movement. I always look...even if I’m just upstairs and it alerts on movement downstairs and vice versa, but definitely when I’m not home. Someone can steal every bloomin’ thing in my house, but don’t hurt my cats.
You could always sweetly reply "People like you make it possible for people like me to deal with other living things. Thanks to people like you, I no longer enjoy the species you represent, so my "crazy cat thing" is all on your shoulders. Thanks so much! I appreciate it and so do millions of kitties".
Yep, and if everyone did the same millions of other things would go unnoticed. It sets a balance. We love what we love and we go for it, and it makes the world go round and all that stuff!I would have been tempted to say, among other things, that cats would be my #1 priority, as they are.And I think I should stop there so as not to get thrown off TCS for using profanities.
I don't think it should be an "either/or" situation. Of course cats have always been my priority as I was born and raised with them as beloved family members. But I also care a lot about people -- good, kind, loving, compassionate, gentle people. The others, I pray for, because if they'd find their hearts somewhere and start caring, it would be a better world. Those who've crossed the line and done unthinkable things, I pray to be dealt with by the Justice they cannot escape, sooner rather than later, and that they will never be remembered, as if they had never been at all. But those who make the "your dog vs. your kid" argument are going to get a very pointed response from me. You're so right. We each care about whom or what we care about. No one has the right to tell us whom or what to care about. And those who do, usually don't REALLY care about anyone or anything except arguing and power tripping people. I tell them to go help those they care about, let me help those I care about, and then everything will be good. I've yet to see any of these critics help ANYONE except themselves. And it doesn't even really help them, because selfish people are miserable.
I hate those "if your house was on fire, who would you save, your kid or you dog?" Geez. Who asks these things? Answer is I would die trying to save both and that's pretty much it which shuts the rank obsessed right up, either with no response or "that't not what I asked". Who gives a rats behind what you "asked"? That's my answer. Deal with it =)
Eloquently and very well thought and said.
You're half way there! The first half seem like a struggle, but it's a breeze from then on.tarasgirl06 - I'm beginning to think you're right; eleven seems the perfect number, unless you're
Norachan .
That's so sweet! I'm glad you posted it because I will remember to do that for my kitty when she is too old or sick to jump down off the bed or sofa.
How absolutely breathtakingly GORGEOUS!!!When you have just become an empty nester. Your human child has moved out of state. You are now shopping for comfortable harnesses/leashes for your cats to get used to so they can come visit their human sibling with you because you KNOW that they all miss each other but you don't want to subject the cats to a 10 hour drive without being able to stretch their legs and NOT bringing them is NOT going to happen. You also have every pet friendly hotel in a 50 mile radius of your destination bookmarked so you can find THE best one.
We miss you sister. See you soon. XOXO Lilith & Sophie
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Time for a bigger bedYou might be a cat person if you sleep in another bed from your (human) significant other because your 20-year-old cat will sleep only between you and the edge of the bed, and you inadvertently pushed kitty onto the floor twice during the night, causing him to cry from the pain of his arthritis.
And going searching when it's been too quiet for too long.
We were so fortunate to have gotten the 1-hectare place with 4-stall barn compound WITH amenities, to which we added. Now THAT was Cat Ranch.You're half way there! The first half seem like a struggle, but it's a breeze from then on.
Talking of spiders, as some of us were, my mum has severe arachnophobia so when I was a kid you earnt your pocket money by trapping spiders under paper cups and releasing them outside (while mum hid in the loo) Spiders are alright by me.
You know you're a cat person when you buy a house in an area with no amenities, no paved roads and -20C winters because it looks like the kind of place the kitties would like.
Wouldn't matter. No matter how big the bed, when a cat wants it all, a cat TAKES it all.
