..about owning a cat:
- Anything and everything relating to cats becomes cute or funny. You find yourself browsing the likes of icanhascheezburger even though you’re totally anal about grammar and spelling usually. Videos like kittens playing with loo roll on YouTube makes you go “aww” rather than “holy shit, look at all the mess!”, not to mention dailykitten.com ending up on your bookmarks list.
- You don’t need an alarm clock. Get your cat into a routine of having breakfast at 7:20 on a work morning and he will, without hesitation, wake you up at that time every morning for the rest of your life. Even on
CaturdaysSaturdays. And Sundays. (The person who made this clip? So right.) - Food is no longer safe on the kitchen surface. Or at all, in fact. Want to keep that second portion of salmon for your lunch tomorrow? PUT IT STRAIGHT IN THE FRIDGE. That lovely butter fudge? Eat it now, before it magically disappears out of its sealed paper bag.
- Games, important documents and coding were all meant to be interrupted by random bouts of “asfjlsdkfk asdkjld,m xd uhjjkjjhjsd”. This is the cat, learning to type and play Age of Empires. It’s not his fault that you happened to be right in the middle of a battle where you’d just got the upper hand on the enemy and were about to wipe them out.
- Bookcases were made for conquering, fingers for biting, old socks for chasing, and feet walking past the end of the bed definitely for pouncing on.
You cat owners are sat here nodding in agreement, right?
I fear you are becoming a mad cat woman. :P
haha, I love cats. I did nod at some of that.
My cat does all of that and more. But I love it. My life would be dull without a cat around.
Becoming? No! Simply reawakening old mad cat woman senses. ;)
Oh, the video game + cat horror stories I’ve heard…if you think it’s painful during Age of Empires, try Nethack, which doesn’t have any of those wimpy “save states” and such.
I understand that my laptop emits heat, but MUST my kitty try to sleep on it while I’m typing? I love cats though. My cat Kizzie will lay on ANY random object that somehow makes it to the floor.
Oh my god my dog has turned into a cat.
Multiply that by seven, and you’ve got my house. We’ve got cats that eat the weirdest things. I mean, they all beg for steak or hamburgers or chicken. One cat eats mandarin oranges out of a can. Another loves macaroni and cheese. One will do backflips for crackers. Another will steal peas or corn off your plate. Another will hear the bag of shredded cheese coming out of the cheese drawer in the fridge FROM ACROSS THE HOUSE and boom, there she is, meowing for it. They climb through the blinds, sleep on your face, drink from the sink if it’s not off the whole way, and chase the dogs. Oh, and if you really want to be entertained, buy your kitten a laser pointer. I promise you, it will entertain for hours… especially on slippery floors! :)
Ooooh yes! Karl borrows one from work occasionally and Hex loves it. It helped us get him outside for walkies the first time (and then back in again)
Oh hell yes!! Your post = my two kittens. Only times two. ;)
I’m not nodding in agreement, I’m smiling and laughing inwardly.
Yeah, my friend has a cat and all those happen and more xD. Although I’m like afraid of it attacking me or scratching my eye out or something =P. Wondering, where can I learn java script, like so it doesn’t hurt my head xD
All so very true… My cat also enjoys hiding in dark corners, only to jump out in front of you and run off, leaving you startled and confused. It also has very smelly poop. :P
Sounds like to much of a hassle, beside the no more alarm clock, I’m all for a cat clock!
http://stuffonmycat.com/ Best site ever! I wish I could have a cat, but my roommate is allergic. What is butter fudge?
To bad my cat’s alarm clock is usually 4 AM…
So totally. I don’t have a real good place for my keyboard so mostly it sits on my lap, and my cat sits on my spacebar, pushes the keyboard off my lap, walks in front of my monitor, pushes her head under my hands while I’m typing. Oh the life of a cat person! :D Oh yes, and the cat stealing my chair.
Most fun ever! Cats are the best. My cat had kittens and we kept four, it’s lovely to see a cat/kitten every time you turn around. XD catsinsinks.com is a fab cat site. =)
I was just telling my coworker today how I go to bed, get under the covers, and read a book, SURROUNDED BY CATS. I am a cat lady at 25 years of age. Thankfully I don’t get the kitty wake-up call, I have an autofeeder thing that keeps their dish full for about a week. But if I didn’t, my HOUSE would be torn to shreds, they wouldn’t just cutely harass me.
… and that’s why I don’t have a cat. Or any other pet, for that matter. Not to mention the fact that I’m scared of them :P Cats can appear cute, but I wouldn’t want to deal with one regularly!
I’m pretty strict about spelling, but I absolutely adore icanhascheeseburger. :D And your cat is currently set as my Skype avatar at work (the one where he does a witch impresonation).
Phooey. And the only reason my dad refuses to let me get a cat is because of how their poo stinks.
I nodded at all those points except the food on the kitchen bench. My cats know thewy are never to get on the bench and they have never tried. However they are allowed on chairs and if a chair happens to be near a bench they will climb on that, stand up like a meercat and eat whats there. I especially agree with the first point. Crazy cat ladies FTW!
LOL! I can definitely relate to all of those things. My cat (who died on Friday :( ) would bite the tip of my nose every morning to wake me up, then sit on my stomach and look at me like, “Oh since you happen to be awake now, it’s time for me to eat!”. I used to have a cat who’d eat whole sticks of butter too – even if it was still solid from being in the fridge I’d find her gnawing on it. :)
I have never really been a cat owner, but what you have descibed fits with what I have witnessed in the last 2 days. My boy just got a kitten I have noticed that my feet and fingers are some how a wicked play toy. It is cute though!
Heheheh, too cute! As for the cat whacking the man with the bat in the clip, thankfully my cat hasn’t figured out how to do that…yet.
Damn, that is so true.
Cats are great! :) My cat doesn’t wake me up fortunately :P She begs my mum for food xD
As the picture hanging in my smallest room states ” The more i know about men, the more i love my cat” I think it’s probably safe to assume that i do love my cat more than most people. Just wait until your little darling proudly produces a half chewed mouse at your bedroom door for you to “ooh” and “ahh” over (if you don’t proclaim your delight at the present they leave they sulk) that you step on first thing as you stagger out of your bedroom to rush to the toilet! However as Hex isn’t really an outdoor cat so to speak you might not have those pleasures yet.
Little did I even know there was something called “Daily Kitten” – I think something similar happens when you work in an office, all of a sudden Dilbert becomes hilarious.
Haha, it’s all so true. Annoying, but true. My kitten sucks on his blanket though, so if he jumps on the bed I’ll put him back in his and he’ll sit and suck for 10 minutes instead of bugging me. It’s kind of like a snooze button.
Haha, that is oh so true! Another site is catster.com, it’s like a Myspace for cats! Yea, I’m obsessed…haha.
How on earth did you manage to program your cat alarm clock? Mine is faulty and keeps waking me up at 5 in the morning. I’m starting to feel like the living dead.
Oh yes, that all sounds very familiar. Try having 3 of them at the same time, lol. Jem, it will be a laugh a minute.
I hear ya. Simba bites fingers, pounces feet, I’d let him wake me up in the morning and climb on furniture if my mother weren’t so anal about leaving him loose during the night.
No.. mine stay off kitchen surfaces and has been properly trained not to walk on keyboards. Considering how expensive mine was, I juuust can’t let them walk across it. They never wake me unless the window is closed, and it never is… Molly likes sleeping on the papershelf on the faxmachine though. Never seemed to make her stop that…
cats are too cute, i don’t own one because i fear, petting/cuddling it to death -_-
Pouncy is used to being fed at like 6:30 in the morning (because that’s the time we wake up to go to work). On weekends or holidays off from work, she can be heard in the hallway going “meeeooooooow meeeoooooow” extremely loud. It’s like having a child really. Also, we can’t sit a bag of garbage out or Pouncy will tear into it looking for food. She has gotten food out of the trash on more than one occasion. Playing a board game and having Pouncy come lie down right in the middle of the board is priceless. I love cats!
My fur brat tries to commit suicide nightly. He destroys things & whatnot to get my hubby to let him out to ‘play’. On the other hand Max has my hubby whipped. It is so funny to tell people that. He was sent by my other fur baby that died in 2006. He acts just like him aside the committing suicide thing.
Hahaha, I loved this. It’s all true. I’ve had cats all my life and currently own two. Really it’s their house, I just live here. Nothing is safe.