Comments on: It’s tough to be a cat http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4965 Meryl Yourish Tue, 02 May 2006 14:19:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4965 Do you know, she has scratched me maybe twice in her entire life? She never gets angry, at least, not at me. The only time I can remember being scratched was because her claw got snagged on my hand as she moved her paw or I moved my hand. Now Tig, on the other hand--bastard swats me far too often. He's one of those cats that will decide you're petting him in the wrong place and swat you, and I don't clip their claws. Well, I'd like to, but it's not worth the effort. Do you know, she has scratched me maybe twice in her entire life? She never gets angry, at least, not at me. The only time I can remember being scratched was because her claw got snagged on my hand as she moved her paw or I moved my hand.

Now Tig, on the other hand–bastard swats me far too often. He’s one of those cats that will decide you’re petting him in the wrong place and swat you, and I don’t clip their claws. Well, I’d like to, but it’s not worth the effort.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4950 Michael Lonie Tue, 02 May 2006 03:48:24 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4950 I wouldn't want to be in the way of her left hook. I wouldn’t want to be in the way of her left hook.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4944 Meryl Yourish Tue, 02 May 2006 00:26:39 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4944 You know, now that I look at that picture of Gracie again, it looks like she's getting ready to slug someone, doesn't it? You know, now that I look at that picture of Gracie again, it looks like she’s getting ready to slug someone, doesn’t it?

]]> By: Li'l Mamzer http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4917 Li'l Mamzer Mon, 01 May 2006 11:02:28 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4917 Rahel, my cat holds one paw up, dog-like, when focussed on prey or perceived intruder threat. I don't know why dogs do that, but a cat would want his claws at the ready in such situations. Rahel, my cat holds one paw up, dog-like, when focussed on prey or perceived intruder threat. I don’t know why dogs do that, but a cat would want his claws at the ready in such situations.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4909 Michael Lonie Mon, 01 May 2006 04:31:06 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4909 For one thing you don't have to take cats for walks. For one thing you don’t have to take cats for walks.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4906 Meryl Yourish Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:48:50 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4906 Sorry to disappoint you, but Sheba is my neighbor's dog. I like her, though. I will not have a dog while Tig and Gracie live. It's possible that after they're gone, I'll get a dog as well as new cats. But I wouldn't lay odds just yet. Dogs are a lot more work. Sorry to disappoint you, but Sheba is my neighbor’s dog.

I like her, though.

I will not have a dog while Tig and Gracie live. It’s possible that after they’re gone, I’ll get a dog as well as new cats. But I wouldn’t lay odds just yet. Dogs are a lot more work.

]]> By: chsw http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4903 chsw Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:12:49 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4903 This is the first time that I've read that you have a dog. I am pleasantly surprised. chsw This is the first time that I’ve read that you have a dog. I am pleasantly surprised.

chsw

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4900 Michael Lonie Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:08:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4900 It is a hallowed assumption of felinedom, passed down from the Ur-cat Felisailurus, who lived in the Oligocene, that you casn't trust dogs, no matter how meek they seem. It is a hallowed assumption of felinedom, passed down from the Ur-cat Felisailurus, who lived in the Oligocene, that you casn’t trust dogs, no matter how meek they seem.

]]> By: Rahel http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161/comment-page-1#comment-4874 Rahel Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:23:03 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/29/1161#comment-4874 Interesting. My friend's cat was holding up her left front paw like that, too, and I thought it was injured. (For all I know, it could be. I told my friend about it.) Interesting. My friend’s cat was holding up her left front paw like that, too, and I thought it was injured. (For all I know, it could be. I told my friend about it.)

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