Well, you know, not everyone thinks the sun rises and sets on my cat, the way I do. :-)
This seems to be a topic of considerable interest to my husband. He keeps trotting in to my "office" to report on the cat snoring. (It's much cuter when the cat snores than it was when my husband did ... my, could he make a lot of noise!)
Bluedaze, LOL! Can't say that she does. Husband sure does. Here I was all excited to have to make some personal revelation, weigh what I was going to answer, opened the topic in great anticipation! I'm sure this is going to get a LOT of hits. Lurkers beware, sometimes we just go a little off our little rockers. (My husband swears she does little poots.) Jay Leno says his cat sleeps 16 out of 24 hours, which is apparently the norm. He made some great cat jokes that night.
I spent the day going back to where I used to work, got lots of hugs. (Much needed.) Then on to my hunt for khakis. Found a 2nd pair of the $79 ones at TJ Maax, now $10. Bought 3 pairs of shorts. I have a huge walk in closet with all these tiny little clothes I can't fit into, guess stuffing myself out of depression, or as I found on another site, Lexapro causes weight gain. I swear, I should have given it to my husband.
It's amazing how good I feel when I get out of the house.
I always thought, if I should leave him, what to do with all these clothes. Life has been make so much more simple. I just need 10 tops, 10 bottoms, I'm good to go for 2 weeks. I could live anyplace now.
All I have to do now is find a support message board for preschool teachers.
no cats, but my two chihuahuas snore so loud i cant hear the TV..:) they and DH are almost no snoring now that i am usingthe humidifier every pm...divvi
the male is the deer-faced/slender face and longer nose black/tan 13yr old-8lb, like taco bell the other is apple head:) fawn color 12yrs/yipes, i know, 12lb!!! eeek!!like mommie-eating our way thru depression) rounder face and much shorter nose and i adore them both. different types but each is such a character-cant imagine life without my animals...divvi
Divvi - my cats are bigger than you Chiihuahuas. Don't know if the cats or dogs snore - take out my hearing aids and don't hear a thing. Does it count if one of the dogs farts (stinky, stinky, stinky...)?
So is the Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie on your list of movies to see - the trailers earned a thumbs up from my girlfriend and I.
My Maine coon cat weighs in at 11lbs.+ She could win any fight with your taco bell guy. She won't be full grown for another 1/2 year. Then she could win against your other one as well.
I love to watch the Westminster Dog show. I like the small ones the best.
Have to fatten up my girl! She caught a mouse outside (we have tea on the deck every morning) & walked around so proudly with it in her mouth. Whoops, she put it down to play with it, & off it scurried into the garden. She sat there for an hour, trying to find the mouse. This week, she went out, found ( I guess) the same little mouse, let it go again, and this time, no mouse watch, she just slunk into the house. Voluntarily, usually I have to say skooty skoot to get her in.
any of your cats could whip my lil guy 8lbs. he's quite 'whimpy' if you get my drift and i often think hes not heterosexual:) he loves to dressup in tutus..and wears my dia tennis bracelt on his neck.:) ok, enough said. divvi
Oh, yeah, Val, the Westminster Dog Show is fascinating! (The judges never agree with me, though.)
Have you ever been to a cat show? I've only been to one, but it was soooooo different from a dog show. I remember one judge working with younger cats, and this one kitten kept climbing up her shoulder to snuggle against her neck. Everyone in the audience was going awwwww... Guess who won that round.
Ive been to lots of cat shows and I'm always amazed at how well the cats tolerate being handled. I usually find the owners snobbier than the cats. A rule not to be broken is that you do not touch the little beauties. Judges wash their hands and the display table between each puss. When I got my Coons the owners washed their hands and wouldn't permit shoes in the nursery-including their own. The nursery happened to be under the bed in their own room.
That is SO cute, tutus. A little prince/princess? Divvi, you are hilarious. I've never been to a cat show, but now it sounds interesting. I win every time at the Westminster dog show. My cat is a Katrina victim, and would never allow herself to be handled. She's a real scaredy cat.
Val, my daughter has been teaching PreK for 10 years now. Feel free to email her. She'd love to give you any help you need. She's got files on the computer and links that she knows that will make you the greatest PreK teacher ever.
trisinger@yahoo.com
I use her computer...she's the one who found this site for me. It was hard for me to join, but she made me lurk until I finally joined in. Her name is Tina.
Thanks! I have no experience, just the education. My assistant will have a lot more experience than I do, but not the education. Doesn't feel fair, but what the hey.
Well, I have no cats but we do have 2 adorable Rat Terriers. Fancie is the female...she snores like a banshee. Chief (after KC Chiefs) is my little boy devil dog. We couldn't live without them.
I have a parti colored Havanese (the national dog of Cuba), and my daughter (who has one also) and I had them groomed the other day. when we went to pick them up, here were 2 coon cats being picked up at the same time. I have never seen cats so big. One weighed almost 40 lbs, and all the hair made him look even bigger. I have always had cats, but never one of these. WOW. The Havanese, BTW is 10 lbs.
Val's story about her cat carrying a mouse around reminds me of an episode years ago when my mother was having a tea party in our living room. My sister's cat caught a mouse and brought it in to show everyone, and proceeded to play with it (it was still very much alive) on the living room rug. The women all wanted to scream and jump up on chairs, but were afraid this would distract the cat and the mouse would get away. All in all, a most amusing scene.
I have a 13 pound cat, orange tabby and a 7 pound yorkie. Chelsea the yorkie can out snore our Teddy the tabby any night. It also sounds so sweet when they make the little yip yip sounds as they sleep. It helps me fall back to sleep listening to the two of them so sweetly sleeping. Nights can be long sometimes but when you hear them snoozing it puts things back together so one can snooze with them.
We had three cats..feral mother and different fathers. Sushi had a Siamese dad and was a wild one. She would bring baby snakes in thru the dog door, play with them on the hardwood floors until they would freeze from terror, then just leave them. I(a true snake hater) would find them either curled up in the kitchen corner or slowly moving down the halls. YIKE! We finally figured her roadmap out and shut down the door, but not before I had some interesting moments. Pets do provide entertainment.
marsh, I used to work at a research institute in the midwest. One morning when I showed up, there were a bunch of men and a few women standing at the doorway, refusing to go in. The door opened onto a landing, with staircases leading up and down. Turned out one of the mice who had been in some sort of research project had gotten out, and was sitting on one of the stairs. None of the MEN would use either of the staircases, for fear the mouse would jump on them.
Poor mouse was terrified. I fetched a small box from my car and held it out next to the stair she was on. She promptly scuttled into its dark interior, and I closed the lid. Men could now go to work.
The animal research group couldn't use the mouse now because they didn't know what she might have gotten exposed to. I didn't want her euthanized, so I got a cage from them, and kept her on my desk for the rest of her little life. When I was going to be working at my desk for a while, I'd let her out to play. I was working on some classified programs, and she sometimes nibbled on the documents I used. I've often wondered if the institute ever got into trouble, trying to explain how carefully guarded classified docs got nibbled on by rodents.
I have 2 Chihuahuas and several cats. Actually I have been to many cat shows and shown my own cats. I have Golden Persians. Since my husband's AD it has been very difficult to get to any cat shows. That is on my list of things to get arranged so I can attend another show. I have a lovely boy that I started showing and would like to get his grand championship.
Yes, some cat show people are snobs, but I don't think that I'm one of those. I let people hold my cats at shows !!!!
It's been my experience that cat show people are very friendly -- they even had the good sportsmanship to root for the competition -- and I had a lot of fun wandering around talking with the owners and ooh-ing and ahh-ing over their babies. I think what I liked so much about cat vs dog shows is that the cat shows are more informal. I mean, you can't exactly get a cat to pose on a stand or parade around in a ring on a leash. Everyone there loves 'em, so everyone enjoys it when the cats behave like cats. I came within a hair of buying a Somali -- just gorgeous!!! -- but was told they have to have outdoor time. We have coyotes outdoors here. That scratched that idea.
Somali's are a bit like trapeze artist. They like to move around at the top of a room. Persians are called couch potatoes and with good reason. Although the younger ones are fairly busy. Once grown they consider themselves purely there for decoration and admiration. Mine are certainly good companionship. They love to be cuddled and babied. They also come to take care of me when I'm stressed. There is always a smooch and a paw reaching out to touch my arm or face in compassion.
I used to have a calico who appeared to be part Persian. She certainly seemed to think she was purely there for decoration, admiration, coddling, and spoiling. I guess I must have agreed with her, because that's what she got, for 21 years.