Fellow felines, tell us your grievances!

[Spock and Dracs]

Coco's thread about minding her own business and being brutally disturbed by a human flashing a light into her eyes made us wonder what other cats on this Board have to endure.

Ann once had the nerve to accuse Dracs of clawing the carpet. All because he happened to have a carpet coloured piece of wool caught on one of his claws. What kind of evidence is that? And why shouldn't he have a good strop if he wants to? What are carpets for when all's said and done?

The way she disturbs us when we're settled on her lap is downright criminal. There's absolutely no need whatsoever for her to get up just because someone phones, the doorbell rings, she wants a cup of tea or a glass of wine.

So come on all of you! Now's the chance to let off some steam and tell us all about your unfair treatment by selfish humans.

Spock and Dracs

[Maria]

Bella, Liffey and Pie reply:-

S & D - we know exactly what you mean. Only tonight, the male human got up from the sofa and was highly offended when Liffey leapt onto the warm spot he'd left behind. Do the humans fail to realise that the sofa actually belongs to us?

Another thing - have you ever noticed that humans have a tendency to want to go to sleep at night? This is the prime time for games and lunatic chases around the house.

But our biggest, biggest complaint concerns the occasional human habit to be 'Absent Without Leave'. It's terrible. Some virtual stranger moves in while they are away.....and granted, we get good food. The stranger tries to be nice to us (sucker!!), but it's just not right! When the humans return they have the audacity to hug us and tell us how much they missed us. If they miss us that much, why do they do it?

B.L.P.

[Chaos_and_Company]

First we would like to commend Spock and Dracs, that dynamic duo, on their intuitive ability to come up with such a superb idea,for cats to air their pet peeves.

Sunday night I came down with an inner ear infection. When I would try to walk in my graceful manner, I would find myself face down on the carpet. I couldn't understand why I was so dizzy, it was as if I had ingested a ton of catnip and got sloshed.

Very early the next morning my brothers found Bobbie in the living room crying her eyes out. I decided to follow my brothers to see what was going on for myself.

There she was boo who-ing all over the place. Mumbling about poor little Chaos whatever will I do with out him...and on and on she went. As I came down the hallway, she spotted me, and that set her off, into another wave of water works.
I thought to myself, what are you crying for, I'm the one falling, and lurching about.
Get a grip on yourself, you silly woman!

I don't know if any of you have ever seen a grown human wailing away, believe me it is not a pretty sight, Their faces turn red, their eyes get all puffy, and they are constantly making loud, honking, noises with their nose. Which is very disconcerting, to say the least...
Thank goodness she pulled herself together, before she became a basket case.

Bobbie made a phone call, went downstairs to the garage and brought back that God Awful pet carrier.
I fell down on the carpet at her feet, trying to look as pathetic as I could, hoping that she would take pity on me, and not put me in that carrier. I even tried all my charming wiles, but to no avail, then as a last resort, I tried the dead weight ploy.

What does she do? Stuffs me in that carrier, as if she was stuffing a turkey!
All the time saying, "I'm going to take you to see Dr. Feel Good, and he is going to make you feel much better."
Humph! Doctor Feel Good my paw!! (for lack of a better word!) I knew where I was headed to... The VETS! She wasn't fooling me... I must say, I didn't just fall off the turnip cart.

Got to the Vets and the receptionist looked at me and said, "Oh you poor sick kitty."
I looked at her and meowed, "Put a sock in it lady!!"
After being prodded, stuck with needles and having my temperature taken, I can tell you I was one pretty annoyed cat.
Back into the carrier and home I came, not very happy about my experience, but that wasn't the end of it.

Oh no, now adding insult to injury, twice a day they wrapped me up like a Egyptian Mummy, and pry open my mouth, and squirt this abominable tasting stuff in my mouth, all the time telling me, that it is for my own good. Now fellow felines I ask you, is that anyway to treat a dignified, and loving Cat?

Recuperating in Georgia
Chaos

[Spock and Dracs]

Chaos, you poor soul, that's exactly the kind of thing we're trying to highlight. There you were, not yourself, just wanting to be left to get on with things and what happens? Bobbie subjects you to all sorts of indignities and discomforts. Will they never learn?

All that messing you around, not to mention Bobbie trying to poison you with strange substances, and keeping you awake with her noise can't possibly be helping you. That's another thing we've noticed. What strange fetish is it that humans have, that they wait until we're in a weakened state and then try to force foreign bodies down our throats? Talk about adding insult to injury! They have absolutely no sensitivity.

We just hope you're able to rise above it all and will get better soon despite everything.

Bella, Liffey and Pie,

You are SO right!

Spock and Dracs

[Vicki]

Gracie here. I want to say I become very annoyed when my human tries to hug the stuffings out of me. I mean she actually tells me I'm "squishy" which is why she likes to "squish" me.

How undignified.

She talks to me when I don't care to be bothered. She evne sings to me. I mean I ask you, how much is a cat supposed to endure?

She never has enough people in the house to fuss over me. I love people. She needs to have more of them around to admire me.

She gives me lots of attention but not always when I want it.

Also she leaves me almost everyday telling me she is going to a place called "work." She didn't do that when I first moved in with her. I hope she isn't getting tired of me. H'mm maybe I had better allow her to squish me just a little. Just to humor her, after all, she is only human.

[steandjaki]

hola, spook here. as you can see i speak perfect english however this ability must remain top secret between we felines, as my two humans still have no idea that i understand everything they say. i can even spell - C A T is cat of course! anyway now that summer's here what have my humans gone and done? closed all the windows and put the airconditioning on. my whiskers tinkle they're so cold! so there's no running out onto the lounge balcony, then onto the bedroom balcony, then into the bedroom, then into the lounge, then onto the lounge balcony, then onto the.......... get the picture? even i get dizzy. roll on autumn.

spook

[Spock and Dracs]

Spook,

ALL humans are completely selfish. Why should you have to suffer just because it gets warm outside? Your humans are just like Ann, no thought for anyone else. Don't they own handkerchiefs to mop their brows? And how could a little case of dehydration compare with the severe discomfort you're going through?

Spock and Dracs

[Bailey]

Miles always gets up at 4:00am, even on the weekends...but he never wants to play, he just wants to fix coffee (I've tried it, it's pretty yucky...can't understand how he can drink that stuff...). My Mom (Ribbons) always wakes him up just before that clock thingy starts making that horrible noise and he always tells her how good she is for waking him right on time, and she gets lots of pats and cuddles....so I thought if woke him up sooner I'd get some too, and he'd have some time to play with me before he has to go make the yucky coffee....so I've been doing this all week....but do I get lots of pats and stuff when I wake him....?? Nooooo....he just looks at the clock thingy and says "Bailey, it's only 3:15....it's not time for Daddy to get up yet...." But I find if I keep walking on him and purr real loud in his face (humans are such suckers for that), he WILL get up...but will he play with me....? Nooooo...he goes and makes that yucky coffee....!

[Silk]

Bailey

You are so right about humans and their stupid 'rituals' coming above cuddles an playtime in their preferences.

Like you I used to try and wake them up before the clock made that horrid noise, and even when I did manage to get them up early they went to make coffee first.

However Silk (the cat, not Mark the human who also calls himself Silk at times) found a way to PAY them back, and he washes their toes if they does anything that is not feeding us or petting us first.

As for being 'Extra helpfull' I am afraid this is also a lost cause as I has been finding out. You see when one of them gets up, the other often lies their still soundin like a bear in a cave, so I thought that to be fair they should both be awake, as if they was both up they could do all 'those things' quicker and therefore have more time for us sooner.
So I started sneaking in, when the other one gets up and helping the other one wake up by washing whatever bits I can find (see I is even helping them wash, coz they spends way too much time in that bathroom anyway). But do I get thanks?
NO!
All I gets is
'Drizzit stop that it tickles!' or 'Drizzit don't pleeesse!' or even screams and noises worser than the alarm clock. I dunno, all I was trying to do was help...

Drizzt
(using Silks posts, coz he has more imprtant fings to do than works out how to sign up fer his own mail)