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Obviously, you have never met my black kitty Mongo.......and anyone who has seen "Blazing Saddles" will know where the name originated...and yes, it definitely fits!
"Mongo only pawn in game of life." One of my all-time favorite quotes from one of my all-time favorite movies!!
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It's frustrating, I know, but what a smart cat!!! I had a cat very much like Capt. Jack! His name was Snafu (but we called him Mr. Poops), and he figured out how to open a door using the handle. Until I figured out it was him opening my door, I was freaked out thinking that someone was prowling inside my apartment!
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Man, I almost killed our cat this morning! He was drinking out of my mug, again!
I guess I will have to watch my back from now on. You know how they are... waiting to strike..
I think Capt. Jack gets bored or he is looking for varmits in the cabinets...
I know! Bean and Grayson both have done that to me! I went by the twins apartment yesterday, and was sitting on the floor.... I had a large cup of Vanillia Nut coffee from Sheetz sitting beside me... Bean walked over and tried to get his tongue in the little sipper hole! They were always drinking out of my coffee and hot tea when they lived here!
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Oh, I forgot to tell you what trouble my kitty got into. I have a 10 month old Tonkinese (half Siamese, half Burmese) named Snowy. He is beautiful, but dumb as a brick. We also have a 6 year old Burmese named Toby who I would swear understands everything I say... except "no more treats" lol
Last month I got my first ever cashmere sweater. Thank goodness it was on clearance. I put it in my closet on the shelf with my sweaters. That night, while DH and I were trying to sleep, the cats were running through the room a lot, and Toby was meowing quite a bit. We tried to yell at them to knock it off and be quiet (like they would listen to me). Well, when I woke up, DH was coming up the stairs with my sweater. Seems he found it downstairs - the kitten dragged it out of my closet, across my room and down the stairs into the dining room where he proceeded to chew several nice holes into it!!!
I have decided I am not meant to have cashmere...
I am the one who convinced DH we needed another cat...
Beth
I found the pic I took of Bean trying to turn the light switch on... the flash was on the camera... so it's brighter than the dark bathroom was! He had just turned the light out on Tim again!
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It's awfully hard to be brave when you're such a small animal..." Piglet Marsha
I found the pic I took of Bean trying to turn the light switch on... the flash was on the camera... so it's brighter than the dark bathroom was! He had just turned the light out on Tim again!
My son shuddered when he heard about this! lol He's glad our lightswitch for the bathroom is outside in the hall, where the cats can't reach it. He would have a heart attack!
LOL The vanity is right beside the light switch... he's pretty much gave Tim a pretty good fright! He also likes to sit on the edge of the tub and play in the water while you take a bath!
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The Cap'n sounds like a typical black domestic short-hair cat.
All three of our black cats prowl around the pantry. It's under the stairs and DJ can't get into the back side of the pantry to chase them. Which would be fine if they didn't chew through every package of ramen noodles and bag of rice. Messy little buggers.
BTW - we had so many catnip "incidents", we now store the catnip in the freezer. They chewed through their Christmas stockings, wrapping paper, and 2 plastic bags to get to their Wild Buds catnip one Christmas.
My black cat, Midnight has now learned to turn the hall light on and off. He jumps up and hits the switch with his paws and it comes and and then does it again and turns it off. This is th second cat I've had that can do this. My late DH didn't believ the first cat could turn lights on and off until he actually saw it. Midnight is a Hemingway cat with extra toes on his front paws so he uses them like hands.
Liz
. . . Last month I got my first ever cashmere sweater. Thank goodness it was on clearance. I put it in my closet on the shelf with my sweaters. That night, while DH and I were trying to sleep, the cats were running through the room a lot, and Toby was meowing quite a bit. We tried to yell at them to knock it off and be quiet (like they would listen to me). Well, when I woke up, DH was coming up the stairs with my sweater. Seems he found it downstairs - the kitten dragged it out of my closet, across my room and down the stairs into the dining room where he proceeded to chew several nice holes into it!!!
I have decided I am not meant to have cashmere...
I am the one who convinced DH we needed another cat...
Beth
I had a siamese cat do the same thing to my white cashmere sweater!
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