what do i do with two retarded cats?

[funkcicle]

a friend of mine has a cat that was born completely blind. The cat is about 6 years old now and knows her way all around the house.. even runs room to room like a sighted cat would, slowing down at doorways "just in case". if you pick her up and put her down somewhere else she'll walk in concentric circles to get her bearing, which usually takes only 5 or 10 seconds. She responds to voice and is very affectionate.. and is just as adventurous as any cat I've ever seen(though you can't make her chase the laser-pen). One amazing animal!

[tubatooter1940]

I had no use for cats until my wife mooched this three year old male from her sister.She said this one had character.I couldn't tell until we took the cat sailing.This guy is no help until the sails and anchor are down and all is quiet.He starts out by jettisioning all chow from both ends (using his cat box that I keep stepping in),but after that he is the best watch cat one could hope for.If a boat comes close by or if it starts to rain and the hatches are open he jumps on my chest and wakes me up.He seems to know what is irregular going on in an anchorage and I am always glad when he wakes me.Tied to a dock he jumps off our boat after dark and jumps onto every boat in the marina.Charlie is a pretty cat and the other boaters don't seem to mind when he leaps aboard thier boats.He is also a good mouser.
A cat convert,
tubatooter1940

[hurricane_harry]

well last year we just obtained a new cat. my little siter goes to the animal shelter looking for a kitten, she comes back with a fur-ball. cats a persian, we got him half off because he has herpes . i was unaware that cats were capable of being so stupid. the justification was "he lived in a cage all his life, hes just getting used to such a big open space." with-in the first few weeks we got him hilarity ensued. he'd run into walls, slide across the kitchen floor, and if you made any sudden movements while he was under the coffee table he'd just up and give himself a pretty good welt on the noggin. along with this, the first time we started a fire in the fireplace, HE TRIED TO JUMPED IN . but in his defence, this is the sweetest most affectionate cat you will ever meet, just a little bit slow.

[Chuck(G)]

a friend of mine has a cat that was born completely blind. The cat is about 6 years old now and knows her way all around the house.. even runs room to room like a sighted cat would, slowing down at doorways "just in case". if you pick her up and put her down somewhere else she'll walk in concentric circles to get her bearing, which usually takes only 5 or 10 seconds. She responds to voice and is very affectionate.. and is just as adventurous as any cat I've ever seen(though you can't make her chase the laser-pen). One amazing animal!

My wife and I volunteer with a Golden Retriever rescue group. We've seen blind dogs that will even play fetch by listening for the sound of the ball. All in all, blindness doesn't seem to bother a dog as much as it does a cat.

Our male golden isn't blind, but I think he's terribly nearsignted. He relies on our young female for navigational aid when it comes to chasing balls and finding owners.

So, dogs is very smart too..

[Dylan King]

Cats don't care what people say or want. They are intent on running their own lives. Occasionally I will blow smoke in their general direction to mellow them out.

[funkcicle]

Cats don't care what people say or want. They are intent on running their own lives. Occasionally I will blow smoke in their general direction to mellow them out.

Would that be catnip smoke?

[JB]

Sell them to tha china man working at Ton's Chinese Grill.

I'm sure he'd take them.

"...tha china man working at Ton's Chinese Grill..."

Kid, you have a LOT to learn about this world.

I'm sorry, but that statement has just gone WAY too far over the line.

Insulting, derogatory, racist, discriminatory, ignorant...

[JB]

...You're going to wear yourself out hating folks over a little bit of nothing...

besides, I've never had any cat tell me that they get upset by racist, derogatory, discriminatory, insulting, ignorant anti-cat jokes.

Nah, I'm not the one hating folks; not really my nature. And sorry, I must disagree that it was "over a little bit of nothing."

We both know it wasn't aimed at the cat, rather the "china man working at Ton's Chinese Grill" statement. That's a very nasty stereotype, perhaps out of a person too young to really know about the rascist connotations (if really stretching the benefit of the doubt, but I do not believe such is the case), but it is truly insulting.
Perhaps not to you, but certainly to others.

...Sell the cows to the white man at Billy Bob's Burger Joint..

honestly the same thing. with different nouns.

With all due respect, I do not read it as being the same thing.

[JB]

I do.

cow=cat

white man=china man

billy bob's burger joint=ton's chinese grill

Your use of "white man + billy bob's burger joint" doesn't have any of the attached implications that your other choice does.

Okay, to carry this substition idea one final step further, what if...

china man = Indian

cat = scalp

(skip the joint...)

Would you not think that someone might be offended by perpetuating a very bad and ill-deserved stereotype?

To make it blatently obvious, what if you substituted...

china man = Indian = black person

cat = scalp = watermelon

Would that not be offensive?

In modern-day usage of he English language, your use of the term "china man" is considered derogatory. Suggesting that those who own and run restaurants that serve oriental cuisine cook and eat cats is offensive. That is perpetuating a very unfair stereotype. Same as the last example above.


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[JB]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walt ... 0202.shtml

To quote your own response elsewhere:

blah, blah, blah...


Time to go watch some football Mr Bloke.

[JB]

That sounds like something only retarded cats would do.

That made me laugh.

Seems like that may be where most others are, leaving a select few here.
At least the thread returned to the original topic.


On the topic of the cats, have you considered the microwave?

[JB]

On the topic of the cats, have you considered the microwave?

http://www.peta.org/

http://www.hsus.org/

Very, very good.

[JB]

How about you sell the cats the asian chef from china so he can cook them and sell the meat to hungrey customers who wish to eat cat?

Happy JB?

You still don't get it, do you? I doubt, given what I've read, that you ever will.

Pity.



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[Dan Schultz]

My two cats are looking over my shoulder reading this thread. They want to know what a retarded cat looks like.

[ThomasDodd]

Here are my unsolicited opinions, no offense intended:
...

Amen

Though I normaly would have intended the offense. Everyshould be offended occasionally. It builds character.

[Dan Schultz]

Here's another 'cat thing' that was sent to me by a deranged ex brother-in-law a while back:

http://drakeshangout.com/video/funny/files/catvsfan.wmv

It involves a cat and a ceiling fan. Funny!

[JB]

I took American sign language at a community college last year and my hard of hearing teacher told us a story about how his cat will paw at his leg and then act like its is signing instead of meowing...

Was the cat signing like this?

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[MaryAnn]

I have two cats; one is a pain and the other is just fine.
The painful one understands words and situations perfectly fine, but seems to be in a frenzied mental state all the time. (she, BTW is half Abyssinian.)

The sweet one (alley cat) is less smart but incredibly more responsive, so she can be requested instead of threatened when I want her to do something. The frenzied one, however, comes when I call her, while the sweet one comes when the cat food can calls her.

It seems to me that the major problem with cats is getting them to understand what you want; different cats have completely different "languages"...my sweet one uses body language while the frenzied one uses a variety of vocalizations, that are distinct per circumstance. But the body language-speaking cat does better with verbal input than the vocal cat.

Go figure, huh?

MA, who likes dogs but finds them too "enthusiastic" for her taste.

[tubaman5150]

One of our very smartest cats (which I got in Lawrence, Kansas when I taught the tuba students there - prior to Scott Watson) came with us when we moved to Memphis.

Off the subject a bit:
Bloke,
You were the tuba TA before Scott arrived at KU? Were you the one responsible for "altering" a fifth floor practice room?
I've heard this story second hand and I'm starting to believe its a urban legend.

[MaryAnn]

I respectfully disagree. The major problem with cats (assuming there's a problem in the first place) is not getting them to understand what you want but getting them to believe that what you want has any bearing on what they do....

I would have disagreed with myself if I didn't own a cat who does seem to have a desire to please me; it required a lot of cat communcation learning on my part, and realizing she is not a dog. Your cat may vary.
And of course there are limits....I know better than to leave the door open on a room I don't want them in.

MA, who does not try to enforce anything when she is not present, and who probably puts up with a lot more from cats than she does from men.