The Cat Megathread

[Razgovory]

I'm going to get my a camera and photograph each of my Kitties.

[DontSayBanana]

I'm going to get my a camera and photograph each of my Kitties.

And your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!

[Lettow77]

Are 2D cats okay? Because I can't hold all these cats



  This anime was replete with cats. It delved into the secret words of cats. I attempt to enter this world frequently, but they are a reticent bunch.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Recently Cosmic Creepers has suddenly developed deafness. When I brought her to the vet they found a cataract in each eye that wasn't there six months ago.

[CountDeMoney]

This anime was replete with cats. It delved into the secret words of cats. I attempt to enter this world frequently, but they are a reticent bunch.

That's because cats have an innate sixth sense of detecting assclowns.

[sbr]

My three-legged cat is supposedly around 16-17 years old, she doesn't seem that old though.

We adopted her back in December '02 and they guessed she was  7-8 at the time.  There were no vet records or anything else so I really have no idea.

[CountDeMoney]

Hiker missing for almost a month found alive in NM forest; huddled with cat when temps dropped
By Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Snuggling in a blue sleeping bag, Margaret Page and her cat survived 3 1/2 weeks in a rugged New Mexico national forest, even though temperatures dropped below freezing nearly every night.

Family members reported her missing Feb 14. But for various reasons, authorities didn't start searching for her until this week. The 41-year-old Page, who has a history of mental illness, was found Wednesday emaciated and malnourished but well-hydrated.

Relying on a creek for drinking water, Page and her cat named Miya lived on just a handful of supplies, rescue workers said Friday. The nearest town — tiny Dusty, N.M. — was 10 miles away.

"Her cat was in better shape than she was," said Marc Levesque, New Mexico State Police Search and Rescue incident commander. "Her cat was also hunting. (Page) ran out of food a while back."

Page apparently purposefully hiked off a trail between Feb. 10 and Feb. 12. A Forest Service law enforcement agent spotted her silver Chevy passenger car on Feb. 12, but didn't think much of it because hikers leave vehicles near trails all the time, said Lt. Robert McDonald, a spokesman for the state police.

Another Forest Service agent noticed the car on Feb. 25 but didn't contact state police until 10 days later. Members of the Grant County Search and Rescue and other crews began the search for Page on Tuesday after her family notified state police that Page's car had been found at a campground.

She was found the following day about a mile up the Railroad Canyon Trail in an area known as the Black Range.

The area had seen average highs reach around 60 degrees with evening lows in the 20s. It didn't see much rain or snow, but there were some high winds.

Authorities don't believe Page intended to stay in the forest for as long as she did when she first set up camp, and they aren't sure what she ate after she ran out of food.

"She is an experienced backpacker," search crew leader Dave Kuthe said. "She had adequate shoes...she just took a bag of pretzels with her."

Also, Page's car was towed as crews began their search mission — something Robert Matulich, a field certified member of the Dona Ana County Search and Rescue team, said was unusual. Crews sometime use vehicles to give the search dogs a scent to use, he said.

"It looks to me like somebody dropped the ball on this one," Matulich told the Silver City Sun-News (http://bit.ly/wkSzoB). "Why'd they tow the truck? Who towed the truck?"

Levesque said by the time Page arrived at Gila Regional Medical Center she was alert and articulate, even though she had lost about 20 to 25 pounds during the ordeal.

She checked herself out late Wednesday and spent the night in a Silver City hotel. And she's been reunited with her cat.

[mongers]

If all mad cat women show that degree of hardiness, the world is condemned to a quaint, grey, dusty end.

[Razgovory]

Lettow, have you tried Elliot's Book of Practical Cats?  Seems like something you might like.

[Lettow77]

 Sounds worth looking into. I'll check it out.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Lettow, have you tried Elliot's Book of Practical Cats?  Seems like something you might like.

Better yet, go see the musical. 


My cat hisses at her's, but integration continues, slowly.

[Razgovory]

Lettow, have you tried Elliot's Book of Practical Cats?  Seems like something you might like.

Better yet, go see the musical. 


My cat hisses at her's, but integration continues, slowly.

Yeah, I avoided that.  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is pleasant fun though.

[CountDeMoney]

Cat plunges 19 stories from high-rise, and walks away
Msnbc.com





Sugar the cat, left, survived a 19-story fall from her owner's home in Boston, center. At right is the spot where she landed.



Sugar, a white furry cat who is deaf, plunged 19 floors from a window in a high-rise building in Boston and – aided by her fall into a tiny mulch patch and the feline's ability to glide a la the "flying squirrel" – lived to walk another day, animal rescue officials say.

A woman in the West End building said she saw a "white streak" go by her window early Wednesday afternoon and then saw Sugar after she hit the ground, said Mike Brammer, assistant manager of the animal rescue services department at the Animal Rescue League of Boston.

"You could see the impact crater where she actually did hit the ground and she actually lost some fur in the hole, too," Brammer said.
The cat's small landing spot is surrounded by brick and concrete.

"Whether cats can sometimes aim, so if it did it itself or if it was a combination of luck or both ... it managed to hit that small patch of mulch, so it was very soft ground," he said.

After bouncing up from her fall of 150-200 feet, Sugar ran near the building, rather than out onto the nearby highway.

"Instead of, you know, being scared and just running out into traffic, she somehow hit the best spot and stayed near the building," he added. "So it was very fortuitous on many different levels."

Sugar, who was tended to by the building concierge before rescue officials arrived, suffered a small cut on her lip and a little bruising, including some to her lungs.

"Considering what she had been through, she was in really good shape," he said.

The feline, about 4.5 years old, was aided in her fall by dynamics akin to the "flying squirrel" phenomenon, Brammer said.

"You notice where their legs attach to the body, they have ... the extra fur right there," he said. If they put their legs out, "they're able to glide a little bit and control ... where they are going, and then I guess supposedly they can use their tail and move their body as a rudder to kind of control where they want to go."

And ironically, the height may have helped her, he added, noting that a rescue league veterinarian shared information about a study on cats falling from tall heights.

"What happens is that the higher up, they reach terminal velocity and so I guess the sensation isn't that they're still falling. It kind of levels out so they don't feel as stressed and they relax a little bit," he said.

The Animal Rescue League was able to track the owner through the microchip and with help from the building.

Sugar's owner, Brittney Kirk, a 32-year-old registered nurse, said at first she didn't think her cat had made it. She had left the window open due to the warm weather because she didn't want Sugar to be in a hot apartment.

"It just seemed so unreal ... my thought was obviously that she didn't make it," she said. "I was definitely relieved and kind of in disbelief ... if there were a cat to fall 19 stories and to be fine, I think it would definitely be Sugar, because she's a pretty special cat."

[CountDeMoney]

In related news, right now a dog is eating that cat's shit out of her litter box.

[Razgovory]

What luck, I have cat related news.  I'm taking my cat to the vet tomorrow.  I think she has a urinary tract problem.