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Yeah I had the same sit going on earlier this morning. They make a lot of racket on the laminate floor. 😁
Ollie, the little guy on bottom, is ten months old and a wild child. Every night around 11 PM he starts hauling ass around the house, doing trampoline leaps across furniture and running wild. It's one of the reasons I want to replace our first generation laminate, it makes a real racket.
 

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Gurlfriend's cat...
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Awww, Mr. Hardass becoming a softie 👍

I have 2 of them that sleep on/between my legs every night. I've tried sleeping on my side but they balance themselves on my leg. Bastards don't move, they feel like sandbags when it comes time to take the old man whiz.
 

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All night long last night.
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Awww, Mr. Hardass becoming a softie 👍

I have 2 of them that sleep on/between my legs every night. I've tried sleeping on my side but they balance themselves on my leg. Bastards don't move, they feel like sandbags when it comes time to take the old man whiz.
Same with me. Zoom parks on the left side of my torso, and doesn't want to move when it's time for the 5 AM rewhiz.

I just woke him up to show him this thread, he's doing his usual mid-afternoon nap that runs from 12:05 to 6:58. Next is the early evening nap, which stretches from 7:03 to 11:51, and after a short trip to the litter robot, it's time for bed at 12:05 AM.

He busts it hard.

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I've always had a cat or two, best to get them young and try and influence / train them. They are very observant and intelligent, but it takes like 30 seconds for them to comprehend what your asking or showing them what to do even when trained, dogs seem to understand quicker. Cats do best with a very regimented schedule. I adopted a couple of random rescue females about 3 years ago at young ages. Both are very loving but in different ways. One is clingy, loves sleeping on me and other people she is comfortable with and isn't afraid of the vacuum cleaner, lawn mower, weed eater or any other loud devise most animals are, but wont go near people she doesn't know.

The other female cat is super jealous, but wants affection and thumps on the other cat when she isn't the center of attention and is very outgoing with new people and dogs at the house. The aggressive female cat is a flat out killer, she will kill and eat rabbits her own size or larger, drags rats, mice, shrews, bats in the house through the cat door, when she's done playing with them lets them go. The clingy cat will track them down and show me where they are and try and kill them, but she is only about 8 pounds and not nearly as confident of the other cat.

The bully cat ( Penny) intimidates the clingy cat ( Bella) constantly, every once in a while Bella will let loose and kick Penny's ass, but it doesn't happen nearly enough though. Cats have the same personality traits as people, just more simplified in my experience, but most are straight up apex predators, just small.

My mom loves Siamese cats and when I was in JR high one of my friends who was dirt poor said his mom had a cat she wanted to get rid of. My mom went and picked her up, she was about 2 years old, pure bread Seal Point Siamese, and had to fight for her food with dozens of other cats in that household. She had already had a couple litters of kittens when my mom got her.
Mom named her Bandit, and that was the toughest, meanest animal I have ever experienced. That cat loved my mom, but god dam, you could not go near it when it was eating even when it was 18 YO. At one point we were living in Citrus Heights CA and had Hells Angels living in a rental house across the street. They had pitbulls and were breeding them. My mom was breeding Bandit and selling the kittens at the time. Well, some of the Pit pups got under our fence and Bandit went to town, then the momma pit entered the fray. Bandit fucked that pit momma up bad, the hells angels demanded that my parents pay for the vet bill. My dad told them to fuck off. The results of that are an entirely different story, my dad was a fucking bad ass!

That same cat fucked up one of my brothers one night. I was about 15 and we had a cat named Rocky ( my dad named him that because when the cat tried to sleep on him he would throw it against the wall and it would never get injured, he was like a rock and was born before me in 1969) who was almost 20YO at the time. Bandit had been a part of the family for +/- 6 years and she looked after the almost blind and deaf Rocky. One of my brothers had been at a friends house and was playing with his friends dog in the rain. My brother came home and laid down on the living room floor and thought it was funny that Rocky could smell dog and got all puffed up. So my brother started barking and growling like a dog, and Rocky started hissing. Bandit came flying in like a WWE wrestler, claws out, airborne and ginsued my brother face and forehead like a fucking ninja. My brother dam near lost an eye and had to have dozens of stitches to his for head and diagonally across his face.
 
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