Comments on: Friday Cat Blogging

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:13:52 +0000

He is actually a dark gray and black classic tabby with white feet and chest markings.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:21:22 +0000

Mikey hates everyone….hmmm, where did I hear something similar before? Cute kitty. He looks almost like a tortoiseshell. However, I realize torties are most often female.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:45:20 +0000

Mikey is a feral tom, so his is a life filled with dominance fights and trips across some seven lane roads in the area to patrol his “domain.” I suspect that someone has tried to trap him and that soured him on humanity, or he could have been born contrary and never changed.

I got them after high school, Badtux, and you would think that they would understand a little more about how things work, but you can still see people with great promise and ability throw it away that late in the process. But to have made it that far means that someone cared and did their job to get them to college.

By: Lab Kat

Lab Kat — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:53:44 +0000

That look alone could burn a hole in your shirt.

By: ellroon

ellroon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:39:04 +0000

Thank you for being on the front lines, Badtux. I’m sorry your Mikey didn’t make it, but you did touch his life. A mark of a good teacher.

And as for THIS Mikey, it says a lot about you, Bryan, that you’d continue to feed such a grumpy puss. His life must have been very rough, poor kitty.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:12:24 +0000

Is there a cat on the planet that does not have a quirk? I’ve never seen a hostile cat when food is in the offing though!

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:13:48 +0000

I once taught a kid who was like that. Mikey hated everything and everybody. I counted it one of the few successes of my teaching career when Mikey intervened on behalf of a kid he hated because, he said quietly of that other kid (who was softly crying because he hadn’t earned a privilege), “I know how he feels.”

Mikey is dead now, of course. He was selling black tar on the streets by the time he was twelve. Doing drive-bys by age fifteen. You know the story. So it goes. So it goes. And nobody dares to care, or do a damned thing for all the Mikeys out there. Yeah, I’m in a really good mood today, aren’t I?

By: Modulator

Modulator — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:54:49 +0000

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By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:36:06 +0000

Mikey no likey. Yikey!