Friday Cat Blogging

by Bryan

6 comments

1 ellroon { 03.20.15 at 4:11 pm }

Go beat him up, Bryan! Can’t have your pile of kittens worried about bullies!

2 Bryan { 03.20.15 at 4:45 pm }

GP is moving through because I’m out there. He would move a lot faster if I had my Super Soaker Master Blaster in my hands. He is way too familiar with what the SSMB does at 2AM when he’s picking on another tom near my house.

His staff have complained, but I tell them that if they don’t want a soaking wet cat, neuter him.

3 Steve Bates { 03.21.15 at 10:52 pm }

“trouble-making large orange tabby tom”

The words “trouble-making” could probably be omitted without loss of meaning…

We have a relatively new large orange tabby (presumably-)tom in this neighborhood, but he hasn’t paused in our yard even long enough for us to take a pic. He probably fears that if he pauses, we might sic Lily on him… Esther is potentially meaner when riled, but Lily is twice the sheer mass of any other cat in the neighborhood, and has a voice to match. (Lily will actually carry on a meowing dialog with a human, but you have to wait ’til she starts it. She has quite a vocabulary, actually.)

4 Bryan { 03.21.15 at 11:45 pm }

The majority of orange tabbies I’ve known have been neutered toms, and they were very friendly, lap-filling cats without a lot of ambitions beyond getting their ears scratched. I had to drench this fool a dozen times before he figured out why he was getting wet.

Lily was spayed before the sex stereotype developed and is a very large kitten in many ways related to behavior. She would probably have fun mixing it up with another cat and feel like it was play.

Koshka would ‘talk’ to me, but most of the others have been almost mute. It is fun playing with them, as long as you accept that they get to choose the time and place.

5 Kryten42 { 03.22.15 at 9:55 pm }

Yeah… It seems orange tabbies are generally born trouble makers! We had one when i was a teen, Mom called him Marmaduke. He was a tiny kitten that fit on one hand when we got him, and he grew, and grew… Should have called him Garfield! He had the same temperament and attitude. Lazy and foul tempered and only exercised when food was involved. Only cat we ever had I didn’t like, and it was mutual. Though, he didn’t like anyone. But he was rightly scared of Mom. After being booted hard a couple times when the claws came out, he did the sane thing and took off when Mom was around. 😀

Great pic! Easy to see they are not at all happy about the invader. 🙂

6 Bryan { 03.23.15 at 10:25 am }

With toms it’s a coin toss, they are either the best or worst cats you will ever have. Neutering really increases the probability of good, as long as they were friendly as a kitten and it takes place before they realize they’re male.

Males in the cat genus tend to be scavengers rather than hunters. They will chase other cats away from a kill, rather than making the kill on their own. Bunch of lazy sods, for the most part, who give cats a bad name. 😉