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las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1647
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 2:46 pm: | 
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Does anybody else have cats who do this? What's it all about? I've got a third who is never included.
 
 
Meow.
Lynn |
letters
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Username: Letters016
Post Number: 516
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 3:29 pm: |
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Maybe the third one is bi-polar. |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1648
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 3:32 pm: |
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Nice to read you being funny, letters. Guess that scream into the storm window helped.  |
letters
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Username: Letters016
Post Number: 517
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 3:45 pm: |
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I'm doing better, thanks.
Besides, we all knew somebody had to say it.... |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4787
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 4:20 pm: |
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Sounds like another poster's cats! Two of his get along great. The other hides in the closet most of the time. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7355
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 4:32 pm: |
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What's really weird is that #1 & #2 used to do that. The, after #1 was gone, #2 & #3 did it. Now, #4 & #5 do it. They even turn over in their sleep together. |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1649
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 5:12 pm: |
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So it's transferrable...
Any idea what it's about? So much of what they do is related to the big cats, but I just don't know about this. It always facsinates me, and I always wonder if #3 feels left out, or if he even cares. |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1371
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 5:32 pm: |
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they are like a giant kitty yin yang |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1650
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 5:39 pm: |
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Did yours do that Doula? |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1373
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 6:10 pm: |
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Sometimes, but they were like Abbott & Costello - one big, one little, one more the alpha cat (although he was younger/smaller)...yours seem more like two peas in a pod - mine stayed in differnt pods most of the time! |
Calliope
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Username: Calliope
Post Number: 133
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 6:32 pm: |
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Great pictures, las!
What you have here (ahem---adjusting glasses, and assuming a professorial tone)is a case of "mirroring behavior".
These two are pair bonded.
Any two cats, any combination of sexes can become pairbonded (mostly it is male/female) and not all of them bond ---sometimes in multi-cat households, they all just bond with their person, or sometimes they don't bond at all.
Most mammal pairs do this to some extent---including humans. Usually you can spot it in newly dating couples,(one crosses legs at the same time and direction as the other) and in those who have been together 20+years. Some kind of synchronicity.
I have no idea why this is.
There most be a budding anthropologist here somewhere.
Mine do it. The big one sleeps in a U-shape, and the little one sleeps in the u.
Anyway, it is sweet.
Calli |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1651
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 6:39 pm: |
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Calli, I saw your name and knew you'd have an answer!
It always makes me melt.
Any one else have synchronious bonding photos? |
Calliope
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Username: Calliope
Post Number: 134
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 6:50 pm: |
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Is your creamsicle cat Ernie?
If so, hmmmm, has he accepted your proposal?
His heart may belong to another.
Very Cute---sadly I have no pictures---by the time I get the camera, my big guy has dematerialized---he fears the little silver box will steal his soul.
Calli |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1652
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 6:55 pm: |
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Actually, what you said makes sense, Calli. These two bond with each other, but Ernie (my fiancé) bonds with me (found him at three weeks of age).
I always find them so facsinating! |
Calliope
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Username: Calliope
Post Number: 135
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 7:24 pm: |
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EeeeK! You are Ernie's MOM! Better rethink this marriage!
I love cats (I love dogs too, and most other living creatures----can't warm up to bugs, though)
They are so interesting, and constantly surprising. I spent most of my life brainwashed that cats were "sneaky" or "aloof",and while I always liked them individually I never wanted one. Then one found her way into my heart 25 years ago. (just lost her 3 years ago)and I haven't been without a cat since. Mine are truly, deeply sensitive and affectionate---there is nothing aloof about them. There is something so satisfying about listening to beautiful music,and being accompanied by a warm, purring cat on your lap.
I may always yearn for a dog, but I'll never be without a cat.
Yours are very beautiful, and very special.
They cherish you.
Calli
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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 2208
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 7:36 pm: |
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My former cats Moon Pie and Boo-boo used to do that - so incredibly cute. I have a picture of hte two of them on a sofa like your upper right photo - but at either corner of the photo, with a third cat (my then-roommate's) perched on top of the couch in between in a perfectly symmetrical traingle.
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Michael K. Mc Kell
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Username: Greenerose
Post Number: 876
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 9:49 pm: |
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I have nine cats. I lost count of the amount of stupid things they do. |
tabby
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Username: Tabby
Post Number: 272
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 10:22 pm: |
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We have always had 4 felines, 2 boys and 2 girls....quite interesting to see if/how they paired off. Of our current 4, we have a menage a trois...the young Siamese girl cuddles up separately to both of the boys. (Siamese can be such sluts, I guess because they are exotic and know they are hotties) We have great pictures of her with each boyfriend. Our other girl is a bit more solitary and prefers human company more than feline.
I don't have any pictures on my laptop at home, so will upload some tomorrow.
Purrrrrrrrr |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 3818
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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Tsunami-like Thread Drift:
My Favorite Cat Names:
Aloysius
Gizmo
Madame
Puddy
Soren
Spalding
-s. |
tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4250
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 8:45 am: |
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Do they make cat exercise wheels along the lines of those used by hamsters? And, if they do, how to you provide a incentive for cats to use these wheels. My concern is the tendency of cats to devolve into large amoebae when living the life of suburban luxury. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 7362
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 9:20 am: |
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I have fishing poles with furry mice or long pieces of flannel attached. Mine go nuts with them, bouncing around like kittens. I gave one to my friend's 14 y/o cat & he does the same thing. Cats need to be actively played with.
Or, let a mouse loose in the house. That usually gives them a good workout. |
Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 321
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 10:55 am: |
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Or let 'em out and they'll bring in their own mice to torture (yuck!).
My three sibling cats still occasionally bond. None of the cats will bond with the evil growling anorexic (and sooo cute!) Abysinian, however. |
breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 858
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 2:28 pm: |
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Do cats dream? Jr. b is doing a science project in which he hypothesizes that they do. However, he has observed REM sleep on the part of our two kitties exactly this many times so far: zero times. It doesn't help that he tends to join them in snoozes instead of observing their snoozes.
We are scrambling to figure out what to put on the project display board besides cute cat pictures. Yes, we will graph that zero. We will write up a list of things observed: "cat wakes up a little, licks bottom, goes back to sleep." He needs to science this thing up. If some good suggestions follow, he could print out this post and the good suggestion post and glue them to the board. Desperate times chez b. |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1655
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 3:17 pm: |
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Whenever my non-polarity cat escapes to outside he chases butterflies and whatnots and leaps about in graceful slow-motion as if it were his dream come true. Does that count? |
tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4251
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 3:18 pm: |
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"licks bottom" sounds so pedestrian. I would write, "grooms posterior" followed by, "apparently lost train of thought and returned to sleep." |
breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 859
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 4:12 pm: |
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Las--It might help, if you had a cute picture of this activity, which we could glue onto the science project board. We could caption it: "Possible dream of a cat."
TJohn--This is science! The observation has to be in the exact words of jr. b. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5333
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 9:19 pm: |
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Well, cats definitely do dream. You have to catch them during their serious sleeping time of day, which is usually the middle of the day (as opposed to at night).
Our cats will twitch their paws, and make other movements when they are in a deep sleep - dreaming of chasing those birds that they watch during the day, I suppose.
I like the term used for this thread title, "cat polarity". We have the same phenomenon, but we call it "synchronized sleeping". Or sometimes, "cat shui". |
breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 861
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:51 am: |
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Jr. b and I think they dream, too. Why wouldn't they? But the hypothesis has not been proven at our house, which lacks a sleep lab. Memo to self: next time grow rye grass in sun v. dark, compare detergent brands, or blow something up. Anything besides a project requiring patient observation over a period of hours! |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1659
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 11:03 am: |
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Last night my cat dreamed I left a plate of grilled chicken breasts on the kitchen counter and he got to lick them unattended for hours.
oh, wait, that actually happened. |
catmanjac
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Username: Catmanjac
Post Number: 147
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 2:24 pm: |
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Cats do dream, and go into REM sleep. Besides this and body movements, sometimes they moan or make other noises. And I will assume that one of mine, although he can't experience REM, also dreams (he was born without eyes). |
tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4252
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 3:02 pm: |
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Given the feline attention span, they must be short dreams. Dream-lick bottom-dream-lick bottom-dream-eat-lick bottom-dream-shed-lick bottom-dream. |
breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 865
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 4:16 pm: |
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In the interest of science, I should point out that our poor beasties have been neutered & spayed. |
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