Cat Quotes 1:06

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. —George Mikes

Dogs tend to be happy and just want to make us happy too. Cats don’t care if they make us happy. They are far too independent. Yet, if we want them to stick around, we need to let them know and show them we want to make them happy.

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. —George Mikes

Dogs are happy to be with us. They assume we are their pack leader. Cats like to have someone looking after them. Then they can relax and play all day long as we take care of them.

June 1, 2019 0

Catitude

This month’s cat vocabulary is a term from Twitter known as catitude also known as cat attitude. I’m sure anyone who knows cats know they have an attitude. Many people have complained about it. While those of us who love cats unconditionally rave about their attitude.

Cats are bold and brave. They aren’t afraid to deal with the world on their own terms. They don’t care what our terms are. They just take us as they find us. They tend to ignore us when they don’t want to deal with us at the moment.

At other times, they want our undivided attention. Yet, in spite of all this, no one can deny cats have real attitude.

June 1, 2019 0

Financial Report for May 2019

No new changes for the magazine or even our backup site.

Here’s the rundown for May:
no money in or out
over 1281 hits on the blog
about 659 people get the posts emailed to them
30 people follow via WordPress
66 copies sold; US$471.50 raised for Dingo Venezia from Cat Tales of the Frisky9 Scarf Army

May 31, 2019 0

Cat Quotes 1:05

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? —Montaigne

Cats are not humans. They don’t think like us. They can act differently from us. So, it’s a wonder what they think of us when we interact with them. We may never really know what the cat is thinking. Does it matter whether we completely understand cats and know what they think of us?

After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. —Charlotte Gray

Cats do understand us perhaps better than we understand them. They have a way of communicating with us that is very clever. I’ve learned about how well cats can talk and how well they can understand us from Sir Socks Le Chat. He trained me so well that I don’t tend to have trouble with cats now. He taught me how to talk to him and he was able to figure out how to talk to me so that I would understand him.

May 1, 2019 0

Feline Paralysis

This month’s cat vocabulary is the term feline paralysis which is the condition in which a person is unable to move due to a the presence of a cat on her or his lap. Any reasonable crazy cat person will not move or try to get up whenever there is a cat on their lap.

It’s just the way it is. The cat rules and knows it. The cat knows when they take it too far and when they don’t. While the crazy cat person puts up with the cat’s antics all the time.

Who wouldn’t want a purring cat on their lap? Especially when they don’t feel well?

May 1, 2019 0

Financial Report for April 2019

Another month is over and not much has changed. If nothing changes between now and October, then the last Financial Report I will do will be for September. Until then, this is how we’re doing.

Summary for April 2019:
no money in or out
over 1150 hits on the blog
about 659 people get the posts emailed to them
29 people follow via WordPress
65 copies sold; US$467.00 raised for Dingo Venezia from Cat Tales of the Frisky9 Scarf Army

April 30, 2019 0

Gattamorta

This month’s cat vocabulary is an Italian word, gattamorta, which literally means dead cat. It is used for a manipulative person. For me who adores cats, I find this somewhat disturbing. Yes, there are people like me who will do anything for a cat and the cats know it.

But does that mean they are naturally manipulative people? I don’t think so. Many cats are quiet and trust us to take care of them. Some are more vocal and quite specific about how they want to be taken care of.

I’ve lived with cats for quite a long time and I’d rather be around them than a real manipulative person any day.

April 1, 2019 0

Cat Quotes 1:04

Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner. — Gary Smith

We certainly can learn a lot from cats. They are right to sleep when they are tired and to eat when they are hungry. And when we are upset, there is nothing wrong with letting others know they have gone too far. So, feel free to do as the cats do and feel better about yourself.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn’t just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I’m mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names… — T.S. Eliot

Cats are special. Ergo they deserve more than one name. A name they can be called anytime. One that is a special endearing name. And one that will tell anyone something very important about the cat.

April 1, 2019 0

Financial Report for March 2019

Another month is over and not much has changed. If nothing changes between now and October, then the last Financial Report I will do will be for September. Until then, this is how we’re doing.

Summary for March 2019:
no money in or out
over 1108 hits on the blog
about 656 people get the posts emailed to them
27 people follow via WordPress
65 copies sold; US$467.00 raised for Dingo Venezia from Cat Tales of the Frisky9 Scarf Army

March 31, 2019 0

Crazy Cat People

There are those of us who love cats so much that we spend lots of time with them. We play with them. We feed them. We cuddle with them. We talk with them. There are those who will call us crazy for loving cats as much as we do.

I say those people don’t understand what it is like to be around cats. To interact with people who don’t speak the same languages we can. And still we learn to understand each other. We learn to live together for the benefit of us all.

For the culture I’ve grown up in, crazy cat ladies are more popular than crazy cat men. In Italian a crazy cat lady is expressed in one word: gattara. In Italian a crazy cat man is also just one word: gattaro. I am very much a gattara and all the cats who have lived with me know it.

March 1, 2019 0