Sneaky (cat!)

yanchep_mike said:
I used to have a male cat by the name of Bismark and he looked so much like Sneaky, like brothers. He used to bite me in the ear 5 AM to get feed. He was as beautiful as Sneaky, i just miss him. Merry Christmas everyone.
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Merry Christmas Mike.

My parents had the best 'feed me o'clock' cat alarm. Simba was a 23lb orange male Mainecoon. He disliked my mother and liked doing mean things to her. In the mornings, he would take a stuffed toy mouse, drop it in his water, and let it get nice and wet. Then he would carry it to my parents' bedroom and drop it on my sleeping mom's face! He even did this if my dad was awake instead of asking him for food. I went over there early one morning about 15 yrs ago, and my dad was in the kitchen drinking coffee and getting ready to go to work. We watched Simba soak the mouse and then head down the hall. Second later, we heard my mom screaming and swearing at the cat, who ran back to the kitchen. Mom comes out and sees us in the kitchen and demands to know why we didn't feed that 'damned cat.' We said that he didn't ask for food. Of course, we watched him soak the mouse, lol.

She finally got rid of all of his toy mice.

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Me holding Simba 20 years ago. He died in 2010, aged 16.
 
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Sneaky, watching over the yard from my driveway on an autumn afternoon. Gotta be vigilant; some other cat, or an opossum might try to walk through Sneaky's territory!

I shot this back in October, but I used film, and it took a while for me to get around to sending it to the lab for processing.
 
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Yesterday, Sneaky slept under my desk all day, before moving to his favorite perch at the top of his cat tree. He finally woke up after my son went to his cat tree and petted him. He was kind of annoyed by that! A few minutes later, he came down, demanded food and treats, ate, then went outside. 45 minutes later, he was back inside crying STARVATION because he had only eaten once all day due to his LAZINESS, lol.
 
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I shot this photo last night of Sneaky stretched out on his back under my son's desk, looking very comfy. After this, he followed me outside when I went to take the trash bin to the street. He walked with me while I did that, stopping to spray one bush along the driveway, then ran back to the house and asked to come back in!
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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I shot this photo last night of Sneaky stretched out on his back under my son's desk, looking very comfy. After this, he followed me outside when I went to take the trash bin to the street. He walked with me while I did that, stopping to spray one bush along the driveway, then ran back to the house and asked to come back in!
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Perimeter maintenance. Gotta let those possums know whose boss!
 
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Last night at 2am, I found a bag of catnip in Sneaky's treats drawer in the kitchen that I had forgotten we had. I sprinkled some on the floor and he started purring loudly, rolling around in it!

Sneaky gets mean when he's high. About 15 minutes later, he was sitting on the back of the sofa and when I tried to pet him, he tried to bite me! He stayed high longer than usual because it took him a while to lick all of it from his fur.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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Last night at 2am, I found a bag of catnip in Sneaky's treats drawer in the kitchen that I had forgotten we had. I sprinkled some on the floor and he started purring loudly, rolling around in it!

Sneaky gets mean when he's high. About 15 minutes later, he was sitting on the back of the sofa and when I tried to pet him, he tried to bite me! He stayed high longer than usual because it took him a while to lick all of it from his fur.
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I think that the aggressiveness is a common reaction. I've often seen it in my cats. And some cats seem to have that reaction to anything (like catnip) in the mint family. My stepmom had a cat, the sweetest thing imaginable, who would violently attack her legs whenever she used Ben-Gay on her sore muscles. We finally figured out that it was the menthol (mint-derived) in the ointment that made him berserk. He had the same reaction to catnip the one time we gave it to him. Never again!
 
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This is what DOMINATION looks like: A cat using a plush dog as a mattress to sleep on top of a huge dog's cage.

My son and I just visited my parents. They have a Great Pyrenees dog named Molly and a meanass little Tortoiseshell Cat named Precious. Precious LOATHES the dog and bullies her. At one point, she discovered that it made the dog nervous if she slept on top of the dog cage when the dog was in it.

I didn't have a camera with me so my son took these for me with his phone.
 
yanchep_mike said:
Close to abuse!
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That cat is meaner than Hell. Fortunately, the dog is never locked in the cage long. My mom had her in there because she was cooking and the dog steals food. She was let out a few minutes later, but the cat takes every opportunity to bully her.

Precious, the cat, used to love me and would sit on my lap and purr whenever I visited. Over five years ago, before I took in Sneaky, I took some meat to the dog a few times. Precious does not like table scraps and wouldn't eat any; but that does NOT mean she wanted that big, stupid, drooling BITCH to have any. After that, she wanted nothing to do with me. I stopped feeding the dog after I took in Sneaky, because he loves meat; but Precious still won't forgive my BETRAYAL, even after more than five years.
 
CMur12 said:
I think I like Sneaky better than Precious.

- Murray
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Precious is a street thug. My mom adopted her from the local shelter and she already had cuts in her ears from fighting. I'd take her home with me, but I'm afraid that she and Sneaky would partner and form a street gang and turn my middle-class neighborhood into a cesspool of drugs, prostitution, and violence.

The only person she really likes is my dad. She LOVES him and spends most of her time sitting on his lap. That annoys my mother to no end, because she adopted the cat and the cat doesn't even like her!

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Precious and my dad.


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You gonna share that cake?
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
That cat is meaner than Hell. Fortunately, the dog is never locked in the cage long. My mom had her in there because she was cooking and the dog steals food. She was let out a few minutes later, but the cat takes every opportunity to bully her.

Precious, the cat, used to love me and would sit on my lap and purr whenever I visited. Over five years ago, before I took in Sneaky, I took some meat to the dog a few times. Precious does not like table scraps and wouldn't eat any; but that does NOT mean she wanted that big, stupid, drooling BITCH to have any. After that, she wanted nothing to do with me. I stopped feeding the dog after I took in Sneaky, because he loves meat; but Precious still won't forgive my BETRAYAL, even after more than five years.
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They are not very forgiving, not like dogs. We have an older male who terrorizes the neighborhood, the other day a neighbor came over and said the cat had abused their little dog, and the dog needed to see the vet for stitches. I was happy not to pay the vet bill. That is life with a cat.
 
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