Sneaky (cat!)

Pál_K said:
Several cats I’ve had had an instinctual reaction when, the cat being on its back, you place your arm and hand downwards - from head towards tail, and “scrub” their tummy. They’d wrap their front paws around your arm and claw upwards with their hind feet, all the while biting into your arm as well. They can’t help it. The only way out is to keep your arm and hand still and speak soothingly. Afterwards, they seem a bit embarrassed. It’s kind of a cute thing when your cat is bored. However, bites and scratches aren’t anything like photo above! :eek:
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I'm lucky that Sneaky never does that. He really loves belly rubs! He's very laid back, unless food is involved or he sees one of his feline enemies outside.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I'm lucky that Sneaky never does that. He really loves belly rubs! He's very laid back, unless food is involved or he sees one of his feline enemies outside.
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It’s not really a belly rub - my cats loved that, too - it’s a sort of scrubbing, maybe tickling, I think the cats enjoyed grasping my arm and kicking my hand with their hind feet.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
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Just chilling out on the cat tree. Sneaky likes to lay up there and watch over his human servants.
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With all these supply chain shortages, Sneaky has to ensure vital food stocks are being maintained by the hoomans.
 
Pál_K said:
With all these supply chain shortages, Sneaky has to ensure vital food stocks are being maintained by the hoomans.
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Its been hard. I bought more food for him on Sunday, and I had to visit a Kroger, a Walmart, and a Meijer store to piece together a decent amount of the flavors of canned food that Sneaky likes. All three stores were out of nearly every flavor, only having two or three flavors in stock. Its been this way for a couple months now. I've been feeding him more meat than usual lately because, interestingly, it is easier to find fresh chicken and beef than it is to find cat food.
 
Chris, a cat gets needed nutrients by consuming the whole animal that s/he killed (muscle, bone, organs, etc). A diet consisting only of muscle meat will result in starvation. A diet consisting largely of muscle meat could result in gradual malnutrition, also.

I was provided this information by a wildlife sanctuary, who provided the example of a lynx who came to the sanctuary suffering from extreme malnutrition, hardly able to stand up, because she had been fed only muscle meat such as that consumed by humans.

- Murray
 
CMur12 said:
Chris, a cat gets needed nutrients by consuming the whole animal that s/he killed (muscle, bone, organs, etc). A diet consisting only of muscle meat will result in starvation. A diet consisting largely of muscle meat could result in gradual malnutrition, also.

I was provided this information by a wildlife sanctuary, who provided the example of a lynx who came to the sanctuary suffering from extreme malnutrition, hardly able to stand up, because she had been fed only muscle meat such as that consumed by humans.

- Murray
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I know. Cat food is designed to include the other nutrients they need. I have had to give him more meat than usual lately because of cat food being, at times impossible to obtain. He refuses to eat his kills, so this is the only option I have.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
He refuses to eat his kills…
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Normal for a domestic cat. Domestic cats won’t eat their kills unless the kills are their only source of food, which is unlikely - certainly in the case of the well-fed Sneaky.

Usually their kills are a product of [select all that apply]:

* Instinct and maintaining their mAd Katt S|<illz
* Presenting you with a gift
* Teaching you how to hunt

As a gesture of appreciation, you might want to visit a taxidermist with those kills to have them preserved and mounted for Sneaky’s viewing pleasure.
 
As a gesture of appreciation, you might want to visit a taxidermist with those kills to have them preserved and mounted for Sneaky’s viewing pleasure.[/QUOTE]

Pure genius! Are you really a cat posing as a human?
 
Pál_K said:
Normal for a domestic cat. Domestic cats won’t eat their kills unless the kills are their only source of food, which is unlikely - certainly in the case of the well-fed Sneaky.

Usually their kills are a product of [select all that apply]:

* Instinct and maintaining their mAd Katt S|<illz
* Presenting you with a gift
* Teaching you how to hunt

As a gesture of appreciation, you might want to visit a taxidermist with those kills to have them preserved and mounted for Sneaky’s viewing pleasure.
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I think they just enjoy murder. They don't just kill, they torture and torment the poor things for a long time before killing them.

Sneaky never eats any of his kills, except bugs and spiders. He eats those! He especially likes moths and big insects like grasshoppers and katydids. My grandpa had a cat who used to eat the chipmunks and bunnies she killed, but she would not eat mice, moles, or snakes (though she killed large numbers of them all).
 
Sneaky was demanding food last night when he was briefly distracted by the sound of a bug buzzing around the ceiling light!


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Sneaky: "SLAVE! Where's my food?"

Me: You just ate an hour ago. You can wait.

I fed him about an hour later because he had been pressuring me so relentlessly.



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Do I see a SKY RAISIN buzzing around the ceiling light? This was only a brief distraction before he got back to the important business of demanding food.
 
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Looking out through the front window in the kitchen. Sneaky will balance on the narrow divider between the two sides of the sink so he can use this window, which faces the street. Most of his enemies live across the street.
 
His eyes are open, so if he sees a spider crossing the floor he can fall on it and have a snack.

If Sneaky ever figures out how to use Doordash or UberEats, you’re in trouble.
 
Pál_K said:
His eyes are open, so if he sees a spider crossing the floor he can fall on it and have a snack.

If Sneaky ever figures out how to use Doordash or UberEats, you’re in trouble.
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He would wipe out my bank account, and my son's, if he got hold of our debit cards.
 
We got a cat yesterday, so that should be interesting based on your images posted here, Chris.
 
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