My weird cat

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mke
mke Member Posts: 584
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
My weird cat
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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited June 2008

    We adopted a shelter calico as a kitten about a year ago.  She's a fun cat but not at all affectionate.  She's smart and does tricks and she likes to be around people but not sitting on them or being petted.  Except in the car when she will sit on laps for hours on end - great traveller.

    But now she's fallen in love - with a concrete statue of a raccoon.  It's a bit smaller than life size and sits in our herb garden.  She rubs noses with it, hugs it, nibbles its ear, writhes around in apparent bliss in front of it.   She goes to greet it as soon as we let her outside. We have other rocks sitting around but none of them inspires her passion.  I've known other animals to react to representations of animals - but not to this degree.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited June 2008

    Amazing!  I just loved reading this.  If you watch Boston Legal, one of the characters was in love with a radio or something. 

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  • jezza
    jezza Member Posts: 698
    edited June 2008

    I would love to see a photo of the two of them together.

    I love cats...especially wierd ones!

    jezza

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  • LUVmy2girlZ
    LUVmy2girlZ Member Posts: 2,394
    edited June 2008

    We had a calico cat...it took years before she would show her affection towards us and was indeed a part of our family!

    Hmmm as far at the statue...she probably luvs it as it as it does just what she wants...nothing LOL...or perhaps she is thanking the raccoon for keeping an eye and protecting "HER" domain. LOL

    Remember cats luv to be pet...but only when THEY want and they rule the house and pretty much in control of everything...when you understand this someday you too can be the raccoon. LOL

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  • leaf
    leaf Member Posts: 8,188
    edited June 2008

    My friend suggested you might want to check around the raccoon for catnip.

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  • pip57
    pip57 Member Posts: 12,401
    edited June 2008

    I wonder if a male cat had spayed the statue at some point and the smell remains.

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  • wishiwere
    wishiwere Member Posts: 3,793
    edited June 2008

    Those were my thoughts as I read this!  Either catnip or catmint around it or someone (another cat) has rolled in and then rubbed his self on the statue type of things.  OR, it's been used by the birds as a preening spot and has birdie feces on and such on it or near it?  I know my dogs used to like to roll in that stuff!  UGH!  So we had to fence in the bird sanctuary to keep the dogs out of it! :D  Maybe cats do the same thing?

    A picture would be worth a thousand words!

    Oh, BTW.... I have one of two cats we've had for over 10 years, that just recently has graduated to the 'adult' series of her life and now will finally slow down enough to be a lap kitty.  The other has been for years.  This particular kitty nursed on a goldern retriever at 4 weeks when she lost her mother.  B/c of that, she was closer to my pair of cockers we had for 15 years than us.  They've been gone 3 years this summer and is just now realizing our laps are as warm as their bellies were she used to wrap into! :D

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  • ADK
    ADK Member Posts: 2,259
    edited June 2008

    I think it is great that your cat is in love.  Sometimes they just are attracted to certain things.  If you can post pictures, that would be great.

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited June 2008





    Great story! I love it

    get a picture

    tks



    O/T



    My neighbour, just came in

    and she is terrified of my cat

    it seems

    MY CAT immediately made a beeline

    for her..

    they sure are funny, Cats



    Best







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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited June 2008

    Ha ha! That is funny about your calico.

    I was thinking what is on that statue that is making it so "attractive"

    I had a calico that loved the smell of bleach. If you had the smell left over on your hands  she would go crazy licking them and biting them. She did the same thing with black olives.. roll on the floor with them and make a mess of the place.

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  • jezza
    jezza Member Posts: 698
    edited June 2008

    Not really sure what a calico is..will have to google it or wait for the pic mke.

    I have a siamese who is attracted to poisons. He has been brought back from the brink twice!

    Toilet cleaner, weed killer(DH noticed him following as he was spraying weeds and then noticed he was LICKING the weeds)..a workman in the street found him sniffing chemicals in the back of his truck...I love him dearly but don't think his luck will last much longer!

    jezza

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