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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy cats totally have their undies in a bunch right now.
I'm too lazy to get up to see what's outside that's got them running from window to window, hissing and kind of snorting, but I have to assume it's another cat.
They hate it when other cats walk through the yard. There must be some very strict cat rules about trespassing, because if they could call the cat police they would. There's a neighbor cat who hangs out in the yard, probably hunting the birds I feed, and sometimes he comes and sits on the porch. That really gets my guys going. One day I saw this cat on the porch, standing on his hind legs and looking in the window - thought the guys were going to have a stroke.
The funny thing is that nothing else bothers them. The mailman comes onto the porch, puts stuff in the mailbox, they just flick their ears. People walk by with their dogs, they hardly notice. I think we could be besieged by zombies or velociraptors and the cats would just shrug and say, "Dude, can we eat those?"
But let another cat violate one of those Cat Rules of Real Estate and they behave like Republicans at an OWS encampment - lots of sputtering and snarling.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Ralphie and I saw the neighbors kitty, Dizzy, in the backyard yesterday, and boy did she growl. I think hers is more learned behavior frwom her brother, Bob. Bob, never turned down a cat chase or fight.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Neighbor cat is in violation of the kitty code. Funny though, him standing up to peek in the windows. Some cats will make friends with neighbor cats, but yours seem to be content with each other and you.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)but that is just me
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)It was a cat, just not the cat I thought it would be.
Nothing other than a trespassing cat makes my guys get hysterical like that.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Inquiring minds want to know. I have to look every time.
Luckily, my cat shrugs at almost everything. Last time, it was a hawk sitting on my bird feeder, just outside the window. I was glad I looked.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)it was my neighbor's fat brown tabby, and he was rolling in a dried-up patch of catmint.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)inviting all the neighborhood cats to your yard! What do you expect???
baldguy
(36,649 posts)I wondered why, maybe she heard someone was coming in? So, I got up to look out the window.
No. The neighbor's cute little black cat was sitting on the bench on my front porch. I think he was just teasing the dog.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)What kind of dog is that? She is a sweetie!
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Thinks she's a puppy small enough to sit on my lap. I can't get her to understand that she isn't, and she's not.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)It was the angle in the other picture---the snout was so long.
I see that she loves (to destroy) her toys. That ball in the background is in bad shape!
She is gorgeous.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)How did she get named Orchid?
BTW, "the name (orchid) comes from the Greek ὄ???? (órkhis), literally meaning "testicle", because of the shape of the root." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchidaceae
baldguy
(36,649 posts)When I got he from the shelter they'd given her the name "Tasha", which didn't seem to fit. She's a beautiful & delicate little flower. And she needed an appropriate name.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Cats don't really like to be constricted like that. They would rather feel the breeze on their junk.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)The guys are free of such encumbrances.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)of that emptiness...
Actually, they seem oblivious to both their loss of manhood and lack of breeze. But they really hate cats who trespass in their (not my) back yard.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)the resident cat. I swear cats are like some people.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)going catmando.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)Monster passed, Twilight became friendly with a neighbours cat...I think because she is lonely.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)to enter her space. Woooeeee, she gets MAD. It's so cute to see that tiny little thing get so angry.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)WE LIVE ON A HOUSEBOAT AND THEY SEE WILD life. they haven't figured out what racoons are yet.
benld74
(9,904 posts)Old Troop
(1,991 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Fat brown tabby from down the block is out in the yard rolling in dried-up dead catnip. The Gang of Fur is not pleased.