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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 10/23/2010 : 06:59:57
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Bim and I moved out of our tiny apartment in Suello Village about a month ago, to a nice, small, two-story, 3-bedroom home in the Woods Gate community of Camp 7 Barangay. My rental expenses have risen 50%, from $222 to $333.
The new digs.
For only the second time in my life, I hired professional movers. The cost for the moving truck and three movers was 1,500 PHP ($30), and I gave the men another 500 PHP ($10) as a tip. The men were very muscular, appearing like weightlifters, but were extremely gentle, breaking nothing. They worked entirely without dollies, carrying everything on their shoulders. Some of my 15 balakbayan boxes, which had sat in the carport at Suello, weighed nearly 200 lbs. One of the boxes had been soaked from many weeks of standing water at its base, and was half-rotten. Luckily, that box had my old scooter's rain cover in the bottom, and above that, my Rubbermaid toolbox. Nothing inside any of the boxes was damaged, from water, or from moving.
A couple of days after the move, Bim arrived home from work carrying a cardboard box, marked "PUSA INSIDE," and from which was coming a demonic yowling. "I got a cat," she said. "It wandered into the restaurant."
"Oh, Hell no!" I said firmly, "It goes back tomorrow."
The Pusa Box.
But I reluctantly, and with considerable fear engendered by the yowls and some personal experiences with cats, agreed to have a look at the "pusa." First getting some package-wrapping straps, Bim reached into the box and then brought out the leashed pusa. It was an adorable and alert little kitten, white with a black dot on its forehead, a dark tail, and sky-blue eyes like a Siamese. I told Bim, "Yes, of course, let's keep her."
Toshiko, the Pusa.
Toshiko is her name now. She spends all day and night turning kitten kibbles, water and mischief into cat. She is constantly discovering all the horrid instinctual feline evils, and even inventing completely novel cat depravities. Toshiko terrorizes my elderly Chihuahua, Missy (she who long chased raccoons, and once charged after a fully grown black bear boar.) But she is now flea-less, and will be worm-less and vaccinated soon as well.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/23/2010 07:22:52
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/23/2010 : 07:19:18 [Permalink]
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Also spayed, eh? That will save you & Bim a lot of hassle down the road.
Great new pad and neat pusa!
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 10/23/2010 : 07:20:49 [Permalink]
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| Mooner, it's a good thing you finally got a cat to give your life meaning and direction. You should warmly welcome your new feline overlord. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 07:26:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Also spayed, eh? That will save you & Bim a lot of hassle down the road.
Great new pad and neat pusa!
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Oh, yes, definitely spayed at the proper age! BTW, I now understand better your occasional remarks about the cat who has you. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 07:32:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Mooner, it's a good thing you finally got a cat to give your life meaning and direction. You should warmly welcome your new feline overlord.
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Yes. I was trying to nap yesterday, laying on my right side. Toshiko jumped up onto my left shoulder and rested, purring contentedly as I petted her. Suddenly, she swatted my eye. Luckily, I blinked fast enough, so the scratches are only on my eyelid, not my eyeball. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 07:50:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by filthy
Also spayed, eh? That will save you & Bim a lot of hassle down the road.
Great new pad and neat pusa!
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Oh, yes, definitely spayed at the proper age! BTW, I now understand better your occasional remarks about the cat who has you.
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Alas, the old cat no longer owns me. She died a couple of months ago. It took her nigh 18 years to do it, but she finally got it over with. I'll not replace her, as I don't want a pet that might out-live me. My single remaining snake is, in copperhead years, in late, middle age.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 11:42:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Dave W.
Mooner, it's a good thing you finally got a cat to give your life meaning and direction. You should warmly welcome your new feline overlord.
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Yes. I was trying to nap yesterday, laying on my right side. Toshiko jumped up onto my left shoulder and rested, purring contentedly as I petted her. Suddenly, she swatted my eye. Luckily, I blinked fast enough, so the scratches are only on my eyelid, not my eyeball.
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Sorry, couldn't resist....
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 14:09:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Suddenly, she swatted my eye. Luckily, I blinked fast enough, so the scratches are only on my eyelid, not my eyeball.
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I claim no expertise in animal behaviour, but I've been told that cats exhibit signs when they are getting annoyed by the petting.
Remember, they don't speak human but Cat, and something like flicking their tail sideways might mean "that's enough petting, just let me lie here purring and we'll be allright".
But since you (ignorantly) chose to ignore the warning, you got the swipe instead.
I bet there are web-sites explaining these things, just like there are "dog-whisperer" programs on TV telling you how to straighten your dog out. It's a matter of learning to read the signs, and how to communicate to your cat, and you've got a chance of less shredding.
But what do I know about pets? All I managed to do was to learn my aquarium fish to do back-strokes...
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/23/2010 : 20:45:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Suddenly, she swatted my eye. Luckily, I blinked fast enough, so the scratches are only on my eyelid, not my eyeball.
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I claim no expertise in animal behaviour, but I've been told that cats exhibit signs when they are getting annoyed by the petting.
Remember, they don't speak human but Cat, and something like flicking their tail sideways might mean "that's enough petting, just let me lie here purring and we'll be allright".
But since you (ignorantly) chose to ignore the warning, you got the swipe instead.
I bet there are web-sites explaining these things, just like there are "dog-whisperer" programs on TV telling you how to straighten your dog out. It's a matter of learning to read the signs, and how to communicate to your cat, and you've got a chance of less shredding.
But what do I know about pets? All I managed to do was to learn my aquarium fish to do back-strokes...
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I'm fairly good at reading cat and dog body language, and I saw no warnings that Toshiko was tired of being petted. Indeed, since she regularly attacks literally anything that moves, I suspect Toshiko noticed that the only moving things nearby, aside from my petting hand, were my eyes. I've seen a cow-fly and a horse-fly. Now I've also seen a kitten fly. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2010 : 10:15:48 [Permalink]
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I don't look for signs and really don't know the signs. As a personal rule our cats get only 10 seconds of ear scratching from me before I move on.
ETA: Oh yeah. Another rule I follow. I never pick a cat up. |
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