Mz's "kids" - Freeze-Frame Radio

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Mz's "kids"

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

RE: Mz's "kids"

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

That last one of Jack, he's saying "Stop it!". lol

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Yes, Jack looks like he's thinking "Ok, you get one more AND THAT'S IT!"

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

I love your kids too MZ, they are beautiful!

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

They're great MZ - you can just see their personalities in those shots.

See what you're missing JR?? I'll have to get some photos up of our four felines...

jstdve · CEO - The KOTO Co.

My, what fine fiddle strings they would make !

Charlie Daniels would be proud !

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

ACK! Boo, or more appropriately... HISS!

So wrong...

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

I'm tellin' ya cats creep me out. They're fine during the day, but at night they just look like they're waiting for you to die so they can eat your neck.

Scary movies ALWAYS have evil cats, they hardly ever have evil dogs (Cujo being a huge exception clearly).

No cats for me.

Cheeselvr · Better Than Cheddar

what hansdome creatures!

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

Now see, I'm from the other side of those tracks. I've never met a cat I couldn't get to purr... I've had owners amazed that I could approach their cats... But I've been bitten, chased after, nipped at, barked around and generally terrified by more dogs than I can throw large mace-ended sticks at.

I've never felt like a bowl full of vittles by the looks my cats give me. In fact, waking up at night I often find one of my cats sleeping with his head on my pillow and a paw on my shoulder like he thinks he's human!

Maybe there are just humans out there who smell like dog chow and humans who smell like cat food - and therein lies the gap between a dog and a cat person.

Cheeselvr · Better Than Cheddar

uh-oh! did you say you don't care for cats? RED FLAG! I am really leary of anyone who doesn't like cats. Wait- you are afraid of them, you don't "dislike" them, or is it both?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

heck no! cats are awesome!! dogs love you because they aren't bright. cats are like little persons. Each one is unique. The only time they get weird is when at night that primitive streak of jungle-blood linneage runs through them, and they all think they are tigers or lions for 20 minutes. Even the kitty cats. Cats are awesome.

I've had cats understand every word that I've ever said. I've known old cats who felt like I was their pet or kid or something; they were infinately wise and world-weary. I've had cats dumb as rocks who still were adorable and loving. I've known evil wierd cats.

But I blame their psychotic owners. LOL I've had a little 3 month old son of B**** think he could take me!!! mew! mew! LOL. My pal Bill had this 24 pd white cat who had a black circle around his eye, like a monacle. His name was Vito. He looked like a fat mobster.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

No, I don't hate them. I love pretty much all animals, expecially when they're small and cute.

But when cat's get older they just have a scary look to them. Plus, I had a cat once, and the darn thing would be walking across the floor and then suddenly stop and arch it's back and the hair would stand up on end and it just CREEPED ME OUT!

I've always been a big believer in the paranormal and I just get the feeling cats can see and sense things we can't. It just FREAKS ME OUT I TELL YA!

jstdve · CEO - The KOTO Co.

cats / purring , is it after 10PM yet ?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

that I can believe, entirely. I was wondering the other week how one of chef's cats would freak out at thunder, but not at fireworks. they both go BAM BAM BAM!!! allycat says cats have a 6th sense of danger. the sky is falling! that MUST be it!!

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

It's possible - when I was a kid I woke up hearing the worst sound I'd ever heard. I NEVER woke my folks up - but I woke them that night and my dad grabbed a bat because he had no idea what was int he basement making that horrendous noise. We found our cat puffed out and screeching in a wail that was nothing I've ever heard a cat sound like ever before - or ever again. I have no idea what she was screaming at, but it was gone by the time the lights came on.

I agree with JD - cats and dogs get psychotic from psychotic owners... my aunt had to take in a chiuahua, or however you spell it, brought home by her less than responsible son. This dog has obviously been through the wringer... particularly around small children it just freaks out sometimes, and changes from this pathetic looking Taco Bell dog to this mangy, hair-raised miniature boar thing snarling and rabid looking in an instant! Scary... I can't begin to imagine how it was raised.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Does that mean my cat creeped me out because I creeped my cat out?

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

Maybe.... if you really look like a Mr. Potatohead, the cat might've been a little spooked.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Zim wrote:

It's possible - when I was a kid I woke up hearing the worst sound I'd ever heard. I NEVER woke my folks up - but I woke them that night and my dad grabbed a bat because he had no idea what was int he basement making that horrendous noise. We found our cat puffed out and screeching in a wail that was nothing I've ever heard a cat sound like ever before - or ever again. I have no idea what she was screaming at, but it was gone by the time the lights came on. I agree with JD - cats and dogs get psychotic from psychotic owners... my aunt had to take in a chiuahua, or however you spell it, brought home by her less than responsible son. This dog has obviously been through the wringer... particularly around small children it just freaks out sometimes, and changes from this pathetic looking Taco Bell dog to this mangy, hair-raised miniature boar thing snarling and rabid looking in an instant! Scary... I can't begin to imagine how it was raised.

that's a shame Zim! In highschool I knew this family that would adopt previously abused dogs. And the dogs would eventually come around and be happy. maybe a bit neurotic, but they came around to know they were in a safe and happy place. and then became happy dogs.

good people.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

It's all starting to make sense to me now.

Molly · The Mediator

That's what I like about cats. I know that if my cats aren't freaked out, then there is no reason for me to be freaked out.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

I had a very disturbing dream last night and it included a cat

I dreamt that I hung out for a while with this wierdo older driver from work that has always given me the creeps. Along the way I went to Breakfast Bingo, but fell behind in the numbers, and realized I SHOULD HAVE WON but didn't get my numbers entered quick enough.

Then we went to a "haunted house" and he told me the story about a guy that was pushed down the stairs by the ghost and died.

Around this point I was starting to realize the wierdo driver from work reminds me a lot of my father, and that must be why I was willing to hang around with him (in real life he's nothing like my dad, he's just wierd)

Then we went to some bakery so he could get a donut, and the front part of the bakery was a vet. While I waited in the car some cat jumped in the window and it seemed like it was hoping I'd protect it. The vet came out and I told him I found a cat and asked if he knew who it belonged to. He got angry and said that the cat was a trouble-maker and showed a bite mark on his hand he got from the cat. He took him back from me and said he was being put to sleep tomorrow.

As he and his assistant were taking the cat away I wanted to save the cat from death so I asked what it would cost to buy it and the vet obviously got greedy and said $160. I thought "If you were gonna kill it why would it cost so much for me to buy it", as the vet, the cat and the assistant disappeared behind a closed door I could hear the assistant say to the vet "I think that's a very fair price sir".

What a stupid dream!

Molly · The Mediator

I like that you were going to save the cat in your dream.

That does remind me of Jack's last visit to the vet. First, some background on Jack. He was found barely weaned closed in a box on a crazy lady's front porch without any food or water on a very hot day, much like the ones we've been having lately. A lady from a local no-kill shelter rescued him, and he was put into the foster home of a friend of a friend. We had just lost a kitten to a fatal disease about a month before, and we didn't think we were ready for another kitten, but she convinced us to take a look at some. She said she was going to bring a couple over to our house to look at. I said fine, but we're really not ready for another kitten yet. When she came over, the only one she brought was Jack (not named yet at the time). Although absolutely adorable, I still said that we weren't ready for another kitten yet. And then I picked him up. I swear he looked up at me and said, "Mommy!" Since then, he's always been my cat. And for the longest time, we thought he couldn't meow. It was like he was trying, but all that would come out is a squeak. (He still meows like that.)

So, when we took him to get neutered, it turned out things weren't quite right in that area, so he had to have surgery. When I went in to pick him up, there was one cat that was howling. Well, it turned out to be him. The vet said he behaved just fine, he just didn't seem to like the kennel. I think it made him think back to kittenhood and the box. As soon as they brought him to me, he was fine (and very happy to see me!). That vet was a very good vet, and we miss taking the cats to her.

When we moved down to Bloomington, Jack got a urinary tract infection, and we had to take him to a new vet. Jack hates this vet. I've never seen him act like that around anyone but this vet. He had to stay all day, in one of those kennels that he hates. When I came to pick him up, the assistant refused to get him out. She took me to the back, to the kennels. As she walked past him, he swiped at her and growled, which is very unusual for Jack. Before she opened the cage, she asked me if I will be able to handle him. Of course I said yes, he'll be fine. She stood as far away from that cage as she could to open it. As soon as Jack saw me, he immediately calmed down and almost literally ran to me. We haven't went back to that vet since.

Sorry, just had to share a Jack story.