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Pets & Working Animals => Cats => Topic started by: Bright Raven on December 16, 2010, 06:47:40 pm
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I have the most annoying cat in the world. Her name is Echo, because she followed me home one day while I was training to be a teacher in London. (I had only gone out for a packet of fags) I had shadowed a girl called Echo that day at Featherstone Comprehensive, (you follow the child around to every lesson they take without them knowing and make notes on your findings) and somehow the name stuck to the cat. She is a long haired tabby and when she miaows she cries BROWwwwN. It is ear splitting and uncompromising. She uses the same sound for everything, going out, wanting food, finding something interesting, wanting to come in, telling me she has deposited a fur ball in my washing, telling me she is in the garden, and so on.
My OH often shouts "go and play in the road" at her.
13 years later we still have Echo, no longer a mouser but a lounge lizard, there was a time when we employed five bells on her collar to warn the birds of their impending doom, and she learnt to walk in a way that stopped them from ringing.
When you stroke her you get arse in the face, when she settles she claws your legs, when you want to go somewhere she gets under your feet, then she looks angelically up at you and shouts BROWwwwwn.
The ones that drive you mad really do seem to live for ever don't they?
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my o/h likes a pussy sitting on his leg
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Would you like to rephrase that Lillian? ;)
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She is such a part of your life, however annoying, you will miss her soooooo much and so will your husband, when she goes, most annimals can be annoying at times, my labs always get in my way, or maybe I get in theres but cats do have this thing about walking on your feet almost!! like the name!!!
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On my feet, in the cupboard, on my bed, on the table, in my son's bed. It's like she can create multiples of herself to be ... just where I am with the soul purpose of driving me bonkers. And how she needs love, and the thanks I get.... BROWwwwn.
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well thats a pussy for you
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I have the most annoying cat in the world.
The ones that drive you mad really do seem to live for ever don't they?
but you obviously love her .... or you wouldn't be telling us!!
great name too.
one of ours (4) drives us crazy... talk about demanding! and he taps you til you feed him -has to see the food be put out fresh.
the tabby is pure evil, and swears terribly!
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You are so right, these animals of ours do seem to have the most extraordinary vocabulary's and alternative lives.
There was a time when Echo as quite a young cat used to go out in sliver sling backs to chat up the local boys. She would come home on Chubby's motor bike after an evening out down the club. I had strong suspicions that she had a pole dancing gig for a while. I know she was modeling for "fast paw" magazine on account of her heart shaped black fur around her fanny. In some ways it's a relief she has just turned into an old aged whinger.
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;D she sounds great fun!!
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That reminds me - must go and look fro Rio, think he's still out.
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my friends old cat use to say "mouusssse" and hence mouse was her name, i bet she got some teasing from her friends :cat:
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That reminds me - must go and look fro Rio, think he's still out.
Think I've lost Rio - wasn't in last night or night before and ALWAYS came in for his tea as there's nothing to catch just now. So sign of him on the road nearby, or teh railway line, but he could have been hit and crawled into bushes. That's the trouble with cats, free agents. :( :( :(
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fingers crossed he comes home wondering what all the fuss is about :cat: :hshoe:
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That is exactly what happened half an hour ago, wandered in saying where's my tea, ate twice as much as usual, then squealed nonstop to get back out again till I got fed up and locked him in the utility room. He's not going out on a cold night like this! And why he wanted straight back out is anybody's guess - and no, not a girlfriend as he's been 'done' ::) I'm just glad he's not lying in a ditch somewhere half dead.
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mousing
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phew, so glad he's home!
we lost my baby boy Claude - just never came home. now have (Roxy's) two kittens, one is the spitting image of him, the other acts like him, and of course he's always in my heart...
(and 2 others - mustn't forget them! the evil tabby & the pain-in-the-neck one!)
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It's that dreadful feeling that creeps over you, and you can't sense the cat in the house. Very disquieting.
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Couldn't have been mousing for two and a half days in this weather - none above ground!
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I kept forgetting to ask if he was back, glad to hear he is.....Cats must be the freeest of pets, unless they are house cats, we are going to have a house cat when we start the garage and I hope I can put it on a harness to take for a walkies around the garden!!!! A cat would enjoy hidding here and peeing everywhere, thats one reason we did not have one here......dried cat pee is not the nicest aroma!!
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Echo is an older moggie and needs a bit of extra love and reassurance. And glad to hear Rio came back safe and sound. Sorry to hear Claude never came home. I never read this section as cats are my first love and sad stories so so upsetting.
God bless all pussycats!
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I love Rio to bits and am so sad that his sister, Candy, went missing a year and a half ago - never missed a night in her own bed till one night she didn't come in when called and that was it. Poor Candy RIP
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If I sit still and think about a cats I have loved and who have loved me I can almost feel them sitting on my lap with soft and calming solidity. :) I raise a toast to all the ones we have loved and lost to the great litter tray in the sky.
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Interesting, I have 4 cats the youngest of which is about 4-5 months now and still doesn't have a name :o
First she was being sold along with her litter mates, a friend wanted her to join an older cat but said cat died and she then felt guilty so postponed "replacing" her and then decided her son should have a dog instead ::) so this kitten stayed which is fine as I'd lost Jack on the road while the litter was young, but I can't work out what her name is!
She seemed to be an Isis type at first, but then spent a while testing out Pearl, Silk, and Echo funnily enough because of her vocal tendencies ::) She can hold an entire conversation with you and you still don't know what she actually wants to convey (her name maybe?) ::)
As her mum is going to be spayed shortly I am wondering about Omega (the ultimate kitten!) and she seemed happy with Mega-cat and Meggie Moo but is already starting to ignore that ::)
Her mum is Twiglet because she was a tiny tortie runt of a kitten and looked like one ;D while Twigs' litter sister Amber was identical but normal size and with a wee orange stripe on her nose.
I kept one of Twig's daughters last year after losing Merlin a grey tabby mystical boy. She is Velvet because of her stunningly black and soft coat, easy :) Wee madam is a full sister of Velvet and hence my trying out other gemstone and luxury fabric type names but nothing suits her for long ::)
Anyway, sorry to hijack your thread but the Echo name caught my attention :)
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maybe thats "the" name then?!
sounds like Echo would suit her ....
:)
post up a picture, I think a name has to "go" with the animal...