Pets?

[vnatale]

I have noticed that not a few people have used some form of cat as their avatar.

What is your hierarchy of pets and which presently live with you?

Mine is:

1) Cats (I pled guilty when someone accused me of worshipping cats). Have 3
2) Dogs (Had at least one from 1982 to 2005. Finally realized that my lifestyle is much more compatible with the much lower maintenance cats and rodents). Have 0
3) Rodents. Have 10 gerbils, 6 rats. (plus, one gerbil in my office)


Vinny

[dualstow]

One cat. She is all the pet my wife and I need. She visited her siblings recently for a reunion and didn't like them very much. I think she enjoys being the only cat in the house.

I love this cat and I would kill for her and hide the bodies if she so commanded.

[Xan]

I love this cat and I would kill for her and hide the bodies if she so commanded.

I think that's a major symptom of toxoplasmosis. I do not recommend keeping cats in your living quarters.

[vnatale]

I love this cat and I would kill for her and hide the bodies if she so commanded.

I think that's a major symptom of toxoplasmosis. I do not recommend keeping cats in your living quarters.

I did read that a high percentage of the human population has it. But for many who have it there are no ill effects. I think at this point that I may be immune to it.

Vinny

[Xan]

I think at this point that I may be immune to it.

That's another common symptom.

[vnatale]

I know this will shock everyone, but I have a pug. And a shih-tzu that a former live-in GF left with me, whom I also love and who can not help the fact that she is not a pug. Pugs are so awesome. Did I mention that I like pugs?

As soon as I saw your avatar that WAS an assumption that I made!!!

Vinny

[dualstow]

I love this cat and I would kill for her and hide the bodies if she so commanded.

I think that's a major symptom of toxoplasmosis. I do not recommend keeping cats in your living quarters.

I would totally think I have toxo. Ever since the Radiolab episode on it I was wondering. However, I have no desire to get more cats. A friend of the family has over 20 cats. Lovely woman, but I think she’s got the toxo.

In my case, I just have a really amazing cat.

Vinny, you’re taking your daughter to Rambo and breeding cats. What are you, some kind of libertarian hippie?
I’m kidding, I’m kidding.

[vnatale]

I love this cat and I would kill for her and hide the bodies if she so commanded.

I think that's a major symptom of toxoplasmosis. I do not recommend keeping cats in your living quarters.

I would totally think I have toxo. Ever since the Radiolab episode on it I was wondering. However, I have no desire to get more cats. A friend of the family has over 20 cats. Lovely woman, but I think she’s got the toxo.

In my case, I just have a really amazing cat.

Vinny, you’re taking your daughter to Rambo and breeding cats. What are you, some kind of libertarian hippie?
I’m kidding, I’m kidding.

My best friend's mother had I don't know how many cats. It was a HUGE number but she had her husband (my friend's father) bamboozled into thinking they only had two or three. But when you walked by their house on the street you could smell the cat urine.

When I first became the manager of a rock band, I lived with one of the lead guitarists and the two vocalists. The place we rented had the"no pets" policy. We had nine cats and two dogs. One day the landlord came by and saw them. Somehow we got homes for most of the cats but still interpreted the "no pets" to mean "only" three cats and a dog.

In this house I once had six cats. But that caused all kinds of problems and I quickly went back to three, which I think is my house limit. I would make an exception to that rule if a Siamese or a Tonkinese became available. The cat who died last year was a Tonkinese (a breed with is a mix of my two all-time favorite cats - Burmese and Siamese).

Good memory. Except that was not my daughter but a friend's daughter who during those years I'd have for many weekends. Another movie time with her was when we were going to see some age appropriate movie for her. Until she saw the billing for Psycho 2. As soon as she saw that she kept yelling, "I want to se Cy-co-lo 2! I want to see Cy-co-lo 2!" So we went. I forget which part in the movie it was when she jumped into my lap to stay there for the rest of the movie.

Vinny

[dualstow]

Hilarious!

Did the rock band become famous? Was it Aerosmith?

[ochotona]

Pumpkin, AKA Butterscotch, AKA Skip

[vnatale]

Hilarious!

Did the rock band become famous? Was it Aerosmith?

I wish! Two years after then was the band was no longer I asked the manager of Aerosmith if I could be a roadie with them but he did not need anyone.

That band's main claim to fame was opening for the James Montgomery Band. It was before their first record came out. We got paid $125 for that night while they were paid $1,000 for the night. I later also managed another band once I came to western Massachusetts. That band's main claim to fame was opening for the Raspberries (led by Eric Carmen and who had several national hits).

Vinny

[vnatale]

Pumpkin, AKA Butterscotch, AKA Skip

Also, known as just another beautiful creature!

Vinny

[WiseOne]

Two cats here. They are in charge of the house. I'm the housecleaner and provider of food, petting, and laptops (that being the preferred cat bed when open).

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There are many things in life to worry about, but toxoplasmosis is not on my list. I have an immune system for a reason. I'm pretty sure if you tested me you would find antibodies to Lyme and coccidioidomycosis, because I've spent enough time outdoors in the Northeast and Southwest deserts to virtually guarantee exposure. I don't worry about those either. It's only really a problem for the immune compromised - but if that describes someone in your household I'd start by having the tap water tested (cryptosporidium, Legionella etc are often in municipal water supplies).

[dualstow]

Great photo

[vnatale]

Two cats here. They are in charge of the house. I'm the housecleaner and provider of food, petting, and laptops (that being the preferred cat bed when open).

two tails small.jpg

There are many things in life to worry about, but toxoplasmosis is not on my list. I have an immune system for a reason. I'm pretty sure if you tested me you would find antibodies to Lyme and coccidioidomycosis, because I've spent enough time outdoors in the Northeast and Southwest deserts to virtually guarantee exposure. I don't worry about those either. It's only really a problem for the immune compromised - but if that describes someone in your household I'd start by having the tap water tested (cryptosporidium, Legionella etc are often in municipal water supplies).

Regarding your well stated first paragraph....

Are you telling us all he should have titled his song (and, with the appropriate lyrics)......"It's a Cat's Cat's Cat's World"??!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE0taRRlIIs

Vinny