Gyroscopic Investing

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 9:41 pm {clip: Jurassic Park but with a cat}
Had to make time to watch that one!
Looks similar to one of mine!

Cute cat!

I’d forgotten that you typically don’t watch videos. I’m the same- at least, on another forum if a link is posted with no clue what the subject matter is, I skip it. Feels like homework.

If you are on Facebook .. this is tremendous!


https://www.facebook.com/groups/2827498 ... ently_seen

That picture at the top

Have a great Christmas, everyone

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Dec 24, 2025 9:30 am Have a great Christmas, everyone

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Of course I love it!

As I type this one of mine is sitting right in front of me, curled up into my left arm and being touched by my right arm as I type this.

Ha! As I read your post above, mine is curled up at my left side.

Hey, Happy Christmas. Here my Norwegian fluffy thing. Never thought cats can be good fellas - they are against my nature of the one that keeps things under control. However, this one is so calm and so dog-ish ... :-)

Beautiful cat, Vil

Vil wrote: ↑Fri Dec 26, 2025 4:58 pm Hey, Happy Christmas. Here my Norwegian fluffy thing. Never thought cats can be good fellas - they are against my nature of the one that keeps things under control. However, this one is so calm and so dog-ish ... :-)PXL_20251226_222823587.jpg

Love your cat!

The same one I above mentioned is again curled up on my left arm as I type this.

However, on Friday she bit me and clawed me. Since I don't trim her nails enough one of her needle sharp nails dug in deep and blood flowed profusely.

Then Saturday morning just as I was sitting down to do my normal morning computer "work" (like being here) ... she threw up.

I heard and glanced at her while it was happening but since this seems to be such a daily occurence for her that I did not think much about it.

Until 2 seconds later when my internet went out!

I jumped up to see that she'd thrown up on my $300 modem!

It seemed like she'd killed it.

Luckily I still had a modem I'd bought in 2016 that was still new in the box.

But it led to nothing getting done that morning / afternoon and about 5 hours spent with Xfinity / Netgear trying to get the $300 one going but getting the 2016 one going.

It's possible that the $300 is not dead. Xfinity told me that they could see it but it must not be sending. In a later phone call Netgear said if they could see then I'd just not corrected it to the computer in the correct sequence so that it was sending to my router.

I will try again but not now. That was such a total time waste caused by this beloved creature laying on my arm. Between 2022 and 2024 she cost me $2,850 in two teeth cleanings.

I just attribute all of it to the cost of pet ownership.

She can really be a lovable cat and she obviously has no idea of all the things she causes.

Back to the modem.

I pay for 600 MB from Xfinitiy.

This 2016 modem's limit is about 350 MB while the $300 one is 2.5 GB.

I'm just grateful I still had the other one on hand as I'm so internet dependent.

Finally, I'm looking for some kind of cat repellent spray that I can spray on my modem, router, UPS or in the area to keep all three cats aways from them including being able to throw up on any of them!

Sometimes my cat gets too excited and gives me a love bite because I taste like chicken, but she never draws blood.
All cats want to eat their owners but they can’t. Second best option: give them employment as personal staff.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 29, 2025 4:27 pm Sometimes my cat gets too excited and gives me a love bite because I taste like chicken, but she never draws blood.
All cats want to eat their owners but they can’t. Second best option: give them employment as personal staff.

She will attempt to bite when I trying to get her claw unstuck or if I touch her in the wrong place. The blood came from a paw swat with her needle-sharp claws. One of them went in. Tiny, tiny hold but deep, deep, deep.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 10:51 am She will attempt to bite when I trying to get her claw unstuck or if I touch her in the wrong place.

Stop touching females in the wrong place, Vinny!

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:19 am

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 10:51 am She will attempt to bite when I trying to get her claw unstuck or if I touch her in the wrong place.

Stop touching females in the wrong place, Vinny!

When she sees me she will oftentimes roll over on to her back so that I can rub her belly. Not easy to tell which spots she likes / does not.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of female cats don’t like their bellies touched.
I had a neighbor’s cat always visiting me by climbing over the shared garden wall, rubbing my ankles. But she would freak out if I touched her belly.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 4:16 pm Yeah, it seems like a lot of female cats don’t like their bellies touched.
I had a neighbor’s cat always visiting me by climbing over the shared garden wall, rubbing my ankles. But she would freak out if I touched her belly.

She DEFINITELY wants her belly rubbed. Just don't know what areas I venture into that sets her off.

The other thing is that I got her (Cannelloni) and her sister (Tortellini) in June 2018.

I'm forgetting exactly when but at some point Tortellini turned on Cannelloni. Hissing at her, swatting at her.

Cannelloni is a lover, not a fighter but she stands her ground.

Don't know what brought this on and why it's stayed that way once it started.

My 3 cats today.

1) Tortellini - laying on top of her banana.
2) Mink - have had innumerable cats since my first one 55 years go but she is my all-time favorite.
3) Cannelloni - she can be quite sweet but look out if you dare try to use your hands to use these computer keyboard while she is lounging on top of those hands!

Sweet

American Psycho, but instead of business cards…cats.

Someone sent me this the other day.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:23 am Someone sent me this the other day.

So true! I've seen a different one many times but this was the first time I've seen this one.

You cannot even get me to get out of the house for days to just walk across the street to get my mail and newspaper.

Going to walk a dog?

When I had them they were always outside on long runs with dog houses in the garage.

Tactical Assault Cat

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Feb 03, 2026 6:54 pm Tactical Assault Cat

My cats were always after my gerbils but wanted to part of my rats. Would back away from them if the rats walked up to them. That looked like a quite small rat that that cat caought.