Flippy's Cat Page - Cat-Owners Exposed

CAT-OWNERS EXPOSED

You can always spot a cat owner ...

By an abundance of cat hair in his car, even though the cats never rides the car.
By scratches and bites on your legs and feet if when sleeping one disturbs his cat's comfy position at the bottom of the bed.
By spotting cat's hair in the shape of a tail or leg on the TV set.
by Ralph Rewes

By the mobile phone calls made from the cat food aisle in the supermarket getting someone at home to go and look in the pantry and see which variety of sachet or dry food is *the* one that our pedantic pussies will actually eat.
By the hours and hours of home videos of kittens playing cutely and energetically, but only a couple of hours of video of the kids doing their stuff. (I adore my kids and still can't work out how this actually happened!)
by AM

By standing in the supermarket thinking aloud "I've got them meat munchies then I'd better get some fish pouches for the variety but not that one because she doesn't like it and not that one because she loves it but her sister won't eat it and not the duck 'cos they had that last week" and so on.
By the unhooked curtain loops not to mention the claw sized holes in the curtains.
When guests ask to use the toilet, you have to go and get the toilet roll from the bedroom where you keep it because if it's out Dunzi will rip it to bits.
by Lesley Madigan

By the fact that you choose your bed linens/comforter based on what color will least show the cat hair build up
By the fact that you choose the shade of your new carpet by [gross comment coming...] what color your cat's furballs and upchucks are, so the stains in the carpet won't show up so much when company comes over.
by Dahlia W.

When you go visit your relatives and ask if its okay to bring your babies, who then stare at you and reply "but you don't have any children."
by Lisa Sleeman

By the beyond-worn-out doorknobs on all of the doors leading outside.
By the streaking "Let Me In!" pawprints on all of the windows leading in.
By the empty hangers in every closet... the garments they intended to hold in a heap on the floor having been lovingly removed by curious paws.
By the numerous clipped cat food coupons that add an artistic flair to the refrigerator.
by Mismatch

By the bowls of water on the countertops.
By the empty boxes everywhere for kittie's to nap in.
By the cover on the car when it's in the garage.
By the garage door left up about 8 inches for kitties to get in and out.
By the washroom full of kitty items: sacks of food, bowls, bedding for 15 kitties, cleaning products safe for cats, litter boxes, grooming tools, grooming table, and meds.
by Linda Dean

By keeping the roller shutters down when opening the windows and not using the balconies in case the silly kitties fall off (four stories).
By not having any plants in case they are poisonous.
By the number of cat food comparisons you have done to make sure they eat the best food for them.
By spending more time talking to them than to your fiance.
By the shredded sofa and three cat-trees/scratchposts (almost untouched except for naps).
By the fact that everything small and not nailed down has been at some point a cat toy.
By the two little faces pressed against the glass of the door when I get home from work.
by Claire Millington

When you are out you bite your fingernails because you worry about your cat.
When you go out to a classy restaurant you have cat fur all over your good dress/suit.
by Kirsti

By the fact that the radio is playing even when no one's home so the cats don't feel lonely.
By having someone (mother, neighbour, other cat-obsessed person) check on the cats when you're away for more than 6 hours - even though they are in perfect health and have everything they could wish for and more.
By owning one of those new expensive mobiles so you can now take pictures of your cats all the time and show them to everyone all the time.
By talking about your cats as if they are your children.
by Sofie Dejonghe

By the unvacumned floor because you had to wait till he went out because he's so scared of the vacumn cleaner.
And by the catnip leaves all over your bed so he'd have a nice snooze.
by Kim Cable

When you eat crackers, cause you spend your lunch money on the cat foods, cause he refuse to eat the cheap stuff.
When you work two jobs, so your cat has the good life of living...
When you cat brings in his fresh kill dinner and wants it on your bed, so you let him...
When your cat wants his very own pet fish, and you get it for him so that he isn't alone...
by Dawn M. Puckett

By the lower drawers the cats pull out to drag stuff out to play with -- like socks, underwear, Ace bandages, etc.
By always being tired at work from being awakened in the middle of the night by the cat who "sleeps" on your pillow (you don't get to) when the cat decides it's playtime and starts digging your head until you wake up and pet him.
By the mushed down garlic chives in the yard -- because that's where one of them likes to sleep.
By the fact that the dining room table is bare because kitties would knock the expensive crystal bowl off as they go skidding across on the way out the kitty window.
By being awakened in the middle of the night to a crashing sound and finding the small brass collection on the living room floor because a claw caught in the linen upon which the brass resides.
By the covers on the furniture that you can snatch off in the flicker of an eye in case company comes -- thereby removing cat hair in a flash.
By the shiny jewelry on the floor in front of the dresser because one of them loves to knock it off to watch it fall then watch Mom pick it up and put it back so we can do it again.
By the cat hair on the bar because that's where one perches whenever he smells olives -- to patiently await the olives he knows he will be served.
By noticing that the mistress of the house scrapes some of the steamed artichoke leaves on her plate for some mysterious purpose rather than eating all of them herself (the cat loves artichokes).
By the proudly displayed 18th birthday card the veterinarian sent to the one who almost made 19.
by Suzanne Carpenter

When at work meetings and courses the round robin about yourself - introducing by announcing that you have 20 cats, 2 dogs and foster up to 10 feral kittens at a time! (Personally I think it's the 2 dogs that tip the scale.)
By the way guests come in and sit on the floor rather than the furniture as they don't want to disturb the cat.
When a super king size bed is the answer you decide to the cat/human sleeping issue and still you can't get any space as 20 furballs want you to move.
by Liz Wilson

By the decorative paw prints across the bonnet and roof of your car.
by Crystal Barnes

By the pain in the neck, because one cannot push the cat off the pillow, when there is space to put one's head aside it, bending one's neck and sleeping like this the whole night. Or two. Or three... and still having cat fur on ones face.
by Anika Czarny

By the Cat Carrier which is seat-bealted in the back seat of your car at all times. (Infants aren't the only people in the world. )
by Jill M. Tricco

Because a cat owner thinks they are well groomed when they have just minimal "cat hair" on their black pants, and keeps one of those sticky roller things in their car and believes it's a necessity of life....
by Donna

By the scratches that "decorate their hands" and make them look like lowlife quarrelling people, and they keep gathering more because they can't stop their cute little furry thing that loves playing with claws on.
By the way that they can't stop talking about how cute and lovely and intelligent their cats are.
By the way that they always leave social gatherings early because the cat is all alone.
By the way that the very idea of going on holidays terrifies them because that means leaving the cat on her own for those days.
by Maria Escribano

By the fact that he or she has no social life because the cats demand all of his/her attention in their free time, otherwise the cats threaten to shred all the expensive furniture or use your shoes as a litter box in protest of being left alone.
by Bill Chandler

By the lack of knowledge of current affairs because Kitty likes to sit on the newspaper when you’re trying to read it.
by Fred Cavanagh

By the cardboard box that continually sits on your dining room table because that's where the cat likes to sleep.
by Evelyn Lortz

Because he or she is sitting in the chair where you can't see the TV, because kitty is in the chair where you CAN see the TV.
by Ken Gabrik

By the "I Love My Cat" T-Shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, etc.
by Jeffrey & Christine

By the way a cat owner can accept being ignored.
by S. Dossett

By the absence of flowers and plants in the house. Cats knock them over, eat them and spit them up all over the house.

by Eloise Claussen

When you see your kids make the school bus driver wait because they have to pet each one of your six cats before going to school.
by Lisa Mills

By the sign posted outside your door alerting the firemen that in an emergency, please save my cat.
By the "cat door" installed on the terrace window so kitty can go in and out when she pleases.
by Ron Swidler

By the hours you spend, endlessly, searching for the cat toy he has lost, only to go out and buy two more... knowing... in a minimum of three days... he will find the old one and present it to you.
By listening to the kitty scream, then standing at the open front door, in sub-zero weather, for an hour, while he decides if he really does want to go out after all.
by Murray Mall

By the masters (?) chair that is never available especially in winter if left for even just a minute, because all cats know that you were just warming it up for them.

by Jeannie Walston

By the socks hidden all over the house, pairs or singles, it doesn't matter. (Can't find about 30 pairs.)
by Lillian Vaillancourt

By the "From My Cat To Yours" ecard greetings on holidays and birthdays.
By the water left on at a slow trickle in the bathroom sink because kitty likes to drink from the stream.
By the toys suspended by yarn from doorknobs throughout the house.
By the "Child Proof" latches on kitchen cabinets, and there are NO children in the household.
by Cabmom

Because the Christmas tree has only plastic ornaments on it, since all the glass or breakable ones have long since succumbed.
by Big Al

By little wicker stools set in front of the TV 'cause kitty likes to watch too.
By the owner putting Animal Planet on for the kitties.
By the kitty litter that falls out of the owner's wallet!
By the "cat scratch posts" that are in perfect condition -- yet every piece of furniture in the house is ripped to shreads.
By the "surprise" fur balls you step on -- barefoot, first thing in the morning!
By waking up in the morning to every Christmas ornament off of the tree!
By being dive bombed when you still want to sleep but kitty is hungry!
By having the kitties snuggle up to you in bed cause they know you are sick.
By having it suddenly become very quiet... and then you know that kitty is up to something.
By having kitty cry when their owner leaves.
By the fact that they can hear someone at the door before you can!
When you call your house so you can talk to your kitties on your answering machine!
When you are on vacation all you can think about is getting home to your kitties.
You are sure to "check" inside your shoes before putting them on.
When you have to play ref 'cause your kitties are spatting.
Because you carry a de-linter in your car.
Because you are seen buying reindeer antlers/elf suits for your kitties at Christmas.
Because you actually buy catnip seed!
Because you buy them food that is more expensive than what you eat.
Because you can be seen actually trying to select their favorite foods in the grocery store.
Because you buy them cat toys for their birthday.
Because you carry their pictures in your wallet.
by Time Traveller

By the nose and paw prints all over the computer screen.
By the shredded sheepskin rug that's kept in front of the gas fire in the winter.
By the falling leaves screensaver left on because a certain household member likes it, but I don't.
By the fact that the embroidered tablecloth is in the LOCKED cupboard NOT on the table.
By the fact that the crochet wool is kept in a box with a lid on, and taken out one ball at a time.
by John Wildblood

By the figurines, knick-knacks, etc. on the shelves have been previously glued back together at least once.
By numerous foot prints all over the tops and part way down the fronts and sides of the large aquariums in the breakfast nook, which could only have been made by curious felines.
By the cat hair on the dining room table. And needless to say, there's always the occasional piece of kitty litter on one or more of the chairs.
by Bonbon

By the empty paper bag or cardboard box in the living room, especially if it is half shredded.
by Catherine Jo Sadler

By the clothing you wear that looks like it's made of fur, even though it really isn't.

by Ginger-lyn Summer

By the cat hair on their clothes.
By the kitty litter in the shopping basket.
By the purchase of kitty treats whenever they go shopping.
By the very large trees in the front room, by a window so the cats have a good view.
By the curtains which are always askew because the cats need a better view.
by Hazel Az

By the tangle of blankets, pillows, comforter, usually with a cat or two (or more) draped artistically over the bed.
by Janice Munday

By the straws and Q-tips too!
By their boxsprings. If you have a cat, surely your bed boxsprings have a hole in the bottom where your cat hides.
by Joan Cooper

By what is on the floor. Crumpled balls of paper or foil, milk bottle rings, and mousies are dead give-aways.
By the pile of clean laundry on the couch or spare bed, with a little cat-hair lined nest in the middle of the pile. One can't disturb a cat merely to put away the laundry, can one?
By the paw-prints all over the freshly-washed car.
by Joy Gaylord

By the mice, toys, caps, pens.......under the fridge and stove.
by Lisa

By the perfectly good comforter, afghan or blanket strewn on the floor and covered with cat fur. Smeary little kitty nose prints four to eight inches above the bottom of the window, too.
by Melinda Nowikowski

By the four trash bags of dirty kitty litter on trash day.
By the well-washed dirty dishes in the sink and cat hair in the clean ones in the drainer.
by Rosemarie

By the unmade bed because kitty was asleep when you left for work and you couldn't bear to disturb them by making the bed!

by Tish Silberbauer

By the interesting array of small scars up and down the hands & arms, shoulders & thighs, in various degrees of freshness. The owner of said scars will invariable say "oh, it didn't hurt... that much".
by Vicky Chapman

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