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Originally Posted by ladydoc
My cat, Tombstone, has become a dog since we moved here. He sits nicely with the dogs and waits for this doggie cookie. He will try to knock food off your plate. (He is huge and can stretch out and actually look to see what is on the plate.) If that does not work, he will sit on one of the dining room chairs and "talk" to us until he gets a taste of whatever we are eating. These are all new behaviors....he never did any of them in NM.
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Sounds as if we had your cat's cousin. Rusty was almost human and the only one of our children's several cats that would sit at the kitchen table very politely with good posture and paws beneath (like in his lap) and then would slowly bring it up and stretch it across the table to the buttered toast and snatch a piece.......it didn't matter what the food was. It was so humorous that we allowed him to keep doing it...........finally had to break him of the habit. Only one other of our cats, a white deaf female cat, would eat out of her cat bowl with her claws, bringing the cat food up to her mouth.
Rusty also LOVED BENGAY and if anyone had applied it to a sore back or whatever, he would be your best buddy. He was quite a character from kittenhood on. He also knew whenever the females in the family were using the bathroom..........he would sit outside the door and then slowly put his big red paw underneath the door. Unfortunately, my hubby killed him with ant spray.....unknowingly, on Palm Sunday. He also ran over the white cat one evening returning the kids from skiing, backing up into the driveway. We do have a virtual cat cemetery and dog cemetery in our old home's backyard.
However, as humorous as all of our cats were, over the years, our Irish Setters were by far the most comical.......they would gallop through the neighborhood and bring home bags of whatever they found on neighbors back porches.........one time a fireman's hat...another time a bag of ladies undergarments. Beautiful animals but crazy.