[geeks] OT: cat

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:47:21AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On January 18, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > >   Hey man...she likes you more than she likes most [non-me] people.
> > > You, James Sharp, Thalx, and Stacy are about the only people she will
> > > allow to pet her.  Aside from me, of course..
> > 
> > She just gave me dirty looks. 8-(
> 
>   I wouldn't worry about it.  Ophelia is a VERY skittish cat, she's
> terrified of everything and everyone.  One more reason to NEVER
> de-claw a cat...it destroys them psychologically.  Anyway, it took her
> nearly a YEAR of living in my house to stop hissing and batting at me.
> Now she protects me like a mad dog and won't let me out of her sight.
> It's interesting when I have a female guest over for the night...this
> crazy cat "guards" me while I sleep. :)

I always thought that they way they declawed cats was similar to the way they
removed toenails for for people who repeatedly get ingrown toenails.  Then I
find out that the process is more like chopping someones fingers off at the
knucle.  Ugh ughn. No way I'm sending a cat for that.  I just use a finger
nail clippers to keep the claws short.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd