Conference misery::feline_v1

    Weazy loves to hide in paper bags (not so unusual), and he also
    likes to hide behind my bathrobe hanging on the hook when I'm in
    the shower, or on the edge of the tub behind the curtain.  He will
    pull the bathroom towels off the rack hoping that he will be able
    to hide behind them too!
    
    Pam

    Most of mine like to watch WWF pro wrestling. They also enjoy catfood
    commercials.
    
    Deb

    
    Bandit likes it when I pick him up, turn him upside down with one
    hand supporting his head, the other supporting the rest of him.
    Then I swing him back and forth towards a mirror and he tries
    to grab the other kitty.
    
    T.K. LOVES beer caps and will play with them for hours.
    
    Cinamon likes to tear his hair out with his teeth and decorate
    my furniture with it.  Its kinda gross.....
    
    Karen

    Barney used to like to watch baseball when he was a kitten.  He'd
    sit on top of the TV, watch upside down, and bat at the players
    as they ran around the bases or field.
    Ben likes to sleep on top of the cable tv box.  I've got a great
    picture of this one.
    Gonezo is a wimp.  When a lot of company comes over or we're at
    my mother's house, he will hide under the quilt thinking no one
    knows he's there.  It's kind of hard to hide an 18lb cat!
    
    

    Schnapps likes to bat at the shower curtain when I'm in the shower...
    Hoping I will bat back...I usually do...It's kind of cute!
    Then when I'm done, she'll jump in and check out the bathtub faucet
    drips.
    
    You should see the edge of the shower...I have to clean it almost
    everyday.

    Mozie likes to play hide'n seek under beds and chairs but always
    forgets to stick his rear end in (if I can't see you then you can't
    see me!)  He also wants to picked up whenever I play the "Cats"
    album.
    Misha wants her drinking water in a paper cup.
    Jemma is a fan of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and likes to chase Mr.
    trolley car.
    And every evening precisely at 9:30 the whole group line up in the
    kitchen waiting for one of us to hand out Bonker treats.

    
    
    Tasha Marie loves water.  She always comes running when the toilet
    flushes or the water is running in the sink.  She loves the shower
    too.  She acts like she wants to get in, until she gets a sprinkle
    of water on her.  Tasha can not understand how something as fun
    as water can do something so nasty(getting her wet).
    
                                     
    
                                                        Donna
     

    Cho Cho San loves to help me water the plants.  She jumps up into
    the pots and watches the water as it sinks into the dirt then she
    tries to retrieve it.  Sometimes she bats the water as it pours
    out of the spout and sometimes she tries to drink the water as it
    pours out.   When I want to fertilize the plants I have to put her
    in teh bedroom with the door closed for a long time.
    
    It's great fun to watch her.  She also likes to drink her water
    out of the basin in the bathroom and she loves to check the dripping
    faucet after my shower.

    Schnitzel loves to help me make the bed.  She can be downstairs
    in her chair sound asleep when I start to make the bed.  By the
    time I have the sheets off and am ready to put the clean ones on,
    Schnitz is running up the stairs ("wait for me, Mom") jumps on the
    bed and waits for the sheet to cover her.  She then crawls out and
    waits for the blanket to cover her, crawls out and waits for the
    spread.  Occasionally she'll let all layers be put on top of her,
    corners all tucked in, then she'll slither to the side and slip
    out, shake her head, jump back on the bed and sit ("Nice job we
    did, Mom").
    
    She also loves to jump in an empty laundry basket and sit.....
    
    P.
    

    I'm a little embarrassed to admit this...
    
    My friends cat LOVES to play tag with me.  He doesn't do this
    with anyone else (except his sister I imagine, since they "road
    race a lot)  
    
    I never know when the mood will strike him. I'll be walking down
    the hall and all of a sudden he'll come running out of no where
    at light speed..stop within an inch of me, and gently tap
    me on the leg, give me devious look, and run away at top speed.
    I'm supposed to chase him, tap him gently and run, with him chasing
    me in return.  He'd play this game for hours if I'd cooperate.  
    If I don't chase him he'll make a high "chirp" calling sound 
    (his name for me?)
    
    
    
    

    Hitla likes to play "catch" with my husband's spongy ear plugs.
    She'll grope around the bedroom until she finds one, even in his
    top drawer, and then she will put it on the sofa.  If I don't
    give it a flick so she can chase it, she'll drop it down between
    the sofa cushions and proceed to retrieve it, over and over.  
    When I do play with her, she actually brings it back to me and
    drops it into my hand!
    
    Has anyone else seen a cat play "catch" before?
    
    Pam
    

    W.W. also likes to help me make the bed (a waterbed !!).
    As soon as the sheets are off the bed, he tries to chase 
    the air bubble in the mattress - he still can't understand
    why he can't catch them, and would probably be at it for hours
    unless I made the bed.  Then when I'm putting the sheets on, 
    he stays under them and plays "commando kitty" until I force
    him out.
    
    W.W. also loves the laundry basket when there's clothes (already
    folded, of course) in there, and dig whatever's on the bottom up
    to the top.  He's a riot to watch !
    
    Joy

    
    	Retriever cat!!! We have a siamese that retrieves paper and
    wants you to toss it again and she will go get it and bring it back.
    This same cat "Chinky" learned a game that a friend of mine taught
    her, we call it "through the leg game" you have to sit with your
    legs crossed only lift one so the cat can go through it and go round
    and round chasing your hand. Kind of hard to explain! But now that
    she is bigger it's not as cute but she insists on playing it and
    if you don't co-operate she will paw at your legs until you play!
    
    	Spooky loves to eat winter squash while you are fixing it the
    raw squash seeds and all!!! She also loves chocolate, oreos especially
    she goes nuts if you are eating them in front of her!
    
    	Misty like to get on your shoulder especially in the bathroom
    when you are brushing your teeth and she likes to look at herself
    in the mirror at this time, if you can get the picture!!! Our house
    is crazy!!!!! 
    
    	Becky
    		

    Our cat Smokey (r.i.p.) used to play goalkeeper. We would make little
    balls out of screwed-up pieces of magazines, etc. and toss them
    into the air and he would leap up after them and catch them with
    both paws! Sometimes about 2 feet into the air from a sitting position!
    The only problem? He would only do this on the bed while my wife
    and I were in it. We would be sitting maybe reading a book before
    turning in for the night and we would hear a squeaking noise which
    would herald the arrival of Smokey with one of his "balls". He would
    jump up onto the bed, drop the paper ball on the covers in front
    of one of us and move down to the other end of the bed ready to
    play. Luckily the session would only last about 10-15 mins and then
    we would be allowed to go to sleep. (Gosh I miss that)
    
    Brian and Adrienne
    

    My Little Whicket loves to play catch!  She will grab
    anything from a top to the milk carton or a slip of 
    paper.  Her favorite is a little toy white mouse that
    is covered with fur.  (the mouse is getting a bit ragged)
    She will cry until I throw it and sometimes she bats
    it back to me.  It's cute and she will play for hours
    before she gets tired of it.  Unfortunatly, I get tired
    of it first and she has to be content to bat it around 
    herself!
    
    Katie
    

    Punjab loves to "play ball".  He learned as a kitten that if he
    would bring his golf_ball_size nerf ball back to me I would throw it for
    him. He will then crouch down on the floor and wait for me to throw
    it.  He won't play with my wife because she dosen't throw it hard
    enough (with the bounce over his head, please!)  If I look at him
    at any time and say "ball?" he responds with a chirp.  This is real
    fun until he drops the ball on your face at about 3:00am! 
               

Hannah takes her "cat dancer" toy and teases Nicholas with it...then she
runs around the house with Nick chasing her.  They have the perfect kitty
toy, it works without mom's intervention so they don't have to wait until
I'm through with dishes and my workout...in fact, the game often goes
OVER me while I'm working out!

NOTE:  If you have a cat that won't play with anything, ask your pet
store to get you a cat dancer...its a long curved wire with a few pieces
of wood at one end...as far as I can see, this toy is irresistable.  Nick
plays as hard and as long as Hannah and he is 8 years old!

    Bailey plays with the "cat dancer" toy by herself.  She grabs one
    end and the other end moves so she jumps to it, or she carries one
    end in her mouth and ends up running in circles for the other end.
    
    Amelia plays with anything...Q-tips, garbage back ties, etc.  Her
    favorite toy still seems to be the invisible mouse that runs through
    our house every now and then.  Its a riot to watch her trying to
    catch something that isn't really there.
    

    Basrah has invisible aby monsters that chase her.  No other cat
    could see them until she finally showed them to Callie.  Now they
    both get chased by invisible things through the house.
    
    Dave

    Yes, my little "Goldie" loves to play catch, she loves crinkled
    up paper in a ball or aluminum paper in a ball too. She fetch it
    and return it to me to throw it again.
    
    Snookie loves to watch me make the bed, he'll be in the other room
    and come racing, jump on the bed and start swimming (at least that
    is what it looks like - the frog swim) and he'll do this all over
    the bed as I'm tucking in the sheets.  The Goldie gets in on the
    fun and joins in, but she likes to be covered with the sheets, etc.
    When I'm finished, they jump off the bed and look at me as if to
    say, "boy what a good job we did".
    
    The little baby "Mittens" loves to play with anything lying arond
    like pencils, pens, pulling down the bathroom towells trying to
    hide. 
    
    Both Goldie and Mittens love to play in the bathroom, and watch
    me take a bath or shower.  Mittens loves to go between the shower
    curtin and sheer curtin.  He'll try to reach for me through the
    curtin as if I can't see him through it. As if he is playing
    peek-a-boo.
    
    All three love to watch channel 2, especially when they have nature
    shows on with the birds chirping, lions roaring, etc. They will
    sit in front of the TV and watch for quite a while.  
    
    And people say cats are stupid.... they just never had one and observed
    them.
    
    That's all
    

    re: .18, .19
    
    Come on!  Just because YOU can't see the mouse/etc. doesn't
    mean your cat is chasing nothing.  Your cat CLEARLY has
    better eyesight than you!
    
    	:-)

    Chauncey, the Great White Hunter, stalks invisible prey around the
    living room all the time.  Honey will sit and watch him, with a
    look like "what's that dumb cat doing?" on his face.  Chauncey will
    stalk, pounce, and then batter his 'prey' and will then walk away.
    He will sometimes return to the battle site and do the famous 'pounce
    and run' bit.  Silly boy...
    
    Mary

    
    Dillan loves to watch nature programs (birds etc..) and also he
    is very much into snooker (just can't understand where the balls
    go when they disappear down a pocket...he starts searching under
    the TV.)
    
    Sammie loves to help make the bed but always lies right on the edge
    so when I pull the quilt straight he falls onto the floor every
    time...one day he'll learn.  Dillan just likes to get into bed,
    sometimes he'll lay at the top, under the quilt but with his head
    on the pillow or he'll go right to the bottom (under the quilt)
    and curl up and stay there.
    
    Both are facinated by the bathroom.  If you are cleaning your teeth
    they will sit on the side of the basin and watch (as if to say my
    turn next) or they will walk along the side of the bath while you
    are in it...trying not to fall in or if the bath is empty they race
    round the tub...like the wall of death!!!
    
    Sammie is the one that catches birds/mice etc (I reprimand him of
    course) but Dillan goes out and catches.....LEAVES!!!! he is so
    proud when he catches one he brings it back to show us.  Once I
    caught him reversing through the cat flap with a mouth full of
    Pampas grass, the lady over the road was not impressed (it was
    her pride and joy).  I wasn't impressed either, he must have been
    doing this for hours as I ended up with all her HUGE plant up my
    stairs!!!! I couldn't help laughing though, he obviously thought
    it would look nicer in our garden!!!!
    
    
    Sharon T

>    turn next) or they will walk along the side of the bath while you
>    are in it...trying not to fall in or if the bath is empty they race
>    round the tub...like the wall of death!!!
    
Tabitha, the siamese, used to do that until she DID fall in on me!
The neighbors must have thought we were torturing a child.  When I got
her head above water she started wailing and didn't stop until I got
her wrapped all warm and snuggly in a towel.  It was not the most wonderful
interruption to my "relaxing" bubble bath.  Needless to say, with bubbles,
I had to add insult to injury by rinsing her off real good before I could
dry....she doesn't like bathrooms anymore!