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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

1488.0. "landshark attacks permanents" by IOWAIT::WILDE (Grand Poobah's first assistant and Jr. Wizard) Fri Jun 24 1988 20:30

After I have a permanent put in my hair, Nicky becomes the landshark....
he slithers up behind my head, grabs the back of my head in a strong
hug, and RUBS his face in my curls..

It wouldn't be so bad, but he does this to perfect strangers that come
into the house and it is pretty unsettling to someone to suddenly be
grabbed from behind by a little gray and white cat....especially since
he is shy with strangers and they never see him coming.

I want to know why he does this...permanents don't smell good, and I
don't think they make them with musk in them...so what's up here?
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1488.1CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, & Holly; in Calif.Fri Jun 24 1988 20:537
    :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
    
    The one time my mother inflicted a permanent on me, a zillion years
    ago, it smelled truly awful.  Are they still the same?  There must
    be a cat attractant in there somewhere.  Or a Nicky-attractant,
    anyway.
    
1488.2Mine too!!NRADM::CONGERMon Jun 27 1988 09:1812
    
    	I have the same thing happen when I get my hair colored! Rosie
    	will wait until I'm taking a bath, and sit on the hamper behind
    	the tub. She starts out by burying her nose down to my scalp
    	and inhaling, then she grabs a mouthful of hair and tugs away...
                                              
    	It must be the way it smells, because she's always trying to
    	lick scented moisturizer off my legs or my face, etc...That
    	must be how they do those cat-food commercials - `here, put
    	some scented moisturizer on your face so the cat will lick it'.
    	:)
    
1488.3Shampoo does it tooICEBOX::FEASEAndrea Midtmoen FeaseMon Jun 27 1988 09:418
         Have never had a permanent, but I know that Loki l-o-v-e-s
    my shampoo.  After I've washed my hair, he'll sit there and lick
    my hair and, sometimes, get so worked up that he bites (ouch!).
    He also loves my deodorant and, like Bigfoot, will get "drunk" on
    it too.
    
                                      - Andrea
    
1488.4Perm attractionNSG022::POIRIERWhen it's hot it's hot!Mon Jun 27 1988 09:479
    Both my kitties react the same way to my perms.  Once I woke up and
    Mandy was licking my hair - ich.  Koko just nuzzles it.  There is
    something in there that definitely attracts cats( we'd all be rich if
    we could find the same formula for men! :-)).  
    
    It only lasts for about a week and then the smell wears off.
    
    Suzanne
    
1488.5Another hair storyBRAT::GERMANNMon Jun 27 1988 10:3110
    Last night Margaret was telling me about Bob's newest activity
    at bedtime.  Seems he waits until she is in bed with her head on
    the pillow.  Then he starts pulling her hair out from beneath her
    head (she has VERY long hair).  When he has as much as he can, pulling
    with both paws and mouth, he will lie down on it, purr away, and
    fall asleep.  Since teenagers put all sorts of wonderful things
    on their hair, I would guess it is an attraction to some one of
    those things.  We laughed for a long time over this one.....
    
    Ellen
1488.6STRANGE KITTYAIMHI::OFFENMon Jun 27 1988 12:598
    Lightning doesn't attack perms.  She just attacks people wearing
    Vicks or BenGay.  She must love the camphor in it.
    
    Crazy cat.  But she has never had a cold.
    
    Sandi (Lightning's, DejaVu's & Thunder's mom)
    
    
1488.7Tristan's really embarassing!STAR::BARTHFri Jul 01 1988 13:366
    Tristan likes overly-ripe armpits.  We have a friend or two who
    don't seem to shower every day.  When they come over Tristan stuffs
    his head right into their pits, pushing with all his might.  Now
    that's embarassing!!!!
    
    Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.  ;-)
1488.8Uhg!ACTVAX::SCHWINDTKDF;LAKSDJTue Jul 05 1988 11:159
    
    
    Karen...
    
    Is that embarassing for the cat or for your friend that doesn't
    shower every day????  :^>  
    
    Katie
    
1488.9Embarassed? Me?STAR::BARTHTue Jul 05 1988 13:1810
    Katie,
    
    It's definately embarrassing for everyone except Tristan.  Tristan
    doesn't know the meaning of the word!  ;-)
    
    He seems especially to like the pits of wool sweaters, whether you've
    showered or not (I'd forgotten about the sweaters since it's so
    warm this time of year).
    
    Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.