Re: Re: Forsythia/Cats and Beans

That is exactly right Cathy - LOL
Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: cathy carpenter
Sent: 3/26/2004 9:13:44 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Forsythia/Cats and Beans

> What is it they say? Dogs have masters, cats have staff.
> Cathy
> On Friday, March 26, 2004, at 06:06 AM, ""  
> <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ha - good one Melody. Ruling cats, now that is funny. Every morning  
> > when
> > I leave and see Sugar snoozing or looking at me, I think - hmm, stay
> > home and sleep and eat and play all day or go to work w/ knuckleheads
> > and stress. Who's the smart one here, let me think....
> >
> >
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Melody
> > Sent: 3/25/2004 7:31:17 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Forsythia/Cats and Beans
> >
> >> Auralie: I think that when God gave Man dominion over the birds and
> >> beasts of the world, He was having a joke on us all...who could hope  
> >> to
> >> rule cats? And dogs in their own way can be pretty demanding,  
> >> too...just
> >> not in your face like cats are...sort of sneakier about it.
> >>
> >> :-)
> >>
> >> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >>
> >> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> >> --Albert Einstein
> >>
> >>  --- On Thu 03/25,  < Aplfgcnys@aol.com > wrote:
> >> From:  [mailto: Aplfgcnys@aol.com]
> >> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:15:15 EST
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Forsythia/Cats and Beans
> >>
> >> In a message dated 03/23/2004 6:11:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> >> <br>mhobertm@excite.com writes:<br><br>> Auralie: I had a cat, Tiki,  
> >> who
> >> would eat any green food we would give<br>> her...brussel sprouts,
> >> asparagus, peas, spinach, green beans, etc. Same<br>> cat also  
> >> **loved**
> >> powdered blueberry muffin mix...would rip open the<br>> bags or  
> >> cartons
> >> to get to the stuff if it wasn't behind a locked door<br>> she  
> >> couldn't
> >> get into. Unfortunately for us, we also had a cat, Paws, at<br>> the
> >> time who had extra toes and like magic could open any cupboard  
> >> door<br>>
> >> in our house, even the kitchen cupboards that had push latches on
> >> them,<br>> so we were forever and a day coming home to ripped up boxes
> >> of powdered<br>> blueberry muffin mix! Wierd! But you gotta love those
> >> cats, don't you?<br>> <br><br>Melody, I love all cats, but I am
> >> constantly amazed at their individual <br>behaviors. Cats are as much
> >> individual personalities as humans. Two of mine are <br>sisters,  
> >> though
> >> I am sure they had different fathers. Jane wants constant  
> >> <br>attention,
> >> and brings us her string - which is very definitely her special
> >> <br>possession - to play with any time she sees us sitting still She  
> >> is
> >> a lovely soft <br>gray, but we call her the dumb blonde. Lottie, a  
> >> plump
> >> 'tuxedo' cat with only <br>half a white mask on her jet black face,
> >> scorns such childish things. She <br>likes to sit on top of the  
> >> computer
> >> monitor and see that I do my job properly. <br>In the evening my DH
> >> often has his supper on a tray by the fire. Lottie waits <br>until he
> >> settles in with a cup of tea and cookies, and then jumps onto the
> >> <br>tray and demands some cookie crumbs. She will settle down on his
> >> tray for the <br>evening - he can carry the tray to the kitchen and  
> >> she
> >> won't stir. She also <br>demands water at the kitchen faucet, mewing
> >> until we set it to drip. <br>Unfortunately sometimes she drinks too  
> >> much
> >> after she has just eaten and it all comes up, <br>so I try to control
> >> the times she can drink. I've had many cats in my long <br>life and  
> >> each
> >> was
> >>
> >> special. I think the Good Lord had a good day when He made <br>cats -
> >> and it also convinces me He has a sense of humor - but dogs do that,
> >> too. <br>
> >> Auralie<br><br>------------------------------------------------------- 
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