7/28/2006: Cat is glove thief

It's axlrosen again with this item: the full story explains, this cat named Willy has stolen all the gloves on that line.

This one-year-old goes around the neighborhood, finds gloves (9 pairs and 5 singles in a number of weeks) and brings them home, leaving them as a gift on the back steps of his house.

A friend, Claudia Bonci, said she was in the Pifers' kitchen recently and had noticed a single gardening glove on the sidewalk.

"Jennifer was telling me all about how Willy was bringing home all these gloves, and there was a small pile of them outside the door, and then here comes the cat with a glove in its mouth, proud as could be, like he was giving me a gift."

Cat owners will identify with that sort of behavior. Some cats are just outgoing:

Despite his criminal nature, neighbors get a kick out of Willy. Cassone said the cat likes to accompany the mailman up and down the block, all the way to each front door. Willy also likes to climb trees and bat at the heads of people below.

It must be friday, that cat is toooo cuuuute!

They're lucky, my cats left dead things, and worse, half dead things, on the back steps.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce They're lucky, my cats left dead things, and worse, half dead things, on the back steps.

One of my cats collects paper clips. When he hears the sound of paper clips jingling, he becomes obsessed with locating them, biting them up off the ground, "accidentally" dropping them a few times so they make more jingling sounds, and eventually taking them back to the food bowl, where I find them at the bottom of the bowl when their food runs out.

I hadn't realized that behavior was that common. We always thought my friend's Rex was a mutant because she did things like that.

Checking the food bowl for paperclips was a daily task when I was petsitting, even if we hadn't been playing paperclip game that day.

Seriously, paperclips??? I just thought my cat rode "the short bus."

My cat likes pens, or anything small and long that will fit in her mouth. Mascara tubes, lipstick, eyeliner, even small brushes. But mostly pens and pencils. She likes to leave them in my bedroom doorway so I will see them when I go in there. You can't leave you pens out for a second, because she will jump up and get it and move it. At least I know she isn't crazy.

I always joke that I was raised by cats. We always had at least a couple around at any given time growing up.

You haven't lived until you open the door and a cat runs in from outside in a panic with huge bird wings wrapped around his head. It happens so fast there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can almost hear the cat yelling, "Backup! I need Backup!" Then he lets go of the live and pissed blackbird inside the house.

The dead mice on the doorstep I could live with. The Alfred Hitchcock re-enactment I could do without.

mmmmmmmm, Chinese food.

My ex and I had the best cat, Toonces, who was almost human. When he passed away it nearly killed us. Anyway, once we were watching TV, my ex on one side of the sectional and me on the other, with the remote somewhere in between. Toonces walked on the in between section, stepped on the remote, and changed the channel to Animal Planet. Not only do I kid you not, he did it TWICE!

Animal Planet may have been on the "last channel" button but I don't think so. It was really funny!

Absolutely! Of course that's where we got his name. Toonces Riley...I miss him!

"Toonces CAN drive a car. Just not very well!"
--Lyle Clark

(Wishing for a cat smilie)

Objects Cats Are Interested In

My cats are fascinated by anything that resembles a mouse tail, but terrified by anything that resembles a snake! I know, this is a very fine distinction. Shoelaces are considered "mice tails", while a belt is considered a "snake." Etc.

If that were my cat I'd name him Mittens.

Rubber bands are a big hit, too. But I have to take those away, because I'm afraid they are eating them.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 I feel sad for people who don't like cats!

My cat plays fetch with my hair bands. She'll steal them off my nightstand, too. I buy a pack of 30, and they're gone in a month. She must drop them off in the same place missing socks go...

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Let's see that cat bring these home:

[url="http://www.harriesheder.com/glove.htm"]Porter Square T Station

This sculpture is in my "T" station here in Cambridge and I thought it did a nice job of connecting the last two IOD's (I'sOD?). The photos are horrible but the art is fun when it is not being used as a gum receptacle.

You know, I think this work actually generated controversy and is found offensive by some who consider it insensitive to holocaust victims. No, really.

Once your cat is bored with chasing a laser beam around the floor (with occasional trips up the wall just for laughs), and put a loop of tape on the back of one paw, or maybe a wee bit more there's always zero-G

Most of our cat toys (plastic milk rings, pens et cetera...) wind up under either the fridge or stove where we cannot readily retrieve them.

Last year my husband brought home a kitty from work who was near death, he had a huge abcess on his neck, nearly as large as his head. Anyhow, the first time I tried to play-drag a leather string in front of him, he pounced on it with both front feet and then snatched his head down to bite it to 'kill' it.
Husband thinks LuckyDuck received his wound because he had been bitten by a snake. I agree, as if it were from another cat, I feel he would not have been so trusting and friendly with our established housefull.
When hubby brought him home:

His FrankenKitty stitches:

The whole clan: LD is at the bottom of the pic.

Whattaya gonna do? Gotta love 'em!

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I think we all know that cats are born with a heathy does of the "play gene" as nature's way of helping them practice hunting. It sharpens all their skills and instincts. Another interesting fact that I learned from some biologist friends is that when cats bring home dead animals (or remnants thereof) and leave them for you to find, they are teaching YOU to hunt. Sort of the "do as I do" approach. Apparently felines find that we don't go out there and kill enough of our own food...

Stupid cats.
Dogs however, know, we are the greatest hunters that ever existed. Good doggie.

My kitty Boots is a known serial killer in the insect community. He guards me from arachnids when I sleep. He knows no fear.

One of my cats loves Post-It notes. He jumps to pull them off the fridge and then he "chases" them all around the house.

My mother had a Russian blue cat who did the same thing. Rajie would bring home freshly cooked meat (we don't know where he was stealing it from) T bone steaks, sausages, chops, chicken all kinds of BBQ meats. Some of them still hot from the BBQ. He would place them at the foot of my Mum and Dads bed. They came in at all times of the night. My other cat Kimberley who lives at my parents place, brings home rats with their head bitten off as a gift. Not a very nice gift to find early in the morning when you are eating breakfast.

My Douglas is a fussy little fella. He doesn't like food that involves a lot of chewing - he prefers to chase a bite size piece of steak around the house then eat it. He has a weaknesss for junk food, especially cheesels (much the same as me ) . He was a stray kitten and very skittish when we first got him, so he used to hide in my room whenever we had visitors. But he alwas crept out when he smelled the cheesels!

If our cats caught a mouse in the house, (or sneaked one in) would always leave them outside the door to the darkroom. That was the only room in the house they weren't allowed in. Bribe?

Bugs are whatever I deem them to be.

Wings not required, I will cheerfully label crawling things bugs even if they are not.

Bugs has long ears and usually a carrot.