I have a thing for green eyes…what a beauty! My green-eyed boy is part Ragdoll; he is more like a puppy-cat who comes when I call him and meows for us to sit with him while he eats. He is a lap kitty who climbs up into my lap and bunts me and lays there like a boneless ragdoll (hence the name).
Brendan, I have one of those supersize torites too. My Tortuga is a little under 16 pounds. I always thought torties were petite, but every now and then nature throws in a moose. But a wonderful moose. She doesn’t do much of the head bonking, but she has very expressive hands, holding my face in them with just one claw on each side letting me know who’s boss.
I’ll raise you one: my Grendel could be Turtle’s twin, even to the point of the bicolor chin. It’s nice to know the term “bunting,” now I know what to call that “thing” she does so well.
Grendel does it a lot, but she’s not a lap cat. She sat in my lap once, for about 3 minutes, but otherwise she’s a “hold me, pet me” kind of girl, one paw curled up around my neck. She’s not 8 pounds though, more like 12.
Her brother Bob, a marmalade dude, was about 15 pounds, so they came from an economy size background (and no, neither was/is fat). Bob has passed on to the Great Feline Playground, he disappeared one day and never came back (in Arizona, coyotes are the main predators of cats).
aword –you nailed it! Spunky, PURRsistent, and a lot of love. We are learning a lot from each other…
Yes she is annoying and the more she is the more you love her. She has a very persistent personality. Extremely strong hunting instinct — like, for laying on my pillow. Despite my allergy.
What a great face! A little pain and a lot of spunk in those eyes!
Anatoly just upgraded Word Press, which came with a number of improvements. I never hear about this in advance. I just notice I’m looking at a slightly different website. That is a big improvement, to have a “related content” feature though I have not seen the settings.
turtle!!!
little freaky-cat! i miss her — she and i hit it off immediately last summer; she’d sit in my lap while i worked at eric’s kitchen table.
sarah — nice to know the behavior has a term and definition. one cat i used to live with seemed only able to “bunt.” but then, he also could not seem to lie down without sort of hurling himself down in a dramatic flop…
oh, and eric — what is with the completely unrelated “related posts” appearing beneath the field to post a comment?
🙂
That bashing is the feline equivalent of a biiiiiiiiiiiig kiss – apparently it is one of their most demonstrative displays of affection … called “bunting”.
What a cat. One of my “rescue” projects, if you count a cat who made her way from a mean neighbor’s house, to my back yard in the autumn, to my bed, a “rescue.” It was as if she had a plan. However, I am however rather allergic to her. It differs from cat to cat. So, she went to Beth.
This is an extremely interesting cat who likes to be handled a little rough. She returns the favor, bashing you with her head and snout. She clearly has some goat in her. I know it sounds like an exaggeration to say that an 8-pound cat can bash anything but it’s not.
What a fine big-eyed smiling kitteh! Nice that s/he brought you out for a picture.
Aw, what a face! Turtle even color coordinates with your jacket…!
I have a thing for green eyes…what a beauty! My green-eyed boy is part Ragdoll; he is more like a puppy-cat who comes when I call him and meows for us to sit with him while he eats. He is a lap kitty who climbs up into my lap and bunts me and lays there like a boneless ragdoll (hence the name).
Brendan, I have one of those supersize torites too. My Tortuga is a little under 16 pounds. I always thought torties were petite, but every now and then nature throws in a moose. But a wonderful moose. She doesn’t do much of the head bonking, but she has very expressive hands, holding my face in them with just one claw on each side letting me know who’s boss.
I’ll raise you one: my Grendel could be Turtle’s twin, even to the point of the bicolor chin. It’s nice to know the term “bunting,” now I know what to call that “thing” she does so well.
Grendel does it a lot, but she’s not a lap cat. She sat in my lap once, for about 3 minutes, but otherwise she’s a “hold me, pet me” kind of girl, one paw curled up around my neck. She’s not 8 pounds though, more like 12.
Her brother Bob, a marmalade dude, was about 15 pounds, so they came from an economy size background (and no, neither was/is fat). Bob has passed on to the Great Feline Playground, he disappeared one day and never came back (in Arizona, coyotes are the main predators of cats).
aword –you nailed it! Spunky, PURRsistent, and a lot of love. We are learning a lot from each other…
Yes she is annoying and the more she is the more you love her. She has a very persistent personality. Extremely strong hunting instinct — like, for laying on my pillow. Despite my allergy.
What a great face! A little pain and a lot of spunk in those eyes!
Anatoly just upgraded Word Press, which came with a number of improvements. I never hear about this in advance. I just notice I’m looking at a slightly different website. That is a big improvement, to have a “related content” feature though I have not seen the settings.
turtle!!!
little freaky-cat! i miss her — she and i hit it off immediately last summer; she’d sit in my lap while i worked at eric’s kitchen table.
sarah — nice to know the behavior has a term and definition. one cat i used to live with seemed only able to “bunt.” but then, he also could not seem to lie down without sort of hurling himself down in a dramatic flop…
oh, and eric — what is with the completely unrelated “related posts” appearing beneath the field to post a comment?
🙂
That bashing is the feline equivalent of a biiiiiiiiiiiig kiss – apparently it is one of their most demonstrative displays of affection … called “bunting”.
What a cat. One of my “rescue” projects, if you count a cat who made her way from a mean neighbor’s house, to my back yard in the autumn, to my bed, a “rescue.” It was as if she had a plan. However, I am however rather allergic to her. It differs from cat to cat. So, she went to Beth.
This is an extremely interesting cat who likes to be handled a little rough. She returns the favor, bashing you with her head and snout. She clearly has some goat in her. I know it sounds like an exaggeration to say that an 8-pound cat can bash anything but it’s not.
What a fine big-eyed smiling kitteh! Nice that s/he brought you out for a picture.
Aw, what a face! Turtle even color coordinates with your jacket…!