65 cats protect artworks at Russia museum

[CanadaSue]

I knew they could be put to productive work, somehow...


http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story...ssia-cats.html

[linttrap]

It's very cool that they get "street cats" for the job. And it started back in 1745!

I love it.

[Mama Alanna]

You don't put your cats to work, Sue? Willow is in charge of spreading an even layer of cat hair all over my bed, and turning cat food into cat poop.

[CanadaSue]

Oh mine are VERY busy or so they tell me. Yes - even distribution of copious quantities of cat hair ensures my compliane with house work. I have to scoop the box 6-8 times daily, (3 cats). Did I mention I have one who's a power puker? No rhyme or reason - he's a nutball anyway. If there was ever a feline diagnosis of ADHD - it would be him.

They make sure we're still breathing several times a night - they figure you can't be too careful with aging humans. They wake me at dawn. They inspect each load of groceries.

If any of that paid & I could charge them room & board... we'd be 'comfortable'.

[lilly]

I've also seen a mother cat and her kittens in a old mansion where they were giving ballet performances. Russians seem to like their cats. The staff was very loving to the mother cat and kittens. Here they would have some regulations that prohibited the cats. Probably saying visitors could have allergies.

I think the White House has some cats in the basement.

[Sonny]

Years ago I had a cat, a neighbors cat . I'd come home from work and sometimes he, or it, would come running from across the street. He was an outside cat when they weren't home which he didn't care for. He was small even for a Siamese cat, but he had that 'cock of the walk' attitude. He could answer simple one word questions with a yes or no, 'yap for yes and Ooh for no',
very vocal.

we first met, I was under my car wiring a tin can over a hole in my exhaust pipe, just relaxing on the cool concrete thinking how nice it might be to have a big poster of the bottom of my car for the ceiling of my bedroom when there's a cat talking at me. I think he thought I was hiding from the dogs? To which I answered No, and with my pliers tap tap taped on the bottom of the car to which he said Ohhh and then sat down and preceded to go into a rant of which I had no clue but to which I replied, Yeah I know ,I hate that too.

A good friend, very vocal

[Feather]

Sonny I love it! We had two cats from our litter that were always together. One night DH took the outside to the deck and then he forgot them when he came in. I went looking for them, in the dark, in my jammies at midnight. DH went out the back and I went out the front and was shining the flashlight around and calling to them. I started to hear a light meowing from under our truck. I called them and shone the light on them until they were with me. They followed me to the front door just a talking away. I was talking back to them and DH asked me why they were meowing. I told him they were telling me about their adventure outside. When they saw him they ran over to his and started in. He sat on the floor with them and kept agreeing with them and being sympathetic and petting them.

Another cat we had got demanding as she got older. I was on the phone one night and my friend asked me who was screaming NOW? It was Bigbird, my friend said good nightbecause if a cat is that demanding that I go to bed, I better go or risk a hack in my shoes in the morning.

[Mama Alanna]

Willow is extremely vocal for a cat who is not Siamese. She will conduct long conversations with us, and when we come home after a short absence, she will meet us at the top of the stairs, chewing us out for leaving her alone.

She was in the boarding kennel for almost 3 weeks in June, while we were on our Alaska cruise. And when we picked her up, she gave us the Silent Treatment. Oh, boy, were WE in trouble! It was most of a day before she would speak to us.

[CanadaSue]

MA - that's a loooooooong time for a talker to give you the silent treatment.