# Cats are weird. No, really they are. You hadn't noticed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255 "2006-06-19T05:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/1 "2006-06-19T05:04:45Z")
I just finished a late-night snack of shumai dumplings and put the plate down for the cats to lick. Also the little dish of soy sauce. They cleaned it all up. Including the soy sauce. Well, [Freddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2096184150000735275UqWVdw) is the one I actually saw scouring the soy sauce dish. Not [Sophie](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109848187000735275MrxMjF), who’s mad for avocado. Come to think of it, so is Freddy. And [Sally](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2050772510000735275TjGXuC). They’re always happy to give the guacamole dish a good pre-washing when I’m done with it. Freddy is [exuberantly oddball](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2612597850000735275ycJleU), even for a cat. [Squash finds Sally’s antics fascinating](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2091130010000735275WkuVGI), even when she’s [trying to rip his throat out.](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2971706790000735275kSlNmU) When he’s had enough he finds some [new and bizarre way](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2396797700000735275fvnUqr) to nap with his brother Pumpkin. Cats are weird. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/2 "2006-06-19T05:14:07Z")
Admit it: your dog made you post this libel. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/3 "2006-06-19T06:01:42Z")
[QUOTE=Dijon Warlock] Admit it: your dog made you post this libel. [/QUOTE] I would if I had a dog. It’s true, [Eddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109845598000735275OqjDTl) is larger than your average Jack Russell, though considerably less energetic. But he denies all involvement. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/4 "2006-06-19T06:22:22Z")
Damn! How many pounds is that monster cat? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/5 "2006-06-19T06:43:55Z")
Last time he was weighed at the vet’s he was in the mid or upper teens, poundwise. I keep him lean, but still he’s not mean. [Rather a mellow fellow](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2331387670000735275zIYAVC), in fact. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/6 "2006-06-19T12:44:39Z")
You gots you some cute fuzzers there! Yes, cats are weird. But endlessly entertaining! ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/7 "2006-06-19T12:49:17Z")
Cute babies! Your Sally reminds me quite a lot of our former cat Morgan Le Fey. My fatboy is quite mellow, too. He keeps trying to convice me he’s just long and tall, but I know a 3-acre belly when I see one. I love starting off the morning with cat pics! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/8 "2006-06-19T17:29:50Z")
Heh. My mama cat just did a bit of weirdness, herself. She was standing in the kitchen, looking in my bedroom door when one of her kittens started toddling out of the bedroom towards mama. Mama immediately tears off at full speed towards the kitten, then promptly _leaps_ over his head by about 2 feet and runs around the bed into the closet, before coming out and walking around as if she’d done nothing unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/9 "2006-06-19T18:29:09Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] [Eddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109845598000735275OqjDTl) is larger than your average Jack Russell [/QUOTE] Holy crap. Either that’s a twin bed or the animal is part ocelot. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/10 "2006-06-19T19:13:33Z")
That is in fact a double bed. Eddy is merely waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out on the far end of the bell curve for cat size. Eddy just barely beats out his brother [Freddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2685442650000735275AuwHtn) for largest cat of the household. Compare that picture with [this one](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2287341140000735275KgIEpM) of Pumpkin and Squash, who are “normal” size. Teddy is on the large side but not nearly as big as his two brothers. As you can see [here,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2269697800000735275kGUNto), he’s only a bit bigger than the Veggie Boys. Here’s [Eddy again on the bed](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109951028000735275BXUdux), playing with Pumpkin when he was a kitten. ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/11 "2006-06-19T19:30:31Z")
In a rather mis-guided moment, I was snarfing down a packed of the pre-sliced corned beed when my youngest feline (He Wdecided he is dying and must have the meat to keep from having to consume my leg, or one of my children. He climbed up my leg, chest and arm, deperate for the tender beef flesh. I dropped the hunk of beef, desperate to get Tobie’s claws out of my leg, chest and arm. He chased it down and gobbled it up. Licked his paws, his face, the ground where it landed, and then tried to eat my fingers that were once holding the corned beef. So I got some more, and dropped him another slice. He stared at it. He continued to stare at it… And finally, looked at me, silently informing me that this crap wasn’t fit for man nor cat. He then stalked away, leaving me with a slice of corned beef, covered in dirt and cat hair. Eli ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/12 "2006-06-19T19:37:39Z")
In a rather mis-guided moment, I was snarfing down a packed of the pre-sliced corned beed when my youngest feline (He Wdecided he is dying and must have the meat to keep from having to consume my leg, or one of my children. He climbed up my leg, chest and arm, deperate for the tender beef flesh. I dropped the hunk of beef, desperate to get Tobie’s claws out of my leg, chest and arm. He chased it down and gobbled it up. Licked his paws, his face, the ground where it landed, and then tried to eat my fingers that were once holding the corned beef. So I got some more, and dropped him another slice. He stared at it. He continued to stare at it… And finally, looked at me, silently informing me that this crap wasn’t fit for man nor cat. He then stalked away, leaving me with a slice of corned beef, covered in dirt and cat hair. Eli ---
**Author:** ![Eliphalet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eliphalet/32/9563_2.png) [@Eliphalet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eliphalet)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/13 "2006-06-19T19:38:45Z")
Gotta love the double-post now made complete with errors! Sorry! Eli ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/14 "2006-06-19T20:45:16Z")
I once gave Lt. Dax (sorry, no pic, she hid the other day when I was taking pictures) a boiled shrimp. She carried it around with her for about 2 hours, defending it from all of the other cats, but would not eat it. I finally took it and threw it away to keep her from stashing it under the couch or something. She is a beautiful cat, but I think she was dropped on her head before I got her. And I got her when she was about 2 days old! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/15 "2006-06-19T20:51:45Z")
How many do you have all together, **ETF**? I’ve got six, plus a dog. And they’re all very strange. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/16 "2006-06-19T21:48:37Z")
I have eight now: [Eddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2976013820000735275YXQGTF), the big mellow guy. [Teddy,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109846713000735275qIDOkt) who adores belly rubs. [Freddy,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/551071507/2841998680000735275rFTlfg) who talks a lot. [Sophie,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109847414000735275iMbcMd) my only longhair. [Sylvia,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2633944920000735275bdGUTL) her shorthaired sister. [Pumpkin,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2145873410000735275LNKGKa) a sweet, sweet guy. [Squash,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109851935000735275EpnhDD) his brother who fetches. And finally, Sally Forth, a [tiny kitten](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2036547580000735275RDOieE) who has grown into a [tiny cat](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2531597230000735275FwjvDl) with eyes big enough for one of the Orange Boys. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/17 "2006-06-19T21:59:41Z")
Wow! I can’t get over how big Eddy is. Have you ever measured him to see how long he is? And I thought my two boys were big. He reminds me of that huge cat in the picture with the lady holding him. You know, the one that everyone has had in their e-mail inboxes or seen on snopes or Ellen DeGeneres? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/18 "2006-06-19T22:04:01Z")
Yeh, I know the picture you mean. Eddy would probably look about that big if I ever got a picture of me holding him. I did measure him once, standing, from his withers (shoulder blades) to his tailhead, so just his body length, and if I remember correctly, he was 16 inches long. Of course he can stretch himself out several inches farther when he feels like it. He and Freddy can stand on their hind legs, hook their front paws over the edge of the dining room table, and get a good look at what’s for (my) dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/19 "2006-06-19T23:31:22Z")
Aaaaw, how cute! Little cats with big eyes-gotta love 'em. Our Maggie is like that. I like that she’s so tiny, because it’s like having a perpetual kitten. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255/20 "2006-06-19T23:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] I have eight now: [Eddy](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2976013820000735275YXQGTF), the big mellow guy. [Teddy,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109846713000735275qIDOkt) who adores belly rubs. [Freddy,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/551071507/2841998680000735275rFTlfg) who talks a lot. [Sophie,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109847414000735275iMbcMd) my only longhair. [Sylvia,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2633944920000735275bdGUTL) her shorthaired sister. [Pumpkin,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2145873410000735275LNKGKa) a sweet, sweet guy. [Squash,](http://community.webshots.com/photo/109844880/1109851935000735275EpnhDD) his brother who fetches. And finally, Sally Forth, a [tiny kitten](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2036547580000735275RDOieE) who has grown into a [tiny cat](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2531597230000735275FwjvDl) with eyes big enough for one of the Orange Boys. [/QUOTE] My God, I think I want to marry you. Or possibly Sophie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-are-weird-no-really-they-are-you-hadnt-noticed/361255.md?page=2)