# Live Like a Cat Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424 "2007-11-22T14:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/1 "2007-11-22T14:30:09Z")
I just found out about this great new holiday slated for the second Saturday in January: [Live Like a Cat Day](http://www.livelikeacatday.com/about-live-like-a-cat-day/) This beats talk like a pirate day all to hell and back. All you workaholics, this could be your salvation! Oh, and by the way, Happy Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/2 "2007-11-22T14:45:44Z")
I’m afraid I won’t be able to participate - I’m not flexible enough to lick my own ass. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/3 "2007-11-22T15:03:58Z")
Count me out - all our cat wants to do today is puke. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/4 "2007-11-22T15:13:26Z")
I can’t do it. **Airman** ’s tolerance for tummy-rubbing is pretty low and I can’t stand the smell of wet cat food. Sorry. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/5 "2007-11-22T15:36:59Z")
If I were as whiny and needy as my cat, I think I’d off myself. But the sleeping all day thing, I could probably do that. If I applied myself… ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/6 "2007-11-22T15:42:44Z")
Yeah, if I could lick my own ass, I’d spent a lot more time on these boards. Oh, pretty much what **Antigen** said. Hey, I just got an idea! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/7 "2007-11-22T15:57:09Z")
Isn’t that like Thanksgiving? Sleep, eat, sleep some more. Roll eyes at anyone enthusiastic about anything. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/8 "2007-11-22T16:09:17Z")
How apt that you’d saunter in and post here. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/9 "2007-11-22T16:17:04Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] I’m afraid I won’t be able to participate - I’m not flexible enough to lick my own ass. [/QUOTE] And you’ve gotta lick someone else’s ass too. Then hunt down a small creature and eat it. Then vomit, and leave it for someone else to clean up. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/10 "2007-11-22T16:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] And you’ve gotta lick someone else’s ass too. Then hunt down a small creature and eat it. Then vomit, and leave it for someone else to clean up. [/QUOTE] Oh you are all just _looking_ for disadvantages here. Shame on you. Now, why can’t we just tweak the idea a tiny bit? 1 - Live like an unclean cat, so no arse-licking involved 2 - Live like an indoor cat, so no need to catch and kill them micies unless you really want to. 3 - Vomiting not to be compulsory. This leaves you will a day of commandeering the comfy chairs or the bed, and the nice warm fire (good idea in January) and you get to eat and drink when you feel like it. And if you see any of your family reading a book or newspaper you don’t approve of, you get to attack it. Reading material, that is, not family member. But, then again … 😃 Conversely, if your companions try to eat something that you DO approve of, you get to try to steal some of it. If you hear someone knock at the door, you just lie there all lazy and wait for someone else to deal with it. See? It’s not bad. Not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/11 "2007-11-22T16:37:11Z")
No, no, you only eat _half_ of the small creature. Then you leave the other half for someone to step on in the middle of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/12 "2007-11-22T16:50:31Z")
I like being in charge of the dogs, I don’t think I’ll try it. Besides, I’d probably destroy all the house plants, eat the birds and fish, and poop in the corner. My honey might kick me out. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/13 "2007-11-22T16:59:28Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] I like being in charge of the dogs, I don’t think I’ll try it. Besides, I’d probably destroy all the house plants, eat the birds and fish, and poop in the corner. My honey might kick me out. [/QUOTE] But all of that behaviour will be TOLERATED when you are a cat! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/14 "2007-11-22T17:18:18Z")
As a bach who works from home, I already live a lot like a kitty when there’s nothing else going on, but I suppose I could take it to the next level…curl up naked in random soft places, eat dry foods from a bowl (Goldfish…yum), file my nails on the chenille sofa, play jingly ball with Actual Kitty at floor level…she’ll probably think I’ve gone native. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/15 "2007-11-23T03:18:38Z")
Can I live like an unfixed cat and have loud, rough sex with every available partner? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/16 "2007-11-23T03:19:17Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > the nice warm fire (good idea in January) January is cold? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/17 "2007-11-23T10:00:13Z")
[QUOTE=WF Tomba] Can I live like an unfixed cat and have loud, rough sex with every available partner? [/QUOTE] Only if you piss on every available surface. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/18 "2007-11-23T10:12:28Z")
Sounded like a great idea, so I tried it. Got my head stuck in the catflap. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad if I’d have been trying to go out, instead of coming in. Stuck for and hour and a half in the freezing rain, on your hands and knees isn’t my idea of fun. My wife tried calling the fire and rescue service, but they thought it was a prank call. Eventually, we found a locksmith with the necessary tools, but he wasn’t amused. Actually, no, strike that - he was _nothing but_ amused. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/19 "2007-11-23T11:20:25Z")
Yeah, well nobody tell my wife. She’s already pretty keen for me to start sleeping in the garage… Sadly, this weekend we have to take our 4 y o cat [Liquorice](http://picasaweb.google.com/Si.blakely/MyCats/photo#5052112295873470418) to the shelter to be re-homed. My daughter has developed an allergy to cat and dog fur, so kitty has to go. ☹ I am claiming his beanbag 😉 Si ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424/20 "2007-11-23T14:58:20Z")
Brilliant. This will give me the opportunity to snarl viciously at Cat #1 when she goes near my dinner, much like she’s wont to do when I get anywhere near her food bowl. Of course, the difference is that I want nothing to do with her dinner (wet cat food? bletch!) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-like-a-cat-day/427424.md?page=2)