# Meet my new kitty Jack **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667 "2012-11-21T01:46:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/1 "2012-11-21T01:46:48Z")
Jack came to me in a copier paper. box. Jack in the Box (get it? :D) Jack is nimble, Jack is quick. Jack’s best toy at this point is his own tail. These pics were taken today on a sunny day on the front porch. [Jack 1](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Jack3.jpg). [Jack 2](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Jack2.jpg). [Jack 3](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/Jack1.jpg). [Pic of the horses in the front yard](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/FrontHorses.jpg). [House (post painting)](http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/StG61/SouthHouse.jpg) StG ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/2 "2012-11-21T01:49:06Z")
1. Jack is seriously cute. 2. I LOVE your house. 3. I want horses in my front yard too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/3 "2012-11-21T01:50:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Jack’s best toy at this point is his own tail. Jack looks like a nice kitty, why don’t you give him a milk jug ring or a paper bag? Or just let him hang out in his box. Cats love boxes. One of my cats has been sitting in a box for half an hour now, and he looks very happy. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/4 "2012-11-21T01:54:36Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Jack looks like a nice kitty, why don’t you give him a milk jug ring or a paper bag? Or just let him hang out in his box. Cats love boxes. One of my cats has been sitting in a box for half an hour now, and he looks very happy. Oh, Jackie has toys. He has milk jug rings, a feather poofy thing he’s afraid of, and he has my English setter’s plume-y tail. He mostly likes his shoelace and his tail. StG ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/5 "2012-11-21T02:00:59Z")
OK, I’m reassured that Jack has plenty of toys, and of the right kind. But now I’m worried about his fear of the feather wand. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/6 "2012-11-21T02:02:43Z")
**Congodwarf** - If it makes you feel any better, my house doesn’t have central heat and air and I have to carry wood pellets for hte stove in throughout the Winter. **Lynn** - It’s bright pink and has tinsel. My giant schnauzer is afraid of it, too. StG ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/7 "2012-11-21T02:05:28Z")
I love your cat AND your house! ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/8 "2012-11-21T02:10:38Z")
I want to come sit in your porch swing with a good book and Jack in my lap. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/9 "2012-11-21T02:10:55Z")
I love the whole thing; I was born in Vermont and it reminds me of home \ Such happy pictures 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/10 "2012-11-21T03:57:50Z")
He looks like my cat Vespa, one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever owned. Put the feather thing away until he’s bigger than it is, that should do the trick 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/11 "2012-11-21T04:01:53Z")
I love the tabby and white kitties. I have one, myself. The house looks GREAT. ---
**Author:** ![Modern\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@Modern\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modern_Master)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/12 "2012-11-21T04:09:03Z")
Everything looks absolutely perfect in the pictures you posted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/13 "2012-11-21T04:43:56Z")
HORSIES! I wanna come pet them! And the cat too. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/14 "2012-11-21T05:08:16Z")
The next step for the house is to have the roof done. Either I’m going to replace it with another metal roof, or I’ll have the existing metal roof recoated. Right now I have 6 dogs, 5 cats (including wee Jack) and 4 horses - 2 thoroughbreds and 2 minis. I’m also doing a foster for a co-workers dog. He’s threatening to have it put down because he says it’s indifferently housetrained and yappy. She’s a 4 year old shih tzu, and so far I’ve had her for 4 days. She hasn’t had one accident, and hasn’t been yappy at all. Of course, I take her outside regularly and don’t make her stay out if he doesn’t want to. The co-worker says I haven’t given her a chance to pee in the house. I told him I wasn’t trying to set her up for failure. I’m trying to get an elderly couple at church interested in her - she’d be the perfect old-person’s dog. StG ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/15 "2012-11-21T05:27:13Z")
Shouldn’t a thread about New Jack Kitty be in Cafe Society? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/16 "2012-11-21T05:38:12Z")
Thanks for sharing! Jack is very pretty. I love how your house turned out. Is one of the horses Irish? the dark one? did I remember that right? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/17 "2012-11-21T05:41:31Z")
**Rhiannon** - Yes, Irish is the bay TB. The grey horse is Grace, who I got this summer to keep Irish company after I lost Nakota in foal. Grace is also a TB, off the track. Her registered name is Peppermint Road. StG ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/18 "2012-11-21T06:01:05Z")
What a lovely kitty! And you were absolutely right about the house color - it looks just right. ---
**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 21, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/19 "2012-11-21T07:28:52Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Shouldn’t a thread about New Jack Kitty be in Cafe Society? I thought this was going to be a thread about cat-lifting apparatus. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667/20 "2012-11-21T09:11:09Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Her registered name is Peppermint Road. Pedigree is [here.](http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/peppermint+road) Why don’t you attach a picture of her there? And also fill in some of the missing info on her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-new-kitty-jack/641667.md?page=2)