# Present from a cat?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987 "2012-10-17T12:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/21 "2012-10-17T19:08:02Z")
Buzzkillfly. Some folks simply don’t get cats, or dogs for that matter. What we see as communication and bonding, others simply don’t get. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/22 "2012-10-17T19:12:18Z")
Gift? Just a picture of the cat and some sweet lines about how you think she’d the perfect cat and how the cat thinks you’re hr perfect servant and how that match made in heaven would not have been made without the cousin giving you the cat as a gift. And a can of tuna. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/23 "2012-10-17T19:17:15Z")
Get a box of cookies and re-label it “People Treats” Write a note form the cat saying “Gud job fndng home fur ktty!” ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/24 "2012-10-17T19:41:57Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Get a box of cookies and re-label it “People Treats” > > Write a note form the cat saying “Gud job fndng home fur ktty!” I like this. “yuz is gud, can has treat!” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/25 "2012-10-18T02:23:09Z")
> [@PacifistPorcupine](#): > > …if he’s spendy and self centered. There’s another kind of cat? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/26 "2012-10-18T02:31:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I bought my cat a cat. My cat liked to stay up all night meowing “PLAY WITH ME!” from the floor near the foot of my bed, and then slept all day. I figured that if I got him a cat, that would tire him out during the day, so that he would sleep more at night rather than try to wake me. It worked pretty well. [Here’s a pic of my cat’s cat.](http://imageshack.us/a/img132/9714/shipscat.jpg) I got my second cat for my first cat too. She was real clingy and I was always on the verge of tripping over her. It didn’t work out real well. My first cat refused to take care of the second – never cleaned out its litter box, never pitched in for food, etc. So I ended up have to do all the work for both. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/27 "2012-10-18T04:32:57Z")
Fish crackers? Animal crackers? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/28 "2012-10-18T07:11:57Z")
How about a [chocolate mouse](http://www.burdickchocolate.com/chocolate-mice.aspx)? You don’t have time to get it by mail since the wedding is this weekend, but if you live near one of this company’s stores (NYC, Boston, Cambridge, Walpole NH) you could buy it there. Or, if you’re so inclined, you could make your own (there are instructions on various web sites, including Youtube). ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/29 "2012-10-18T07:51:01Z")
A cheezburger. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/30 "2012-10-18T15:44:08Z")
Some small normal present, with a note in the card saying something about the stoopit hoomins stealing the lovely dead squirrel the cat originally intended to gift. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/31 "2012-10-18T15:50:58Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > Some small normal present, with a note in the card saying something about the stoopit hoomins stealing the lovely dead squirrel the cat originally intended to gift. Love it! And you couldn’t have a more qualified advisor. . . ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/32 "2012-10-18T15:51:30Z")
Empty box with a few bread crumbs and sesame seeds and a note saying “i got u a cheezburger but i eated it” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/33 "2012-10-18T17:51:32Z")
Win! ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/34 "2012-10-18T18:19:31Z")
And for the first baby, a cardboard box of shredded newspaper and old towels… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987/35 "2012-10-18T23:06:12Z")
A coupon for spaying/neutering 2 Humans. And a box of chocolates. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/present-from-a-cat/637987.md?page=1)