# There's Goo in the house! (New feline addition)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097 "2019-07-15T01:08:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/21 "2019-07-16T15:36:50Z")
It’s amazing how grownups degenerate into baby-talking idiots with their pets. I’m probably the worst of the bunch.
“Come see Mommy!” “Give Mommy some loveys!” “Who is Mommy’s sweet baby?”
And all cats are babies, whether little kitten balls of fur, or the huge majestic Bengal tigers. Babies! They all are babies!
Congrats to Miss Goo!
~VOW
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/22 "2019-07-16T15:40:00Z")
> [@VOW](#):
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> It’s amazing how grownups degenerate into baby-talking idiots with their pets. I’m probably the worst of the bunch.
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> “Come see Mommy!” “Give Mommy some loveys!” “Who is Mommy’s sweet baby?”
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> And all cats are babies, whether little kitten balls of fur, or the huge majestic Bengal tigers. Babies! They all are babies!
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> Congrats to Miss Goo!
> ~VOW
I tend to speak normally to the cats, and baby talk to the dogs. The human equivalent age of dogs is two; cats, 45.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/23 "2019-07-16T15:55:43Z")
> [@Sarabellum](#):
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> My cat is 15 now, and I do think older cats are superior. They’re so much more predictable and settled into a routine. You know what to expect.
Mrs. L.A. says older cats already have a personality; so yes, you know what to expect. Goo has quite the personality!
> [@CairoCarol](#):
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> Goo looks like a fine addition. And you can have fun with the name. Who’s a liddle goo-goo gah-gah kitty, goo-goo?
Mrs. L.A. says ‘goo’ means ‘shit’ in Korean. I tried to look it up, but didn’t find anything like it. However, she was stationed there and I wasn’t. Every so often when she’s exasperated she’ll say, ‘Ai goo.’
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/24 "2019-07-17T17:16:40Z")
I got some hotdogs (in a zip-top bag) and a burger patty (in plastic wrap) out of the freezer, and put them on top of the dishwasher to thaw. I just went to the kitchen, and asked Mrs. L.A. what she did with the burger patty. She said she didn’t do anything with it. I found it on the floor, still mostly wrapped.
None of our other cats ever got onto the counters. Goo is a jumper/climber – and apparently, a little thief.
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/25 "2019-07-17T19:44:58Z")
Awww, she’s beautiful. She doesn’t look mean to me. She looks like she’s been through a lot and is tired. I’m volunteering at the shelter again and the place is wall-to-wall kittens. The older cats don’t have a chance, so this is great!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/26 "2019-07-17T19:56:46Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Awww, she’s beautiful. She doesn’t look mean to me. She looks like she’s been through a lot and is tired. I’m volunteering at the shelter again and the place is wall-to-wall kittens. The older cats don’t have a chance, so this is great!
There was that one weeks-old kitten that looked at me so adoringly and hopefully as I walked past the cage…
But we – especially Mrs. L.A. – look for older cats because they are often overlooked. I’d hate to think of Tonka, having been 8 six years ago, living the rest of his life in the shelter. ☹
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### Author:  [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/27 "2019-07-18T02:51:30Z")
Both cats I’ve had during my married life were shelter adoptees, both young adults (Felix was ca. 2yo, Allie was 14 months). Young enough to have a good long time with us, old enough to be past the Tasmanian fuzzball stage, housebroken, etc…
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/28 "2019-07-18T15:44:56Z")
I was worried that Goo mightn’t get enough food, as Tonka used to push [Creamsicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=857038) away when she first arrived. It turns out that Goo is the bully. We leave kibble out all day, but I think Goo was spoiled in the shelter because they put out so much gooshy food. She’s small-ish, but very solid. Tonka is large, but a bit soft… and 14 years old. She’ll steal Tonka’s gooshy food, so I have to physically restrain her until he’s done eating. Last night, before I even started dishing out the food, she had Tonka backed up into a corner and wouldn’t let him pass. She really needs to know her limits: Letting Tonka eat in peace, and staying off of the counters.
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### Author:  [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/29 "2019-07-18T15:58:59Z")
If she’s smart, I found that [Scat Mats](https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-Repellent-Training-Off-Limit-Furniture/dp/B07NTGW96X/) worked really well for teaching my cats not to jump on counters or the dining room table (or into the crib - just don’t leave it in there when the baby arrives!). We set up the crib a couple of weeks before the baby was due, and found that Cobalt was starting to use it for naps. I will never forget the look on his face when he jumped in and got a shock, but it took one zap and he never tried again. For the dining room table, he figured out what the mat looked like and that it was safe to jump on the part that didn’t have a mat on it. So I turned it up a little and put it under a tablecloth. That probably took three times of getting zapped before he was convinced never to try again, and the training lasted for sixteen years and several moves.
My cats were younger than Goo, so it probably will take a little longer before she’s convinced, but they do work.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/30 "2019-07-18T16:52:25Z")
How are Goo and Tonka getting on together? Is Tonka feeling OK?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/31 "2019-07-18T17:33:44Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> How are Goo and Tonka getting on together? Is Tonka feeling OK?
Tonka’s taking it in stride. As I said, he’s slowing down in his old age. He spends a lot of time on the deck, snoozing in one of the chairs; he wanders off to make his rounds of the yard and the neighbours’ yards; he eats; he sleeps on the ottoman or the back of ‘Mom’s’ chair. He’s not scruffing Goo, as he did Creamsicle.
We’ve seen them touch noses. Last night, ‘Mom’ let Tonka in, and Goo came running over to him and they touched noses. On the other hand, Tonka was on the back of the chair and Goo jumped up into the chair and tried to sniff him. Tonka hissed and batted her away. Goo hissed back, and sat there with her mouth open and a surprised look on her face. Still, they get along by staying out of each other’s space… except at the food dish, where Goo is ruthless.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/32 "2019-09-02T04:01:33Z")
[Trying out the Pano mode on Goo](https://i.imgur.com/r5v8mhr.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/33 "2019-09-02T05:58:17Z")
OMG Becky! Look at that!!!
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/34 "2019-09-02T06:12:57Z")
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/35 "2019-09-03T17:02:27Z")
Oh – A couple of times as Tonka and Goo were waiting for their gooshy food, Goo started licking Tonka’s face – grooming him, as it were. We thought it was sweet.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/36 "2019-09-03T17:15:30Z")
Awwww! My kitties get in a tangled grooming pose, each licking each other. It usually ends in a fuss. Hissing and spitting. Lovely pair of Cats I got.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2026, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-goo-in-the-house-new-feline-addition/837097/37 "2026-05-12T02:57:34Z")
This just popped up in my suggested threads. Can’t believe I missed your post from 2019.
We still miss you, Tonka! 😿
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