# To all the SDMB cat people... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626 "2007-12-19T21:53:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/41 "2007-12-20T02:04:36Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] [cite](http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b75/anyrose/Smokey/SSL20190.jpg) [/QUOTE] Oh, that is one sweet, pretty kitty! I love my Fritters, but sometimes I wish she were more sweet (like your kitty) and less neurotic. But then, my cat takes after me, doesn’t she? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/42 "2007-12-20T02:06:19Z")
Mine is greeted with > [@](#): > > 'ello Delilah. Still fuzzy I see. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/43 "2007-12-20T02:23:38Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Cat! You’re a kitty cat! And you meow-meow-meow, and you meow-meow-meow. [/QUOTE] I just tried to teach Smokey this song. She was not amused. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/44 "2007-12-20T03:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] I am shocked, shocked that people talk to their cats this way! [/QUOTE] Your kitten, sir. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/45 "2007-12-20T03:32:12Z")
Oh, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/46 "2007-12-20T03:56:00Z")
To **Creaky** and **anyrose** : SQUEEEEEEE!!! KITTTEEEHHHH!!! Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/47 "2007-12-20T16:28:04Z")
[http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp](http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Contrary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Contrary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrary)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/48 "2007-12-20T16:40:51Z")
OK I will confess. When I get home, shedding laptop, coat, keys, purse etc, I sing out “Where’s my kitties? Where are my baby kitties?!?” And all three come running even though one is clearly not a baby kitty seeing as how she’s seven years old. Actually I’m not sure my Big Bad Kittens ™ qualify either because of how big they are. Also I must brag. I am a successful mother. You know why I can say that? My younger son (who is a full grown adult, with wife and child) makes up silly songs to sing to HIS kitties. I RULE! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/49 "2007-12-20T16:52:29Z")
I inform them, “You smell just like a cat.” I don’t have any sense of smell, but I’m reasonably sure they do smell like cats. I’ve posted my cat song before, but since you ask, and it’s Christmasy, here ya go: To the tune of Do You Hear What I Hear: Said the cat to the people everywhere Do you see what I have? Underneath my tail everyone Do you see what I have? It’s pink, it’s pink And it doesn’t stink Cause I wash it with my-y tongue Yes, I wash it with my-y tongue! In memory of Whitey ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/50 "2007-12-20T16:58:22Z")
**Dung Beetle** , I love that song! I have had many cats, have one now, and love them dearly but I never baby-talk to them for some reason. Usually, I insult them in an endearing way: “Hey! You’re small and insignificant. You must be a cat!” Or sing to them: You’re a fat black cat You sit in a hat You sleep on a mat You look like Yasser Arafat! Whaddya think of that? ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/51 "2007-12-20T17:09:01Z")
[QUOTE=Creaky] Okay, all of this talk about kitty cats makes me want to post a picture of my baby. Behold the Fritters Cat. A Most Perfect Mackerel Tabby. But look out… she’s bitey! Sharp fangs! Razor-sharp poison teeth! :eek: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/1251/1052278898_71aca70f07_b.jpg "Her Satanic Kitteh Badness") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11125007@N05/1052278898/in/set-72157602868406160/) [/QUOTE] That is a [Kliban Cat!](http://www.eatmousies.com/). I often tell Cricket she is my Crickerkiddercat. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/52 "2007-12-20T17:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=TwoTrouts] **Dung Beetle** , I love that song! [/QUOTE] Thank you, I consider it my magnum opus. :o ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/53 "2007-12-20T17:39:39Z")
As embarassing that it is to post it here, I too have a little ditty for my wife’s cats: _Puss, puss, pussers, Sittin’ on the rug. Puss, puss, pussers, Banjo and the Mug… …zee._ I only sing to Banjo and Mugsie. Rider’s a spaz. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/54 "2007-12-20T18:09:30Z")
I talk to my two cats when I get home from work. I usually say, “So which trash cans have you decided to leave upright today?” ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/55 "2007-12-20T19:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=Contrary] OK I will confess. When I get home, shedding laptop, coat, keys, purse etc, I sing out “Where’s my kitties? Where are my baby kitties?!?” And all three come running even though one is clearly not a baby kitty seeing as how she’s seven years old. Actually I’m not sure my Big Bad Kittens ™ qualify either because of how big they are. Also I must brag. I am a successful mother. You know why I can say that? My younger son (who is a full grown adult, with wife and child) makes up silly songs to sing to HIS kitties. I RULE! [/QUOTE] I come in the house through the garage into the mudroom/laundry room. I stand right there and say 'who’s the first kitty I see???" The first cat to come right where I can see him or her gets all the first nuzzles. It’s usually Cuervo, even if he has to come racing down the stairs to beat the others. Then I say ‘who’s the little baby boy, huh? who needs their fooders???’ Then I man up, scratch myself and look at porn or something. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/56 "2007-12-20T19:09:02Z")
[QUOTE=SomeUserName] I must be the strange one. I never tell my cats they are cats. I think they know that. I call one “key key” so maybe that counts. I do have one cat named Bob. I tell him every day that he is " The Bob, The Bobster, The Bob Bob, The Big B and the Bobster Lobster just about everytime I speak to him. He will respond to any of these names on there own. I guess it is the “Bob” factor. I call all of my cats by at least one other name then their given name and they all respond. If someone was to hear me on those secret listening devices they would think I have twenty cats and more than a few dogs. These names of course do not include the swear words that may be spoken at times of frustration. [/QUOTE] Same here. I call Ishtar “pupuce”-- “little flea”; I call Athena-Gaia “ma poulette” (my chicken), and I called Shaku, “mon papou” or mon “Papou a poux” (apologies to the Papuan people, this comes from a childhood rhyme). Even though I speak English most of the time in everyday life, I always speak to my pets in French. I got my first pet when I spent a year at my French-speaking grandparents’ house. When I speak about the cats, I refer to them by name, but rarely use their real names in speaking to them. Yes, I do speak to them. Happy to see I’m not alone. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/57 "2007-12-20T19:29:02Z")
While English-speaking cats understand Hebrew, I prefer to practice Vietnamese with them because it messes with their tiny heads. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/58 "2007-12-20T20:34:04Z")
For some reason, when our mistresses speak to me, I tend to reply in German. Or with Donovan lyrics. “Goo-goo, goo-goo barabajackal” means something in Feline Standard, apparantly. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/59 "2007-12-20T22:24:34Z")
What would it look like if a cat had a blog? It would look like this: [Abbie the Cat has a Posse](http://abbie.blogspot.com) Start at the beginning and read forward. For extra hilarity, read it aloud in the voice of Mitch Hedburg. Warning, avoid September 2005 unless you want to cry like a crying really hard person. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/60 "2007-12-20T22:30:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] I come in the house through the garage into the mudroom/laundry room. I stand right there and say 'who’s the first kitty I see???" The first cat to come right where I can see him or her gets all the first nuzzles. [/quote] I do the same thing! Sometimes it’s my husband’s mean kitty who only wants to escape, and then he goes “mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrown!” if I try to snuggle him, and then he bites me. He’s no fun. > [@](#): > > who needs their fooders???’ I say, “Who needs foodz?!?” You and I are like, twins, except for this part: > [@](#): > > Then I man up, scratch myself and look at porn or something. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626.md?page=4)