# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**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, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/61 "2007-12-20T22:36:24Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] That is a [Kliban Cat!](http://www.eatmousies.com/). [/QUOTE] You’re right! I never thought of that all of this time! I love the Kliban Cats. It’s because of that one Kliban cartoon that I started calling my mother “Mom-Cat” years ago. (Oh, how embarrassing to admit this, but I must.) I also have a Kliban Cat beach towel. It features a signature tubby tabby sitting on a stool strumming a guitar. He’s singing: “Love to eat them mousies, Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off. Nibble on they tiny feet.” Of course, I made up a tune for that song a long time ago. It’s going through my head right now and will probably do so all night. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/62 "2007-12-20T23:22:55Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] The essential nature of the cat is wondrous, because it is ultimately beyond our understanding, and so many-faceted that it is a source of great delight. To those who love cats, probably the most amazing thing about them is simply that they are cats. No wonder we celebrate it, intone it, sing it. [/QUOTE] Dude, that was transcendentally awesome. If cats can be so god-like, then I may have to re-think my dislike for cats. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/63 "2007-12-20T23:45:21Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Alternate: “Who’s a kitty? You are! _You_ are!” [/QUOTE] It is horribly embarassing to admit that yes, I do that. (And I _love_ the cartoon linked in the OP.) ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/64 "2007-12-21T00:27:31Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefScott] 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. [/QUOTE] I shall never read your posts in the same way again. HA! You can pretend you’re not one of us, but you have been assimilated! ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/65 "2007-12-21T05:10:47Z")
Doesn’t anyone else catalog the kitty’s parts and features? “Oh, what a furry kitty face!” “What a hairy belly!” “Oooh, the tail that is so long and furry!” “Look at those pointy ears! Oh, they’re so hairy!” etc. This can’t be unique to me. I hope it’s not unique to me… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/66 "2007-12-21T06:15:07Z")
Song for Smokey cat at brushing time: (to the tune of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) _Oh my pretty kitty brush ho pretty kitty brush ho I love you and my pretty kitty brush ho pretty kitty brush ho loves me too m’iow, m’iow pretty kitty brush ho pretty kitty brush ho m’iow m’iow m’iow pretty kitty brush ho my furry purry friend m’iow m’iow pretty kitty brush ho my fur-ry pur-ry friend kitty brush ho pretty kitty brush ho furry purry pretty kitty friend_ ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_McMillan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Trisha\_McMillan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_McMillan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/67 "2007-12-21T12:01:25Z")
We do not under any circumstance refer to either Oscar or Poppy as cats. We consistantly refer to them as monkeys. Often \*\*nice \*\* monkey (Poppy) and \*\*mean \*\* monkey (Oscar), or \*\*evil \*\* monkey (Oscar), or _that_ monkey, usually when he’s peed on the floor, or gone through the bin, or tried to eat a wasp or something equally Oscar- like. I did come home from work recently, the first one home as usual, and as I walked up the stairs to where they greet me I did my standard ridiculous sing-song kitty greeting ‘hey there! Hello monkey and hello monkey. Monkey! Monkey! Hello monkey, little monkey. He_llo_, he_llooo_, he_llo_, he_lloooo_’ and a gruff voice from upstairs calls ‘um, hi…?’ Little bro is staying with us and has popped in between viewings (he’s an estate agent, yes, I know), and was just a tad confused by the rapturous reception. :o I’m just lucky he stopped me there, it goes on for a lot longer, gets increasingly ludicrous and often culminates in a length yodelling of \*‘monkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymooooooooonkeeeeeeeeyyy!!’ \* with much cuddling and smooshing of faces. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/68 "2007-12-21T12:45:53Z")
Song to [Max](http://pics.livejournal.com/postmoderngirl/pic/0000ee71/s640x480): Who is the kitten in the house? I think it’s Maxling, he’s really really cute. It’s okay to substitute “cute” with other adjectives, like, “evil”, “annoying”, “furry”, “destructive”, etc. I often have to explain to Max that he is a kitten, but that is to differentiate him from me. “Max, let me explain. You are a kitty, and I am a human. That means I am the BOSS. Me: boss, you: kitty. That means when I tell you to stay off the table, you have to stay off the table!” I’ve been asked by various coworkers (most of whom think I spoil Max outrageously) if Max speaks English or Bulgarian. I tell them he only knows one word of Bulgarian: “stiga”, which means “knock it off”. Although sometimes if I’m reading Bulgarian and I come to a word I don’t know, I ask him “what does this mean, Max? You’re a Bulgarian kitty”. But unless the word means “it is now time to bite humans”, he’s holding out on me. So I have to use the dictionary. Thanks a lot, Max. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/69 "2007-12-21T13:44:50Z")
[**Z**](http://www.circumspectfiesta.com/images/sdmb/Z3.jpg): meoooow… **me** : mooooooooo! **Z** : meooooooow… **me** : MOOOOOOOO! **Z** : meoooooooow… **me** : oh, sorry. meooooow! ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/70 "2007-12-21T14:43:54Z")
I talk to Ceecee in fairly harsh, nagging tones, “What!?”, “You SUCK”, “Ceecee, you Biaatch!”, primarily because that is how she talks to me. Its all complaints, whingeing, moans, growls and hissing. She carries on like that even if she is curled in a ball on your lap and purring like a sewing machine. Snuggly cute talk freaks her out, but she is always ready to cuddle up to a good scolding. Barbara cat and the birds get a more traditional “Poooor kitty(bird), nobody loves you, your life is sooo hard”, and “Is that your BRAIN?, I’ve got your BRAIN, OH Nooooes!” ---
**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:** [December 21, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/71 "2007-12-21T15:14:17Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] That is a [Kliban Cat!](http://www.eatmousies.com/) [/QUOTE] Or, just a **cat**. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/72 "2007-12-21T19:32:00Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Or, just a **cat**. [/QUOTE] Yes, exactly! That’s how I picture the word when I tell her she’s a cat. It really is a beautiful word. Hey, when I previewed this your version of “cat” came out in italics! Mysterious Feline Power, man! ---
**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 21, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/73 "2007-12-21T20:01:16Z")
> [@](#): > > “Is that your BRAIN?, I’ve got your BRAIN, OH Nooooes!” _"Who’s_ got a brain the size of a walnut? _Who_ ain’t got no frontal lobes? I think it’s _you!_ I think it’s _you!"_ Though this particular monologue does raise the question of who, in fact, has a tiny brain. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/74 "2007-12-21T20:24:00Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Alternate: “Who’s a kitty? You are! _You_ are!” [/QUOTE] That’s the one we use in my house 🙂 Poor kitty. She hardly lays on her back anymore (at least not when I am home). Every time she does there is “Kitty Tummy!!” and a belly rub. She does not like this but I can’t stop myself. We have many songs. There’s “How much is that kitty in the window?” and “Cattanooga Choo Choo” and “Purrfect Day”, I can’t think of the others at this moment but there are more. Pretty much any song can be converted to a kitty song - you just have to replace the right words. Yes, I am a little crazy - why do you ask? ---
**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 21, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/75 "2007-12-21T20:45:27Z")
> [@](#): > > She does not like this but I can’t stop myself. How do you feel about the game _Are You a Cat or a Hat?_ ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/76 "2007-12-21T21:37:56Z")
Let’s see if I can remember all of my particular quirky kitty-speak… We have 4 girl cats (oldest to youngest: Tallulah, Nini, Mango, and Willow), so it is unusual to enter any room of the house without at least one of them being in it. What’s goin’ on in here? Whateryou doin’ in here? Whatcha doin’ in here? Where’s the kitten? (no longer a kitten) Where’s the baby? (no longer a baby) Where’s the Mango? One of them (Tallulah) is prone to talking, and I’ll either mimic her or I’ll keep responding. Really? I had no idea… Wow. Fascinating. You don’t say? ---
**Author:** ![Baine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Baine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baine)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/77 "2007-12-21T22:18:20Z")
_Tiiiii-na … likes to look out the window,_ _and sit in my lap while I play Nintendo,_ _Tina-Tina-Tina-Tina,_ _Tina is a wonderful cat._ ---
**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 21, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/78 "2007-12-21T22:25:12Z")
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I talk to my cat in distinctly non-“kitty” terms. Coming home from work: _Mraow!_ “Hey, cat.” _Mraow!_ “Is that so.” _Mraow!_ “Really? Are you sure about that?” _Mraow!_ “Well, whenever you have time, I’d appreciate a full report.” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626/79 "2007-12-22T03:40:56Z")
I want a cat. Or possibly even a **cat**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-sdmb-cat-people/430626.md?page=3)