A good thing and a bad thing...

[TuckandStuiesMom]

1.) Just got my Rapid Rewards flights reserved for our WDW trip next spring (first day for late March reservations was today). Woo-Hoo!
2.) My big old tomcat ate 8 ounces of feta cheese when nobody was looking. He is doing his level best to get up in my lap atm... AND. HE. SMELLS. REALLY. BAD.

 

[Kevin&Randall]

It's early punishment for leaving him behind. They know when there is a trip coming up. Ginger gets all bent out of shape when she senses "vacation" or "business trip."

Keep the cat away from your shoes. You may find recycled feta cheese inside.

Randall

 

[OrlandoMike]

Ginger gets all bent out of shape when she senses "vacation" or "business trip."
Randall

Anyone else have to pack in secret? Jeesh! They jump in the suitcase and give you that look like "Where are WE going?"

 

[RemixBoyNJ]

In my house its starts slow.. the cat constantly in my lap.. the dogs be really really sweet and well behaved.

When they actually see the luggage come out then all bets are off.. the cat has now planted himself in the suite case, and will not budge, the dogs are now giving the look of death, and totally ignoring anything me or my DP says.

But its the price ya pay with fur-babies

 

[padalyn]

When my Siamese were both alive - I could count on furballs in the suitcase at least one each case...of course I had to keep the cases zipped - they would leave me other "presents" as well.

Now I only have my 2 semi-feral kitties...they just get nasty when the luggage comes out, won't sit on the bed with me, won't let me touch them. Once I get home - they are all lovey dovey for a couple of weeks, then back to the luna-kitties they usually are.

My hunny (Tiggr33) has a blast terrorising (spelling?) them. She likes to make a loud noise just to see the scardy-kat one jump and run

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

having read through a couple other threads this am, I guess I'm glad it was feta cheese and not chopped liver... Arlo's never been a shoe-pooper before -- but he definitely spent the night outside last night just in case.

I was thinking about Padalyn's comment about semi-feral cats. We've got several who showed up at one point in time or another, kinda hang out around our shed and corral at times, and eat our kibble but they don't feel like "our" cats. And then, we've got two that started out that way but somehow moved on to being pets. Honestly, I think it was far more their decision than ours. In his other life, Arlo is a big ole nasty head-knocker tom-cat (He reminds me a lot of Tony Soprano) but when he's in the house, he lets toddlers carry him around by the butt or head and he just keeps on purring. All I can think of, it must be they love us in spite of ourselves...

 

[jamieandben]

Last trip the cat(anell) packed for me
she needed the alone time.
The Dog (Lacy) is happy to be going to grandma's.
She gets all the table food and snacks their that she does not get at home.

 

[PennyW]

Our dogs get stressed when the suitcases come out. But when we drop them with their sitter, we get not so much as a "goodbye" or "we'll miss you" - type glance ... they're just gone, happy with their adventure!

 

[minicoopercraig]

I feel soo bad when I leave my puppy behind, he always sits at the door and stares at me as I walk down the sidewalk, and he ALWAYS has that look in his eyes that says: "Why ain't I going?!" You know the look. I just wish we had somewhere near us that would watch him for us, instead of relying on friends, without putting him in a cage. But so far we haven't. But I was laughing so hard when I read about the feta cheese...too funny!!

 

[hematite153]

Fortunately (??) my DW travels for business. So, our pets haven't attached suitcases to being left behind. (She leaves, but I'm still around.)

But, the cat (who normally loves his crate and will climb over and around stuff to lie in it for awhile) tends to run and hide when he sees his crate near the door.

Of course, once he gets where he's going (assuming he's going to friends instead of coming with us) he takes off and ignores us--just like Penny's dogs (and our dog, truth be told).

 

[padalyn]

My semi-feral kitties were an odd find. My good friend and I were trapping and neutering a "herd" of local cats. Once we finally managed to get the Tom (wow talk about one nasty ornery animal!!) we realized we still had a problem. She did a little hunting and found that her landlady had over 50 cats in a one bedroom apartment.

We trapped them all and had to bath each and every one (seems they are so inbred that they never learned to clean themselves) what a messy job...well the two I decided to keep were the ones that managed to climb the tile wall in the bathroom (what was I thinking???). They have since settled in - the Siamese were both alive and very active at that time so they kept the 2 newbies in check. There was definately an alpha cat mentality. I often had to prove I was the alpha cat. (I would "pounce" the alpha and hold him until he rolled in submission - this would hold for about 2 weeks then we repeated the process).

The blacks (semi-ferals) are now quiet house cats - but still retain the feral-ness. They are wimps in the nth degree. Hence Tiggr33's love of scaring them (she barks at them - you should see their faces!!)