Articles about kitties, for awhile? Everyone loves kitties!

I sent you a friend request.

Accepted. :)

My poor cat has two puppies now. He lets them trounce him and bite him and push him around, all day long and at the end of the day they all curl up together and sleep in a big furry, paw-filled, mess. So cute.

It has been a long time since I had puppies and I now remember why I have always liked kitties better.

I love that story. I want a pet squirrel so badly! Unfortunately, they're fairly short lived, and I can't take short-lived pets, any more. After my rat Buttercup died, it just became too depressing to know that, after just a couple years, I'd lose someone I'd gotten so attached to.

Rat? Lawdy. That's different. What kind of personality did it have?

Saw a squirrel doing the bounce-and-skip on the snow today. He's in full-on fat and fluffy mode. They look pretty darn endearing.

Aside from their short lifespans, rats are the best pets. They're super clean, very smart, and fall in love with you. Buttercup had her cage, but I mostly just left the door open. She would follow me around my apartment, climb up my pant leg and sleep on my lap when I was on the computer, and jump around playing with any toy I offered her. I used to take her to the beach, where she would bury herself in the sand, then burst out, shake sand everywhere, then bury herself again. Once, I took a lady friend on a picnic in Golden Gate Park. I brought Buttercup in her traveler cage, and just let her out. She immediately scampered off into the bushes. Half an hour later, we were getting ready to leave, and I called to Buttercup and snapped. Seconds later, she bounded out of the bushes and climbed into my lap, ready to go home. They're amazing pets.

i used to have a pet rattle snake, when it outgrew mice and rats, i fed it kittens. it loved em.

You're a kweepy kitty killer?

I love you guys! You make me smile!!!

even this guy?

it outgrew mice and rats, i fed it kittens. it loved em.

:-)

Nah, he's not a troll. Just has an incredibly warped sense of humor from time to time.

None of us see eye to eye on absolutely everything... if we did, we wouldn't see any other responses on NV except "yep", "i agree" and "uh huh."

Which would be an altogether boring day. : )

wow, kevin thinks i'm a troll? i wonder what caused my lowly status to climb to such heights?

oh, no problem kevin. by the way, although i did have a pet rattle snake, i never fed it kittens. though i'm sure old junior wouldn't have minded.

Can't even picture a rat cuddling up on someone's lap. Who knew?

Kinda cool when pets have great personalities... Looked up the "Maine Coon" cat based on a remark below and I think one of our four-footers might actually be one. But he has really curly tummy hair... have no idea what he is other than a huge kitty-dog.

Kevin, I loved my kitty Ivy. She was a rescue (like most) and I still miss her. Then we adopted two feral cats, that was an experience. Phoebe had so many litters in the wild it was unbelievable. Daisy was one of her babies. It was a bitter sweet experience. Daisy was still a kitten and after a very long time, she learned to trust us. Phoebe never did. She was blind and we didn't know it. I can't imagine how frightening her life was for so long. The only consolation is they lived out their lives in safe, warm dry, loving surroundings and never had to fight other feral cats or scrounge for food. Adopting feral cats is not for everyone, but if you can find it in your heart...do it.

I saw a crow adopt a little black kitten and they were inseperable. It took the homeowners who owned the property where the kitten was just tossed a long time to win the kitten over, but they did. It was amazing to see a crow and kitten play, cuddle and the crow even fed her; animals are so much smarter than we give them credit for, aren't they?

BTW KEVIN...fired you off an email. Need a question answered if you wouldn't mind. Thanks!

PJ

P.S. I have never seen a troll adopt a kitten or do much of anything for living things...have you?

Thanks Kevin...I don't even know what to say or am ALLOWED to say, so I'll respond as I asked.

Hang in there...you've had a rough time. I'm so sorry.

PJ

...and are much better than everyone else's cats.

NOOOO!!! MY cats are better than YOUR cats!!! lol ; ) Very cute, I totally laughed when I read that line.

Acapulco Kevin--

So now you are the resident attention whore? Wow people here really stoop to low low levels.

No fair! I want to be an attention whore too!

Sorry Elaine, I am the attention whore!

Since the attention whore slot seems to have been filled and has a waiting list...can I be the 'attention tramp in training'?

What a good idea Pat! We need an attention whore training camp. Maybe an attention whore group where all our comments can be read and shared around the Vine! That sounds like fun, doesn't it?

Excellent. I have a hunch it would have the largest group membership on the Vine since so many people seem to say..."My opinion is best!" "NO! Lookit my opinion" "NO! I have the bestest opinion!" ☺

That can be the new group motto!

((((((((Doc E♥)))))))))) So sorry......love you bunches my friend!!!

((((((((Doc D))))))) It's ok my dearest friend, life rolls on. I love you too.

Elaine-1503791--

I returned back from OZ in Feb, and I brought my 2 cats with me. It would have devastated me too much to leave them in OZ. Granted it cost LESS to fly me back, but LOL they were so worth the money.

Hey Kshark, that's awesome you brought your cats home from Oz. I wish I could have brought my Molly and Tilly. In my case, it's probably better they stayed in their happy home...but still.

hahaha Fellow! Those Maine Coon's are awesome looking cats! Your place sounds like alot of fun!

My ex inlaws had three maine coons... they were the best cats I have ever been around!

Huge, cuddly, completely friendly, and nothin but mischief! Loved those cats!

CM77--

Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur!!!

Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr purr purr!!!

LOL Now THAT is ZAZZY!!

LMAO!!!! I was wondering if anyone would get that soft kitty reference. lol I loved the zazzy episode!

In addition to the hygiene factor...you also have the independence factor that places cats a notch above, too.

If you have to, you can leave a cat alone for a couple of days with full bowls of food and water. When you return, your house will be as you left it and the cat will be sleeping on the bed.

Try leaving a dog alone for a couple of days and your prized, oriental rug will have become a toilet, your sofa will be chewed beyond recognition and all the clothes will be pulled out of your laundry basket! ☺

Yup Pat! I guess you are right but that somehow shows us the innocent side a dog. Just like a little kid it is not aware of the consequences brought forth by its actions. And still at the end of the day no matter how angry we might be, we just can't stop adoring it.

Pat, you just brought back a memory from back in the 70's when I lived in San Diego. We had our cat Mojo and we got a dog since we lived in a not so good area and thought a barking dog would deter robbers. Well, one day I came home from work and there were little piles of chewed up things everywhere. I couldn't figure out how the dog could possible have gotten to the stuff that was on the mantle and on top of chest of drawers etc. Then I figured out the cat knocked the stuff off for the dog to chew up! Obviously when he'd finishing chewing up one thing the cat would knock something else off for the dog to chew up! The little monsters just partied all day running around the house knocking stuff off and chewing it up!

That is hilarious! It's like you had a true blue, Bonnie & Clyde of the canine/feline world living under your very roof! I would have loved to have seen that.

I have two dogs and one cat. The big, lazy dog that sleeps 90% of the day...the little hyper dog that likes to play leap frog over the big dog while she's sleeping....and the cat that likes to hide under the couch and swat the little dog in the butt when he finally winds down and curls up by my feet.

The little dog is the only animal (aside from horses) that I ever bought and the only purebred I've ever owned. I'll never do that again. I paid $300 for the little sh*t...and that works out to roughly $50 per brain cell for him. ☺ No where near as smart as the big rescue mutt or the stray cat. Ohhh....he looks really alert. But I discovered that alert look is really just his way of saying "huh?" I love the little guy though. He tries hard. And every time I say something...no matter how stupid it is...he looks at me adoringly like he's thinking: "Oh my god! That is so true! You are so brilliant!"

I don't know but I've noticed all his comments are deleted on several articles.

What the heck did scubaguy say? Anyone know?

Dunno. He got booped for being a re-reg too:

http://tyler.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/16/5663548-blackface-is-particularly-unacceptable-on-halloween?pc=25&sp=0#c20204017

I paid $300 for the little sh*t...and that works out to roughly $50 per brain cell for him.

LOL. Note for future use: don't munch on a saltine while reading NV. You'll run into lines like this one, laugh too hard and end up with a miniature crumb-spew out your nose.

Hi FW, great story...they are so curious, that is until they suffer any discomfort. I love cats.

Ahhh...B.C., the lone survivor. That's cats for you, you never know what mood you'll find them in and that's why I love them. So many years with your animals, that is the really hard part. After 14, 15, 16 years, it's like they are your kids. So hard to see them go, but worse to see them suffer. I hope B.C. has many more years, stranger things have happened!

She out lived Gail and will probably out live me and I don't plan on dying any time soon, at least I hope I don't.

B.C. was here before all those other cats came into the picture, they came and they went, B.C remains.

So B.C. stands for Bitch Cat, Black Cat and Before Cats, too! Here's to many, many happy years to you both!

Thanks.----Never had thought of that last one, but I guess so.

SO excellent!

Love it!

Well, some of us will miss Kevin....I'm just saying, it's sad really.

I'll miss him too.

Well, some of us will miss Kevin....I'm just saying, it's sad really.

Yes, it is.

Miss Kevin? Am I missing something here?

Ummm yeah. Kevin has been banned.

Oh. Bummer.....Well, thank you for telling me.

Ah hell no! Does anyone know why he was banned?!:(

Hey MM, Tyler said it was for multiple accounts. But Kevin says he didn't have multiple accounts. http://acapulcokevin.blogspot.com/

Multiple accounts. He also has been on a rant against Tyler lately. Tyler says that wasn't part of it but there were several inflammatory posts by AK calling Tyler a racist etc. They sure didn't help AK's case at all.

Look for tyler's article on blackface during Halloween.

Look up at 6.4 on this seed.

I just want an explanation on the 'attention-whore' tags that are appearing on users articles.

Thanks Elaine and RAC for the info. I saw some of Tyler's article - Blackface during Halloween, the exchanges between them were undoubtedly confrontational, with multiple deletions - I guess someone went too far? Sure will miss him.

Hey MM, Tyler said it was for multiple accounts. But Kevin says he didn't have multiple accounts.

Wow, two followers. He's banned for racial remarks and stalking. How obvious is that. He shouldn't be whining. Everyone else would have been banned for that.

And who cares about attention-whores? Seriously?

And who cares about attention-whores? Seriously?

So you wouldn't care if a tag appeared on your articles that you didn't put there? Especially if it was a negative one like "attention whore"?

So now tags with attention-whore appear on articles and the author didn't put it there? How many times did that happen?

See #25.4

Okay, I missed that. That's odd indeed. I don't see any similarities in the articles either?

Never mind. After you mentioned it in another post...I decided to dig. There's a Newsvine group called 'attention-whores' that Kevin was apparently a part of.

After going back up and re-reading his post about tags in this thread, he never mentioned the 'attention-whores' tag. He was mad about this article being changed to 'not-news'. Someone else mentioned the "attention whores" thing.

The article is indeed, not-news...so that tag is correct. And it would appear that Kevin added the 'attention-whores' tag himself, as a member of the group.

Ouch! Now I'm traumatized. Bugs is one of my heroes. (sniff)

Sydney- Bugs was one of my favorite cartoon characters. JJ

Brutal...poor Bugs. He lived a long a full life; such a tragic end. Kevin's run was a short one:

P.I.P. (Post in Peace)

Acapulco Kevin

5/2010-12/17/2010

Glad I knew you, for a little while anyway....

PJ- That was very nice.

RIP (Retire in Peace) Kevin......... you were Frickin Funny and I like that in an author.

I am trying to imagine how nice it is where you live and thinking how I would just go down to the beach.

JJ, Yup. It really was nice.

Down to the beach with AK and Bugs to drink Margaritas and listen to Jimmy Buffett.

He was funny, JJ. I'll miss him too. Funniness is not to be taken lightly. :)

(Bugs is the kind of wabbit I want to be when I grow up.)

I miss Kevin too, he impressed me the way he took on powerful people to expose the truth. He fought Amazon.com over the pedophile book, he named names and places in child prostitution rings and drug cartels...and that is brave. He has a good sense of humor too, so to me he was an all around good guy. And anyone who loves cats gets high marks with me. Another good Viner gone.

I was just getting to know Kevin, but my own encounters with him, tho' brief, were all pleasant.

Whatever was going on with him at the end, I'm still sorry it turned out like this... I agree that it's all quite sad.

Yup, animal lovers get high marks with me, too. :)

I gotta say one thing here. Kevin and I would butt heads....a lot. But in defense of him...if any member of NV staff put that tag up there and then removed it after Kevin was banned, it makes NV look childish and vindictive and thoroughly unprofessional to be jacking around with other peoples tags.

Probably removed for legal reasons. I've seen screen shots of it on other sites, so there isn't much point in removing it now.

Yeah. I saw it in this very article. Is that really what NV has been reduced to? Petty vindictiveness?

This isn't an isolated incident.

http://www.newsvine.com/attention-whore

There's lots more.

This isn't an isolated incident.

What in the hell is going on?! This is nuts!

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