Cats are funny.
 

Especially when you wipe them across the face of a colour TV, makes their fir stand up.

stupid

Good grief, why?
 

I have had cats for years (am on my third one now) and loved them all (including my current furry friend, six-year-old Kiki), which is why I cannot see the sense in what you are suggesting. Why would anyone want to do that, except just for the heck of it or "just to see what happens"? Sounds to me like a trick a child (or someone with no love or respect for animals) would pull. Besides, I think exposing cats to the static charge on a color (or b&w) TV's CRT could be harmful to the animals, to say nothing of frightening them badly or even killing them outright. Had this been the 1970s (there was a color-TV x-ray scare in this country at that time, which eventually led to the current x-radiation laws that have required high-voltage shutdown circuitry in CRT color TVs from the '70s until the end of the CRT era), there would have been concerns over the possibility of exposing the cats to x-rays as well.

Far too serious.
 

You and rcaman are taking this too seriously. We've got 5 cats; one has very long fir and when she walked past the TV, her fir bristled slightly; the same as would happen to you if you brushed your arm (or head if you're daft enough) across the screen. As to X rays, all crt's emit them but unless you're the proud owner of a good old "Radiation King", the levels are very low and do no harm, as many a couch potato will confirm.

Aberdeen (Scotland) is known colloquially as "Granite City". Granite is naturally radioactive, most of the buildings are granite. Latest research shows that most of the inhabitants don't have webbed feet, nor do they glow in the dark (que theme from X-Files)

Unless of course if they were as dangerous

the black cat is my helper , the other cat is a bum he sleeps all the time ,he wont clean himself.

Just don't let them watch too much. :)
A year later the kitten is fully grown and fairly "normal", I suspect that by limiting his tv viewing, I prevented him from becoming fat and lazy.

jr

dont forget to remind your kitty not sit to close to the tv ,it might hurt his eye's.

This ones not too lazy

Here's my lazy girl.
 

Her name is Angelique (Angel), named for the witch in the old TV show Dark Shadows. Yes she is as fat as she looks!! 19 lbs.

Looks to me like you just need to close the lid and press the button and that kitty will be squeaky clean :lmao:

I never thought of myself as a cat person but my wife had 2 when we met and I've really grown to like the creatures. The photo here shows 2 of our current 3. The black one is a lot like me: long, clumsy, laid back, doesn't know when to shut up sometimes. The gray one can get mean. The two of them get along great. The third is the oldest (they are all getting up in years) and is very shy. I have to keep all of them out of the TV room. No fun to be working on a live TV chassis on the bench and a cat jumps in your lap and starts nosing around!

your so right about that ,lately my black cat drives me crazzy if im working on something and not paying any attention to him he will jump up on bench's get into things , he look at me and purposely knock off things and stair at me, then its time for him to leave the room.

It's almost an unwritten law. Anyone that collects and restores vintage electronics, has to have one or more cats. I have three black cats. :thmbsp:

I noticed that too Dave! LOL! My cat is bothering me and meowing as I type!

I have one brown cat, "Kiki", with black stripes (one very broad one right down her back) and at least two white patches -- very, very beautiful. She's six years old and she loves me to death (on her own terms, of course), and vice versa. To keep her out of my bedroom when I am working on my vintage radios (my apartment is too small for console TVs), I close the bedroom door. When I open it again for any reason, she is very glad to see me again. I just don't want her getting mixed up in things like my soldering iron, the radio chassis itself (which I always keep unplugged while working on it) and other things that might either sicken or kill her or start a fire, the latter if, for example, she knocks my soldering iron off its stand and it falls to the floor, or burns a hole in its own cord. I once read an article in, IIRC, Popular Science magazine years ago from a man whose cat so distracted him while he was working on the kitchen radio that he cut all the underchassis parts out of the set! His wife was very upset when she found out about this, and when she eventually bought another kitchen radio she forbade her husband to touch it, meaning, perhaps, that from then on, even if a tube burned out they took it to a repair shop. No way was she going to let him work on the new kitchen radio after the way he snipped every component out of the chassis of the other one, accidentally or not. I can only guess what her reaction might have been had this happened to their TV.

BTW, Bryan (bgadow), I think that picture of your black cat with a paw on top of the the gray one is just as cute as can be. :yes: Just goes to show how irresistibly cute cats are. I had a bunch of pictures of my Kiki on my computer until about a week ago, when I had to reinstall the operating system and I forgot to back up the pictures on a CD. Fortunately, I still have several pictures of her, taken some time ago, stored away on disk, so I guess all is not lost -- but believe me, that taught me always to back up my files in case the system crashes. You'd think I'd know better after having worked with Windows computers as a hobby since 1997, but....oh well..........

I love cats. I just cant finish a whole one by myself. Grin

Tis true that cat owners joke freely about cooking eating them:tresbon:and other treachery:naughty:because they have an annoying sense of complacent entitlement. The walnut-sized brain conjures up unending actions to cause annoyance and worse for their caretakers.
They walk right in front of you causing tripping, dropping laundry baskets and other things to assert control. It is a normal manifestation of our seething jealousy to want to do these things, like putting strips of painter's tape, sticky side up, on the kitchen countertop.

I have taken to placing screen mesh behind speaker grill cloth to foil their random acts of destruction on my 1930's radios.:D

My outdoor cat (his choice), my third of those "Orange/white" ones, only 10 pounds and very fast, friendly, and can climb anything without needing rescue.
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The indoor cat is an 18 pound female, part maincoon, likes attention from the kids and is very noisy.
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I STILL think they're TREACHEROUS-They'll hop up on yr chest, & suck all of yr breath out when you're asleep...Happened just last week to a guy over in Bull's Gap...

iv always hurd that story ,but its babys they sufficated while licking the milk off of there mouths, if a full grown man looses his breath while he sleeps it might have something more to do with of what he was drinking , maybe in bulls gap there doing alittle moonlight cooking. grin

my cat tryed that once ,getting under my feet while i was carrying something heavey ,[i didnt hurt him now ] to this day he doesnt get under my feet anymore ,pluss dont pick your feet up so high.

I think that the "breath sucking" stories are mostly "old wives tales" Snopes says this:

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/catsuck.asp

jr

Aww, bullshit. Cats are Eeville creatures. They look at you funny, flick their tails, & are generally intractable. Just like me....(grin)

Eeville?? Nah! Pip does not have an eevile (or perhaps any) thought in his brain... totally innocent. :)

jr

Added second thought: Well, perhaps not totally innocent! (see second pix)

The last time I was at your place, you had two of the cutest little kittens. I hope you found a good home for them. I'm part of an association, where I'm limited to three cats. :sigh:

he meow's to much when i do . [ joke]

i have 3 black cats leo lucy lilly......

1 of 4 in our cat collection.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6...d8ccb8febb.jpg

Very cute "tuning eye" :)

jr

I have three of the little monsters, all male unfortunately so they're constantly playing little dominance games with each other.

The little 9 pound, 15 year old, declawed Siamese is always fighting with the 30 pound, 4 year old, razor clawed Tuxedo, guess who wins?:scratch2:

that's to funny , that gives me an idea for a new cat toy ,build a small tv with a roundie plastic picture frt let them play with that clime in and out of it .l o l.

Cats....the other white meat.....

I love cats....they taste just like chicken.

Just kidding! :D I like dogs, but I'm definitely a cat person. Cats can tell if you're a cat person. They must have a sixth sense about them. I can go up to most cats, even if I don't know them, and pet them without them running away.

My niece bought a cat bed that is styled like a TV. It's a rather abstract design, about the size of an older 17" portable. My cats seldom use it. :boring:

that's probley what would happen , they'll play with the bag or box of something you pay money for. lol

$15 cat toy.....and my cats would rather play with the little thing that comes off the gallon of milk when you open it.

Mine too, they love those things.

and peoples

Tough to beat the scotch-loving Colonel for funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpn2iTdc47Y

This turned into a cute cat thread

Kool

I love the pictures

I want a kat

Cats were hated in europe in the olden days. Then they
sudently came in style. Just in time, they ate RATS & rats
had fleas that spread you know what.
Give credit where credit is due. Cats saved the west.

73 Zeno:smoke:

True cat stories.
We got a used cat at a shelter in Lowell. She was abt 6 mo old
& quite a charactor. Hates strange women.

Anyhows she started acting real strange. Followed me everywhere
sniffing & licking me, meowing strange & barely eating. All I
could figure is she knew I had a cold. A week later I was in the
hospital with CHF. When I got back a week later she started
eating again & acted normal. Heart doc said he has seen it
before with both cats & dogs.
Listen to your cat!

Same cat started acting strange at dinner. Kept sniffing
around the kitchen door, meowing & pacing. Wouldnt eat.
Abt an hour later a big T-storm blew up & we chased it
being trained spotters. Went to an open hilltop abt
2 miles away. There was a big bolt of lightning
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZORCH must have lasted 5 seconds.
Looked at the wife & said it hit near our house. Got home
& there was crap all over the kitchen & a hole in the wall
where the cat was acting strange. Porch was dammaged,
the ground was trenched to the trees & the next door
house was on fire !
Listen to your cat !

73 Zeno:smoke: