Cats and kiltmaking

[Bugbear]

That's funny. A couple of my cats love to lay around on a regular old brown paper bag. I have no idea why, but they love them.

I had a kitty notebook in college. My cat was always getting in my books and notes, so I made him his own notebook w/ kitty pictures and all sorts of fun stuff in the pages. He'd play awhile and then fall asleep on it.

I get a bit nervous wearing some of my better kilts around them because all six have all their claws. Just one swipe, and it's all over...

[James MacMillan]

OK – Not kilt related, but it’s a cat story.

One fall while fishing, my dad and I discovered and rescued two kittens that someone had put into a burlap bag and threw into the river. The bag had washed on to a sand bar and we were attracted by their mews.

We dried them off, cuddled them and took them home. A little milk and bread soggies later and they were purring away and content.

I named them Sandy and Pokey. (found on a Sand bar in a poke!) Anyway, as this was fall and blue jean weather, I trained each of them to climb up one leg and then perch on my shoulders. They seemed to love it, and it was amusing to my family and friends. I know it amused me all winter. I would slap my thighs and up they would be sitting on my shoulders like some pirate’s parrot or something.

Well the first warm day of spring comes and I’m out washing my cousins car, yes – wearing shorts, and my Mother opens the kitchen door and lets Sandy and Pokey out. I hear the door slam and turn around to see two cats headed for me. Now I know that there is nothing that I could do to stop them, I could only delay them.

So I stood there and gritted my teeth. Sure enough, up my legs they go and before I know it, they are again sitting on my shoulders, but they have bloody claws. They sat there licking their paws for a while and then jumped down.

Me? I had some interesting claw marks up my legs, and I could never get either one of them to climb up my legs, no matter what I was wearing. Somehow, they had lost interest. Cats.

[billmcc]

You never know what will interest a cat.

Barb, I seem to remember you mentioning that your daughter was going to try her hand at making a kilt. How is that going?

[Dirk Skene]

_Everything_ about kiltmaking was of great interest to this little fellow when we were visiting our daughter last week.

Beau-ti-ful baby

[Bob C]

Cats are an impediment to pretty much everything. There are two of them living in my house, under my wife's protection.

Were it not for her, I'd have a calico sporran. ;)

[kevinkinney]

Beeswax.


Age 12.
11 pounds.
Drops 2% of his bodyweight in fur daily.
Banned from the shop since 2002.

All my kilts live at work. He clashes with everything.

Kevin.

[Bugbear]

Cats are an impediment to pretty much everything. There are two of them living in my house, under my wife's protection.

One of my cats lives under my house, or should I admit trailer, and protects the space under there. They do a good job of keeping the scorpians under control, so they're helpful. However, I should probably get a spinning wheel and start making cat yarn. LOL! They're good farm cats though, barn cats I guess.

[Bob C]

One of my cats lives under my house, or should I admit trailer, and protects the space under there. They do a good job of keeping the scorpians under control, so they're helpful. However, I should probably get a spinning wheel and start making cat yarn. LOL! They're good farm cats though, barn cats I guess.

Wow. I'm surprised that a cat hunts scorpions. Not surprised that he'd WANT to, but surprised he has not been stung and perished.

[Bugbear]

Wow. I'm surprised that a cat hunts scorpions. Not surprised that he'd WANT to, but surprised he has not been stung and perished.

Oh no, the cats are fast enough and can see well enough in the dark that they are able to pin the tail of the scorpian down, then it's just land lobster to them. They seem to be born knowing what the stinger on the scorpian does, don't ask me how. I'm not sure they would die from a scorpian sting, but I'm sure it would put them in a bad moode, LOL!

[cloves]

awwwww....pretty kitty! I think the FHCAG's cat helped her make the corduroy kilt she made for me.

BTW, Barb has some cool acessories. That belt that was mentioned in another thread...and now that cool turquoise bracelet.