Have been away so a late reply! But to clarify: yes I’m allergic, yes I love cats, this one belongs to my roommates; in the end, she won the battle vs. the spritzer (loved the Verdun comment – also the popcorns feet one!); and thank you for defending my floor, it is as clean as a 122-year-old house’s floor can be, flecks of paint and all

I know what you’re thinking kitty.
Did I fill this bottle all the way full, or not.
I’ve already sprayed you five times.
So, is it empty or not?
Well, feeling lucky, puss?

Out, Out Damned SPOT!

Given the markings on that little kitteh, is appropriate.

Let us Hear it for The Python! WOOOHOOO!!!

And, the pic……………really. Who won this one. I am guessing….the cat!!!!

Humans are so boring….and now they try to “get a laugh”. Sad humans………get me my dinner. Now.

So cute! I wish that worked on my cat. He loves the spray-bottle so much he jumps on the kitchen counters just to purr when he gets squirted. We gave up on the bottle pretty quickly after that…

I cant believe it, the right time for discussing the workings of cat’s minds just yesterday my little siri cat (the one dependent on cortisone because of eosinophilia) had the catty idea of sneaking into our cat free living room. (she does it whenever she feels unwatched, lays down under the sofa, and needs a ’squirtfish’ reminder, she has to leave the room to not push up the allergen levels in this room). Yes, we keep this room catallergen free because it is the only room our allergic (talking asthma attacks of suffocationlevel)friends can visit with us.
The kitties have a cozy, plushy room where their favourite human spends most of the day with them, so please dont tell me I am cruel to not let them into the living room)
We sat there watching the tv which is seldom and she came in, flat bellied, trying to sneak behind us, heading to the open balcony door. I guess she thought we will not see her. The noise of ‘phssssss’ (uttered by me)made her think it over and head to the right door again.
I agree, allergies are bad, and even my own prick test revealed I am allergic to the ‘cat serum’ they use for this, I had to come in again and bring hair from my two furballs to test if I react to them, and guess what? I did not react to their hair, saliva or dander I had collected. When they get their claws out on me in play or if they forgot I am not a cat like them and have delicate skin, I get those red, very itchy scars, but I would never think of giving them away, and I take my antihistamines for other allergies anyways, so why give up my beloved family members. They just have to leave us this one room as much allergene-free as possible, nothing more they are asked.
If they forget, they have to be reminded, and the squirtfish is nothing else than a ‘teaching tool’ which works for my two furballs and seems to work for the cat from James C, also.
Now I get off my soapbox and get some heavy snorgling done, if they feel like it, if not I will be deprived and as dreary as the weather is here right now.

nana from Germany.

Canadian actually (next door to being English….lol). Anglo Irish extraction, with several family members straight from England and Ireland.

That and I’ve been reading the Harry Potter books again…I picked up ickle from there. Knickers in knots is a phrase I’ve been hearing around for years. Far more polite than panties in a wad, eh?

Headscratcher — just my curiosity, but are you English?
(“ickle” and “knickers”)

“Miss Mannerszz,” is it? Lovely irony, but do you have anything to say that isn’t rude? Or is that pretty much your schtick?

Awww…poor ickle superior one. How unappreciative the rest of us inferior slobs are of your intellect.

Flecks of paint honey. And you got your knickers in knots. Brava. *golf clap*