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Cat Club, stupid idea?

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BibiBlocksbergv2 · 03/05/2015 22:14

Can't agree with myself if this is a great idea or just laughable.

I love cats with a capital L, what I lack is RL friends who feel the same way. Current friends range from dog lovers to those who simply have cats but don't take much notice of them aside from feeding & the occasional scratch behind the ear :)

I would love to meet the sort of cat lovers who frequent this thread, the kind of people who have 'cat chicken' on their shopping lists, who wouldn't recognise a nights sleep without being woken at least three times by said beloved kitty(ies) the ones who walk around their garden with a cat on their shoulder simply because it pleases puss (example taken from a recent thread :))

Anyway, long story short, i thought of starting a 'cat club' - like a book club only for cat 'nuts' - we could talk about our cats present & past, show photos, get advice on behaviour etc.

Light refreshments provided, meet once a month at group members houses in turn.

Give it to me straight, have I lost the plot completely?

Would you consider joining a club/group like that

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cozietoesie · 03/05/2015 22:26

I would - but it's very difficult to keep a club going without some more tangible purpose, I think. Have you thought about volunteering at a local cat rescue? They're all likely to be cat-daft as well so congenial company. (Although you might end up with 22 extra residents like TCN!)

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BibiBlocksbergv2 · 03/05/2015 22:37

:) :) cozietosies, the current feline residents at 'chez bibi' would not take kindly to one extra resident, let alone twenty two :) :) They barely tolerate each other lol

You may well be right, think i just yearn for a real life space to share my 'oh so hilarious' cat life happenings without being met by an eye roll or other clear indication of utter boredom, just an exchange of 'i know what you mean, listen to what Mr Tiddles did to wake me up this morning'

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cozietoesie · 03/05/2015 22:45

Seniorboy didn't take kindly to The Lodger's presence even though I tried for close on 2 years in one form or another. And that was just one single cat.

I think that the least he could have done was toned down the real smugness when The Lodger left for pastures new. Grin

hiddenhome · 03/05/2015 23:01

I'm a crazy cat lady and I could chat about cats all day Smile

My ambition is to get a Ragdoll rescue cat. I think they sound so lovely.

I would love to join a cat club even though I'm not sociable.

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BibiBlocksbergv2 · 03/05/2015 23:03

bah ha ha :) Snap! The comtortions we put ourselves through to foster harmony between two cats.....

It's senior girl here who keeps trying to elope to some elderly neighbour who has a free lap & no other cats (preferably)

No luck thus far as I keep sniffing out her hiding places when she goes awol & carrying her home in a 'baby' hold, much to the amusement of the neighbourhood.

Yesterday she was brought home to excited shouts of 'look mummy, its an owl' from a little girl along our route home. 'No darling, it's a cat' said her mother to my shouted explanation of 'i haven't seen the little bugger since 9pm last night'

How to get a reoutation as the local mad cat woman lol

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Corygal · 03/05/2015 23:07

I would be right up for it. I love talking about MrC and enjoy hearing about other people's cats even more. Just as an example, I count Seniorboy as a personal friend. And life coach and mentor Grin

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 03/05/2015 23:09

I'd be up for it. I only have one cat (I think H would leave home if I got him a friend!) but I love talking about him and hearing about other cats.

Corygal · 03/05/2015 23:13

We could always start a thread called My cat is more interesting than your child...

I find it really startling and backward when people genuinely don't get that animals are people with all the various and fascinating traits that involves. I have to Officially Forgive people I like who don't rate pets. (Wander off muttering loudly Badly Brought Up)

RubbishMantra · 03/05/2015 23:18

I've heard children are lovely.

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BibiBlocksbergv2 · 03/05/2015 23:44

:) Hello fellow cat clubbers (was going to call it kitty club but a quick google for existing set ups brought up only strip clubs) :) you have been warned lol

Corygal - so glad to read your response, wherever i go, if they have a pet of any sort i greet & acknowledge & fuss as they are part of the family/household just like the two legged occupants (fortunately not come across anyone with a pet tarantula yet though)

Yet when visitors come to me they seem determined to pretend my furry companions don't exist. I find it puzzling & rude.

I do love seeing peoples faces though when they ask why I give a choice of food when requested. I figure my cats are sentient beings and know when their stomachs are empty & what they fancy just like us (choice of two flavours of cat food so not a smorgasboard btw :))

'How would you like to be stuck with the same meal 3 times a day every day' i ask.

To the backs of hastily retreating guests..... Grin

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valrhona · 04/05/2015 21:52

We spent Christmas in Los Angeles this year and one evening we were siting outside a bar which is a local for my dh. (Merican) After a while I noticed the woman sitting at the tables next to us had a cat on her lap. Ok. I looked again after a bit and noticed she'd been joined by about 8 other people who also had cats. Moggies, bengals, exotics, all sorts. One cat had arrived in a kind of modified bugaboo. I went over and said hello pure nosy and had a chat with them. So they meet up once a month at this bar and talk cat-talk. With their cats. Who were all totallyrelaxed. They had met up online initially (the humans) Grin and it went from there!

Tanito279 · 04/05/2015 22:00

Fantastic idea. I'm about to move house and I have no friends in new town yet. This seems a great way to make friends (especially if the cats can come too, on their leads).

Pipbin · 04/05/2015 22:26

*I've heard children are lovely.

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BibiBlocksbergv2 · 05/05/2015 00:02

Wow! Cat Club meetings with the cats, how the heck do they do it? It'd just about work with my Smudge but we'd have to have the meeting sat in my car & then she won't tolerate others of her kind.

This topic could become purely academic for me after tonight, have threatened to re-home both of them.

What is it about heavy rain that makes them desperate to do nothing but sit half in half out of the door? And to hold their 'effluent' in until bedtime? Mmh????

ALL DAY my boycat has been out, finally apoeared for his dinner at 7pm.

When does he decide to take a huge smelly boy shit in his tray? 10 mins ago when I was finally dropping off to sleep. Offending item has been cleared & binned but dear god, the smell, it lingers

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valrhona · 05/05/2015 00:27

I have no idea how the LA cat people managed that. If I see them again I'll ask them. But it was a real thing!

DidoTheDodo · 05/05/2015 11:22

May I join in?
I am left cold by babies, but show me a kitten.... :)

thecatneuterer · 05/05/2015 12:07

There is a cat Meetup group in Newham (East London) www.meetup.com/The-Newham-Cat-Society/

They have speakers (I was one) and go on trips to places (pet shows/ the cat cafe/ the CHAT sanctuary to name a few).

No one takes their cats with them though.

Pipbin · 05/05/2015 12:10

I am left cold by babies, but show me a kitten....

Kittens webcam - 8 days old. livestream.com/tinykittens/eve

I have a hankering to set up a cat cafe, like they have in Japan and I think you can get in London now. Who's in?

thecatneuterer · 05/05/2015 12:13

Cat cafes aren't great for the cats though Pipbin. CHAT is officially against them.

shaska · 05/05/2015 12:29

I cannot stop thinking about all of us meeting up and bringing the cats. In carriers would be one thing, but then I was musing about some sort of 'safe room' type situation, just letting them all out and watching chaos ensue.

Somehow I suspect it would end with Seniorboy in some sort of ruling position, perhaps with a couple of bengals for bodyguards, and the rest bowing down to their superior rule.

RubbishMantra · 05/05/2015 16:32

Digressing a bit, but do you ever imagine what accent your cat would have? MCat would have a sinister Spanish accent (think Tony Montana). But he has a split personality, so he'd sometimes speak in a whiny middle class accent. Little Monsieur would have a West coast American twang. He'd say "AWESOME" a lot and demand hi-fives.

Corygal · 05/05/2015 21:19

Rubbish, that is adorable. Little M would sit out any cat meeting clamped to his phone madly sexting other teen kittens then demand some money for Dreamies and disappear till 2am.

Mr Cory would have several voices - he already does, deliberately faking babykitten mews to get me off the sofa. His range would cover Churchill to Harry Styles.

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BibiBlocksbergv2 · 05/05/2015 21:37

The thought of a room full of cats who are all strangers to each other makes me break out in an ice cold sweat :) Then again that's probably because i've spent all my cat slave years with two fur balls who both fervently wished (one still wishes now lol) they could be my only cat.

That Cat Society sounds great, shame i'm not near enough.

The cat cafe idea i find fascinating but can only see it working with eg FIV cats who can't go out anyway and those who are happy to be endlessly fussed by strangers all day long. My Jake would bolt off the minute he saw a pair of legs that aren't 'mummy' - big doily that he is :)

The accents question is doing my head in now Grin

Smudge is basically a 7 year old entitled female teenager who gets arsey the minute you even think of curtailing her freedom or 'pocket money' (prawns & dreamies) :)

Jake looks like a cross between Kung-Fu Panda (there is no charge for awesomeness) and Sylvester off Looney Tunes. Sounds like a very loud rusty door that needed oiling years ago though.

No idea :)

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shaska · 05/05/2015 23:59

Mantra I do! Only for the lamb though, she talks like Bubbles from Ab Fab. The madcat doesn't talk - did you ever see that movie Nell, about the child raised by wolves?

And I totally agree with CoryGal's assessment of the Little M. I imagine Mr Cory would sit, appalled at the uncouth behaviour of the other cats. Or basically just mine.

RubbishMantra · 06/05/2015 01:00

I dunno Cory. I think he'd be more the enthusiastic Born Again Christian type. Hi-on-life. Then again, he feels no shame getting jiggy with his shag-bag thrice daily. No catholic guilt around that. In fact he likes an audience.

Shaska, I imagine's Madcat's language to be something like .

I have a fervent and overactive imagination.