Murphy the Cat

[kybearfuzz]

My tomcat Murphy
This is my 16 lb tomcat Murphy. About three years ago, I adopted him from a co-worker who was moving into a new condo and didn't want to take him with her. She told me she had an adult orange-striped female. When she brought him over I was surprised how big this "female" cat was only to learn that it was a male. She wasn't trying to pull one over on me, but she had originally thought it was a female when she got him and didn't realize it was a boy until she took the kitten to get fixed. At that point, he had a female name and his former owner referred to him as a "she." Naturally, I would get the cat with gender-identity issues.

Murphy is my "dog," as he is large enough I can play a bit rough with him without worrying about hurting him. He's a good one, always ready to play or to annoy me. I've always enjoyed having cats as pets and my friends always send me cat jokes.

Cat Quotes

Cat: One hell of a nice animal...frequently mistaken for a meatloaf.
-- Unknown

Cats don't caress us - they caress themselves on us.
-- Rivarol

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
-- Missy Dizizk and Mary Bly.

A sleeping cat is ever alert.
-- Fred Scwab.

There's no dealing with a cat who knows you're awake.
-- Brad Solomon

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
-- Mark Twain

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
-- Cynthia E. Varnado.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the foreparts play. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her unless you tread on it.
-- Henry David Thoreau.

God made the cat that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
-- Ferdinand Mery.

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
-- Jane Pauley.

If a cat loves you, it's for real. A cat never pretended to like anyone.
-- Anne Borris

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.
-- P.G.Wodehouse

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good manyailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
-- Winifred Carriere

Although all cat games have their rules and ritual, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.
-- Sidney Denham

It is as easy to hold quicksilver between your finger and thumb as to keep a cat who means to escape.
-- Andrew Lang.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
-- Mark Twain.

Comments

[cincycub.livejournal.com]

How could she not know that her cat was a boy? OMG....haha.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I think they told her that Murphy was a girl and she just took it on faith and never "looked"....

Whenever my coworker sees me in the hallway at work, she asks about "her".. and I remind her that Murphy is all male (well at least he was) :)