Former cats (1987-2001):
Age calculator, comparing cat's age to equivalent human age:
1 month = 10 months 3 months = 7 years 6 months = 14 years
9 months = 18 years 1 year = 24 years 2 years = 36 years
Cat: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Human: 42 45 48 51 54 57 60 63 66 69 72 75 78 81 84 87 90 93 96 99
Murdock
(the big, fuzzy cat)| 20-Aug-2000: Murdock passed away. Please visit the memorial for His Furry Majesty. |
Murdock was an orange and white alley cat with strong markings of the
Maine
Coon cat. He got up to 14 pounds in weight and was allowed outside only
while on a leash. He was the master of all he surveyed, and he surveyed the
back yard a lot. Murdock was named after Captain 'Howling Mad' Murdock
on the A Team. Murdock owned Joe
and Sally. Murdock was 14 years
old (born on 9-Jul-86, died 20-Aug-00). He was one meter long when all
stretched out (39.3 inches from tip of front paws to tip rear paws when
lying on the floor and stretching).
He
wore a cape when we took him to science fiction conventions. (His
adoring public was there; he received many comments.)
He was very mellow; he wore a leash while riding in the car and liked to
look at the lights on night drives.
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I'm a big hungry cat. -
Very loud purr. -
More comments and pictures.
Punkin
(psycho kitty)
Punkin
gets her name from the color of her fur. Red female ticked tabby cats
are
unusual. She owns Chris.
She is wont to growl and purr at the same time, which earned her the title
of 'psycho kitty'. (Even her normal "hello, I'm glad to see you"
meow comes out sounding like an accusation.) She spends her time looking
out the window and cussing at the birds (she is also part Siamese). One
particular rocking chair belongs to her alone.
Kit-Kat
(cat lump)
Kit-Kat
was a legacy from Chris's aunt. She was a 'tuxedo cat' (black and white)
and looks a little bit like Socks, the White House cat.
Kit-Kat decided to own John.
She must have had a trauma to her larynx as a kitten, since she sounded
like she had permanent laryngitis. A simple "feed me" meow came
out like "come quick, Timmy has fallen down the well" - a low-volume
but extremely urgent utterance. She also had very narrow hips, like a weasel,
and her front toes are more like fingers. We think she's trying to evolve
an opposable thumb; luckily, she was too stupid to know what to do with it.
Assumed to have been 14 years old when she died 25-Mar-2001.
Her motto is 'I'm the Kit-Kat, gotta love me!'
The three of them togetherThe day Punkin and Murdock were first introduced, she was up on a high
shelf when he came in. Murdock was sniffing all around; he could tell there
was another cat in the room, but could not find it. Punkin looked down
at him, deciding that this was a big dumb cat. Then Kit-Kat came along,
and she did not want to play with the others. She did not like to be picked
up. "No, sir, didn't like it." Therefore:
| Vocabulary | |
|---|---|
| Murdock | Ow-oo means "I want to go outside". |
| Punkin | Merrrr is general-purpose grumpy noise. |
| Kit-Kat | Mehhh! = "Feed me!" or "Pet me!" or "Don't pick me up!" or "Huh??" |
| Bathroom Habits | |
| Murdock | After an incredibly smelly cat poop, he ran away in abject terror. |
| Punkin | Spends 5 minutes burying her waste. Fling, fling! |
| Kit-Kat | After burying, carefully walked along edge of litter box to keep her toesies out of the sand. |
| Toes | |
| Murdock | Tufty toes and tufts stuck up from the top of his ears. |
| Punkin | Plain, makes continuous noise during claw trimming. |
| Kit-Kat | When walking on a soft surface, such as a bed, she spreads her toes far apart. |
| Food | |
| Murdock | Liked his wet food in chunks. Actually, he just liked food and is not particular. |
| Punkin | Likes her wet food broken into little tiny pieces and then molded loosely into a mound. |
| Kit-Kat | Liked her wet food mushed flat to coat the bottom of the bowl. But don't put crunchies in both bowls; she won't know which one to eat first, and sits there, confused. Stupid cat! (but adorable) |
| Weird food cravings | |
| Murdock | Pop Rocks |
| Punkin | Cantalope |
| Kit-Kat | (none that we knew of) |
| Kitty Treats | |
| Murdock | Loves "Cat Love" |
| Punkin | Catnip!!!!!!! |
| Kit-Kat | Loves "Pounce Tuna" |
Pointers
to Other Cats
Josh (who owns Sally's parents) likes to watch TV from the armchair.
