I made a horrible mistake with the new kitten...

[WillParkinson]

The other day Dot was in the office with me and jumping on my keyboard, as he often does.

I picked him up and put him on the floor and he was right back up on the keys.

So I picked him up and put him up on my shoulder (ala parrot style). Well he just loved that. Now whenever I'm sitting down he thinks that my shoulder is a nifty place to perch.

Sigh. The things our kids learn nowadays.

[SheilaT]

1. Oh, great!

I can hardly wait til this little kitten is a twelve pounder and still thinks your shoulder is a nifty place to perch.

Get photos!

[sasquatch]

2. How cute!

My Ol' Tomcat Zues used to do that when he was a kitten. I could walk around the house with him on my shoulder like a Parrot. Then after he got a year old and put on 25lbs. I couldn't do that with him anymore. He was never neutered BTW
:wow:That was a huge cat.

[Red State Rebel]

3. How sweet! We had a parrot kitty once it was adorable...

[Red State Rebel]

4. How sweet! We had a parrot kitty once it was adorable...

[Kolesar]

5. New kitten? This calls for pics!

Have you posted the new critter yet?

[WillParkinson]

9. Yes, but for those who missed it...

This is Dot...care to guess why the name?

[Catshrink]

15. Sigh.... still think that's the cutest kitten.

Since my Ricky was a baby, of course. You lucky guy.

[NJCher]

6. pics, pics!

Cher

[xchrom]

7. awww! l love it.

your neck and shoulder will get used to it.
you might even walk funny when he's not there.

[MuseRider]

8. Funny how that works!

My youngest is turning 18 in 3 days and still to this day when holding something I sway from side to side with it like I did my babies! Yep, he will be walking with a definite lean from now on.

[Lisa]

10. I cat-sat for one that would climb up your leg and back ...

... just to reach the coveted shoulder position.

Luckily, that was just when she was a kitten (though her claws were wickedly sharp). She's a little more indolent now as an adult, and just meows to be picked up and put there.

[Don_G]

11. Marty Feldman With A Hump

And an expressive tail growing out of his hump?

That's one gag they missed in "Young Frankenstein."

[ironflange]

12. That was a relief

I was afraid you were going to say you inadvertently left the kitty in a room with a snake. I hate it when that happens.

[TrogL]

13. I got a new kitten and left it alone with another cat for a week

Before: purry lap kitty

After: psycho cat from hell

The other cat taught it all its bad habits.

[KT2000]

18. Thanks for that tip!

The owner of a pet store here left a cat in his store overnight to scare the mice away. He had 2 parrots who lived in the store.

After just one night, the parrots gave up most of their words and meowed like a pitiful cat who wanted to be let out - all day long.

Quick learners - these animals.

[Bertha Venation]

14. Will, you scared me to death.

I was afraid to read this thread; I was afraid it was something serious!

I bet everyone who's ever had a kitten has made a similar mistake. Mine with our latest kitten, Cocoa, was to play with her with my toes one day. Oy. You should see my toes now.

[JaySherman]

20. I made that mistake with mine when he was a kitten.

My first cat. Thought it was really cute when the little fella clamped around my hand. Then he grew into a big kitty and boy did I regret it. Got the scars to show for it.

[Myra]

16. Yow. Well, better luck with the next cat, in 20 years or so.

It's hard wired now.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. Most of them grow out of that... I have a rat that likes to do that

but my cat who did it when she was a kitten, does not anymore.

[radfringe]

19. A friend of my parents also made a mistake with a cat

at about 6 months old, the then kitten started scratching on the furniture, so they would pick the cat up and put it outside

now whenever the cat wants to go outside - it scratches on the furniture and runs for the door

[Philostopher]

21. That's okay, Will.

All you have to do is start pointing it out, trying to get the cat to do it when you have company and talking about how cute it is -- in other words, decide it's something you devoutly wish the cat to do -- and the cat will never do it again.

[regnaD kciN]

22. Many cats are shoulder-riders...

...and it's pretty nice, unless they are enormous longhairs on a hot summer day...