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A farewell to the Chairman

@TheJudge

I previously requested a thread of your legal antics.

I have a better idea.

Please give us an anecdote of your adventures from the viewpoint of how Chairman Mao may or may not have acted in the case.
She was a party animal when young. We stayed in a flat and had a lot of students around us. So Chairman got to attend lots of parties at our flat and the ones around (because Rhodes University).

She was funny because she'd quietly creep back in through the lounge window reeking of perfume and cigarettes before collapsing on the couch. She once came back from a party with pink whiskers. What that cat saw in the complex I can only imagine. 😏
 
She was a party animal when young. We stayed in a flat and had a lot of students around us. So Chairman got to attend lots of parties at our flat and the ones around (because Rhodes University).

She was funny because she'd quietly creep back in through the lounge window reeking of perfume and cigarettes before collapsing on the couch. She once came back from a party with pink whiskers. What that cat saw in the complex I can only imagine. 😏
One can't help but wonder about the lives of the humans, when these are the antics the cat gets up to. What sort of example has been set? Where are these learned behaviours derived from?
 
One can't help but wonder about the lives of the humans, when these are the antics the cat gets up to. What sort of example has been set? Where are these learned behaviours derived from?
Oh I can assure you all our pets have been eccentric and we know we're the reason.

When we first moved to CT we were staying in Mowbray. I hear what sounds like a water leak coming from the lounge. It's in the middle of the night so I crawl out of bed to investigate.

Eyes are adjusting and I see a looming shape then realise what's happening. Our Rottweiler had watched the cats and realised he could piss in the cat litter box. He snuck out the bedroom and down the hall to have a midnight slash. He looked so guilty when he realised I was there. 🤣
 
Oh I can assure you all our pets have been eccentric and we know we're the reason.

When we first moved to CT we were staying in Mowbray. I hear what sounds like a water leak coming from the lounge. It's in the middle of the night so I crawl out of bed to investigate.

Eyes are adjusting and I see a looming shape then realise what's happening. Our Rottweiler had watched the cats and realised he could piss in the cat litter box. He snuck out the bedroom and down the hall to have a midnight slash. He looked so guilty when he realised I was there. 🤣
This reminds me of the time I came downstairs into the kitchen with quite a strong whiff of cat shit permeating the air.
Scan the surroundings to try and determine where this smell is coming from (Cat litter boxes are upstairs) when I lock eyes with my old (now deceased) Persian cat merrily taking a dump in the kitchen sink.
Mystery solved I just did a 360 and walked out of there
That was one adventurous pooping cat though, deffo had to be on your toes with her around
 
This reminds me of the time I came downstairs into the kitchen with quite a strong whiff of cat shit permeating the air.
Scan the surroundings to try and determine where this smell is coming from (Cat litter boxes are upstairs) when I lock eyes with my old (now deceased) Persian cat merrily taking a dump in the kitchen sink.
Mystery solved I just did a 360 and walked out of there
That was one adventurous pooping cat though, deffo had to be on your toes with her around
So it had a kink for the sink? 🤣
 
The neighbors Ginger cat often takes him on, but he doesn't seem to fazed. Even when the Ginger cat attacks him full on he just moves to another place.
This sounds like my youngest retard, Mickey. He's a rescue that I got on, I believe, the day he was born. His umbilical cord fell off on day 7, it's supposed to fall off on day 2-5.

He has no concept of fear whatsoever, and I'm pretty certain his pain receptors don't work. At the ripe old age of 6 weeks he was on the roof, an age at which all the other cats still needed to be helped on the bed. I have a female who's a fighter of note, Peanut Butter. She has torn halfway through a bath towel to get her way, but even when she attacks Mickey with a "this is your last minute on earth you stupid shit" to the face he rolls onto his back with his paws in the air trying to play.

He used to take daily beatings from the other cats for his behaviour, and didn't even realize it. The others eventually gave up and just accepted that he's in their spot or whatever. He wass so at ease after a "beating" he would then fall asleep again with his tongue hanging out.

He's 110% impossible to discipline, not even water works (he recently got into an almost-empty swimming pool and amused himself by jumping and splashing, he has showered with me on several occasions, and he sits in the middle of the yard when it rains).

He's actually a complete asshole - and a gravity cat. He wakes my wife in the mornings by pushing EVERYTHING off her bedside table, whether it's her phone, a glass (yes, glass, not a plastic cup), a roll of toilet paper or anything else he can find. He will then proceed to play with the noisiest thing he pushed off until someone gets up.

He'll ignore you while throwing things to the ground until you shout MICKEY!!, after which he flattens himself and continues pushing things to the ground, much slower this time, and not for a second breaking eye contact.

His favourite thing to do is race around under the bed in the middle of the night. On his back. Using his claws in the bottom of the base of the bed. Do you have any idea how noisy that is at 3am? You call his name, an upside down head pops out from under the bed, and then disappears again the same way for more noisy playtime.

Christmas decorations had an instant death sentence when he arrived. He'd absolutely destroy them. Think you can put them in a bag on the top shelf? Hahaha. You idiot. He's up there tearing the bag apart to get to "his toys."

The food in his bowl isn't his favourite flavour? Screw you, human. He flips it over and makes it a challenge to see how much of the house can be covered in food. Water in a bowl? What am I, an animal? He only drinks from a plastic cup, and only if it's in the hand-basin. Anywhere else and he pushes it over.

Get into bed and wait for him to lie between us for the night - that sounds like a peaceful end to the day. Except it isn't. He goes out of his way to use your face as a step. Cover your head under the blankets? He'll get under the blankets so he can step on your face to get to the middle.

I wouldn't trade him for all the money in the world.
 
This sounds like my youngest retard, Mickey. He's a rescue that I got on, I believe, the day he was born. His umbilical cord fell off on day 7, it's supposed to fall off on day 2-5.

He has no concept of fear whatsoever, and I'm pretty certain his pain receptors don't work. At the ripe old age of 6 weeks he was on the roof, an age at which all the other cats still needed to be helped on the bed. I have a female who's a fighter of note, Peanut Butter. She has torn halfway through a bath towel to get her way, but even when she attacks Mickey with a "this is your last minute on earth you stupid shit" to the face he rolls onto his back with his paws in the air trying to play.

He used to take daily beatings from the other cats for his behaviour, and didn't even realize it. The others eventually gave up and just accepted that he's in their spot or whatever. He wass so at ease after a "beating" he would then fall asleep again with his tongue hanging out.

He's 110% impossible to discipline, not even water works (he recently got into an almost-empty swimming pool and amused himself by jumping and splashing, he has showered with me on several occasions, and he sits in the middle of the yard when it rains).

He's actually a complete asshole - and a gravity cat. He wakes my wife in the mornings by pushing EVERYTHING off her bedside table, whether it's her phone, a glass (yes, glass, not a plastic cup), a roll of toilet paper or anything else he can find. He will then proceed to play with the noisiest thing he pushed off until someone gets up.

He'll ignore you while throwing things to the ground until you shout MICKEY!!, after which he flattens himself and continues pushing things to the ground, much slower this time, and not for a second breaking eye contact.

His favourite thing to do is race around under the bed in the middle of the night. On his back. Using his claws in the bottom of the base of the bed. Do you have any idea how noisy that is at 3am? You call his name, an upside down head pops out from under the bed, and then disappears again the same way for more noisy playtime.

Christmas decorations had an instant death sentence when he arrived. He'd absolutely destroy them. Think you can put them in a bag on the top shelf? Hahaha. You idiot. He's up there tearing the bag apart to get to "his toys."

The food in his bowl isn't his favourite flavour? Screw you, human. He flips it over and makes it a challenge to see how much of the house can be covered in food. Water in a bowl? What am I, an animal? He only drinks from a plastic cup, and only if it's in the hand-basin. Anywhere else and he pushes it over.

Get into bed and wait for him to lie between us for the night - that sounds like a peaceful end to the day. Except it isn't. He goes out of his way to use your face as a step. Cover your head under the blankets? He'll get under the blankets so he can step on your face to get to the middle.

I wouldn't trade him for all the money in the world.
In my house we call that a was.

Like Mickey was a weird cat.
 
Tis with great sadness that my wife and I took our 20-year-old cat, Chairman Mao, to the vet one last time. She was the first ever pet we got together and carried herself like a dictator for all her years.

Originally a scrapper from the Grahamstown SPCA she could hold her own in a fight or staring match and could transition from bush cat to house cat with an ease that made us think it was all part of a larger plan she had laid out for our lives and careers to naturally progress in a way that benefitted her.

Chairman held within her a level of resentment which allowed her to look at you like you represented a piece of shit that had been expelled by a larger piece of shit. She owned two Rottweilers as pets in her 20 years on this earth and carried herself down the road in front of the local felines in a way that impressed upon them that if her claws didn't end them the jaws of her trusty dog would deliver the coup de grace.

She also honed her life skills, learning how to masterfully collapse your windpipe with one jab in the morning to wake you for food.

She slowed down in her twilight years, preferring a couch to the eviscerated bodies of her victims and tolerated the affections of our two boys with a look somewhere between utter disgust and grudging happiness.

Chairman Mao, may the clouds be your litter box from where you can crap down on this world you left behind.
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Sorry for your loss, cats are such incredible animals and the thought of one day losing my little one is heart breaking.
 

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