Conference misery::feline_v1

    Tabbatha likes the fireplace.  Anytime we start a fire, she goes
    into a trance.  We put her kitty hammock in front and she just sprawls
    out in it and goes to sleep.  You can't wake her what so ever. 
    I picked her up one time while she was sleeping there and she lay
    so limp it almost looked like she was dead!  It scared me at first,
    but after she woke up, she gave me a look as if to say, "Why did
    you have to go and wake me?  I was comfortable!"  Every morning,
    she goes to the fireplace and can't figure out why it isn't as warm
    as it was last night!
    
    Holly

There's a note regarding "Heat Seeking Cats", but I can't remember what number.

Since Munchkin has developed arthritis in his hip joints, he can't jump up
as easily or as high as before.  So, in a corner of the couch is an afghan,
with a heating pad between the first two folds.  My mother-in-law is
responsible for spoiling Munchkin with the heating pad, and as she says, 
"What are grandcats for - to spoil them rotten?".  Whenever either Peter or 
I borrow the heating pad, we get this furry-eyeball stare from Munchkin, 
and he continues staring until either you give up the heating pad or let 
him use it too!  Talk about feeling guilty.

Regards,
J.

    the note on heat seekers is note #427.
    
    Deb
    

    
    I have baseboard heat in my house.  It's a real riot to see little
    Toastie walking around the perimeter of a room balanced on the
    baseboards.
    
    Marion
    

    OUr three cats love to sit on the hearth in fron of a roaring fire
    and if there is no fire and it's below 40 they start pestering us
    and meowing until there is a fire made. Usually they don't have
    to do too much coaxing:-).
    			
    					Geoff

    Chauncey has a thing about lamps.  He will go up to a lamp that
    has been on for a while, and put his face and front paws right up
    near the rather hot bulb.  He'll sit like this for a while, and
    then move on, only to return a little while later to warm himself
    again.  Maybe he's trying to tell me it's too cold in my house!
    
    Perhaps I should get him his own heating pad!
    
    Mary

    
    
    I have friends whose cats used to take turns lying under their
    living room lamp - the bulb must have thrown a lot of heat.  
    Whenever they would see one of their kitties doing this, they
    would say - "Well, it looks like (enter kitty name)'s turn to go
    to Bermuda!

    Carole
    

    Karamaneh likes the top of the televisdion set (whichever one's
    on) as a heat source.  The other night, she crawled up on our set
    in the living room.  Unfortunately, my wife had shortly before lit
    a perfumed votive-style candle (pine-tree scent) and placed it on
    the top of the set.  Karamaneh nonetheless jumped up there.  No
    damage, but a slight smell of singed fur as we rescued her (there
    were no visible marks, and she seemed okay, but we sure smelled
    the singed fur ...).
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    Our girls LOVE the tops of the television sets.  I felt the surfaces
    and they do get nicely warm.  The funniest thing is that the girls
    stretch out and their tails and sometimes their rear legs hang over the
    front of the screen and we have to watch around all these cat
    appendages hanging down over the picture!  
    
    We also have Sony tvs which have the speakers on top, and the cats
    muffle the sound so much that we can hardly hear (goes with the ability
    to hardly see!).  We turn the volume up to the max, and when they get
    up to readjust their position or eventually jump down, the noise blasts
    you out of your vegatative state!  
    
    When the two of them huddle together on top of one small tv, that is
    also something to see and smile at!  Sometimes there are 2 tails and 2
    legs hanging off, almost totally blocking the picture.  Oh well, such is
    life with adorable kitties! 

    OUr oldest siamese, Eskimoe, just loves to sit on top of the computer
    cause it's so nice and warm. the only problem is that her favorite
    position involves hanging her tail right in front of the screen.
    
    							Geoff

    Re: .10 lucky you .... Sweetie likes to stretch out on the _keyboard_.
    

    Eskimoe just walks all over it trying to help us input whatever
    we're doing. Fortuantely her spelling is almost as good as mine:-).
    
    							Geoff

    
    	I went to a Christmas party last month and there was a roaring
    	fire with three kitties zonked out in front of it.  We had to
    	baste them and turn them frequently so they cooked well on both
    	sides!  I don't understand how their brains don't shrivel up
    	in the heat!
    
    						Jane.