Conference misery::feline_v1

    Sounds strange to me pardner.  I guess if I found a masked man 
    in my kitchen I would freak as well.

    Never tried a mask - but I attempted to kill a HUMONGOUS moth the
    other night in my bedroom with a magazine (well...I admit I DID hit
    the walls with a G-force of about 10....six or seven different times)
    and Otis fullllewwww down the stairs and didn't come back up for 
    about 2 hours.
    
    He now is petrified of magazines.
    
    M
    

    I put on a pair of Rabbit Ears from a halloween costume
    last night......
    One of my guys stared at me so intently I had to take
    them off! :-)
    
    
    Lynne
    

    Mr. Miyagi is definately our "fraidy cat."
    
    A little while after he came to live with us (maybe two months),
    I came out of the shower with a towel wrapped around my body
    and one on my head. Well, Mr. Miyagi turned to run fast out
    of the bathroom and bumped smack into the bathroom door which
    made him twice as scared. He finally got over the monster in
    the bathroom. His next episode  was this past winter when Tim
    had gone skiing on a very cold day. Home he came with his expidition
    down filled parker and a wool hat pulled down over his ears and 
    forehead which didn't leave much of Tim showing and the parker
    made him look like a giant. Poor Miyagi saw this creature walk
    right into his house where he was and arched his back and hissed
    and ran 90 miles an hour upstairs and wouldn't come down for 2
    days.
    
    Mocha is scared of nothing, and Ming is shy but will hide behind
    things and peek out. (Afraid she might miss something.)
    
    Love my three, they each are so different.
    
    Barbara & her 3M's

well, don't send any of these monsters over to our house...Hannah will
swat them, Mandy will growl, hump up her back and explode her tail into
a huge club and crab step UP TO the monster....when she gets there, she
bites it on the nose and runs up the cat tree where she sits and growls
some more.  Well, maybe, if it was a tall monster, she'd do a knee or
ankle bite, but she wouldn't back down!  Samson just ignores them...monsters
always go away if you keep your dignity and ignore them.

My mother's mini snauzer got the full treatment when she arrived for a visit.
the dog spent the entire visit under the end table in the famiy room when my
mother wasn't there to protect her.

    My hubby loves to dress up as Santa Clauses, even though it is once a
    year and Scruffy has seen him many times before.........she freezes...
    
    I think it's the RED, alot of it!!!  He stuffs himself good to make him
    bigger and I paint on rosey cheeks.  Of cours the white beard and hair
    cover his black beard and hair.........so Scruffy cannot figure out
    what and who the heck this is........  she's make her own door to get
    the heck out side if she could.  "She sure doesn't want to sit on
    Santa's Lap!"
    
    ______
    
    For my Dudley Road Gang, they have seen me in curlers a few mornings. 
    I set my hair with a few electric curlers, and they just wander want is
    sitting or growing out of my head!  Some take off for the hills, others
    are willing to wait for me to go inside, taking those "THINGS" with me,
    so they can eat.
    
    Carol
    
    

    Callie is afraid of a hat I have. It's one of those cheapie plastic
    green ones ya buy at St. Patricks time. Well, she BOLTED out of the
    room when she saw me wearing it, so I offered it to her so she could
    check it out & see that it was just a piece of plastic (she LOVES
    plastic, unfortunately!) and it wouldn't hurt her. She backed off &
    *HISSED* (she NEVER hisses!) at the stupid thing, she was so wide eyed
    & frightened, it wasn't even funny!!
    
    Now, I leave it right on top of my bureau & she leaves all of my
    "stuff" alone! I'm considering getting it out of the house alltogether
    though, I hate to see my baby girl be "fraidey".
    
    Bonnie

	
	T.K. is afraid of my father!  He has met other men before and
	had no problem with them and if my father does not talk, he
	isn't really afraid of him.  But something about my father's
	voice makes T.K. very nervous!  I suppose if he saw my father
	more than once or twice a year he would get over it.

	Bandit is afraid of nothing.... but then is is the most lazy
	laid back cat I have ever seen.  If he was afraid he would be
	too lazy to show it!

	Karen

    Hi,
    
    Corky-Lynne, my one year old sweet, shy pussy is skittish of many things. 
    If the doorbells rings, it's off to the back of the closet.  Even that
    Toyota add that has a doorbell in it makes her jump.
    
    Of course the vacuum cleaner.
    
    On those days I do dress up for work, wooden heels make her hide too!
    Silly cat!
    
    Susan, Rocky + Corky 

    My guys never seem to take much notice of how we're dressed.  Coats,
    hats, anything out of the ordinary doesn't seem to phase them. 
    However, walk in into the house carrying a balloon and Amelia will
    totally freak out.  She'll trample right over your body in her bid
    to leave the area pronto.
    
    Jan

    My husband bought his father for father's day a few years ago one of
    those baseball hats with antlers? Well, my husband put it on and shook
    his head at the cats, and the cats (I had 2 at the time) couldn't run
    or hide fast enough! He took the hat off and put it in the floor, and
    Charlie (the bravest) started stalking it, with Shanti behind him. He
    started spitting at it and slowly going up. If anyone moved a muscle,
    he was off again like a flash! I was laughing so hard, that the cats
    were looking at me as if "It isn't THAT funny! That thing tried to EAT
    us!"
    
    Cats do the funniest things! (Make a great segment for "americas
    funniest home videos.."
    
    Cheryl
    
    

    Well, this is interesting.  I just figured all this time that your
    animals knew you by your scent, etc. and that it shouldn't matter if
    you were wearing an ordinary hat and so on - but I guess it's not the
    case.  Richard put the cowboy hat back up on the shelf in his closet
    (the cats hang out up there once in a while) but now they haven't gone
    near it whereas they just ignored it before.
    
    I'd just love to know what goes on in those little minds - they are the
    most wonderful source of entertainment!!!
    
    Giudi