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Conference misery::feline

Title:	Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
Notice:	purrrrr...
Moderator:	JULIET::CORDES_JA

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1079
Total number of notes:	28858

805.0. "BAG PIPE MUSIC - EROTICA FOR CATS?" by TOOK::GASKELL () Fri Sep 23 1994 14:05

    Has anyone experienced this:
    
    A friend of mine, male, has a cat called Abigail (he calls her FANG so
    that the guys at work won't think he's a sissy).  Joe loves his cat
    and talks about her all the time.  
    
    Joe went to a Star Trek convention and bought a Scottish Bagpipe CD.
    Joe thought that Abigail might be scared by the sound and waited until she 
    went out for her afternoon walk before he played it.  The piper had
    hardly time to get up a good wind when the little darling came running 
    into the house and, to put it politely, became extremely turned on.  Joe 
    said that if he didn't know otherwise he would have thought she hadn't 
    been "fixed" and was in heat.
    
    Being a rather modest young man, he's still blushing and vowing to
    stick to polkas from now on.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
805.1		SUBURB::ODONNELLJ	Julie O'Donnell	`Fri Sep 23 1994 16:31`	11
	I don't know about feline erotica, but: A busker set up next to the queue for my bus in the town centre once. He put down his case on the floor and extracted - his blue bagpipes! Discreet looks of horror passed down the queue waiting for the bus. Then he started up. Looks of horror changed to looks of anguish. Watches were checked to see when the bus would get in. Queues waiting nearby also began to look distressed. Finally an elderly lady walked up to him and offered him five pounds if he'd shut up until her bus came in. Wonder how much he made that day?
805.2	Heard the same	MKOTS1::COOPER		`Tue Sep 27 1994 10:17`	12
	My neighbor will love this story. As Scott takes his Scottish (sp) heritage very seriously. Last week he went to the Highlander Games, at Loon Mt., NH and purchased bagpipe music and another famous singer who sings serious ballads and funny drinking songs. Well Scott's wife was in for a howling husband, and their cat Garfield happened to enjoy the melodies of the bagpipes. As Scott says the bagpipes are more than music and really enter one's bones so if the cat enjoys it could be that there is some enchantment for humans.
805.3	I hope the name is right	MKOTS1::COOPER		`Thu Sep 29 1994 06:30`	8
	I believe my friend said that the piper music was the Black Watch and if that doesn't do anything to you or your pet, well. The other tapes or cd's he got were of Alex Beaton who has a wonderful voice. We tested the music with their cat Garfield and he was surely looking for some attention. He is also neutered.
805.4	Mine have DEFINITE tastes!	ANGLIN::PEREZ	Trust, but ALWAYS verify!	`Wed Oct 26 1994 09:07`	33
	Since I'm in here babbling about the cats anyhow... Tigger, (the guy with the heart pills in note 810) has VERY DEFINITE musical tastes... He loves baroque and classical - Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi (a lot), Mozart is OK. When I put on what he likes he'll actually leave his chair and go sprawl in the middle of the room where he's properly centered between the main speakers. He DISLIKES late classical and won't tolerate Stravinski or Mahler (especially Mahler!). When you put on something he doesn't like, he lets you know immediately by arising from his chair, glaring at whoever put the offending music on, making a definite "grumph" noise and stomping from the room stiff legged! He won't come back until the offending music is stopped. However, just so you won't think he's a snob, he also likes soft, mellow jazz (Oscar Peterson, Dave Grusin, etc), although he won't tolerate loud jazz (no Spyro Gyra) or rock in ANY form no matter how softly - he and Tina Turner, Dire Straits, and Credence Clearwater just aren't on speaking terms! If I have something on that is MARGINAL he MAY stay but he'll get this pained look on his face and fold his ears back and just generally act like he's being badly put upon to tolerate this discordant, atonal, garbage that some no-class human insists on assaulting his ears with! Gismo seems oblivious to everything. She's so Type B that all music seems tolerable to her! She'd probably even stay to listen to country if any of the humans in the house could stand it. Mimi, perhaps because she's an adolescent, or perhaps just because she has no class, like rock music. When I put on Tina and crank it up for one the house cleaning sessions she sits up on the chair and seems to groove right along... like I said, no class!
805.5	They know what they like!!	EARRTH::DREYER	Love me, love my cats!	`Thu Oct 27 1994 06:06`	14
	Well, I tried and tried to find a nice classical radio station that Gypsy would like, and had no luck. Most days I would come home and the radio would be turned down really low, or the station would be tuned out and only static would be coming through. Then one day I came home, and Gypsy had found a nice classical station, put it on a nice soft volume and there it stayed. He never messed with the station again! Sabrina goes crazy when I play the piano, soft rock. She'll jump up on the bench next to me, put her front paws on my shoulder and sing along! Either that or she and Buki get very frisky and tumble around on the carpet together! These cats...an endless source of pleasure and amusement! Laura