Meet Our Cat. She Doesn’t Give A Shit.
This is our new cat. We rescued her in Utah. Her whole family was taken out by asshole raccoons, but she survived by hiding and staying quiet.
We took 2 weeks to come up with a name for her. Kit Kat was really popular for a while. Stripey was also in the running. Golfer thought “Daddy Fat Sack” would be the best. name. EVER. We took our time really getting to know her before deciding. We wanted her name to reflect who she really was and what she was like.
Finally, after 2 weeks of cathood, we all came to a unanimous decision.
Please, say hello to Honey Badger! Or not. She doesn’t give a shit. Her namesake, of course, is the Crazy Nasty Ass Honey Badger of youtube fame.
Within the first two weeks of adopting her, she’d made all of us bleed due to her sharp claws, pointy teeth, and surprise sneak attacks. She came and went as she pleased, without regard for any of us unless she needed something like a scratch or warm lap. We noticed she didn’t really do the things that dogs do (aim to please, obey commands, love us unconditionally, etc.) which might be obvious to some people but I’d only ever had a dog and figured that all domesticated animals would generally act the same way. Ha!
Cats are a whole different world entirely. I really dig that she was immediately litter trained. I really don’t dig all this attitude she dishes out when all I really want is to love her and have her love me in return. In my off moments I’ve been known to chase her around the house yelling, “Don’t you know I saved your life?! That you’d be dead without me? Can’t you just love me without being all pissy about it?!!!?!” This makes the kids say things like, “She’s not gonna like that mom! That’s not gonna make her very happy with you!” I’ve had to learn the hard way that she doesn’t give a shit. She just wants what she wants.
I recently posted on facebook:
On the one hand, it’s good to know that I’m not the only one dealing with a Crazy Nasty Ass Honey Badger. On the other hand, I wonder why even own a cat when the relationship is so one sided. Her sided. I have the scars to prove it! So please, if you have a cat, you must share with me why you love it so much. Or why you love to be annoyed and sneak attacked and ignored so much!
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We had a cat like that. He was crazy smart. Learned how to turn the CD player on and threw nasty fits if his music of choice didn’t play. He figured out how to open doors…and not the ones with the lever-ish handles–just regular old knobs. He was a bastard. We finally gave him away after he started routinely attacking my pregnant belly. He went to live on my parent’s farm and became the godfather of the barn cats. He was so much happier.
Sorry…guess that didn’t help the cat-love famine much.
We have 2 cats. Cats are like having a roommate. Dogs are like having a kid who never grows up. I love the freedom of having cats- they are companions, but you can still go away for the weekend
There is also a saying that cat owners like to love & dog owners like to be loved…
I love my cats…. They are both rescued cats…. they just turned up at our house one way or another. they love to sleep on my bed all day and night and they love affection…when they are in the mood. My one cat is over 20lbs and when he decides he wants to sit on you, why there’s nothing much you can do about it. He also likes to be spanked. The harder the better. I.don’t.know.why. ?? The other one loves to snooze all day and night long and recently was taken to the vets for the vet to show us (on one COOL Xray ) that he’s eaten a whole mouse, the cat, not the vet, and the mouse was STUCK in the cat’s intestine!! CRAZY !!!!! 300 bucks for that information. Damn cat. Damn mouse. Still…. there’s not much that warms my heart more than seeing a cat sleeping on my bed in a patch of sunlight.
In an unrelated note I have taken up your challenge and have several boards of Stuff I Love on Pinterest!! The Ocean figures rather heavily on mine!! ;D xxx
We have a cat because my daughter wanted one when she was 4. We’ve had him for 10 years and he’s grown on me. I used to hate him. He would attack our feet if we wore socks, use daughters head as a scratching post and got tangled in the Christmas lights. He has mellowed in his old age though. He’s more like a dog now. lol As for the bell thing, it might be good. Our cat got locked in a neightbors garage for a few days. LOL
Love reading your blog/facebook page and I would like to have a invite to Pinterest please. Thanks!
Bahaha!!!! Tiff this is hysterical.Okay, my whole life, it’s been cats. Just learn to accept the fact that they are a strange breed of being.
We have two cats currently, and they both have their quirks. They both get yelled at a fair share by all of us. But we love them anyway. You will learn to love Honey Badger very much, If you haven’t already. ( I think you must, cuz you wrote a post about her.)
huh. well, all i have to say is … THAT CAT IS PERFECT FOR YOU!!!
Tiff our cat is 19…yes, 19!!! She was hubby’s cat before we started dating! Over the years she has been the nicest things to cuddle, “I can’t go to work Zoe needs me…” to “where the hell is the cat?” to “Shut the hell up!” When baby came home from hospital she would not come downstairs until baby was in bed, for a YEAR! She finally got okay with the kid and then we had another. We lost her for another year into hiding and now somehow Little Lady has Zoe wrapped around her finger. Our home has agreed no more cat once she decides to be done, we are done. We LOVE her but now she is so damn picky it is annoying. Good luck with your cat. They are nuts, if you ask me.