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• After dark all cats are leopards.
• Any cat-hater can be won over by any cat that chooses to make the effort. 
• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. (Cleveland Armory)
• As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. (Ellen Perry Berkeley)
• Blessed are the Purr at heart.
• Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishing for a room. (French Proverb)
• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. (William Ralph Inge)
• A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket-handkerchief if it wants to.
  (Dr. Louis J. Camuti)
• A cat does not want all the world to love her - only those she has chosen to love. (Helen Thomson)
• Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
• The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. (Ernest Menaul
• A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.
• A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. (Indian Saying)
• A cat is just a bundle of purr.
• The cat is nature's Beauty. (French Proverb)
• A cat is only domestic so far as suits its own needs.
• The cat my look at a king, they say, but rather would look at a mouse at play.
  (Arthur Guiterman)
• The cat pretends to sleep that it may see the more clearly. (Chateaubriand)
• The cat: there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion. (Christopher Smart)
• The cat was created when the lion sneezed.
• Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. (Winifred Carriere)
• Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. (John Dingman)
• Cats are always on the wrong side of every door
• Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. (James Herriot)
• Cats are deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into.
• Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. (Paul Gray)
• Cats are poetry in motion.
• Cats are purr in heart.
• Cats do not go for a walk to get somewhere but to explore. (Sidney Denham)
• Cats don't like change without their consent. (Roger A. Caras)
• A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world. (Irish Legend)
• Cats go on the principal that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
• Cats like doors left open, in case they change their minds. (Rosemary Nisbet)
• Cats make purrfect friends.
• A cats purr is "meow-sic" to the soul.
• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. (Joseph Wood Krutch)
• Chances are that a man who can nuzzle a kitten is also open and caring in other facets of his life.
• Civilization is defined by the presence of cats.
• Confront a child, a puppy and a kitten with sudden danger:
  the child will turn instinctively for more assistance,
  the puppy will grovel in abject submission,
  the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.  (H. H. Munro)
• Curiosity may have killed the cat, but at least the cat died knowing.
• Few have heard an angel sing, but many purr when stroked.
• Heaven will not ever Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
• A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years and a kitten rising six weeks. (Robert Southey)
• I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. (Jules Verne)
• I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.
• I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or her entertainment value. (Geoffrey Household)
• I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. (Hippolyte Taine)
• I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. (Jean Cocteau)
• If an artist were to design an animal, it would be impossible to improve upon the cat.
• If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I would put shoes on my cat!
• If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. (African Proverb)
• If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
• If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. (Barbara L. Diamond)
• In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. (English proverb)
• In these days of tension, human beings can learn a great deal about relaxation from watching a cat, who doesn't just lie down when it is time to rest, but pours his body on the floor and rests in every nerve and muscle. (Murray Robinson)
• It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see. (Eleanor Farjeon)
• It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it.
• It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of kittens.
• A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom. (Robert Southey)
• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it gets there. (Agnes Repplier)
• A kitten is more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with.
• Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. (Stephen Baker)
• Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet. (Pam Brown)
• Like a graceful vase a cat - even when motionless - seems to flow.
• The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world. 
• "Meow" is like Aloha; it can mean anything.
• My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her. (Colette)
• My cat kneads me.
• My cat knows the song in my heart and purrs it to me when my memory fails.
• My cat speaks sign language with her tail. (Robert A. Stern)
• My cat wishes you a paws-tively purr-fect christmas
• My next furniture will match my cat.
• NASA describes a quasar as "a body of an inordinate amount of energy for its apparent small size".
  Therefore Quasar would be a perfect name for a very energetic little cat.
• Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
• Never say anything bad about another person's cat.
• Next to the cat, I love you best!
• No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. (Leo Dworken)
• No heaven will not ever Heaven be; unless my cats are there to welcome me.
• No outfit is complete without cat hair!
• One cat just leads to another. (Ernest Hemingway)
• One of the reasons kittens are so appealing is that they are so little and so brave.
• The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. (Sir Compton Mackenzie)
• People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. (Faith Resnick)
• People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life.
• Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. (Jean Burden)
• PURR and the World Purrs with You; HISS and You Hiss Alone!
• Purring is the humming sound a cat's body makes when manufacturing cuteness.
• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. (Monica Edwards)
• The real measure of a day's heat is the length of a sleeping cat. (Charles J. Brady)
• Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?
• The smallest feline is a masterpiece. (Leonardo Da Vinci)
• There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. (Tay Hohoff)
• There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. (Albert Schweitzer)
• There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. (Dan Greenberg)
• There is no dealing with a cat who knows you're awake. (Brad Solomon)
• There is no snooze button on a hungry cat
• There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
• This home is blessed with love, laughter, friendship and a cat.
• This house if maintained entirely for the comfort and convenience of our cat.
• This house owned by one spoiled rotten cat
• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say: Can he name a kitten? (Samuel Butler )
• Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched. (Cervantes)
• Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
• Time spent with cats is never wasted. (Colette)
• To a dog you're family, to a cat you're staff.
• To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake.
  He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
• To err is human, to purr, feline. (Robert Byrne)
• The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you. (Pam Brown)
• Truth is like a cat; no matter how you twist it, it lands on it's feet!
• Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun. (Lloyd Alexander)
• We are all cat toys.
• We humans are indeed fortunate if we happen to be chosen to be owned by a cat.
• When I play with my cat, who knows but that she regards me as a plaything even more than I do her. (Montaigne)
• When it comes to knowing how to relax, cats are the original yoga experts. (Patricia Curtis)
• When you have a cat, Everyday is Purr-fect
• Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! (Theophile Gautier)
• You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
• You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.
• You don't own your cat, you just give them room and board.
• You haven't really been ignored until you have been ignored by a cat!
• You may own a cat, but cannot govern one. (Kate Sanborn)
• You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. (old American proverb)

FYI - Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

Cat ABC's (including famous cats)

compiled by Donna in MB and Denny Davis

A - acrobat, active, adorable, allergies, alley cat, amusing; (Am - from Lady and the Tramp, Arlene, Artemis, Asparagus, Azrael - Smurfs)
B - bad luck - black cat, basket, beautiful, bed, beloved, bicolor, birds, blue, bobcat, bowl, brown tabby; (Berlioz, Bill the Cat, Bombalurina, BooBoo Kitty , Burbank, Bustopher Jones, Bastet, Bast, Buttons)
C - calico, carnivor, carrier, cat nap, cataclism, catastrophe, catnip, captivating, champion, cheetah, classic tabby, claw, climbing, coat, collar, companion, cougar, cub, curious; (Cat, Cat in the Hat, Catbert, Chat d'Argent, Cheshire Cat, Claude, Cleo, Cliff, Coricopat, Cool Cat, Clarence)
D - declawing, desert cat, dilute calico, domestic house cat, domesticated??; (DC from That Darn Cat, Diana, Demeter, Desdemona, Dinah, Duchess, Diddle)
E - Elizabethan collar, endearing, energetic, enigmatic; (Eek the Cat, Eponine, Elsa)
F - fang, feline, feral, ferocious, fish, friend, fur balls, furry, fuzzy; (Fat Louie from Princess Diaries, Felix, Fat Cat, Figaro)
G - German Rex, Golden Siamese; gentle, goofy, graceful, grooming; (Garfield, Ginger, Grace, Greymalkin/Grimalkin, Grizabella)
H - Havana Brown, Himalayan Rex, Honeybear; hairball, halter, hiding, house cat, humane society, hunter; (Heathcliff, Henrietta Pussycat, Hodge, Holly)
I - independent, indoor, intent, interest; (Itty, Ivan, Isis)
J - jaguar, judging, jumping, jungle, jellicle; (Jellyllorum, Jennyanydots, Jinx, Jemima, Josie)
K - kitten, kittening box; (Kitty, Krazy Kat, Kimba)
L - leap, leopard, lion, litter box, long hair, lovable, loving, lynx; (Luna, Lucifer, Lucky)
M - mackerel tabby, markings, marmelade, meow, milk, mouser, mysterious; (Mehitabel, Mr. Jinx, Macavity, Madcat, Marie, Melody, Milo, Miss Kitty, Mr. Bigglesworth, Mr. Mistoffelees, Morris, Mungojerrie, Mut, Molly, Mitsy, Mitzy, Mischief, Moggie, Mufasa, Moppet)
N - nap, naughty, neuter, night vision, nine lives, NO!, (Nala, Nermal, Neko, Numa from Tarzan)
O - ocelot, outdoor; (O. G. Readmore, Oliver, Old Deuteronomy, Otello)
P - panther, paws, pedigree, playful, polydactle, pounce, prey, pride, proud, prowl, puma, purring; (Pangur Ban, Pantalone, Percy, Patches, Puss in Boots, Pickles, Picky-Picky, Pixel, Plato, Polar Bear, Poucival, Puff, Punn-in-Boots, Pyewacket )
Q - queen, quiet, quizzical; (Queen Callista)
R - red tabby, regal, rubbing; (Ra, Rum Rum Tugger, Rumpleteaser, Rumpel)
S - scratching post, seal point, short hair, sixth sense, snarl, snow leopard, soft, Sphynx, stalking, striped; (Salem, Sassy, Schrodinger's Cat, Scratchy, Sgt. Tibbs, Si, Sillabub, Simpkin, Skimbleshanks, Sylvester, Snagglepuss, Snaggletooth, Slinky Malinky, Snowdrop, Stimpy, Smokey, Simba, Sher Khan, Scar, Sabor, Sheeta)
T - tabby, tail, territory, tiger, tortoiseshell, tom cat, toys, treats, tree climbing, twitch; (Thomas O'Malley, Tao, Tabby Kitten, Tom, Tom Kitten, Top Cat, Toulouse, Tumblebrutus, Tigger, Tear Along - the dotted lion, tony Jad Bal Ja, Tybert)
U - unforgettable, unique, unsurpassed, unusual; (Unsinkable Sam was rescued from 3 ships sunk in WWII - Bismark, Cossack, Royal Ark)
V - vaccination, vain, varicolored, veterinarian, vixen ; (Vocal)
W - watch, whimsical, whirlwind, whiskers, window, worshipped in Egypt; (Webster, William, Willow)
X - eXplorer, eXtraordinary, eXtra special
Y - yowling; (Yellow Cat, YumYum)
Z - zany, zzzzz; (Zainal)

Cat Breed ABC List

compiled by Denny Davis. this list includes mostly breeds that it would be easy to obtain a photo of at a cat show or on the internet. Theres is a much longer list atMessyBeast

A - Abyssinian , American Curl, American Shorthair, American Wirehair, Angora
B - Balinese, Bengal, Birman, Bohemian Rex, Bombay, British Angora, British Shorthair, Burmese
C - California Spangled, Chartreux, Colorpoint Shorthair, Cornish Rex, Cymric, Chantilly;
D - Devon Rex, Doll Face Persian, Domestic Long Hair, Domestic Short Hair
E - Egyptian Mau, Exotic Shorthair
F - Fishing Cat, Foreign White (solid white Siamese), Foreign shorthair
G - Geoffroy's Cat, German Rex
H - Havana, Highland Lynx, Himalayan
I - Indian Cat (Persian), Indian Rex (LaPerm), Indian Mau
J - Japanese Bobtail, Javanese
K - Kashmir, Korat
L - LaPerm, Longhair Rex
M - Maine Coon Cat, Malayan, Manx, Munchkin
N - Nepali, Niebelung, Norwegian Forest Cat
O - Ocicat, Ojos Azules, Oriental Longhair, Oriental Shorthair
P - Peke-faced Persian, Persian, Pixiebob
R - Ragamuffin, Ragdoll, Rex, Russian Blue
S - Scottish Fold, Siamese, Singapura, Snowshoe, Somali, Sphinx
T - Tiffany, Tonkinese, Tortoiseshell, Turkish Angora, Turkish Van
U - Ultra Type Persian
V - Van Kedi, Vienna Woods
W - White Ringtail (Turkish Van), Wirehair Rex
Y - Yankee Cat (Maine Coon), York Chocolate
Z - Zibeline (sable Burmese)

PANDORA, A to Z

(Alex and Isaac - sons of Jean in TX)

An adorable, bad,
cute, delightful,
exquisite, funny,
gifted, happy,
intelligent, jolly,
kind, lovable,
mellow, nervous,
ordinary, purring,
quiet, round,
silly, tubby,
unsanitary, virtuous,
weird, xenophobic,
yowling, zippy kitten.

What Cats Know About Living the Good Life

Act nonchalant
Be comfortable
Control yourself
Discriminate
Explore
Fake what you don't know
Grab at passing opportunities
Have moments of wild abandon
Ignore the ignorant
Jog in your sleep
Knead people
Let it all hang out
Make friends with your neighbors
Nap often
Overstep boundaries
Play with your food
Quietly walk away from trouble
Return to your favorite places
See things others don't
Take your time
Understand human limitations
View things from more than one perspective
Wait at least 60 seconds before responding
X-pect only the best
Yawn and stretch at regular intervals
ZZZZZZZZZin the sunshine