I suspect it's because their minds operate on levels we can't even imagine

for the Sunday LOL Cats.

Glad the bass is OK!

they'll all run to hallway and sit and look. Sometimes creeps me out.

When we first moved into this house and after a couple of people told me there were ghosts they could feel here, I found all three of them in a corner staring straight up. I said, "what's up guys?" They all turned in unison to look at me and seemed to say, "Don't you see it?". Then they looked back up and stayed like that for a few more minutes. They haven't done it since.

Of course they could have been saying, "Nothing. Why what are you doing?".

late at night. I think the strangest experience I've ever had, though, was when my daughter was maybe 2 or 3.

We had a tuxedo cat named "Boots" by his original caretakers because of his four white feet. She was a marvelously gentle cat, who used to nap curled up on the couch with my daughter practically from the day she was born. Boots actually watched over her, springing into action monitoring anyone or anything that came near my daughter. If Boots didn't think you should be near the baby it was bottle-brush tail and hisses until my wife or I intervened. One summer Boots died. The thing is, we could still hear him jumping off the bookcase or running up the stairs!

Finally, one lunch time when my daughter was was in her high chair, my wife and I noticed her eyes slowly scanning from left to right as though she were watching something moving along the baseboard. She got excited, pointed at the baseboard and proclaimed "Look, mama, Boo", her version of Boots. My wife tried to explain to her that Boots was gone, but my daughter was having none of it. With all the certainty and determination a toddler could muster, she slowly shook her head, pointed again and very seriously said "No, mama. Boo". This happened off and on until she was 4 1/2 or five, at which point she no longer saw "Boo". The noises stopped about the same time.

I wasn't a big believer in the supernatural and still am not. But if it was Boots' ghost, I knew it would never hurt anyone and I was happy to have him back on the job as my daughter's guardian cat. If it was just old house noises and a toddler's imagination, that was ok, too. But I never saw her so intense throughout the rest of her childhood.

We can't see Catland but it is a fascinating and dangerous place where you may be unexpectedly attacked at any moment and must bound wildly around doing feats of derring-do until the attacker vanishes in a puff of catnip and you must immediately drop into a nap.

gives me fits. So I don't expect the cat to be any different and stick with Chris Berman and the guys until gametime.

I switched over to these Hercules stands. The yoke at the top automatically locks around the neck just below the peghead. Very secure, and doesn't put any strain on the neck.

I've never knocked a bass out of a stand but 17 pounds of wigged out cat sliding across the floor managed to do the job.

Because it is a cat.

poster above's husband is correct

Might have something to do with the fact that I'm seriously allergic to them But seriously I'm a dog person. I melt at the sight of a cute dog.

Plus, barking dogs are annoying as hell.

Mr. Mickey sees all... knows all, and in the middle of it, performs magic in his 16th year running!

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Starting each year in late summer/early fall, when we get the first chilly night air (40s/50s), our cats start to get nuts for a few weeks. Tearing around, bouncing off the walls and each other, literally climbing the walls and everything else!

I also second the recommendation for Hercules guitar stands - very sturdy, even with the fuzzbutts running around. Also, my rule of thumb is no bass above the level of MusicMan Stingray or American Fender Jazz Bass is allowed out and unmonitored - all my basses at the Ken Smith level and above are kept stored!



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But he has been goofier than normal the last week or so. Wandering around the house, meowing for no particularly good reason, staring at the top of a window behind the couch in the living room.

I should have known that an Alembic bass plus a cat is a recipe for potential trouble. Will definitely pick up a Hercules for that bass. Hell, you can pound nails with a Jazz Bass and it will be just fine.

At that point, all basses get stored, except the upright as our littlest fuzzy, Charlie, likes to hide behind it from his somewhat dickish brothers.

And true dat on Jazz Basses! An old 80s American Jazzer I had toured with for 20 years went to Mrs. Rat last year. She was concerned about it hanging out with her in her office (cats and all), and I said, in my best Apu voice:

"Silly woman! You cannot hurt a Jazz Bass."

The one I gave her helped me escape from a locked storage room years ago (long story). Took out the door, and stayed in tune!

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My cat hasn't done any of those things except the "jump and bolt." He eats anything that's put in front of him, (decent cat food only and no people scraps) and he doesn't meow or talk when he tears around. When he's done he sits back down, meows once, and grooms, sometimes looking out the window.

and sometimes our cats feel like running through the house, either alone, or with company. I think they're just having fun. I keep my bass put away, but my s/o leaves his guitars out....I keep telling him, something's gonna happen, but will he listen?