Interesting new experience.

[Mr. Kilt]

You've not lived until you've had a kitten climb up INSIDE your kilt!

Have I got a story for you!
Lincoln was a wee kitten when I got him 13 years ago. When he was about 6 months old he pulled a stunt that neither of us will forget. I was living alone at the time and had just gotten out of the shower and was wearing a housecoat and nothing else. It was early morning and I was in the kitchen getting breakfast for the two of us. He was circling my legs as kittens usually do. Well...the little bugger happened to look up under my housecoat and spotted what he thought was a new "dangly toy". Naturally he jumped straight up to check it out.
Of course my reaction was to kick out sideways. He sailed across the kitchen and into the living room, landing on the couch. I don't know who was more stunned, him or me. Thankfully it never happened again.

Another cute kitten story involves our other cat, Salem. She was 6 weeks old when we got her from the farm. She's a real "burrowing" type of cat and loves nothing more than to crawl under the covers of the bed. She did that one night while I was sleeping, and I suddenly woke up to the feeling of this kitten in a serious lip-lock on one of my nipples, trying desperately to get some milk! Not the most pleasant feeling at all.

[UmAnOnion]

Al, are you aware of any problems with that knee? Two of my cats and the dog took a real interest in one of my knees some time back. Turns out there was a joint infection I didn't find out about till a week later.

this brings to mind the stories circulating recently about how they are using dogs to detect cancers ...

Trained dogs can sniff our bladder cancerTrained dogs can sniff our bladder cancer ...
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It's fascinating: dogs' noses represent some of the most sophisticated spectrographic analysis equipment available on the planet. Now dogs have been trained to actually "sniff out" bladder cancer by smelling the urine of patients....

[Wompet]

this brings to mind the stories circulating recently about how they are using dogs to detect cancers ...

Trained dogs can sniff our bladder cancerTrained dogs can sniff our bladder cancer ...
Highlight:

It's fascinating: dogs' noses represent some of the most sophisticated spectrographic analysis equipment available on the planet. Now dogs have been trained to actually "sniff out" bladder cancer by smelling the urine of patients....

Skin, bladder, lung cancers - dogs have been trained to find each. I saw one study where they could dtect early signs of arthritis too.

But before you can up your doctor, maybe your knee just smelled good that night. My current cat likes my deodorant - she'll climb up and start licking my armpits if she gets a chance.

[pdcorlis]

My current cat likes my deodorant - she'll climb up and start licking my armpits if she gets a chance.

Now THAT will get your attention!

[Freedomlover]

Some animals are far more attuned to their environment than we are. Case in point: year before last we enjoyed a hurricane here in Canton. The head of the Pigeon River (10 miles due South) got 17+ inches of rain in less than 5 hours. As a result my town was up to the rafters in water. Because the wind was only 80 mph or so my lovely wife and I considered it a non-event. We had the pleasure of Andrew's visit to South Florida a dozen years before so anything less than 150mph didn't get our attention as it should have. Long about 2:15 in the morning our youngest cat, Savannah, woke us up with awful crying and carrying on. We got up, thinking that she was somehow injured. When she ran for the kitchen we were right behind her. At that very moment a 110 foot tall white pine next to the house snapped off and landed squarely on the roof over our bedroom, shaking the house to the foundations. It punctured the roof in several places, but did not collapse it. Once the vibrations stopped Savannah just sat there and looked at us. Good kitty.

Some will say 'coincidence'. We don't think so. That little cat might not have known exactly what was going to happen, but she knew something was, and it wasn't good.

[UmAnOnion]

Skin, bladder, lung cancers - dogs have been trained to find each. I saw one study where they could dtect early signs of arthritis too.

But before you can up your doctor, maybe your knee just smelled good that night. My current cat likes my deodorant - she'll climb up and start licking my armpits if she gets a chance.

I dont know what disturbs me more - the visual i get of this scenario or the fact that i know people who woudl enjoy that kinda scene [shudder]....

[Livingston]

Skin, bladder, lung cancers - dogs have been trained to find each. I saw one study where they could dtect early signs of arthritis too.

But before you can up your doctor, maybe your knee just smelled good that night. My current cat likes my deodorant - she'll climb up and start licking my armpits if she gets a chance.

Everyone around me here at work is wondering what nearly made me gag..........

[Wompet]

Everyone around me here at work is wondering what nearly made me gag..........

Sorry 'bout that - should have mentioned that she only does after I've showered and put on fresh deodorant.

[Ruanaidh]

My current cat likes my deodorant - she'll climb up and start licking my armpits if she gets a chance.

It might not be the deodorant. My persian, Mugsy, when he was a kitten used to crawl under the covers and try to suck on my armpit. It was quite a wake-up experience. Not too surpising, milk glands are just specialized sweat glands.