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Bonzy the cat speaks! (4 pics)

15 years ago

Bonzy (pronounced Bone-zee--I can't figure out how to spell it) the stray cat (well, I guess she's been upgraded to semi-stray) has been quite verbal lately. It's amazingly easy to translate. Here are some examples:

"WHAT?? You gave away two of my kittens???"

"And that operation I had at the vet's last week was your idea??"

"To think that I trusted you......."

"But I'll show you! I'll meow at you day and night! Hahaha!!!"

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liz
15 years ago
awwww...to sweet!!
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
You are great at captioning. She looks like a keeper.
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dianamo_1
15 years ago
LOL! Bonzy is so cute! And I loved the captions.
glenda_al
15 years ago
You did good. Cute pictures.
country_bumpkin_al
15 years ago
OMG...I love those captions and they made me bust out laughing! They went right along with her expressions!!

Yeah...she's a keeper and she knows that, even if YOU havven't accepted it!!! lol
renee_b
15 years ago
That's so cute!!! It sure does look like you can read her mind. Great captions!
alisande
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks! I had fun with this, but she really is mad at me. I'm sure she misses her babies--she was such a good mama!
bigack
15 years ago
Do you still have one of the babies, if I remember correctly, the little orangey one?
jae_tn2
15 years ago
i had a cat with the same beige/gray coloring. she looked like she had bleach spots! sweet looking kitty.
ladonna
15 years ago
So Cute!!!
Jasdip
15 years ago
Perfect Susan!
It's amazing how they can say so much, without saying anything!

Our Bud is exactly the same. He's not vocal at all, but his expression says 1,000 words. (Usually along the line of "YOU brought HER here!", when Roxie the youngest is being a pest.)
LOL
alisande
Original Author
15 years ago
If our animals only knew how we talk about them! Of course, they probably talk about us all the time. LOL

Yes, I still have the orange kitten. Peachy is rarely still, so we don't have much cuddle time--if at all. But she likes to climb all over me, and I think it's fun, too. She's confined to my bedroom, and yesterday I thought it would be nice to lie on my bed with her and watch a movie. But the TV gave her a terrible fright. I tried again later, this time holding her and turning on the TV with the sound very low. But she still freaked, and I have punctures in my hand to prove it.

I've received good reports from the homes of her brother and sister. The sister has become good friends with her family's original cat resident already. Honestly, I think it will take months before I can say the same about Peachy.
Charlee_MO
15 years ago
The pictures and the captions are too cute!

Give Peachy some time. I think she'll come around.
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15 years ago
She sure has a pretty face, and the last picture is adorable. Love the words you put to the pictures!
nicole__
15 years ago
You rescued a "friend".....aaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww......how cute!
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I had to e-mail this to my daughter, the cat lover.
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You got me laughing with those pictures -- too cute!

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