Cat Music (silliness for a Thursday)

[scarlettina]

Shortly after I adopted my beloved Flatbush, I began crooning to him. Usually I'd sing to him when we were heading to the vet, but I then began to sing to him more often. Usually it was just random silliness. Eventually, however, I realized that the first lines of the Beatles song, "Blackbird" scanned really well for a typical Flatbush behavior.

Comments

[oldmangrumpus]

I think it should stem from Felix the Cat...

Spanky the Cat
The really really fat cat....

[scarlettina]

I should have bet money on a) your being the first to respond to this post and b) taking pot shots at my pussy cat's weight. He's not really, really fat. He's . . . pleasantly plump. A soft squishy armful. A ponderous pile of purr. Spanky.

[oldmangrumpus]

A ball of fur, a great big purr
Never been known to chase a rat
That's just Spanky
The really fat cat

[dancinghorse]

Oh, Spanky, you're so cranky,
Yes you are,
Yes you are!

You can thank me for the earworm later. After I've absconded to the Outer Magellanic Cloud.

[scarlettina]

You're a bad, bad woman. :-)

[eilisflynn]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one who does this!

[scarlettina]

::chuckle:: Not in the least.

[joyful_storm]

I now feel much less silly - or, alone in my silliness - for singing "You are my Emrys, my only Emrys, you make me happy when fur is grey", or re: Thalia, "I'm a little kit-cat, short and stout; here is my bobtail and here is my snout".

Nevermind all the feeding song adaptations. So many, ranging from Mozart to Rush.

[katatomic]

Oh lord, now you've got me thinking of all the songs we've sung to our ferrets... like "Figie the Queen of the Foos" to the tune of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" and "I Ate My Chewie/The Theme Song to the Gus-Gus of Seville", "Dexter the Foo" to "Felix the Cat", and the Gus-alluia Chorus. Taz never had a theme song, unless it was "Taz, Taz, Taz of the Jungle!"

Though for Spanky, I think perhaps something to the tune of "Davy Crockett":

Spanky! Spanky-Doodle!
King of the Cranky Cats!

(naturally I can't remember the rest of the tune...)

Or possibly to "Ricky":

O Spanky, you're so fine
You're cranky, cranky all the time!
Hey Spanky! Hey Spanky!

Hey Spanky, you're all mine
You shed upon me all the time!
Hey Spanky, Hey Spanky!

O Spanky, you're so pudgy,
But you're my special boy
You know you own my heart
but you treat it like a toy

...

And that's where I lose it.

[scarlettina]

We may be on to something with either of these.

As for your last remark, well, yes, but you excel at stating the obvious. ;-)

[katatomic]

Well... y'know... I am a very bad person....

[kistha]

And now I'm ad-libbing "Ricky" everywhere.

Good gods.

Funny, and thanks, I think. :)

[frabjouslinz]

He could be Spanky, Spanky, faster than lightning.

But I like the idea of using Mandy. Oh Spanky, you came and you ate without ceasing, and you snuggled away...

PS I totally do this, as well as make up randome weird nicknames for my pets. It's amazing any of them knew their real names.

[mevennen]

>PS I totally do this, as well as make up randome weird nicknames for my pets. It's amazing any of them knew their real names

Thank God someone else does this - it makes me feel marginally less weird. Sid is known sometimes as 'Id,' as he is probably mine, and occasionally as 'Kidney.' My partner always refers to him as 'Posh Sidney' - I don't know why.

Don't do songs, though, but since I am spectacularly lacking in musical ability, it's probably a good thing.

[frabjouslinz]

I know - Abby was Abby Tabby, Abby the Crabby Tabby, Abierto, Teh Meowsers, Baby Bierto, and The Loudest Cat in Creation. Reggie was Reggers, Bratigan, Senior (Spanish, with the squiggle) Mustachio, Baby Boy, and Mr. Muffers. It's a sickness, really. I think my eventual children will hate this about me. :)