So my cat jumped on my wife's face in her sleep the other night.

[Mythsaje]

Barely missed her eye with one of his claws and tore her up pretty good.

My cat's weird. I've seen dogs display guilt, but I would've sworn cats were immune. For the whole day after it happened, my wife gave him the what-for and refused to pet him. He followed her around the house (remember, he's MY cat) and actually curled up on top of her last night to go to sleep. This isn't something he ever does. He doesn't cuddle people. Right now he's curled up with her asleep. All day today he's been following her around and trying to make up for it.

We still don't know WHY he did it in the first place. He jumped from the headboard down straight on top of her face and cut it up pretty badly. She was lucky. But I swear he feels guilty.

Have I mentioned how weird he is? We call him a "Dat" because he's often more dog than cat. He does what I tell him to most of the time (though he generally ignores my wife) with less hassle than my Shiba Inu.

I wish I could post a picture, but I've never figured out how to do it on D.U. Let's just say he's a big black and white short hair--well, white with black splotches. He likes his belly rubbed and will flop down on the floor in front of you while you're walking just in case you feel like bending over and scratching it for him. Most male cats I've ever known are ticklish and will bite you for doing that. Not him.

He is so weird.

[Tobin S.]

1. Do you know how to upload or scan pics into your computer?

If so, go to www.photobucket.com or some other image hosting site and create an account. Photobucket is free. From there you can upload pics from your computer to your image hosting site account. It's a pretty simple deal, all you have to know is where the photos are on your computer. Photobucket will then assign an address for each pic you upload to their site. All you have to do from that point is copy the pic's address and paste it in a post here at DU. Your picture will pop up in your post.

Sorry about the cat trouble.

[Mythsaje]

2. Okay...Now I see why I never got it.

I'm not used to having to go to a 3rd party site to post a pic.

[Tobin S.]

3. Yeah, you can post pictures right off the web without the hosting site

But not your own. It is considered good internet etiquette to use an image hosting site for all pictures that you want to post elsewhere, including those from other web sites.

[Mythsaje]

5. I assume its a bandwidth thing.

I think I once tried to post ones on my own website, but it didn't work. I gave up after that.

[marzipanni]

4. That must have been scary for your wife!

Maybe she was snoring and he thought he was hunting a mysterious animal on her face. Did he bite her or just scratch? Cat bites are very painful and full of bacteria.
To post a photo on DU join photobucket (it's free).
It has a "browse" button that gives you a list of locations on your computer where the photo might be stored, and a list showing the photos within that folder, or on your desktop, or whatever. I usually put the photo on my desktop and upload it from there.
Choose a photo, then click the upload button. It takes less than a minute, then it appears in your photobucket album.
Copy and paste the 'direct link' (from the link options below the photo) onto your DU message space.

[Mythsaje]

7. He scratched her accidently...

No bite. I don't think he was trying to hurt her.

I know all about cat bites. We both do, actually. I got bit last year by a neighbor's cat that had wandered into our yard. NOT a good idea, since our dogs see any strange cat as prey. So I jumped in the middle of it, snatched up the cat, and got bitten for my troubles. It got infected (I never get infected) but I was able to treat it with stuff around the house.

[smalll]

6. You have nothing to worry about as your wife is not a baby:

cats will occasionally jump up on babies and suck the breath out of them. It doesn't happen very often, but it's deadly.

[Mythsaje]

8. LOL... You know, I always thought that was a myth

until I saw a cat actually DOING it. Not to a baby, but to my ex. The damn cat had his whole head in her mouth. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen.

[elleng]

9. In That Tucked Tail, Real Pangs of Regret?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/science/02tier.html?hpw

[underpants]

10. Our boy cat actually opened my wife's eyelids Friday night

he can be such a pest