Cats and box openings

I think the connection between owning cats and liking BJDs is that introverted people often have cats. Since BJDs are so customizable they attract artists, who are generally introverts. Stereotypes, yo. But it totally applies to me and most people I've met. Cats are for introverts and dogs are for extroverts. Why do you think the internet is so obsessed with cats? We're online all day long when extroverts are out socializing. LOL

My cat could care less for boxes, high places, cuddling, or hunting. He's a lazy fat cat who enjoys backrubs and food, and deep conversations about food. He's very obedient and comes when I call him. My cat's the best dog I've ever had.

 

See I have a Great Dane. He's not even a year old and I don't think I will ever let him near anything even slightly expensive/of value to me, least of all a doll. If it's near him, it goes in his mouth.

 

My cat loves to sniff new things, so he's all over the dolls at first. After that, he ignores them. He, like many of the cats i've been around, also is interested in whatever i'm concentrating on at the time, so if I get the dolls out, he has to investigate them again. He's not as addicted to boxes as some, but part of his investigation does usually involve getting inside whatever boxes he can.

 

I have four cats and around 40 BJDs, and share a room with them all.

The cats love the boxes but don't care about the dolls.

Also people peg me as a cat person, when I really love dogs just as much...I just don't have the living space or time for one.

 

I love kitty's and pictures of kitty's trying to get into box's or anything that they can get into.

 

I'm not a cat person at all. I'm a dog lover, but I live in apartments that only allow creatures that live in aquarium and certain terrarium settings so I have a leopard gecko Maybe I should put her in one of my box openings sometime XD

 

My precious baby Bird - yes, she is a cat - doesn't care about my dolls at all. Even when I'm doing a box opening she will look very insulted if I try to give the shipping box to her. However, give her a shoe box and she's happy as could be. She leaves my dolls alone so I'm not afraid she'll damage them. I've actually posed them with her before.

 

My cat is 20 pounds of lazy so he could care less about my dolls & boxes unless it's distracting me from petting or feeding him. The only things he likes to do besides eat is look out the window & sniff things. He'll sniff anything I put in front of him (cuz he usually thinks its food) and he likes to look out the window because i think he wants to eat the birds. I wish he'd do cute things like play in bags & boxes but alas hes too lazy to care lol.

sent through the forests

 

It have no connection, I have a dog, I know someone who don't even like pets at all and likes BJD

 

My two cats love the boxes from box openings. The dolls themselves, they are largely indifferent to. If I am doing schoolwork and have a doll sitting beside me, they will try to jump up and sit on the laptop, but at the sight of a doll, they pause. One is okay sleeping next to my smaller dolls, but the other will not stay. Neither of them care for most of the wigs, but I haven't let them anywhere near the lambskin ones.

 

Had a funny experience this evening - I left my girl sitting on the edge of my desk (I really need to stop doing that), and when I came home was in exactly the same spot but both of her knees were out of joint. I asked my husband if the cats had knocked her down and he said yes. I said "That's weird, I wonder why her wig didn't come off this time", and he got this completely hangdog expression and said "Okay it was me. I was playing with her and her legs popped out and I panicked."

 

I only have 2 cats that I let come inside unless the weather is really bad or near/below freezing. But one refuses to leave the bathroom so I really only have to keep an eye out for one of them. But she doesn't mess with my dolls at all. My pitt bull who likes to chew on everything actually doesn't acknowledge them at all.
As for the boxes, I only let the cats have the outer shipping box, if it comes with one. The storage boxes with the pillows are of limits. My cat prefers plastic bags anyway...

 

My cat boxes (playing, destroying) + attention (he is a velcro cat). Of course he'd be totally in the way for a box opening!

He has free reign to do whatever he wants, but the only thing he's really interested in destroying is paper products or strings. He also likes to knock small things off shelves. He rarely chews on dolls but only while I am focusing on the dolls, so I simply take it away if I notice. Otherwise he ignores them. Even then he only does a minor amount of damage if any, other than small papers/strings. My other cat is a total non-issue, but he'll come over just for some attention and gnaw on plastic bags.

The best thing is that I can put doll stuff on him because he fits SD size, and likes to dress-up even tolerating glasses or an eye patch :-D

 

No connection here. While I would love to have a cat I couldn't deal with one right now. I have two yorkies who run me in circles, but they are my babies! They like to sniff out boxes when I open them but when they realize it's nothing for them off they go. I just have to keep the younger one away from the packing peanuts.

 

I have two cats. One older girl, black long hair , and one younger boy, a Fire Point Siamese. My older cat she could care less about my dolls other than an idle sniff once in a while. I could have them all over the house and have, and she doesn't bother them. My Siamese though, I have to lock him up or lock the dolls away to keep him from chewing on them. He's like that with everything. He's a perpetual hyper kitten and still thinks everything is a toy even though he's supposedly a grown up kitty now at 18 months. He's a very high energy, demanding cat and even though he has a whole house full of toys he's got to check out mine too. :P

As for "aloof" anyone who's ever met mine and seen me with them would laugh at that idea. I don't know if it's me or just the cats I've had but I've never had a cat who wasn't a big Mama's Girl or Mama's Boy. All my cats have just loved me. I'm kind of a cat magnet in general though. I think most cats tend to regard me as some kind of shape shifting feline who just looks like a human sometimes. My cats do things to me that most cats only do to other cats. My new boy in particular he totally wrangles me and plays with me like I am my other cat. I'm talking he will try to scruff me with his teeth, jump me right on the back and try for my neck like he does my girl. That dominance behavior thing they do where one cat climbs the other? He does that to me all the time. He doesn't seem to get that I have no fur or claws at all, laugh. It promptly gets him scruffed and put on his back, because in this house "I" am the Mom cat. Then my girl is Top Cat. My boy is Bottom Cat, whether he likes it or not, but I can't say he doesn't constantly try for the Top Cat position because he certainly does, and not just with her, but with me, which is pretty darned weird!

Him, I cannot leave alone with a doll. I don't even turn my back. He'd be chewing it up like a hungry dog in about 5 seconds flat. I've been working on getting glass fronted bookcases for my dolls. There's just no other option with him. He's learned to do some things he's supposed to but he's one of those cats that has to challenge you constantly. No amount of training is going to make him completely well behaved. He's a good boy though in other ways. He's very devoted to me. He's pretty clingy and somewhat jealous actually. If I want my dolls displayed I'm going to have to resort to that. he never misses it when I open a box. He's right there eagerly looking, huffing resin smell, and trying to check out the doll's hands with his teeth. It's not just the box. It's the doll he wants. Needless to say I don't let him too near...

 

Even though I would love to have a cat, I'm allergic to them but I do have a dog, a Lhasa Apso. He likes to watch me open my dolls. He'll come up to the box and smell it. He'll also smell the doll when it comes out of the box. Other than that, he sits under the chair and watches me.

 

I have one cat and one bunny. Both are equally curious when I have a huuge box to open ^^
Last time I had to give both a half of the box to sit in...

I love the animals a lot but still won't let them alone with my dolls, as I don't want them to eat some part of the doll or outfits. (I don't like damages and wouldn't want them to get a wrong piece in their stomachs and get hurt )

 

I have to agree about the cat box radar. My cat just *knows* if there is a box in the house that she could sit in...and she finds it. And even if it is too small she will try to sit in it. She also loves to hunt packing peanuts. And if I'm paying too much attention to something that isn't her she has to get right in the middle of it.

I, personally, love seeing cute kitties in box openings =).

 

Open or empty box plus cat equals cat in box. Or paper bag, or drawer or closet. I should know, my family has three! All of them have gotten shut in a closet, and one once managed to get shut in a drawer under my bed.