My Cat Teaches Me to Smoke a Cigar

[Drguano]

Yes, bizarre as it sounds, Zelda led me to a discovery. This is a cat's cat. She will not sit in my lap unless I am smoking a nice Cuban. Then she wants total attention. Yesterday she jumped into my lap after I fired up a Juan Lopez #2 and demanded I scratch her chin, rub her ears and scalp and massage her back. I had to use both hands. I usually hold my cigar while puffing but now I needed both hands free. I held the cigar in my lips, huffing and exhaling around it. I then realized that there was a new depth to the flavors coming off the stick. Eureka!

Anyone else have this experience, with or without a cat, dog, gerbil or Scarlett Johansson in your lap?

[headstand]

Can't say I have, but there is no way I'm getting a cat just to find out...will take your word for it.

[Habana Mike]

I'd drop the cigar if Scarlett was on my lap

[Wil]

Nope, but I'm going to have to try smoking with socks and sandals!

[Optic101]

You are a lucky man

[OZCUBAN]

Nothing like ***** and a cigar

[guideright]

I'm not actually sure what to do with all that - with all that scratching and rubbing maybe you were just in your happy place!

[Trevor2118]

Nothing like ***** and a cigar

No American political discussion please.

[OZCUBAN]

LOL

[Rye]

HA! Nice thread guys

[Skyfall]

No American political discussion please.

But who else but Mr. Clinton could provide advice on the effects of wet boxing instead of dry boxing your cigar!

[westg]

Tilly the coolest cat in the world,,and I love her to pieces. A Singapura .

[Guest rob]

I've got two cats....Leo and Charlie..... Leo hates smoke and avoids me whenim smoking.... However Charlie loves it and won't leave me alone - follows me like a blow fly on ****!

[Guest rob]

I've got two cats....Leo and Charlie..... Leo hates smoke and avoids me when I'm smoking.... However Charlie loves it and won't leave me alone - follows me like a blow fly on ****!

[Vetteman]

Pepi enjoys a fine smoke on occasion

[CanuckSARTech]

Nope, but I'm going to have to try smoking with socks and sandals!

LOL. +1.

[habanolover]

Personally I never really cottoned to cats, but Pepi has quite an interesting look...what kind of cat is he pray tell

[Drguano]

While I appreciate the comparisons to the famed former President and I admit that I share at least three things with him (hair color, love of cigars and the occasional lust for Hillary), I am still wondering if anyone has thoughts on whether smoking no-handed increases the amount of flavor derived from the cigar. That is to say, hold the cigar in your mouth, draw in and then exhale around the stick. No hands (yours or someone else's) or feet.

[Habana Mike]

But who else but Mr. Clinton could provide advice on the effects of wet boxing instead of dry boxing your cigar!

Now that's just wrong

[Philski]

I am still wondering if anyone has thoughts on whether smoking no-handed increases the amount of flavor derived from the cigar. That is to say, hold the cigar in your mouth, draw in and then exhale around the stick. No hands (yours or someone else's) or feet.

Yes, definitely! It's all about the olfactory part of the experience of smoking a cigar. The rapid extinction of smoking indoors (my preferred option) is helping to marginalise this.

[UpInSmoak]

Going no handed is no good for me. Maybe I just haven't mastered the act. But when I attempt it, I get smoke in the eyes which I'm quite sensitive to. I guess I haven't mastered the technique quite yet. Will keep trying!

[melies]

I was about to laugh of this topic as nonsense until this happened today

Roger (the cats name) is very fond of this grand Edmundo smell

[Vetteman]

Personally I never really cottoned to cats, but Pepi has quite an interesting look...what kind of cat is he pray tell

Pepi and Melie's Roger are Siamese breed.