On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:36:53 -0600, "CatNipped"
yodeled:

Cast of Characters:

Sammy - 7-month-old female kitten
Mommy - MUCH older female human

After much contemplation and mental anguish, Mommy decides that she will not
let Sammy's, er, boisterousness prevent her from the joy she gets in putting
up a Christmas tree.

At 2:00PM in the afternoon of November 24th, Mommy locks Sammy in the
bedroom so she can open the garage doors to bring in the tree she and Daddy
just purchased. Sammy wails loudly the whole time as she suffers the
indignity of being confined to only one, albeit large, room. Mommy and
Daddy wrestle the (formerly) live pine tree into Mommy's sitting room and
set it up in the stand. Daddy, hearing Sammy howling, starts to say, "For
gawd's sake.", but then gets a glimpse of the look Mommy gives him and
quickly stops speaking. Daddy decides to go upstairs to pop the popcorn for
stringing.

Mommy lets Sammy out of the bedroom. Sammy starts to pounce on Mommy's
ankle for a quick bite when the scent of pine suddenly distracts her from
her prey. Sammy runs over to the tree and springs up into the lowest branch
to investigate this new toy Mommy has brought home for Sammy. However,
unbeknownst to Sammy, Mommy has added a new weapon to her arsenal in her
continuing war with Sammy's bad behavior - a squirt bottle!!

Mommy snatches up the squirt bottle and sprays a stream of water at Sammy.
Sammy, who has a very thick coat of Maine Coon hair does not even feel the
water as it beads up and slides off her back. Mommy changes her aim and
squirts water on Sammy's cheek, and this *does* get Sammy's attention.
Sammy turns around and starts licking and batting at the stream of water
coming her way and heads higher up the tree in order to get a better
perspective on this fun new game Mommy has invented. Mommy tries one more
time to squirt Sammy out of the tree, but it is soon clear that Sammy loves
playing with the water and is not at all perturbed by being squirted. Mommy
sighs and puts down the squirt bottle.

(snip scads of ensuing hilarity )

She's just invincible, isn't she?
How can you discourage a cat when *everything* is fun to her? I had
the same deal with Mimi scratching the furniture. It just became a
game to her.

Except, of course, she was only ever six pounds soaking wet. :P



Theresa
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