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Old July 6th 09, 11:12 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Baird Stafford
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Default Cat eating sofa.

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"Yowie" wrote:

giggles snipped since I've reread it four times now

Pickle, I am quite sure, is now down to 8 lives. And will no doubt be very
wary of vicious cat eating sofas from now on.


Leila is *not* an outdoor cat. When I leave the front door open because
I have to go in and out for some reason, she scolds nervously until it's
properly closed again: the Out is *big*!

Now, the so-called Florida room and the garage are very obviously parts
of Her House into which she should be allowed on demand. She can see
the Florida room through the sliding glass doors - and the SO and I
normally come in through the garage when we've been away, so she meets
us at the kitchen door and knows that's a Room she's not allowed to
visit - and Rooms are Indoors.

Neither the SO nor I feel any desire to play hide-and-seek with a
cat-sized person in a garage into which the vehicle is not allowed for a
reason that should be obvious with a little thought.

She does, however, have her comfy-caves in the house into which she
disappears when a) she's not feeling social or b) Two-foots are being
obnoxious about something. One is atop the hippie-pillows that are
stored under one of the end tables in the living room. Another is on
top of the old electric blanket that no longer works quite right and has
been relegated to the top of a chest on the SO's side of the closet,
where the clothes on their hangars make a proper cave roof. I do not
know where the rest of 'em are, and won't go looking unless she doesn't
appear for attention and/or food. A girl has to have *some* privacy,
after all!

Oh, hippie pillows? Those are the big ones for putting on the floor to
sit on when we run out of chair and sofa space. Doesn't happen all that
often, but they have come in handy from time to time.

Of course, Leila is about ten years old by now - a respectable
middle-aged lady, in fact (a description that caused the SO to snort in
disbelief when I voiced it yesterday, for some reason).

Baird

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