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Old January 18th 17, 01:01 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Default The Case Of The Stolen Shoelace

On 1/17/2017 5:06 AM, John Kasupski wrote:

Last night after she'd been nosing around out on the sun porch, Minnie came
running up to me with a rawhide shoelace she'd apparently found there in a bag
of old clothes that looked like they'd belonged to my landlady's eight-year old
son. The only pair of boots in the bag had no laces on them. I found the other
shoelace still in the bag. The boots may have fit her son five years ago, but no
longer - so I allowed Minnie's claim of salvage rights to stand, took one of the
shoelaces into the living room, and began playing with my kitten.

After nearly an hour she managed to rip the shoelace out of my hand. This, for
some reason, triggered a ten-minute episode of the zoomies before she got tired
out, left the shoelace on the kitchen floor near her food and water dishes, and
squeezed herself in under the living room couch for an hour-long nap.

During her nap, I stole the shoelace and hid it along with its twin where she
can't get at them - for safety reasons, I'd rather she not play with such things
when unsupervised - and naturally, once naptime was over she went straight to
the kitchen, found her newest toy missing from where she'd left it, and spent
the next two hours driving me crazy until that little light bulb came on above
my head and I went and got the shoelace and gave it back to her.

She instantly snapped it up in her teeth and got the zoomies again, off on
several more runs all through the house, merrily trailing the shoelace along
behind her. She eventually dragged it over by my shoes and stuffed it inside my
left shoe with her paws and kept fussing over there until she made certain I saw
what she was doing - we made eye contact for a few seconds - and then, with
frequent glances to make sure I was still watching, she dug it back out and took
it over to her kitty tower, where she got on top, walked around one of the poles
in a circle until the shoelace was wrapped twice around the pole. jumped down,
gave the loose end a firm yank with her mouth, and stalked off to the kitchen in
a huff - leaving me sitting here staring in disbelief at the shoelace I had just
watched my kitten tie to one of the poles on her kitty tower in a half slipknot.

John D. Kasupski
Niagara Falls, NY


LOL!