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Little suck-up!
Last night I was hit with a craving for fish & chips. (Unlike the popular
view of *most* Merkins, I don't live on fast food; I'm quite a good and able cook and enjoy doing so.) But I just had to have some, so out I went to a fast food joint to pick up a couple of pieces of battered fried cod, chips (fries) and hush-puppies (a Southern USian thing) and some malt vinegar. I was snacking out of the box, sort of reclining on the couch, watching a movie. Persia settled on the arm of the couch at my head. First the motor starts up - really *loud* purrs. Nope, sorry, you can't have my dinner. (She's on special food since her bladder surgery and I never intentionally give her 'people food' anyway.) Next come the head rubs and then eager eyes brightly staring at the piece of fish or the fry in my hand. Nope. Next comes the gentle combing of my hair with her teeth, as if she thinks by grooming me I'll somehow become so relaxed I'll drop my food on the floor. Foiled again! She sucked up big time! Didn't work. But it was fun having her try! Jill |
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:23:49 -0600, "jmcquown"
yodeled: Last night I was hit with a craving for fish & chips. (Unlike the popular view of *most* Merkins, I don't live on fast food; I'm quite a good and able cook and enjoy doing so.) But I just had to have some, so out I went to a fast food joint to pick up a couple of pieces of battered fried cod, chips (fries) and hush-puppies (a Southern USian thing) and some malt vinegar. I was snacking out of the box, sort of reclining on the couch, watching a movie. Persia settled on the arm of the couch at my head. First the motor starts up - really *loud* purrs. Nope, sorry, you can't have my dinner. (She's on special food since her bladder surgery and I never intentionally give her 'people food' anyway.) Next come the head rubs and then eager eyes brightly staring at the piece of fish or the fry in my hand. Nope. Next comes the gentle combing of my hair with her teeth, as if she thinks by grooming me I'll somehow become so relaxed I'll drop my food on the floor. Foiled again! Maybe she was just flossing! That always cracks me up. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:23:49 -0600, "jmcquown"
yodeled: Last night I was hit with a craving for fish & chips. (Unlike the popular view of *most* Merkins, I don't live on fast food; I'm quite a good and able cook and enjoy doing so.) But I just had to have some, so out I went to a fast food joint to pick up a couple of pieces of battered fried cod, chips (fries) and hush-puppies (a Southern USian thing) and some malt vinegar. I was snacking out of the box, sort of reclining on the couch, watching a movie. Persia settled on the arm of the couch at my head. First the motor starts up - really *loud* purrs. Nope, sorry, you can't have my dinner. (She's on special food since her bladder surgery and I never intentionally give her 'people food' anyway.) Next come the head rubs and then eager eyes brightly staring at the piece of fish or the fry in my hand. Nope. Next comes the gentle combing of my hair with her teeth, as if she thinks by grooming me I'll somehow become so relaxed I'll drop my food on the floor. Foiled again! Maybe she was just flossing! That always cracks me up. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:23:49 -0600, "jmcquown" yodeled: I was snacking out of the box, sort of reclining on the couch, watching a movie. Persia settled on the arm of the couch at my head. First the motor starts up - really *loud* purrs. Nope, sorry, you can't have my dinner. (She's on special food since her bladder surgery and I never intentionally give her 'people food' anyway.) Next come the head rubs and then eager eyes brightly staring at the piece of fish or the fry in my hand. Nope. Next comes the gentle combing of my hair with her teeth, as if she thinks by grooming me I'll somehow become so relaxed I'll drop my food on the floor. Foiled again! Maybe she was just flossing! That always cracks me up. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com It's pretty funny, isn't it? But I *know* when I'm sleeping and she comes creeping up and starts grooming me, she's just doing it out of love. I give her gentle head butts and she purrs even more. How on earth did I wind up with this adorable, loving cat? It's a mystery. Jill |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:23:49 -0600, "jmcquown" yodeled: I was snacking out of the box, sort of reclining on the couch, watching a movie. Persia settled on the arm of the couch at my head. First the motor starts up - really *loud* purrs. Nope, sorry, you can't have my dinner. (She's on special food since her bladder surgery and I never intentionally give her 'people food' anyway.) Next come the head rubs and then eager eyes brightly staring at the piece of fish or the fry in my hand. Nope. Next comes the gentle combing of my hair with her teeth, as if she thinks by grooming me I'll somehow become so relaxed I'll drop my food on the floor. Foiled again! Maybe she was just flossing! That always cracks me up. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com It's pretty funny, isn't it? But I *know* when I'm sleeping and she comes creeping up and starts grooming me, she's just doing it out of love. I give her gentle head butts and she purrs even more. How on earth did I wind up with this adorable, loving cat? It's a mystery. Jill |
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:08:54 -0600, "jmcquown"
wrote: It's pretty funny, isn't it? But I *know* when I'm sleeping and she comes creeping up and starts grooming me, she's just doing it out of love. I give her gentle head butts and she purrs even more. How on earth did I wind up with this adorable, loving cat? It's a mystery. Guess it was just fate - first some dimwit idiots dumped/abandoned, and just let her be an outside cat, then she had the good sense to recognise the big "cat wanted" sign you didn't even realise was outside your place (or perhaps Samson guided her to you). I figure that's the way I got LB (which of course led to Sammy being born here). I didn't know what I was missing ;-) And how Tweed got her KFC and BF. Hmmmm, perhaps the mothership decided we were all "d*g people" who needed to be converted. On a side note, LB and I invented a new game this morning. I was sleeping in late (after my first night working my winter job delivering pizza) and LB and Sammy decided it was past time for the lazy hoomin to be up and about. I woke to LB headbutting me in the face. I was about half awake, and opened one eye to see her pretty face about two inches from my nose. When I tried to ignore her, she touched her wet nose to my nose, and I opened my eye again. I noticed that as soon as I opened an eye, her focus would change so that she was starring into my eye. So I started winking at her, changing which eye I opened. I thought it was pretty funny to watch her eyes change focus to be looking directly at my open eye. Of course after doing this a minute or so, I was too awake to stay in bed, so I guess she won the game. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:08:54 -0600, "jmcquown"
wrote: It's pretty funny, isn't it? But I *know* when I'm sleeping and she comes creeping up and starts grooming me, she's just doing it out of love. I give her gentle head butts and she purrs even more. How on earth did I wind up with this adorable, loving cat? It's a mystery. Guess it was just fate - first some dimwit idiots dumped/abandoned, and just let her be an outside cat, then she had the good sense to recognise the big "cat wanted" sign you didn't even realise was outside your place (or perhaps Samson guided her to you). I figure that's the way I got LB (which of course led to Sammy being born here). I didn't know what I was missing ;-) And how Tweed got her KFC and BF. Hmmmm, perhaps the mothership decided we were all "d*g people" who needed to be converted. On a side note, LB and I invented a new game this morning. I was sleeping in late (after my first night working my winter job delivering pizza) and LB and Sammy decided it was past time for the lazy hoomin to be up and about. I woke to LB headbutting me in the face. I was about half awake, and opened one eye to see her pretty face about two inches from my nose. When I tried to ignore her, she touched her wet nose to my nose, and I opened my eye again. I noticed that as soon as I opened an eye, her focus would change so that she was starring into my eye. So I started winking at her, changing which eye I opened. I thought it was pretty funny to watch her eyes change focus to be looking directly at my open eye. Of course after doing this a minute or so, I was too awake to stay in bed, so I guess she won the game. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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Wilson is usually very good at *not* waking me, but sometimes if
getting impatient, he'll give my toe a little nibble, he seems to know this is my most vulnerable place, but he generally comes off worst when he checks me out first to see if I am asleep, suddenly in my sleep I feel thissoft tickle on my face or arm and I flick my hand up real quick, only to hit poor Wilson in the face,but he doesn't run,just backs off a bit, he must know I didn't mean to hit him, so why do I feel guilty? Jean.P. Steve Touchstone wrote in message ... On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:08:54 -0600, "jmcquown" wrote: It's pretty funny, isn't it? But I *know* when I'm sleeping and she comes creeping up and starts grooming me, she's just doing it out of love. I give her gentle head butts and she purrs even more. How on earth did I wind up with this adorable, loving cat? It's a mystery. Guess it was just fate - first some dimwit idiots dumped/abandoned, and just let her be an outside cat, then she had the good sense to recognise the big "cat wanted" sign you didn't even realise was outside your place (or perhaps Samson guided her to you). I figure that's the way I got LB (which of course led to Sammy being born here). I didn't know what I was missing ;-) And how Tweed got her KFC and BF. Hmmmm, perhaps the mothership decided we were all "d*g people" who needed to be converted. On a side note, LB and I invented a new game this morning. I was sleeping in late (after my first night working my winter job delivering pizza) and LB and Sammy decided it was past time for the lazy hoomin to be up and about. I woke to LB headbutting me in the face. I was about half awake, and opened one eye to see her pretty face about two inches from my nose. When I tried to ignore her, she touched her wet nose to my nose, and I opened my eye again. I noticed that as soon as I opened an eye, her focus would change so that she was starring into my eye. So I started winking at her, changing which eye I opened. I thought it was pretty funny to watch her eyes change focus to be looking directly at my open eye. Of course after doing this a minute or so, I was too awake to stay in bed, so I guess she won the game. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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