A breakthrough!

It's thundering outside and has been pouring down rain. Persia did her
usual hide in the closet thing. But it seems she decided "What the heck, if
Mom can stand it so can I". So she spent about 10 minutes on my lap as I
read some posts, then she jumped down and is currently meatloafing by my
chair. It's still thundering but she has not run to hide again. Maybe
she's decided I was right after all, it's just "noisy weather". We'll see
how long this lasts, but hopefully she's finally getting over her fear of
thunder.

Jill
--
I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:03:19 -0500, "jmcquown"
yodeled:

It's thundering outside and has been pouring down rain. Persia did her
usual hide in the closet thing. But it seems she decided "What the heck, if
Mom can stand it so can I". So she spent about 10 minutes on my lap as I
read some posts, then she jumped down and is currently meatloafing by my
chair. It's still thundering but she has not run to hide again. Maybe
she's decided I was right after all, it's just "noisy weather". We'll see
how long this lasts, but hopefully she's finally getting over her fear of
thunder.

Jill


That would be great. I wish Stinky wouldn't do the creepin' Jesus
thing down to the basement every time it thunders, but after so long,
I guess I can't expect him to change that.


Theresa
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My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:03:19 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

It's thundering outside and has been pouring down rain. Persia did her
usual hide in the closet thing. But it seems she decided "What the heck, if
Mom can stand it so can I". So she spent about 10 minutes on my lap as I
read some posts, then she jumped down and is currently meatloafing by my
chair. It's still thundering but she has not run to hide again. Maybe
she's decided I was right after all, it's just "noisy weather". We'll see
how long this lasts, but hopefully she's finally getting over her fear of
thunder.

It's about four hours later here and now, and the worst of a very
heavy thunderstorm has just passed - it's still a thunderstorm, but I
can see the woods about 1/4 mile away - at the height of the storm, I
could barely see the road 200 ft. away. Fluffy is taking it fairly
well: she's not hiding, but she has been a bit more than usually
demanding. Dandy is on the bed, acting like nothing is happening. Ozy
is on a small table in the mud room just sort of waiting it out. And
much better than last storm, Maryweather was inside before it started
- last storm, she came in about ten minutes into it, sopping wet and
looking like a drowned rat. I took a picture - I can't remember the
URL, and the server is down ... all the machines around my desk are
down. I am *not* going in to restart them (and several other servers)
tonight - they will just have to wait until tomorrow morning, even
though it is a personal inconvenience for me not having some of them
up where I can get at them. I posted about Maryweather in alt.cats
under the subject "Web cat" - if anybody wants the picture, get the
link from there and wait until about 8 AM CDT Friday to give me time
to restart the server.

The other seven cats were caught outside - I have no idea where they
are, but I expect the next several hours will bring an intermittent
stream of wet feet walking over me in bed.

--
T.E.D. )

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:03:19 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

It's thundering outside and has been pouring down rain. Persia did her
usual hide in the closet thing. But it seems she decided "What the heck, if
Mom can stand it so can I". So she spent about 10 minutes on my lap as I
read some posts, then she jumped down and is currently meatloafing by my
chair. It's still thundering but she has not run to hide again. Maybe
she's decided I was right after all, it's just "noisy weather". We'll see
how long this lasts, but hopefully she's finally getting over her fear of
thunder.

That's great. Sammy, also terrified of thunder, no longer hides under
the bedspread if I keep reassuring her that the loud noise will remain
outside and can't hurt her. Soooo much better than when she used to be
so terrified that she would pull out clumps of hair.
--
Steve Touchstone,
faithful servant of Sammy and Little Bit

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