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The Case Of The Stolen Shoelace
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 |
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