Gravity

Why on earth do cats - and I'm talking about Siki in particular - need
to test gravity so often? *Nothing* is safe from her, unless its on the
floor. If she can bat if off the table, the benchtop, the TV, the desk
etc etc, she will. It can't be an attention seeking thing, because she
does it when we're out of the room, and even at night, when we're
asleep.
Nanki Poo does, but *only* when there is a human watching [and
usually shouting].

Ours have mostly just done it when they have a point to make. We have
one of those cluttered mantelpieces covered with dusty odds and ends
from all over the place, so at (their idea of) mealtimes it used to be
"feed me or the Golem gets it".

Marblecake has a different tack. The mantelpiece is now so crowded
I can't imagine how a cat manages to stand on it anywhere without
sending a cascade of objects flying, but she likes to show off by
climbing onto it at one side (via a potted plant) and off the other
(ditto). Nothing ever gets knocked off. And she's managed to teach
her daughter Courtney to do the same. But just to show what she
*could* do if she put her mind to it, she managed to knock a potted
plant twice her own weight off the windowsill last week.

The most spectacular "watch this" I've had yet was when one of
Marblecake's litters had just got big enough to climb wherever
they wanted. I had a Turkish gypsy bass drum sitting on top of a
box next to a six-foot-high potted palm tree. I caught all four
kittens using their collective weight to slowly roll the drum
towards the palm tree. The crash would have been awe-inspiring
if I hadn't intercepted the Kittens of Doom in time.

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Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
Why on earth do cats - and I'm talking about Siki in particular - need
to test gravity so often? *Nothing* is safe from her, unless its on the
floor. If she can bat if off the table, the benchtop, the TV, the desk
etc etc, she will. It can't be an attention seeking thing, because she
does it when we're out of the room, and even at night, when we're
asleep.
Nanki Poo does, but *only* when there is a human watching [and
usually shouting].

Ours have mostly just done it when they have a point to make. We have
one of those cluttered mantelpieces covered with dusty odds and ends
from all over the place, so at (their idea of) mealtimes it used to be
"feed me or the Golem gets it".

Marblecake has a different tack. The mantelpiece is now so crowded
I can't imagine how a cat manages to stand on it anywhere without
sending a cascade of objects flying, but she likes to show off by
climbing onto it at one side (via a potted plant) and off the other
(ditto). Nothing ever gets knocked off. And she's managed to teach
her daughter Courtney to do the same. But just to show what she
*could* do if she put her mind to it, she managed to knock a potted
plant twice her own weight off the windowsill last week.

The most spectacular "watch this" I've had yet was when one of
Marblecake's litters had just got big enough to climb wherever
they wanted. I had a Turkish gypsy bass drum sitting on top of a
box next to a six-foot-high potted palm tree. I caught all four
kittens using their collective weight to slowly roll the drum
towards the palm tree. The crash would have been awe-inspiring
if I hadn't intercepted the Kittens of Doom in time.

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That would have made a great video. MLB

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:

Marblecake has a different tack. The mantelpiece is now so crowded
I can't imagine how a cat manages to stand on it anywhere without
sending a cascade of objects flying, but she likes to show off by
climbing onto it at one side (via a potted plant) and off the other
(ditto). Nothing ever gets knocked off. And she's managed to teach
her daughter Courtney to do the same. But just to show what she
*could* do if she put her mind to it, she managed to knock a potted
plant twice her own weight off the windowsill last week.

Doesn't Duffy do this, too?

The most spectacular "watch this" I've had yet was when one of
Marblecake's litters had just got big enough to climb wherever
they wanted. I had a Turkish gypsy bass drum sitting on top of a
box next to a six-foot-high potted palm tree. I caught all four
kittens using their collective weight to slowly roll the drum
towards the palm tree. The crash would have been awe-inspiring
if I hadn't intercepted the Kittens of Doom in time.

They were like a lion pride, hunting in a group! (Or whatever it was
they thought they were doing...)

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As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because
it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's
gone forever. No afterlives, no second chances. So there can be nothing
crueler than the abuse, destruction or wanton taking of a life.
-- J. Michael Straczynski

wrote:
Marina wrote:

Miranda does that too; only when I can see her doing it. She will push
it just a little bit, then look at me, then push it again, then look at
me. When I say, in a threatening voice, 'Mir-AND-a!,' she triumphantly
pushes it over the edge.

What a brat!!

if something falls when I'm not in the room, I know it was Caliban and I
know it wasn't pushed over the edge on purpose.

You could say to Miranda, "Why aren't you more like your brother?"

But more often I say to Caliban, 'Why can't you be more like your
sister?' :P

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:

wrote:

You could say to Miranda, "Why aren't you more like your brother?"

But more often I say to Caliban, 'Why can't you be more like your
sister?' :P

Yeah, I know. I thought it might be nice to do it in reverse once
in a while.

Joyce

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