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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. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts ****** I killfile Google posts - email me if you want to be whitelisted ****** |
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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. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts ****** I killfile Google posts - email me if you want to be whitelisted ****** That would have made a great video. MLB |
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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...) -- 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 |
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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 -- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. -- the Dalai Lama |
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