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August 01, 2006

The Vagaries of Cats

My friend Terry Bain (I can call you my friend, right? We went to college together and had coffee together within the last year and a half, and comment on each other's blogs, so that makes us friends, right?) is a writer. His book, We Are the Cat is being released this month. Partly in celebration of that fact, but mostly because it's just a coincidence, I offer up the following IM conversation between David and Myself, re: the inconsistencies in feline behavior as observed in the Sallyacious household.

Sally says: I just scratched my back and the Boy freaked out.

David says: well it was a threatening scratch

Sally says: Moments ago, I took my feet off the coffee table and Q leapt up and ran from the room as if I had shrieked and thrown things at her.

Sally says: And yet, when they sharpen their claws on the rug and I yell, no one pays attention.

David says: isn't that innerestin'

Sally says: Obnoxious little monsterheads.

That's right. I can yell at them to stop doing something** and they just look at me. But I take my feet off the coffee table or scratch my back or blink wrong and everybody acts like I'm going to kill them. Much of the time I get cat psychology, but there are some days...

**Side note: I yell because I will never make it across the room in time to physically capture the offender and provide alternatives to the claw sharpening on the expensive rug, not because I'm sittin' on the couch smokin' and watchin' my program and can't be interrupted. By the time I caught the cat, the moment for correction would have passed. So I yell. And they don't listen.

Posted by sally at August 1, 2006 12:02 AM

Comments

Just don't call me late for dinner.

Oh. You know. I kill myself. Really. I've got a million of 'em.

Thanks.

T

Posted by: Terry Bain at August 1, 2006 12:58 AM

Wow! beautiful blog, excellent photography.
Have a nice day now!

Posted by: Quasar9 at August 1, 2006 06:36 AM

Terry,

I would say LOL to your comment, but that particular acronym always reads to me like it should be accompanied by a cutsy nose wrinkle and a goofy shrug/shoulder pop.

So just know that it did indeed make me giggle and I am still smiling as I think about it.

Posted by: Sallyacious at August 1, 2006 08:55 AM

Quasar 9 - Thanks for visiting! I'm glad you enjoy the site.

Posted by: Sallyacious at August 1, 2006 08:57 AM

I had the same exact problem with my cat. Henry would wander up to a lit candle, knock it over and set himself on fire and not pay attention to me dashing across the room to save him yet if I sneezed he'd hit the ceiling.

Henry wasn't the brightest thing so I always thought that it was just him. Poor little fella. I miss him every day.

Posted by: desiree at August 1, 2006 04:38 PM

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