What really impressed me was when he climbed up the tablecloth, climbed under the dropcloth that I'd put over the puzzle, picked up the edge of the puzzle with his teeth, and tried to drag it off to his lair. "Impressed me", in this instance, meaning "scored him an impromptu bath."
HAHAHAHAH-I mean, I empathize with the setback in your puzzle, and approve of stern reprimand for the adorable creature that attacked it in such a vicious and entertaining way.
When I was a kid we once decided to put together all of the couple dozen jigsaw puzzles we had at once, a project both lengthy and greedy for flat surfaces. The most our cat did was peer disdainfully at our insanity, but then he was probably 12 at the time, and could hardly be called a kitten. For that matter, as a kitten he was as I recall only an occasional burrower, being more fascinated with jumping; he regularly jumped to the top of the refrigerator, for example, so you can see how a number of surprising height-related incidents occurred.
This one is exhausting. He burrows, he jumps, he climbs, he flies... He divebombs my head from the top of the headboard on the bed... One of the most horrifying things he ever did was when he was playing a rousing game of "mousie under the blanket" (i.e., pounce on my foot through the comforter) and he decided he wasn't getting enough traction, or something. He grabbed the comforter in his teeth, peeled it back, and while I was staring in stunned disbelief, he savaged my newly-exposed foot. Clever monster. :)
And then there was the year he discovered jelly beans hidden the night before Easter. There's just something about skitter-skitter-bodyslamintodoorway-skitter-pounce-skitter at 3am that is terribly memorable.
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Date: 2006-01-19 03:58 pm (UTC)Or rather, they do mix. Rather dramatically.
What really impressed me was when he climbed up the tablecloth, climbed under the dropcloth that I'd put over the puzzle, picked up the edge of the puzzle with his teeth, and tried to drag it off to his lair. "Impressed me", in this instance, meaning "scored him an impromptu bath."
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Date: 2006-01-19 04:18 pm (UTC)When I was a kid we once decided to put together all of the couple dozen jigsaw puzzles we had at once, a project both lengthy and greedy for flat surfaces. The most our cat did was peer disdainfully at our insanity, but then he was probably 12 at the time, and could hardly be called a kitten. For that matter, as a kitten he was as I recall only an occasional burrower, being more fascinated with jumping; he regularly jumped to the top of the refrigerator, for example, so you can see how a number of surprising height-related incidents occurred.
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