Handing you over to Meg
Because there’s nothing I can say that is even as remotely entertaining as this.
Please read all the way to the end. You’ll be glad you did.
[And since I know a lot of you tape Lost then watch it the next day because it's on so late, we'll all withhold any discussion of that until tomorrow. But then we're talking, because all I can say is FINALLY!]
March 8th, 2007 at 7:44 am
OMG, that is too funny.
What I love about being a pet owner is how proud we are of our crazy pets and how foolish they make us look. I can’t say, “My dog is a little jerk!” without getting a self-satisfied smile on my face.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Ha! Exactly. Glad to know I’m not the only dog owner who is semi-proud of what other people might think of as “bad” behavior.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:38 am
This is why I love cats,they get just as eccentric as people(dogs are great,but that whole walking them thing always bogs me down,especially in bad weather). Thanks for that link,Robin!
March 8th, 2007 at 9:01 am
This just proves that cats are superior to dogs. See cats are CIA interrogators reincarnated. Slowly they adjust their human’s behavior so in the end they have total control. They then can behave in any manner and their human reacts to their programming. And their human is total clueless. In fact if a dog tried to pull this off, it would be banished to the outdoors.
Please do not tell any cat that I have revealed their secret. I shudder at the thought of their revenge. I would have to go into a witness protection program.
Shhhh, what is that scatching at my door? Ohmygod nooooooooooo…
March 8th, 2007 at 9:48 am
After the last few days I so needed a laugh and I got such a big one from this! I have a small (ok, some would say large) managerie of pets each with their own personality quirks-the dog who won’t pee outside unless a human stands next to him, the dog who won’t eat a dog biscuit unless she can do it on the ‘good’ couch, the dog who likes to dress up in party clothes, the rabbit who won’t eat carrots, etc. Just like with the people I love, it’s the little quirks that make’em so loveable.
March 8th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Herb and Lady T, I’ve never been a cat person myself, but I can appreciate (from afar) some of their fine qualities. It’s just that I need a big blocky head to pat. Plus, not into that whole aloof thing. I know, I know–some can be very loving. So enjoy them. I’ll stick to dogs.
Deborah, glad to help out in your time of flu. Hope you’re feeling better. I so agree with your statement that it’s the little quirks that make them so lovable. Not a day goes by when Bear doesn’t make me smile because of some cute/weird/goofy/delivishly-charming thing he does. What would life be without our pets? Pretty dull and gray.
March 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I’m a dog, cat, and horse person…. one dog, one cat, two horses - each of whom has a completely distinct personality.
Actually, I’ve never had an animal which didn’t have a personality all his or her own - up to and including the blue jay female (no, NOT a pet, just a vistor!) who has taught herself to cling to one of the suet feeders, upside down the way the chickadees and nuthatches do - so far, she’s not passed this on to any of the other blue jays, but she did apparently teach it to one of the hordes of juncos we feed during the winter!
March 8th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Oh, geez, I almost . . . well let’s just say I laughed REALLY hard on that blog entry. And every one of us who owns animals UNDERSTANDS.
Briggsy’s newest cat trick is telling me it’s time to feed him by combing my hair with his claws. He never HURTS me, in fact he’s quite amazingly gentle and actually good at it, but the fact that those ten lethal weapons are out of their sheaths and ON MY HEAD is enough to make me comply with his wishes.
So far out of five rooms in my house, he’s touched the ceiling in three and almost in the fourth. Room five is Out of Bounds, but he’s so determined, that the day may very well come when he manages to shimmy the pocket door open, climbs up one of the vintage ball gowns and heads straight for the ceiling, knocking to the floor anything in his way, whether it’s rippable, breakable or whatever . . .
March 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Oh beej, I hope that day never comes, because while I know you love Briggsy-boy, I also know what the shreddables mean….
March 8th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Vc, you have the kind of pet list I always wanted as a girl–horses, especially. Lucky!
BJ, eek! I don’t know how I’d feel about a cat spreading those claws to comb my hair. Although actually, it is pretty cool that your cat will do that. Mixed feelings on that one.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Cats rule.
Robin, do you have an LJ syndicated feed of your blog? Let me know -
March 8th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Robin, I didn’t have the opportunity as a girl to have horses. I always wanted a horse, had friends who let me ride when I wanted to, etc. but my parents were in no position to provide. But I did ride as a pre-teen, a lot…. then we moved to Vegas, and things were even LESS horse-oriented.ye
I married husband in 1975 (third time’s the charm, eh?) and he too wanted to have horses - again (he grew up riding, herding cows, real cowboy though he “graduated” to bank regulation…. but he never got over cowboy boots with western-style suits!)
So when a friend offered to breed her paint mare to a stud of my choosing, and all we had to pay was mare care and stud fee…. DONE in a hot minute! Who could say no?
But my husband’s horse (bought when mine was a yearling) is now 23 and arthritic in his fronts - he’s okay if just loose and unshod in the meadow, but he can’t take any weight at all. So now we have to go “used horse shopping”.
It’s worse than used car shopping….
[And believe me when I tell you two things: Tondo (husband's arthritic old boy) will live out his days in the meadow no matter how many days that is; and those days will be humanely ended when he begins to be in pain - which he's not as long as we don't try to ride him....]
March 9th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Little Willow, I don’t. Should I?
March 9th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Let me know if you or someone else sets one up so I may add it to my daily blogroll through LJ!
March 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Thanks for linking to that Robin, it made my day. I was at the information desk of my library reading it, and I had to cover my mouth to hold back the laughter - especially as it’s super quiet in here on a Friday before school is out.