ACfH update
One good thing about the Losing My Driver’s License Incident was that it caused The Prof and I to once again do a thorough under-the-furniture seek and destroy mission. This means that once again we have found about two dozen of Adolescent Cat from Hell’s toys that were strewn throughout the apartment. The Prof put the toys in the old TV stand, behind the glass door. ACfH, evidencing far more intelligence than I would have credited her with, sits and stares through the glass at the toys. She doesn’t mew, she doesn’t reach out and try to touch them, she doesn’t even look particularly pitiful. She just likes looking at her toys.
Last night, feeling a tad guilty about it, I opened the door so that she had access. I told her she could pick out ONE toy to play with. She walked up to the cabinet, stood up on her hind legs with her front legs on the shelf where the toys were, and … just looked. I moved a couple of the toys closer to her, trying to reassure her that it was OK to take one, but she would have none of it. She was only window shopping.
Which didn’t stop her from playing fetch with me for 45 minutes when I selected a fuzzy mouse the color of her coat from the cabinet and threw it across the room. She uses the new furniture as a launching point for attacking the mice, preferring to go over the sofa and leap rather than simply go around it. Her ability to jump is becoming more and more impressive; she easily covered in excess of six feet during many of her jumps last night during the game of fetch. I probably should not be encouraging this exercise as it will only make her more dangerous. But I love watching her soar.
If she develops skin flaps to soar farther, I’d suspect an alien species.
A soaring bat cat?
i agree with Shay, check that cat for patagium!
i have also been guilty of encouraging potentially dangerous behaviour with the justification that i thought it was "cute". Don’t feel too bad, it’s part of being a parent.
; )
It is fun watching them at play, isn’t it? For me it is hard to remember the problems in the house when I have the dogs out gracefully running in wide open spaces. At least out there they do not have to contend with walls to break open the ends of their tails!
Alli
lol@Shay41! 😉
Enjoy watching her. It’ll give you pleasant memories to offset the destruction. 😉
whoa, enter that girl in the olympics!
ACfH must be the most unique cat I’ve ever heard of. *Grins*
Hugs,
cur
I love that damn cat. 🙂
Cats are just the best 🙂
(PS – DIE DOG LOVERS! lol)
OK, admit it!
You get more fun out of this than ACfH does.
(I know I do 🙂
_|m/ ADM
Shit, that cat should join the circus:) I would just want to shake that cats paw…it’s be an honor.
Cheers,
Lakinis Juice
While he did not directly offer her a fish, he did tell her he would teach her to fish!
Alli