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| Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| Beasties |
I had intended to post some pictures of the Beasties at play. But I canna find the cable to connect the camera to the computer, and simply inserting the XD card direct seems to sometimes cause card failure.
So a couple of Brief Beastie Tales in the meantime.
Bosco is the troublesome animal of the house. His favourite occupation - other than sleeping on his back, leaning against the wall - is causing problems of some kind.
The other day, he got into a bag of kitty litter. An almost full bag. We buy the biggest bags of kitty litter we can get - a type made from recycled newspaper. The bag was open and left standing up. He tipped it over, enlarged the hole, and crawled inside. It is just wide enough to admit Bosco on top of the kitty litter. I walked in to find him arranged with just his nose sticking out of the bag - the other end of him was busy, peeing into the kitty litter.
Of course, by the time I'd found the camera and worked out that all the batteries were flat, he had finished peeing, scattered kitty litter around the floor, and gone.
This evening, Roswell was calmly exiting the laundry through the catflap, which allows them to get from the laundry to the kitchen. Her front half appeared through the flap, but as her back legs were about to come through, there was a kind of clunking noise - and she stopped. Stuck. As Roswell goes through the flap, there is a vulnerable point where both her back feet are off the ground as she draws them through (she also insists on pushing the flap open with her paws before putting her head through, where most cats seem to go through a flap head-first). This is the point at which she got stuck. She wiggled her hips a bit. Nothing. She went backwards slightly, and wiggled some more - and then they came loose. As the flap swung shut behind her, Bosco's face was readily visible, pressed up against the clear plastic flap on the laundry side.
One of the reasons she dislikes using the flap is that it gives Bosco plenty of opportunity to pounce upon her. I think he had slammed into her backs legs from the side, jamming her against the side of the flap. And with her front paws occupied on the other side of the door, and her back paws off the ground - she has nothing free to hit him with! I have seen him do it from the other side - ploughing into her full tilt as she comes through the flap, flattening her against the door until she slaps him and he backs off. Or rather, backs up for another run.
He has, fortunately, learned to leave her alone when she is sleeping. |
posted by Ata @ 10:47 pm  |
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Hee hee hee. Bosco is so great. He's like Dennis the Menace in cat form.
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Hah! Bosco with kitty litty bag made me laugh.
What a pity you didnt get a picture.
And weren't you toilet-training the kitties? Or am i getting you mixed up with someone else.
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Yes, we were - but it took longer than hoped, and we had visitors over Christmas so the whole caper got put on hold.
We have started over, however, and are currently two-thirds of the way through the process. Hence Bosco snuck into the room where the bag'o'kitty litter was being stored to go in that, apparently in protest that Roswell wees on the rim.
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Oh, no, Ata, your website is so addictive! I love the kitty pic links.
I love it when other people are as addicted to kitties as me.
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*laughing*
You can't say he was misbehaving in the litter bag...he was only doing what you said!
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Hence Bosco snuck into the room where the bag'o'kitty litter was being stored to go in that, apparently in protest that Roswell wees on the rim.
*starts laughing again*
I shouldn't ever read your blog when i'm eating. One day, i'm going to choke, and it'll all be your fault ata for making me laugh just as i was about to swallow food.
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Just so long as I don't finish up in court, charged with Murder by Humour.
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Hee hee hee. Bosco is so great. He's like Dennis the Menace in cat form.