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| Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| More Bosco |
New Favourite Trick: getting on the pelmet.
From the window ledge to the cat gym to the entertainment unit to the centre speaker to the pelmet. A convoluted path, but it's the way he likes to go. And sometimes, then, from the pelmet over the window to the pelmet over the door. Along in one direction, then the other, licking dust off the pelmet as he goes.
Unfortunately, it's harder to get down than up. Every potential landing spot is either unstable, or too small, or too far away. And if he has jumped over the space between the window-pelmet and the door-pelmet, it's even more difficult - he doesn't seem to have room to turn around on the door-pelmet. So it's forwards in one direction, then carefully, awkwardly backwards in the other direction.
If Mr Ata stands on a chair and puts his arms out, Bosco rushes along to be removed from the pelmet. If Ata stands on a chair and puts her arms out, Bosco rushes along to within millimetres of Ata's fingertips, then stops. He has to be coaxed closer with wiggly fingers promising a head rub. When within range, Ata grabs a leg - and he immediately goes rigid, protesting and struggling until Ata gets her hands under his belly. Then he goes relaxed and floppy, eager to be off the pelmet and on the ground, where he can race off to his food bowl and stuff himself with biscuits.
Access to the bedroom pelmet has been successfully prevented with strategically placed boxes. Bosco on pelmet at 4am does not make for happy human campers. And Ata is certain to close the top cupboard very very tightly, to avert leaping from the square inch of clear space on the bedside cabinet to the above head-height cupboard. Not so much because of the take-off, but his preferred landing site is, coincidentally, the spot occupied by Ata's knees when asleep. Or possibly Ata's stomach, depending on landing trajectory and how Ata is positioned. It could also be the spot Roswell sleeps in, if she is sleeping with Ata at the time, and she usually does.
Ata has no desire to be awoken in the night by either cat landing on body or cat landing on cat. This would make for a Bad Experience. |
posted by Ata @ 10:52 pm  |
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Boscoe and Ros sound so mischevious. Can they come live here?
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*giggle*
Oh, I so badly want a cat again. I adore my dogs and wouldn't be without them for the world, but they lack the entertainment value of pelmet acrobatics.
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Heh
Does anyone want to hazard a guess how long it will be before Bosco manages to get in a landing on Ata and Roswell one night?
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Bwah ha ha ha.
And with that, Bosco is my favourite hobbling pet. What a legend.
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*sniggers*
Oh, you make me giggle.
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Boscoe and Ros sound so mischevious. Can they come live here?