Sunday, November 26, 2006
Attention Seeking
Tonight Mike, my Dad and I journeyed to sister and New Husband's house. Mostly to see the cats - named Merry and Pippin by the way, despite their being FEMALE non-hobbits - and also for the roast dinner.Typically, I smushed the first cat I saw, pressing my face into its fur proclaiming I loved it. The cat was rather wide-eyed and all limbs as it scrambled out of my arms.
I approach the other one more timidly. I found her in Suzy and New Husband's room, in a drawer with her head on a jumper. I stroked her teeny tiny head and she spent around 20 minutes gazing. Not the sharpest cat I've ever met. Eventually I couldn't resist and picked her up. So she fled out of the room.
I went downstairs to find Mike playing with the other cat. They have this odd pink man on elastic toy and mike was bouncing it all around. The cat was back-flipping and narrowly missing red wine whilst Mike was shrieking.
After dinner Pippin skulked over and tapped Mike's knee with her paw. Within seconds she had nestled her head up by his neck and was kneading his jumper. I melted.
"How come they always love you?" I said to Mike.
"Because I'm not in their face," he said, smiling.
"Oh she's soo cute," I said, just as she stood up and attention-seekingly flopped on his knee.
"Yes," Mike said, frowning as Pippin pushed her face into his. "She's exactly like you."
by billygean.co.uk at 10:14 PM |
1 Comments:
Odd. Cats do that to me. Annoying.
The first time I visited some friends of my young son, their rather wild looking moggy leaped onto my lap while I was sitting listening to the conversation in their front room. I idly ran my hand down her back a few times, which she arched, and then casually jumped to the floor and stalked off, presumably having made some obscure point, like they do. I noticed everyone in the room had fallen silent, staring at me with shocked expression. What's the problem? I said. "She's never allowed anyone to do that before." Do what? "Touch her. Stroke her."
What does she normally do then?
"She attacks evryone. She's not our cat she just comes by sometimes. Last time someone touched her we had to take them to A&E.
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