Re: Lost Tribe?


"Wayne Mitchell" <gwmitchell104@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> My cats are too easy. I've been thinking about all the
> anecdotes I read here and why I have so few to contribute, and
> that's the conclusion I've come to.
>
> Sure, Will has asthma and Heidi has long hair and a healthy
> tendency to shed. But those are rather faded and pedestrian
> methods of making trouble for humans, don't you think? And even
> in those behaviors, they miss obvious opportunities. In the two
> years that I've had them, long-haired Heidi has never coughed up
> a hair-ball! And Will, who needs frequent medication, rather
> than making me pay dearly for the privilege of dosing him, takes
> pills and inhaled meds with only token resistance and less
> grumbling than most humans.
>
> Neither of them is excessively clingy, but both love petting and
> are easy to handle. Heidi only attacks my papers on the
> desk-top when she is really desperate to get me out of bed in
> the morning; and Will ceased splintering the door jambs as soon
> as I indicated my disapproval and gave him the Alpine Scratcher
> instead. There's a little wear and tear on the furniture, but
> never any deliberate destruction.
>
> My previous two owners were no great shakes in the aggravation
> department, lord knows, but at least they knew enough to barf
> frequently and always on a bed or carpet. These two, in the
> rare instance that they do barf something up, have almost always
> done it on a hardwood or concrete floor. They just don't seem
> to get it. They have neither the destructive creativity
> (oxymoron) nor the evil-mindedness displayed by most cats. It's
> as though their arsenal of *** Cat Tricks and Aggravating
> Behaviors was never properly furnished.
>
> Could they be members of a lost tribe of cats? Are there some
> cats among us who have, through the generations, lost contact
> with the Mother Ship and have only a vestigial memory of their
> true mission? Have my cats perhaps never had the advantage of
> training with the cadre? Have they never had a course in how to
> make full and proper use of a human slave?
>
> It's a sad thought.
>
> --
>
> Wayne M.

I loved your amusing post. Both my cats arrived as adult strays (altho BF
was just a big kitten) and haven't really been much trouble at all.
Kitty FC is fierce and grumpy, and weighing only 4 lbs doesn't stop her in
her pursuit of being the most bad-tempered cat in the world. Boyfriend is
quite shy, retiring and a very nice chap.
Neither is a problem to me. I can do grumpy and shy ;-) They are both
adorable in their own way and I love them both to bits.

Tweed



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