Re: Lost Tribe?

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:50:23 GMT, Wayne Mitchell
<gwmitchell104@xxxxxxxxx> yodeled:

>
>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.


Oh, my Stinky is incredibly trouble-free- making up for a very wild
hoolikittenhood. But even as a little hellion, his disposition has so
sweet and jolly it was impossible to get mad at him.


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com
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