Re: Cat Tracks

tanadashoes wrote:
"Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Suki's favouite trick of all, though, is to just every so gently
brush past the 'power' button on the keyboard, so delicately (and
delicately being so out of character) that at first, I think I'm
safe, so I don't do an emergency 'save all'. I continue doing what
I'm doing and suddenly the world goes grey and the computer starts
to shut down. Joel often feels great concern by my wails of anguish,
especially if I'm working on some great spread*** for work and
have forgotten to do an interim save in the last few hours. And they
wonder why I can't work from home! I'm sure there's a way to disable the
power key using Windows
software, but if there is, I've yet to find it. I thought I was
ingenious by simply placing a beer bottle cap over it - it was the
perfect height and diameter such that it just covered the button
without sticking out and bothering the other buttons whilst being a
tight enough fit that it didn't fall off if I moved the keyboard or
was brushed by a passing cat fetlock. However, I very quickly
discover that Suki's most very favourite ever toy for batting around
is of course beer bottle caps, and putting said cap anywhere near my
keyboard attracted her and her roving paws even more. I've given up.

Despite having two perfectly good computers in the house, with one
even going so far as to have a spill proof, cat fur proof silicone
keyboard, Joel & I pretty much now share his computer. Its really
only a matter of time, though, until Suki 'discovers' his keyboard
too. I wonder if walking on keyboards is to cats what reflexology is
to humans?

And you say that you don't have cats performing masterful b*st*rd cat
tricks any more? I think Suki is working hard to earn the title once
held by the Great Smoggleberry. I also think she is doing a pretty
good job of it.

Either Suki does an incredible job of acting like she's as smart as a sack
of hammers, or she truly is the dullest blade in the knife drawer. Shmogg,
late expert of the B*st*rd C*t Trick, on the other hand, clearly had the
smarts of lemon juice in a paper cut, and took great advantage of it.

I suspect Pickle is perhaps just as intelligent as Shmogg, but thus far has
remained a silent 'sleeper' rather than an active agent.

Shadow has now also discovered the out and I suspect may be soon adopted by
the next-door-but-one neighbours as she spends all her 'out' time in their
garden and rubbing on their legs, little flirt that she is. If they wish to
adopt her, then I'll sadly let them - she would be much happier as an 'only'
cat, and I would still get to see her anyway. She and Pickle would no longer
have brutal fights on my bed (and often over my squidgy and vulnerable
flesh, seperated by mere chook feathers and a layer of fabric from /savage
scimitars of insanity/ (aka their claws)) at night and neither would then
feel the need for a (unfortunatley literal) pissing contest for the house's
alpha cat status.

I don't regret adopting Shadow, she's come an aweful long way from being the
frightened scaredy neurotic cat when she came home to us, but I've always
thought she'd be happiest as an only cat if only I knew someone else who
would put up with her neuroticisms. But now it seems that after nearly two
years of teaching her its OK to be a cat and do cat things in a normal cat
way (rather than expected to behave like a dog), perhaps if there's an
opportunity for her to be an only cat, perhaps I should allow her to take it
even if it does break my heart to do so. (and no, I haven't found that home
yet for her, although if the neighbours show an interest....). I think she
has overcome the worst of her neurtotic behaviour and has finally started
enjoying the life she has always deserved - as a much loved and rather
spoilt feline princess.

Yowie
--
"because its more fun to be evil" - Jarppi, _The Dudesons_


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