There is nothing more awkward than a cat

[sparkindarkness]

Many years ago now I bought our dear Socks a cat baed. A nice sheltered fluffy cat bed.

Being a cat, she regarded it with disgust and promptly ignored it. Never has she set a paw in it. If placed in it she would extricate herself at the earliest possible opportunity. She has pushed this bed off surfaces and slept on hard wood rather than lay herself down in its fluffy warmth

Every 3-4 months fluffy cat bed is taken out of the loft, presented to Socks for her kitty approval and left out for a hopeful 2-3 weeks while she studiously ignores it.


So now, brother mine visits from his new home (and, consequently, there is no food in the house. At all. It's like being invaded by HUNS!) asks if he can have the expensive fluffy kitty bed for his new cat (yes he has a new cat and good on him for it).

Kitty bed is taken from the loft. It is put down ready to take away.


Socks settles herself happily inside it and falls asleep. It has now been 6 hours and she hasn't stirred a paw from its fluffy interior.

Now you tell ME that she hasn't done that out of pure blody mindedness?

Comments

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

But of course. They've been worshiped for 5,000 years you do know that has increased their collective IQ above that of humanities didn't you?

But you can still temporarily devolve them. Take the item in question and leave it where wild animals can walk over or near it. The preferred animals are squirrels, ground squirrels, pigeons or other birds. Then they have a hard wired obligation to MAKE IT THEIRS.

You can recharge the wonder of a paper sack by leaving it outside for a time.

But as god like as they are a laser pointer is their kryptonite!!!

:)

[klgaffney.livejournal.com]

*sniiiickers* i think "bloody-minded" is par for course.

on the other hand, i'm glad your brother has found a nice furry four-footed new roommate for company, tho.

[colubra.livejournal.com]

bahahahah. Oh Socks.

[buddykat.livejournal.com]

Of course. Sounds like something my cats would do.

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Why are you so surprised? This is normal cat behaviour.

[stormcat.livejournal.com]

It's no FUN if it's ours!

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Variant on "it tastes better if it's stolen"?

Sparky, you finally got the right presentation.

[stormcat.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[thisdaydreamer.livejournal.com]

*laughs* How very feline of her!

[hippieflowergal.livejournal.com]

It took Thomas 4 months before he would even look at the cat bed we bought him. Another couple months roll by and he finally deigns to rest his shoulders and head on the thing. Just a couple of weeks ago (about a year after we bought it now) he finally crawled up onto the bed (it's a big pillow, really) and now sleeps in the middle of it.

Point: cats do things in their own time!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

ahh, the power of Sods Law : Feline Edition