RE: Caturday - Are Cats Arrogant
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Why wouldn't they be arrogant ???
I mean, if you act like the Queen and everybody around you bends down and picks up your poop wherever you leave it, why would you stop??
Methinks they are given too much credit for real. I think they are simple, simply doing whatever is their inborn nature to do. They are not really thinking anything about you, except that they are not too dumb to learn which humans are good for a nice rubbing and scratching and which they should crawl under the couch to avoid (usually the loud, little ones)..... and of course, after a few swats off the kitchen counters, they learn to stop licking the butter and jump down when they hear the front door open (or back).. .ha ha
They are just so darned cute and irresistible though !
I learned early that you actually can sort of train them. either that or they really are playing 'possum. I squirt mine from a spray bottle the second they even thought about the countertops. I am pretty sure they still tried it when I wasn't looking, although, I am sure they were careful to erase all traces.
Or maybe they really did learn.
Nahhh. They are cats.
I did almost lose it one year when the beloved Dalamation stole the 20-pound turkey off the counter, on Thanksgiving Day. I kid you not. If there was a dog pound open that day, I might have sent her. She wasn't allowed in the kitchen and I should have known better. She almost beat down the doors at the smell of turkey. I have never seen anything like it.
Anyway, I am not sure I have ever been so mad. Eight guests and a dog eaten turkey. One of my worse nightmares. LOL
Good morning from here! Already mowed the lawn! It is going to be gorgeous outside today!
What.... you mean you can do real stuff before noon on the weekends??? I'm not sure about that. LOL
The "butter licking" came from a time when I was growing up when I had a cat (several, but not at the same time)....and normally they were outdoor cats, but it was ok to bring them in while you were playing with them or holding them or whatever, but of course, there were times when some one wasn't paying attention to them anymore and they were left to their own devices, where they did what came natural to them. My Dad had BIG issue with any of them ever being on a dining table or kitchen cabinet, so once they encountered his wrath for doing so, you never saw them again, however, not seeing them, didn't mean they had not been there, evidenced by cat-licked butter.
That is a wild turkey story ! I can only imagine.
My Mom had a dog and nearly lives in the country. She can see her next door neighbor's giant house from her yard, but there is a good distance between them. She had a lab one time that went up to visit the neighbors one day and came racing back home a little later with a whole package of cheese slices in her mouth....ha ha.... seems the neighbors were about to have a cookout and Mom's dog absconded with their cheese ! Mom was horrified, but fortunately, the neighbors thought it was funny.
Good Morning, the most I can say is that while my coffee was perking I finished loading the dishwasher, so something besides me playing on computer is happening here. I pretend that counts. LOL !
Oh, yes!! Some days that does count. Other days, I see right through that. :))
I totally get your dad. It grosses me out thinking that a cat is walking all over my counters. I really never see them, which is fine with me, if they are sleuth enough to do it without a trace. Ditto with the furniture. Cathair on my furniture? No way! :)) It has nothing to do with getting older. I have always been this way. My mother's influence, probably.
I do have cat trees, toys and they were in and out cats... so that should be good, :))
That story about the cheese is a riot!!! I mean, hindsight, the turkey was funny, but, at the time, I had guests!
As I got older, I became more and more allergic to cats, so I can't have them inside, ever and I take allergy meds before visiting some of my "inside cat" loving family. I must still smell like catnip to them though, because all their cats love me and un-encouraged, still rub all over me, jump in my lap or up on my chair around my head to give kisses. Oh the irony. One of my sisters has a cat that is shy and usually has nothing to do with anyone not in their immediate family, but if I am there for more than 30 minutes..... out she comes from wherever she is hiding to mark me and claim me as hers ! Crazy ! I love them and would have one (outside) if I wasn't so allergic.
As an adult too, I have over thunk it as is my nature and honestly, I wouldn't want any animal that cleans itself with it's tongue and scratches around in a litter box to be on anything I have to touch or eat off of. uck
Haha! Exactly!! That is just how I feel and always have.
I think that anyone who is allergic to cats must give off some special scent that they feel the need to add their own scent to. Sort of like an anti-cat scent! My sister has gotten more allergic now as opposed to 20 years ago. I wrote 200 !! LOL Don't tell her! Anyway, cats lock on to her like she is a cat treat or catnip! Yes!!!!!
I hope you didn't eat that butter when you were a kid. Ewwww! ❤️