Teapothead
May. 1st, 2007 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance'Member how I said that Mac liked to eat used tealeaves, and I'd only just stopped him sticking his whole head into the pot in pursuit of 'em?
I went downstairs this morning to find the teapot upside down on the sofa, where I had not exactly left it. Given that cats have not yet developed opposable thumbs, I can think of no way that he could have got it there from the coffee-table, except by wearing it on his head.
Still, at least he clearly did get his head out of it again - eventually? - so I need not worry overmuch about that any more.
Tho' I might start looking for a pot with a lid. Or preferably one with replaceable lids, because I do break 'em with a tedious regularity. (I once broke the bottom off a teapot, by dropping its own lid into the pot. This ought not to be possible, but I did it.)
In other news: I thought cats were not supposed to like citrus? Mac goes for marmalade...
I went downstairs this morning to find the teapot upside down on the sofa, where I had not exactly left it. Given that cats have not yet developed opposable thumbs, I can think of no way that he could have got it there from the coffee-table, except by wearing it on his head.
Still, at least he clearly did get his head out of it again - eventually? - so I need not worry overmuch about that any more.
Tho' I might start looking for a pot with a lid. Or preferably one with replaceable lids, because I do break 'em with a tedious regularity. (I once broke the bottom off a teapot, by dropping its own lid into the pot. This ought not to be possible, but I did it.)
In other news: I thought cats were not supposed to like citrus? Mac goes for marmalade...
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Date: 2007-05-01 01:19 pm (UTC)But, "raised as a puppy"...? Adopted by dogs, does this mean? Or trained to fetch?
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Date: 2007-05-01 05:26 pm (UTC)Right. And considerable risk of cat falling into a tub full of water, bubbles, and a person who would prefer not to be used to gain traction.
>But, "raised as a puppy"...? Adopted by dogs, does this mean? Or trained to fetch?
It was a big household, with 10-14 students, 1 large dog, and a kitten. The dog and the kitten played together a lot. Sometimes the kitten was just tagging along while the dog did his thing, but sometimes the dog appeared to accept her as a puppy and try to teach her to hunt, and dig, and turn in circles before lying down. There were some very cute images of the dog trying to eat his kibble, with the kitten perched on the edge of his food bowl, gnawing on a lump of kibble half the size of her head. The cat also learned to fetch when she was a little older.
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Date: 2007-05-01 05:44 pm (UTC)Big grinning. We have that too - especially the person...
And I love the kitten-who-grew-up-as-a-puppy: supports all my ignorant prejudices about nature-vs-nurture. I just always want nurture to win, all the time...