If I'm going to go and come back and go again...

[desperance]

... I should just go, right?

Right.

Also, I have just figured out what it is about Mac.

Stone deaf, that's what it is. Since kittenhood.

When his momma told him that cheese was good to eat, he misheard it; he thought she said "Chaz". Which is why he tries to eat me on a daily basis.

When she told him venison was yummy, he heard "vegetables".

Not sure what she was saying when he heard "mushrooms", but she must have said it often, 'cos that one sure sunk in.

Also, when I tell him not to do something, and he just carries right on doing it?

Stone deaf, clearly.

Quite how it is he manages to come on the instant when I call him to his tea, I haven't quite figured out yet, but there will doubtless be an explanation.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Selective deafness, clearly: his eardrums are sensitive to food and close down.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

The terms in use at our house are "hammer-headed" and "mallet-headed". It's the density, which does not allow certain concepts to penetrate, except with extreme effort.

Clearly, in Mac's case, the aroma of potential tea manages to penetrate through the normal orifices, but sound does not do so consistently, because of the resonance problems resulting from having a head as soild as a hammer.

[helenraven.livejournal.com]

I think you might enjoy Advanced Conversational Feline. When I first came across it, it had the subtitle: "How to have no effect whatsoever on the cat or cats in your immediate vicinity".