It takes a lot of experience for a girl to kiss like a beginner.

My cat has only two bad habits-both easily managed. She likes to chomp on the edges of paper and does not distinguish between wrapping paper, printer paper or the deed to the house.  This means anything important, such as the aforementioned deed- or a refund check from the IRS- must be keep pocketed away. Preferably in a cabinet but I use mesh boxes with lids for papers I don’t want her chewing.

 

 

The other is her skill at getting someone to tend to her needs by being a complete and total nudge. First she will walk all over you, luckily I find that cute and comforting. Then she will jump up near you and start nudging things around. Like the computer mouse, or the telephone. If this does not get your attention so you feed her, she ups the behavior to knocking things off the edges of tables and counters.  We manage that by not having breakables at the edges and so far all the knocks over are baskets, boxes, dvd’s pencil sharpeners, stuff like that.

 

But last night my husband left a basket filled with a neti pot ( for nasal and sinus irrigation) on the bathroom counter. And sure enough when we slept past 8 am which meant she wasn’t getting her breakfast  when she likes it, she started. We ignored the books, plastic containers, pens and then she hit gold. The neti pot- white ceramic made a great crashing sound as it hit the tile floor. Jim woke with a start. I said it’s abi. He was going to go back to sleep and I suggested he find out what she did. And oh were we pissy with one another. I can’t blame a cat for doing what cats do so I blamed the S.U. for leaving breakables so close to the counter. Meanwhile the cat has to be restrained until I clean up al the bits of glass – this is also the only room in which I always walk barefoot- heated floor- duh- warmth- bare feet.

 

The SU claims he is not thinking clearly because of his post operative condition. The truth is he is often unmindful of the fact that we have a cat and can’t leave rubber bands and staples and other little things she might decide to chew on the floors. I think he is jealous of her because I am so consistently kind to her. And when he asks me that I explain to him that she has never called me a bitch. End of story.