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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2005CJ and the telephone
I put one of those ultra complex 36 button phones with a digital answering machine, an LCD display, etc. in the computer room because it was the only one I could find at Walmart that had a large button keypad on the base unit (instead of in the handset). I never wanted the other features, but there they are. CJ discovered a cat entertainer feature a few minutes ago when he stepped on just the right combination of keys to make it tweedle - sort of like a ring sound. He stopped short and leaned back - it stopped. He resumed his forward motion and it started again. He stopped; it stopped; he started; it started - back and forth several times. Then he decided to find the source, but every time he got near the speaker, he eased up on the buttons and it went silent. He eventually decided it was coming from the broken monitor I keep on the table for the cats to lie on (the real monitor is one of those thin LCD panels that doesn't have enough room on top for cats). As he walked across the phone, it went silent until he put his rear foot on the same spot and all of a sudden, the sound was coming from under him. At this point, he decided that discretion is the better part of valor and beat a hasty retreat - completely off the table and out of the room.  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) [snip] > He eventually decided it was > coming from the broken monitor I keep on the table for the cats to lie [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > decided that discretion is the better part of valor and beat a hasty > retreat - completely off the table and out of the room. *snort* Oh, too funny! It always cracks me up how cats have to put their back foot on exactly the same spot their front foot was just on. My little Buck stands next to me with one front paw on my lap as though she's about to climb the rest of the way on, but then she changes her mind and walks away, and her back paw on the same side invariably lands on the same spot, even though it's already out of line with her front end's new direction of travel. Jeff Hehehe! It's sweet that you keep the broken monitor around for the kitties... Bet they miss it not getting warm like it used to! PatM >Hehehe! > >It's sweet that you keep the broken monitor around for the kitties... >Bet they miss it not getting warm like it used to! I know Fluffy does - she refuses to use it any more, and she was a fixture there - all in all it gets far less use than before, even though it is at about the same distance from me. SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) SPAM filter: Messages to this address *must* contain "T.E.D." somewhere in the body or they will be automatically rejected. > I put one of those ultra complex 36 button phones with a digital > answering machine, an LCD display, etc. in the computer room because [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > decided that discretion is the better part of valor and beat a hasty > retreat - completely off the table and out of the room. LOL! Poor CJ. SignatureMarina, Frank, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >I put one of those ultra complex 36 button phones with a digital >answering machine, an LCD display, etc. in the computer room because [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >decided that discretion is the better part of valor and beat a hasty >retreat - completely off the table and out of the room. My first full-time programming job was working for a man who ran a small business out of his house. At one point, I heard the dot-matrix printer start spitting out page after page. When I checked, one of his cats was standing on the printer with a hind foot on the form-feed button, looking down with great interest. The same cat would sometimes lie down on the printer cover, and try to grab the print head as it went back and forth. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >I put one of those ultra complex 36 button phones with a digital >answering machine, an LCD display, etc. in the computer room because [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >decided that discretion is the better part of valor and beat a hasty >retreat - completely off the table and out of the room. Gawd they are funny. I confess, when I first got cats, the last thing I expected was that they would be so durn funny. When the phone rings around here, Stinky has always gone charging to the phone, and beats me to it. I dpn't know why, he never answers it. ;) Now that Dante is here, there is a stampede to the phone everytime it rings. It must be a little like having teenagers. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Make Levees, Not War > Gawd they are funny. I confess, when I first got cats, the last thing > I expected was that they would be so durn funny. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Theresa ROFL! I wonder what he's thinking? Mine are totally oblivious to the phone. Now the doorbell, though; Bosley runs to see who it is, and Frank runs to dive under the bed. Sometimes they collide in the hall. Sherry
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