> On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
>
>>Steve grabs Oliver just under his
>>front and back legs and lifts him into the air, over his head, which is
>>pretty high since Steve is 6'3". They then commence to "fly" around the
>>apartment, Oliver held aloft.
Not exactly the same, but Amelia enjoys doing "high hunting". When she
sees a moth on the ceiling, she asks me to pick her up and hold her high
while she hunts the moth.
And she's named for Amelia Earhardt. When we first got her, the first
thing we noticed about her is that she loved to leap from high place to
high place. Nancy named her the Flying Kitty.
bonbon - 22 Oct 2004 15:17 GMT
>> On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
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>sees a moth on the ceiling, she asks me to pick her up and hold her high
>while she hunts the moth.
Louie loves that flight plan also.
>And she's named for Amelia Earhardt. When we first got her, the first
>thing we noticed about her is that she loved to leap from high place to
>high place. Nancy named her the Flying Kitty.
So, is Amelia a good pilot? Or have all of your knick-knacks been
glued back together at least once like ours?
-bonbon
Howard Berkowitz - 23 Oct 2004 05:10 GMT
> > On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
> >
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> thing we noticed about her is that she loved to leap from high place to
> high place. Nancy named her the Flying Kitty.
Clifford (RB) gained steadily in intelligence and wisdom to be one of
the brightest cats I've ever known, but he started from a fairly low
point. I should have understood his tendency to mimic when I learned
that once weaned, he socialized with the puppies on the farm where he
was born, and seemed to believe he was a Brittany Spaniel.
When he first saw moths, he was fascinated. When the moth was flying
over the floor, Clifford would redeem his general incompetence as a
mouser by being an excellent...ahem...mother. He could leap and snag a
moth on the wing, five feet in the air.
Unfortunately, when he saw a moth fly over the stairwell, he apparently
concluded "Moth can fly. Clifford should be able to fly." He'd then
stretch out in midair, clearly expecting to sprout wings -- and then get
a shocked expression as gravity set in.
It also took him a while to learn that squirrels were more adept in, and
among trees, than he was. This took several embarrassing episodes of
jumping out upper-story windows in hot pursuit.
Kreisleriana - 23 Oct 2004 16:16 GMT
>> > On Thu, 21 Oct, Margaret F wrote:
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>Unfortunately, when he saw a moth fly over the stairwell, he apparently
>concluded "Moth can fly. Clifford should be able to fly."
Stinky has a couple of "Boogie Mats"-- little mats that have a
zippered pocket to fill with catnip. I call them his "magic carpets."
See: <http://tinyurl.com/4ybp9>
One of them has printed on it "Birds can fly-- So should I!"
Theresa
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