Sometimes these furry critters just crack me up!  My feet have been hurting
me lately and last Friday night after several hours standing in heels at a
holiday party I could hardly stand.  On Saturday, DH had to go to Walmart
and asked if I wanted to go with him.  I just didn't want to have to walk
around so I declined.  Being the sweet husband he is he came home with a
heated foot massager.  It looks kind of like two fuzzy, blue slippers sewn
together with nice softly padded soles.  You put your feet into the slipper
part for a warm, foot massage.

Now Barnabus is extremely wary of anything new in his environment.  This can
be a sock on the floor that wasn't there 5 minutes before or an elephant in
the livingroom. He will slowly approach the object in question, nose first
with his belly dragging the floor.  So, here I am, sitting with my feet in
this blue, fuzzy foot massager which is humming just slightly.  Barnabus
comes racing into the room with Lacey chasing him.  Barnabus sees the blue
foot massager, which wasn't there when they made their last lap through the
house and almost burns a hole in the carpet as he puts on the brakes.  Lacey
veers left and leapt onto the cat tree.

Veerrrry slowly, nose twitching and ears pointed forward, Barnabus stalks
the blue, fuzzy elephan....errr, I mean the foot massager.  It takes him
several minutes to get close enough to get a good sniff, which is when the
devil jumped under my skin. That has to be the only explanation for what
happened next.  I couldn't resist the urge to scoot my feet toward him.  He
lept straight up in the air and backwards at the same time.  The problem is
that Lacey had snuck up behind him to see what he was stalking.  He landed
right on top of her. I think he thought that this strange blue animal has
somehow reached behind him and goosed him. He sprung in the air again, spun
around and came face to face with Lacey who was mad because he had jumped
her and she hissed and slapped his ears.  He took off running to get away
from Lacey and ran straight into Sam who had jumped off the couch to see
what the ruckus was all about.  The last I saw of the three of them was a
tumbling ball of black and grey fur with a mad, calico she-cat leaping over
the two of them and running to the back of the house.  I checked on them a
moment ago and everyone was asleep on the bed.  I suspect they're waiting
for the blue elephant to move next door.

Julie