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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2007Sensitive toesies
Ok, Vino is a real wuss when it comes to his precious paws. He doesn't even like to walk on grass. I've seen him gingerly using the stepping stones to get from the side of the house to the back. When he does have to walk on grass, he lifts his paws up way too high and kind of curls them under with each step. You can definitely tell that he was a pampered indoor only cat for the first 8 years of his life! For Xmas, we got a big trampoline in the back yard. Vino hates the sound it makes when I jump on it and always proceeds to the farthest corner of the back yard to observe from a safe distance. Just now, I got on to jump for a bit (it's insanely good exercise!) and Vino was meatloafing in a sunny patch next to the back fence. As soon as the springs began to squeak, he got up and went to move away. There is a strip of sharp reddish lava type rocks along the back fence, between the fence and my strawberry patch and tomato bed. He hates walking on these rocks even more than grass. But I could tell that he wasn't going to turn around to go the other way because he had to get away from the evil trampoline noise more urgently. So what he did was walk with his 2 left legs up on this 2x4 which holds the bottom of the fence together. This way only his 2 right paws had to touch the rocks. It was the funniest sight, he was laboriously limping along this way for over 10 meters before getting to the paved area! He then settled down in another sunny patch and glared at me balefully. I decided I better get off and type up this post before the evil feline death glare got to me...  SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://picasaweb.google.com/badwilson >Ok, Vino is a real wuss when it comes to his precious paws. He doesn't >even like to walk on grass. SNIP LOL! I'm trying to picture Vino walking for over 30 feet with his left and right paws on different levels. I don't understand Vino not wanting to walk on the grass; it's relatively soft and 'easy on the paws'. Silly cat. /\_/\ ( o.o ) > ^ < ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. -Buddha > I don't understand Vino not wanting to walk on the grass; > it's relatively soft and 'easy on the paws'. We took our fluffy tortie kitten Velcro with us on a trip to a cottage on Mull. She'd never been outside the flat before. She adjusted to being inside the cottage, but the outdoors was all too much. We carried her down the hill and put her on the grass. AAARGH!!! Cold wet stuff on my toesies! She let out a loud wail and shot straight up my back to cling on between my shoulderblades. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >> Ok, Vino is a real wuss when it comes to his precious paws. He >> doesn't even like to walk on grass. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I'm trying to picture Vino walking for over 30 feet with his left and > right paws on different levels. Same here - what comes to mind is those old cartoons with cars that have 4 different size tires and they are all oval (instead of round), so they were all wobbly as they drove... LOL > I don't understand Vino not wanting to walk on the grass; it's > relatively soft and 'easy on the paws'. His tootsies are ticklish! Grass tickles tootsies - ergo... avoid grass :D It reminds me of a local stable that used to be near here - they offered (for a price, of course) guided rides through some of the wooded (forest, almost) area near Lake Monroe - and one of their horses was a former show horse. Beautiful (and huge) strawberry roan named Big Red. He didn't like walking in the dirt/mud of the trail, so would go along the *edge* of the trail... and nearly peeled me off his back in the process from getting too close to the trees! Both my knees ended up bruised and scraped from that (and yes, I was wearing thick jeans - but trees are *hard* :D). He also didn't like crossing the creek - and I had no idea that he had leapt *over* the creek until he landed and I almost flew over his head! Poor guy was so used to the clean sawdust-and-concrete flooring of the show arena, he just *hated* getting his feet(hooves) dirty (actually, I think it was that he didn't like the squishy feeling of the mud)! > He then settled down in another sunny patch and glared at me balefully. > I decided I better get off and type up this post before the evil feline > death glare got to me... Heh, poor Master Vino and his sensitive toesies. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/ http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Ok, Vino is a real wuss when it comes to his precious paws. He doesn't > even like to walk on grass. I've seen him gingerly using the stepping [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > decided I better get off and type up this post before the evil feline > death glare got to me... Poor baby. We have a six inch wide mowing strip all around our grass. Otherwise known as a kitty cat sidewalk. Kind of cute the watch them carefully circle the yard on their walkway, only to flop down in a sunny patch of dirt. Jo > Ok, Vino is a real wuss when it comes to his precious paws. He doesn't > even like to walk on grass. I've seen him gingerly using the stepping [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > decided I better get off and type up this post before the evil feline > death glare got to me... Loved your post, so funny, Boyfie would like to say to Vino that he is brave enough to put his pawses in "actual mud." Tweed >So what he did was walk with his 2 left legs up on this 2x4 which holds the >bottom of the fence together. This way only his 2 right paws had to touch >the rocks. It was the funniest sight, he was laboriously limping along this >way for > over 10 meters before getting to the paved area! LOL - what wonderful imagery. A pampered kitty avoiding getting his sensitive toes scratched! We had a trampoline for years when I grew up and it is fabulous exercise and lots of fun! Susan M Otis and Chester LOL, poor Vino, you are a men meowmie ;o) Suz&Spicey
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