A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather tremendous
crash if pushed off a counter.
A full metal teakettle placed on top of a pizza box to ensure the top stays
closed is absolutely no match for a cat that has decided that he MUST HAVE
PIZZA.
A full metal teakettle contains enough water to cover approximately 100
square feet of a kitchen floor.
A cat that has just discovered that his main avenue of escape is covered in
water is amusing enough to make up for the cleanup time.
Cindy
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Jo Firey - 15 Jan 2005 18:27 GMT
Now that's funny.
> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather tremendous
> crash if pushed off a counter.
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> Cindy
> owned by Snoopy (the pizza fiend) and Target
CDC - 15 Jan 2005 18:35 GMT
:) I can't blame him too much, the pizza *was* good.
- Cindy
> Now that's funny.
>
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>> Cindy
>> owned by Snoopy (the pizza fiend) and Target
Karen Chuplis - 15 Jan 2005 20:34 GMT
> :) I can't blame him too much, the pizza *was* good.
>
> - Cindy
Pearl seems to have an affinity for pizza too. She is always interested in
what I am eating but if it happens to be pizza she is pushy and tries to get
her nose right in there. I wonder if it is the oregano or something.
CDC - 15 Jan 2005 20:36 GMT
For Snoopy, I think it's just the fact that it's people food! (Of course,
the italian sausage could have been what was calling to him!)
- Cindy
> Pearl seems to have an affinity for pizza too. She is always interested in
> what I am eating but if it happens to be pizza she is pushy and tries to
> get
> her nose right in there. I wonder if it is the oregano or something.
Marina - 16 Jan 2005 07:35 GMT
>>:) I can't blame him too much, the pizza *was* good.
>>
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> what I am eating but if it happens to be pizza she is pushy and tries to get
> her nose right in there. I wonder if it is the oregano or something.
I don't know if pizzas generally contain thyme, but Frank reacts to
dried thyme the same way he does to catnip.

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jmcquown - 15 Jan 2005 18:35 GMT
> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather
> tremendous crash if pushed off a counter.
>
> A full metal teakettle placed on top of a pizza box to ensure the top
> stays closed is absolutely no match for a cat that has decided that
> he MUST HAVE PIZZA.
Dammit! I meant to buy a pizza, not beer!
Love your description; hilarious! And a great and economical way to wash
the kitchen floor. Now if only you could get the cat to swish it's tail
like a scrub-brush... hmmmm.
Jill
W. Leong - 15 Jan 2005 20:08 GMT
>> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather
>> tremendous crash if pushed off a counter.
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>
> Jill
Once I spilled milk on the kitchen floor. Rusty came and licked the milk
and mopped up the floor for me in the process. Great way for him to earn
his keep.
Winnie
Mathew Kagis - 15 Jan 2005 19:33 GMT
> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather tremendous
> crash if pushed off a counter.
<SNIP>
TOO FUNNY!!!! I turned my back on a plated slice last week & suddenly had
two growling kittens playing tug 'o war with it.... They were NOT impressed
when they got sprayed with water & the PERFECTLY GOOD slice of
yummygreasysaltystuff was tossed in the garbage.

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Yoj - 15 Jan 2005 23:42 GMT
LOL!
JOy
> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather tremendous
> crash if pushed off a counter.
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> Cindy
> owned by Snoopy (the pizza fiend) and Target
Christine Burel - 17 Jan 2005 15:18 GMT
Oh my gosh -- too funny! Much sympathy though for the clean-up part.
My Omar recently "helped" keep the pizza boxes closed by roosting on top of
them and warming his furry backside.
Christine
> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather tremendous
> crash if pushed off a counter.
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> Cindy
> owned by Snoopy (the pizza fiend) and Target
Kreisleriana - 17 Jan 2005 19:14 GMT
>Oh my gosh -- too funny! Much sympathy though for the clean-up part.
>
>My Omar recently "helped" keep the pizza boxes closed by roosting on top of
>them and warming his furry backside.
>Christine
Oh-- Stinky does that too. With the pizzas inside. He looks like a
little Buddha on the pizza box. I'm sure they seem like a great place
to meatloaf-- warm and smell nice. ;)
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Katz - 17 Jan 2005 20:19 GMT
> My Omar recently "helped" keep the pizza boxes closed by roosting on top of
> them and warming his furry backside.
Daisy will sit on a nice warm pizza box, too. Just making sure I don't
take any out w/o her knowing it.
Katz
John F. Eldredge - 23 Jan 2005 02:28 GMT
> A full metal teakettle is fairly heavy and will make a rather tremendous
>crash if pushed off a counter.
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>Cindy
>owned by Snoopy (the pizza fiend) and Target
My father's house, built circa 1920, had a cellar with native-earth
walls but a concrete floor. It tended to flood whenever hard rains
came, and the sump pump was sometimes slow to come on. My father's
cat was fond of sleeping on top of the water heater, an easy jump
from the higher ground at the edge of the cellar excavation.
On one occasion, I opened the cellar door and called the cat. She
jumped down off of the water heater, only to find that the floor was
covered in two or three inches of flood water. Rather than jump back
up to higher ground and coming around to the cellar steps the long
way, she walked slowly across the cellar floor, shaking the water off
of each foot as she lifted it out of the water, then putting it back
into the water as she took another step, and shaking the newly-lifted
foot. She complained, loudly, about the water as she crossed the
flooded floor. I just wish that I had had a video camera to record
the process.

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Cheryl - 23 Jan 2005 21:13 GMT
> My father's house, built circa 1920, had a cellar with
> native-earth walls but a concrete floor. It tended to flood
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> floor. I just wish that I had had a video camera to record the
> process.
LOL funny! Cats are master foot shakers. Anything undesirable on
the fur anywhere causes foot shakes with Scarlett. :)

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