Mark Edwards" <Mark-Edwards@comcast.net> wrote in message

Sarrasine is a criminal genius. Listen to this....

The week before last I got the cats a new dish. So when I got back
from my post payday spending spree (you know the one I regret now)I
put the bag with the new dish in the bedroom. At this point Sarrasine
is doing a very good impersonation of a dead cat on top of the monitor
in another room.

The next day, I threw the old dish in the bin as I was taking the
rubbish out. Sarrasine heard someone near dish and rushed in to see if
something food related was on offer. Yes she had been once again doing
her dead cat impersonation (Dave once was convinced she had died when
she was a kitten, he stroked her, picked her up and she was limp in
his arms. He was about to consider the kiss of life when she opened
one eye and glared at him)but this cat can sleep-eat

And skidded to a halt when she realised there was no sign of her
dish....

So she sat there, staring at where her dish used to be as if she
thought if she concentrated enough it would reappear. Then she started
to look around the kitchen even pulling things open to check.

Still no dish...so she retreated to where the dish ought to be and
alternated "Feed me or else" looks with "I am a poor unloved half
starving kitten" looks (She's on a loser with those, I had 16 years of
Isis, Emeritus Professor of cute starving kitten looks but she is
learning)

I confess to telling her that every cat only got so much food in their
life and being a greedy pig she had eaten all hers....

So off she stalked with her nose in the air....

And reappeared with the new dish! She placed it exactly where the old
one had been and looked at us with a look that plainly said " Cut the
crap, fill the  dish and we'll pretend this never happened"

I of course filled the dish but I don't know how she knew where the
new dish was.

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous (and in one case worryingly smart) Furballs

Today I watched QC paw open our bedroom door from the inside.  Unless
you close it hard, it doesn't catch fully.  I knew the cats could open
it from the outside, and I've watched Tanada, Merlin and Huey do so.
But I was impressed that they could open it from the inside.  BTW Calvin
is very good at opening my mouth with his paw.  He likes to see where
the laugh is coming from.

Pam S.