Buddha and the Feather Duster

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Mary - 01 Jul 2004 15:15 GMT

Making breakfast for the girls this morning, I looked down and only saw one
intent fact staring up at me when I popped the lid. I put the food down.

Before I had time to look for her, Buddha jumped up on the table, pounced on
the feather duster, and she, it, and the whole mess including sugar bowl,
newspaper, and milk, slid off the table and crashed into a heap at my
feet--on top of the two saucers of cat food.

I cleaned up for July 4th company last night and must have left the feather
duster hanging feathers down over the edge of the table. It's one of those
greeny-black ones, so I guess she might have been thinking "bird." Or, she
just wanted to see what happened if she tackled it.

Reply to this Message

Laura R. - 01 Jul 2004 17:35 GMT

circa Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:15:58 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Mary (rosefan@email.com) said,

> Making breakfast for the girls this morning, I looked down and only saw one
> intent fact staring up at me when I popped the lid. I put the food down.
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> greeny-black ones, so I guess she might have been thinking "bird." Or, she
> just wanted to see what happened if she tackled it.

She was helping you "clean". :-)

Laura

Signature

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde

Reply to this Message

Mary - 01 Jul 2004 23:26 GMT

"Laura R." <UseFirstInitialPlusRobinson@technologist.com> wrote > She was
helping you "clean". :-)

I bet. The resulting mess was not fun to look at, smell, or clean up at 8:30
in the morning. Eeyeu.

Reply to this Message

RobZip - 01 Jul 2004 23:46 GMT

> "Laura R." <UseFirstInitialPlusRobinson@technologist.com> wrote > She was
> helping you "clean". :-)
>
> I bet. The resulting mess was not fun to look at, smell, or clean up at 8:30
> in the morning. Eeyeu.

Reply to this Message

RobZip - 01 Jul 2004 23:53 GMT

> I cleaned up for July 4th company last night and must have left the feather
> duster hanging feathers down over the edge of the table.

Wow !! A rookie mistake and the opportunist got ya:). My son will get into
squabbles with the cats every so often. He comes in with some toy from a
birthday party or whatever with feathers on it and the cats *immediately*
pick up on it. As soon as he drops his guard one of them usually tears hell
out of whatever it was to take the feather.

Reply to this Message

Mary - 02 Jul 2004 02:09 GMT

> Wow !! A rookie mistake and the opportunist got ya:).

She did. :') She's a hellion.

> My son will get into squabbles with the cats every so >often. He comes in

with some toy from a birthday party >or whatever with feathers on it and the
cats *immediately*

> pick up on it.

What's kind of funny is I have left the pink one and the green one out with
no incident. But my brand new "mallard greeny-gold-black" one must have been
too birdlike, or maybe it just smelled new. I had just waxed the table, is
why everything, including the cat slid off. At least my day started with a
bang. And a crash.

Reply to this Message