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After sitting on my black kitten on my bed for the third time this week, I just replaced my dark brown blanket with a green quilt.
Mornings are always dangerous here as well. As soon as my feet hit the floor, I am surrounded by my two kittens who seem hell-bent on being stepped on and/or making me stumble and bang in to walls to avoid stepping on them. I have now started shuffling my feet from the bed to the kitchen to get their food as I would rather accidentally kick them gently than step on them.
My aunt tripped going down the basement stairs, and actually killed her kitten when she landed (on him). So I guess there is something worse.
But yeah, I know what you mean! Dogs in particular act like it's the worst pain in the world, even when you barely tap them... such drama queens, they are.
Oh yes the joys of cat angst...my cat liked to lay on top of the refrigerator where he didn't belong and got his foot caught in the door. He howled as if someone were skinning him alive. (He wasn't hurt, it happened frequently he was playing to the audience - namely my mom.) My mom went to sympathize with him, reached up to pat his poor paw....
He laid his ears back, glared at her as if to say, 'HOW DARE YOU?' drew his paw back, and with a slap that was audible hit her on the hand!
I laughed so hard tears came to my eyes. I told her he was an ungrateful wretch! They're both long gone now but ah, the memory still makes me smile...
After sitting on my black kitten on my bed for the third time this week, I just replaced my dark brown blanket with a green quilt.
Mornings are always dangerous here as well. As soon as my feet hit the floor, I am surrounded by my two kittens who seem hell-bent on being stepped on and/or making me stumble and bang in to walls to avoid stepping on them. I have now started shuffling my feet from the bed to the kitchen to get their food as I would rather accidentally kick them gently than step on them.
Mine are adult but I find that shuffling is the safest thing to do at night and anytime I'm not sure where each one is at the moment. I keep night lights in every room and a lamp on in the bathroom. But even with night lights it's easy to miss a cat and they love placing themselves on kitchen rugs or any scatter rug. Another reason for the night lights is my old girl. Her vision has diminished just like us old folks and with her CRF condition, she has to go often.
What's worse is pushing a door shut behind you without noticing your cat running toward it.
Happily this has never happened with the "grrrrlz" - yet. And the one time it did occur during Weasie's 19 years with me there was an unexpected positive consequence. Following an absence of several days she had returned home with a noticeable limp - turned out she'd been playing mountain climber again and fallen earthward from a tree branch that couldn't support her weight. Dutiful stepdad rushed her to the vet, who said the dislocated hip would heal itself naturally to some extent over time. A week or so after this episode, I wasn't looking down when I walked into the house after work and closed the door. SHRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!! !!!! Unnoticed, Weasie had sought to run outside. The steel-reinforced door had pinned her hindquarters against the door frame. Fasterthanthis I flung the door open. Lo and behold - with ears flattened against her head (of course) Weasie ran down the front steps with her injured hip completely knocked back into place! Instant chiropractic work! I likened it to the home remedy for a toothache, where you tie one end of a string around the base of the affected tooth and the other to a doorknob and you know the rest.
I'll never forget that shriek, though. It communicated real pain and zero drama.
^^ What a story!
Mickey did sneak through a door as I closed it a couple of years ago. It was a door you have to close hard to get it to latch and I caught his poor tail in it. The memory makes me cringe, as I can almost feel the pain myself every time I think of it. It took longer for him to forgive this than an accidental tromp on the toes! He hid from me for a while. But he did forgive, with much coaxing. The only unintended benefit of that was that he's never tried to sneak into the garage again! Which is, of course a very good thing considering the dangers of the cars.
I trip over them, and just the other day I accidentally stepped on Ophelia's tail in the sunroom. In my defense, I had my hands full of cat food bowls and I hadn't even been awake more than 15 minutes. She groused, I groused right back, we both apologized, and all is forgiven. With 22 little ones underfoot here, rarely a day goes by that somebody doesn't have something to complain to me about!!! I got used to it long ago....
Mine are adult but I find that shuffling is the safest thing to do at night and anytime I'm not sure where each one is at the moment. I keep night lights in every room and a lamp on in the bathroom. But even with night lights it's easy to miss a cat and they love placing themselves on kitchen rugs or any scatter rug. Another reason for the night lights is my old girl. Her vision has diminished just like us old folks and with her CRF condition, she has to go often.
Welcome to my home! I do the same thing =) I had a big, black cat that taught me the value of night lights He liked to lay on the dark green carpeted stairs at night. I used to tell my family that my obit would read, 'Woman dies by misadventure, cat found smirking, no foul play suspected.' He was so funny, he'd be very indignant when someone, usually me, tripped over him. He always moved when we were going down the stairs but wouldn't budge if we were going UP. Now we have nightlights in almost every outlet.
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Instant chiropractic work! I likened it to the home remedy for a toothache, where you tie one end of a string around the base of the affected tooth and the other to a doorknob and you know the rest.
