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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Cats are dumb.



Monday, January 23, 2006  

Cats are dumb.


As a sort of follow up to my weekend blog comments about silly cats, consider this. Jinxie's collar was snagged on some fur or something, and she kept kicking at it. So I took it off for a minute, and she at first recoiled in horror, then sneaked up and batted at it, before biting it and knocking it around the floor for 10 minutes. She's now carrying it around in her mouth and leaping onto furniture while Dusty pursues her, trying to see what she's got. True, her thick fur pretty well swallows up the collar, and it's not like cats are checking themselves out in the mirror, but come on... she's been wearing this thing for 2 years; shouldn't she have some idea what it is once it's not around her throat?

I just took off Dusty's for the sake of comparison, and while Jinx is too enthralled with the red strip of fabric to notice, Dusty is hunching over his own blue collar and sniffing it with endless fascination. "Why it smells just like me? Whatever could it be?"

The saddest cat collar story ever though, is my mom's. Her two cats were super hyper one night, racing around the bedroom and generally refusing to settle down. The bell and tag each sported on their collars were making so much noise that mom couldn't sleep, so half-asleep she took off the collars, stuck them somewhere, and has never seen them since. I'd previously figured mom lost them, but watching Jinxie attack and throw around her collar, I suspect mom's cats got their own collars and carried them off to the back of a closet or something.
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Best part yet: I took off both collars, joined them together (they're safety catch collars that just pull apart with pressure, so your cats won't choke themselves) and put them on Dusty like a bandito, around one front arm and his shoulder. He's now backing in small circles, looking confused.

I'll try it on Jinxie later, if I can get her to hold still. She's too hyper now and when I put the collars around her chest she leaps and kicks like a donkey, reminding me that she's well overdue for a claw trimming.


 

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