How do they KNOW?!
picture (click on it to make it a little bigger…) is of my neighbor’s cat - mighty max. mighty max is an outside kitty and he got ear mites last year - BAD. my neighbor and her husband have a construction company and are extremely busy… so i offered to take the big boy to my most bodacious vet for treatment.
mighty max has never ever EVER gotten on the roof. EVER. however, the morning i was to take him to the vet, i went outside to fetch him - he’s very easily fetched by the way - but he was nowhere to be found. i looked everywhere. i finally looked… UP. he was looking at me from the roof with this glint in his eye … like - hahaha! you foolish human you! i could NOT believe it. i had to call my neighbor out… she was simply amazed he was up there.
so, the vet visit for that morning got cancelled! i made it for the next day, fetched him up that evening at his dinner hour, and kept him in a carrier overnight. he didn’t like it, i didn’t like it, but the little beastie got to the doc the next morning!
once, i was looking for one of mine to take to the doc. looked everywhere. got serious about looking EVERYWHERE. there was not one place in my house that was not looked in, under, or over. or rummaged through! i had to cancel the appointment.
not five minutes later i walk through the living room and there he was. sitting in the middle of the coffee table… i swear… laughing at me, ok? laughing!
if i have a syringe with medicine in it that has someone’s name on it, i’ll hide it in my pocket… nonchalantly go through the house, talking to myself, looking around harmlessly, and the very cat i need to medicate takes one look at me and bolts! everyone else is sitting around taking it all in, ignoring me, doing their kitty cat things, thinking their kitty cat thoughts.. but the very one i NEED just KNOWS! how how how!?
i think they’re pyschic (psycho?!) … seriously.
*here’s a link to a previous post that i thought was good that you might be interested in… they really like these! http://www.weheartcats.com/homemade-kitty-treats/
*and a fellow blogger’s very excellent post about off season nesting houses for birds!http://www.backyardbirdingblog.com/off-season-nesting-boxes/
November 17th, 2007 at 8:23 am
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November 19th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I thought I knew all of my cat’s hiding spots until another apartment in our building caught fire. Fortunately, Brody finally came out on his own, after what felt like an eternal frantic search. We still don’t know where he could have been — it was only a small studio apartment. I have since concluded he has a touch of Houdini in him — I swear, the cat can levitate.