Cats are jerks

Isabeau

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Was thinking on getting a tree this year, first time in a very long whîle, idk I’m in the mood for jolly. For some reason, I completely forgot about the little monster that shares my living quarters. What to do, what to do…
 

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Ours mostly ignore the tree. We do get a substantial tree so the danger of it falling over is slight. But we put some ornaments near the bottom that they like and they appreciate the fir flavored water bowl.
 

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So last night was a complete debacle. One of the cats jumped up on a shelf where Mrs. Beebo had set her Memory Tree -- a small artificial Christmas tree hung with ornaments commemorating our past pets. Tree went crashing down to the floor, a few of the ceramic ornaments shattered, others were damaged. Days of creative work, one-of-a-kind custom ornaments, all lost.

My dear wife was livid, and since I'm the "cat person" to her "dog person", there wasn't anything I could say. I just swept up the pieces, tried to look equally grief-stricken (which, quite honestly, I'm not), and kept my mouth shut. I also kept my mouth shut this morning when we woke up to find that one the dogs had been sick all over her crate (because she WILL eat the cat poop in the back yard). I bagged up the rug and crate pillow and threw them out, then started cleaning liquid poop off the wood floor under the crate.

This is why we can't have nice things. Unlike my wife, I made peace with that a long time ago.
 

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Shattered Ornaments and Liquid Poop:
The Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut


A new relationship help book by the well respected author Ms. Beebo LeBeebo. Out now, just in time for Christmas!
 

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Kitty Kitty Tavi!

If you read the old books of natural history, you will find they say that when the mongoose fights the snake and happens to get bitten, he runs off and eats some herb that cures him. That is not true. The victory is only a matter of quickness of eye and quickness of foot, -- snake's blow against mongoose's jump, -- and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake's head when it strikes, that makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb. Rikki-tikki knew he was a young mongoose, and it made him all the more pleased to think that he had managed to escape a blow from behind. It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted.