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- From: davispa@OHSU.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: The Cure-All for Kitten Rambunxiousness
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.234756.28965@ohsu.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:47:56 GMT
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- Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University
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- Hello All --
- This is the Cure-All for the following ailments of which we suffer:
- 1) Kittens that chew at your toes
- 2) Kittens that chew at your heels
- 3) Kittens that chew on socks (not presidential) knowing full well there
- are feet inside
- 4) Kittens that climb your jeans knowing full well there are legs inside
- 5) Kittens that have motor-paws
- 6) Kittens that claw your furniture until you say "NO" until you're blue in
- the face and end up gluing them to the scratching post
- 7) Kittens that climb on furniture you don't want them to be on
- 8) Kittens that jump on the dinner table and kitchen counters
- 9) Kittens that do all of the above and more while you're trying to eat
- dinner
- 10) Kittens that mischieviously get into cabinets and closits while you're
- trying to compute, and make you get up out of your chair to put them straight
- because "NO" means nothing
-
- So, by now you are all wondering what will cure these and millions of other
- ailments with which we seem to be tolerantly and patiently cursed by our
- everloving and unending affectionate friends.
-
- This will only cost you about 69 cents for the cheap ones and can cost about
- $1.10 for the not-so-cheap ones about every 4 days or so -- and then again, the
- cost may rise depending on how many you buy at once and how thirsty you are.
- You must purchase a plastic gallon jug of water from the grocery store -- the
- ones with the blue, red or green lids -- and when the symptoms begin to persist
- at a basically annoying level -- pull the little rip-chord and dangle it in
- front of the unsuspecting angels -- just out of reach for a few seconds -- make
- the sweet things jump for it -- and then drop it in a location that is visible
- to you (only so you can laugh histerically while you watch them play).
-
- I swear they will be occupied for at least 10 to 15 minutes straight. They
- will hear nothing or see nothing. It's uncanny -- it's like they're
- hypnotized.
-
- So, if you want a breather from what ails you -- the cure is colored
- rip-chords from the water jugs. Of course they are good only as long as they
- are visible to the kittens. The minute they disappear under the couch or under
- the refridgerator, those annoying symptoms reoccur -- and then you're stuck
- until you clean your floors or go shopping (I personally like shopping better
- than cleaning, but that's another story).
-
- By the way, this is by no means a cure exclusive to kittens -- they all love
- to play rip-chord.
-
- P.S. "NO" may be beginning to have some impact, because 9-week-old Thove
- (short for Beethoven) is actually hesitating and looking at me when I point at
- him and say a firm "NO" -- that lasts for about 2 seconds, though. Maybe the
- seconds will turn into "forever" sooner or later.
- (ha, ha)
-
- Cheers to everyone from Pamela
- Oregon Health Sciences University
- respond to post or my e-mail at davispa@OHSU.edu
-