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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: socks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.172546.15132@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <609.235.uupcb@ggcs.org> <1992Dec25.095312.26020@thelema.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 17:25:46 GMT
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- >In article <609.235.uupcb@ggcs.org> dave.yuhas@ggcs.org (Dave Yuhas) writes:
- >MP>>Try putting a sock over your cat's head for a couple of minutes. It
- >MP>>doesn't know where the hell it's at, and it just sits there.
-
- >MP>What happenend when you took it off? Did it attack you?
- >MP>She was pissed and so was I.
- >
- ><FLAME ON>The person who suggested this is a sadist.<FLAME OFF>
-
- Personally, I think the definition is that if it doesn't hurt or scare the
- cat, it's a game.
-
- Both our cats have, at various times, got their heads stuck in an empty
- Kleenex box. Sort of like "Mr Canoe-head" :-). They didn't seem to like it
- much, but it didn't stop them from doing it again all by themselves.
-
- Abby likes to hang onto a dishtowel and be "whipped" around the kitchen
- linoleum floor.
-
- We have done the big brown paper bag trick (where you hold the bag open about
- three feet off the ground, wiggle and scratch your finger at the end of it,
- and when the cat jumps in, drop the bag) with both of them. They come back
- for more.
-
- We've done something like STella's "bumper cars" trick, too, and Abby *didn't
- want* to come out from underneath. She was having a great time patting around
- with her paw outside the box where she couldn't see what was poking it (us).
- We'll have to try "wokking the cat" :-).
-
- My husband loves to play "do your ears hang low" with Boots - though I gather
- she doesn't play it the way Buttons, the cat he grew up with, did: when it's
- all over, the cat is supposed to shake its head furiously. While she doesn't
- come back for more :-), she does sit still for it uncomplainingly.
-
- And I sure laughed the time Boots ran up the front path and bonked headfirst
- into the the glass door. She looked dazed, but she wasn't hurt.
-
- None of this means we're sadists. We love our kitties dearly, and it's quite
- clear to us that cats have a sense of fun. It would be more cruel not to have
- fun with them.
- --
- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
-