August 20, 2005
Zoe
Zoe will try to get behind the TV or computer monitor to get something she has seen on the screen. I can see a kind of cat logic in that and would like to believe that she is fairly intelligent.
She also thinks it's her job to defend cartons of soft drinks. She'll hide nearby and rush up and grab your hand as you reach into the carton. She's not as bad about this as she used to be. Now it's just a random thing and that makes it worse, you never know when it's coming. The other two cats prefer empty cartons so they can crawl inside. I don't know why Zoe wants to keep them full. This makes me re-evaluate my estimate of her intelligence. Or her sanity.
How can you really tell if a cat is sane? Every one that I've known has been, um, quirky.
Zoe is also a thief with an attraction to make-up brushes, things made of leather, and anything frilly or feathery (half of the stuff in my nine-year-old daughter's room fits in the last category). She has opened my purse to get out make-up brushes and taken gloves out of my coat pockets. It's annoying but not too bad unless she decides to leave her "find" in the cats' water bowl.
Posted by marybeth at August 20, 2005 03:36 AM CatsZoe looks remarkably like the late Cassie, who in this life was my cat.
It was she who convinced me that no cat is sane- unless I as blind to the little Martians who used to hover around the living room ceiling in their tiny flying saucers, whom Cassie would faithfully keep under surveillence whenever they'd appear.
Unless she was urinating on the dining room rug.
Posted by Bob Waters at August 20, 2005 04:34 AMOne of our other cats, Zelda, has taken it as her duty to protect us from unseen things. She does an excellent job of it too. So far, we haven't been attacked by any invisible invaders.
Posted by marybeth at August 20, 2005 11:34 AM