Friday, December 17, 2010

Boredom

I don't know who the dude is, but that cat could pass for Cassidy.

Cooped up by cold weather and a foot of snow on the ground, the cats have been going slightly berserk. They have been climbing on everything, jumping up onto places they normally avoid and investigating things they have always ignored.

This morning Sundance went over to their food dish and carefully pawed one piece of dry food out onto the floor and ate it. She then repeated the entire operation a dozen times. I can only assume this is the feline equivalent of standing in front of an open refrigerator staring into it, hoping something you have missed will suddenly materialize.

Never happens, though, does it?

The good news is that Peter made it safely home last night. He has been gone for the past week and a half, and maybe the cats will find some amusement tormenting him for a change.

2 comments:

Sunny said...

Must be some sort of Psychic Cat Thing...ours is doing the EXACT same THING as y'alls!!

Did y'all put up a tree this year?
you know Cats dont take well to change and just the mere act of Christmas decorating as well as the snow could be making them go all Berserk-er on us!!!

Michael Dodd said...

We haven't put up the tree yet. All those years in the monastery -- where we took the Advent season seriously -- we never decorated for Christmas itself until after the last Sunday before. So I always restrain Tom's temptation to put up the tree in mid-October. We will put it up this weekend with the lights on it, but it will not be decorated until everybody shows up Christmas Eve. Doing it together -- which means sitting around visiting while a couple of people (Helen and Tom?) do the work -- is a family custom. I will post pictures if I get any decent ones. This is the Mexican Nochebuena year.