Hunter hangs around in strange places. Sometimes he is curled up in the bathroom sink or jumps up on the kitchen stove, then to the top of the refrigerator, and then onto the top of the kitchen cabinets and stares down at me washing dishes.
In winter I cover the firewood with a tarp to keep the rain and snow away and Hunter crawls under the tarp and if one didn’t know better they’d think there was a ghost under the tarp because the surface moves as he crawls along.
When I come back from the store shopping if he is in the driveway he ambles across like an old man and I must blow the horn to chase him out of the way or if he is close by when I come home I’ll blow the horn and he runs up and sits at the front door waiting for it to open then after five minutes he sits by the front door crying to go out.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Hunter and catnip
Have a high school friend who said “feral cats do not become housebroken cats” but that’s not a 100% true. Another friend sent Hunter a Christmas present. Catnip in one of those colorful gift bags which I left on the steps. After two weeks Hunter got nosey because when I came down the stairs there was catnip all over the steps so I sat on the steps and watched him roll in it, taste it, and then he rolled off the step. I cleaned it up and put the bag back on the step.
A couple of days later a bigger mess. So I ordered some catnip on E-Bay and when it came I put the plastic bag on the kitchen counter. I was reading at the table and Hunter jumped up then put his nose in the air and was sniffing and before I could grab the bag he tried to jump over to the counter and using a chair back as a spring because the counter was 5 feet from the table, and he landed on the floor. I put the bag on the floor and he rolled all around it, held it between his paws, licked the bag and everything a cat would do when intoxicated by catnip. I put it in a draw because I’d hate for him to open that bag. Every time I am reading at the table I get out the bag and put it on the floor and watch foolish Hunter rolling around and mugging it. He is housebroken in that sense but still prefers to be outside.
A couple of days later a bigger mess. So I ordered some catnip on E-Bay and when it came I put the plastic bag on the kitchen counter. I was reading at the table and Hunter jumped up then put his nose in the air and was sniffing and before I could grab the bag he tried to jump over to the counter and using a chair back as a spring because the counter was 5 feet from the table, and he landed on the floor. I put the bag on the floor and he rolled all around it, held it between his paws, licked the bag and everything a cat would do when intoxicated by catnip. I put it in a draw because I’d hate for him to open that bag. Every time I am reading at the table I get out the bag and put it on the floor and watch foolish Hunter rolling around and mugging it. He is housebroken in that sense but still prefers to be outside.
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