Jan 12 2009
Pets Should come with a Warning Label!
A pet is a wonderful thing, usually! Sometimes they can really try your patience and your sinuses.
Having two large dogs and three cats, (two full time residents and one revolving tenant), in a small house is both a blessing and a curse.
How one little cat can produce that much gastric mustard gas is beyond me….
A black dog in a dark hallway in the middle of the night has caused a few intense moments, you hear the crash and wait for the scream. If neither human or animals wakes up the house screaming, then the emergency room has not managed another financial victim…. Large dogs do not move just because you think they should and may even raise their heads to insure you trip over them.
A cat we used to have invented a new game, it had two players, her and me. It involved bed time ritualistically, and every night we got to play. I would lay down to sleep and this scrawny little four pound cat would start out in the far side of the house, rampaging through her way through it, sounding like an elephant, shaking the floor and walls, and leaping onto the bed. Then she would stop and very slowly and carefully prod me with a paw, checking to see if I dared sleep through her self made earthquake. Being a master of timing, she would wait patiently, and the paw would return ever so lightly just as I was about to drift off…
Her name was Noel, and she loved to sleep on top of me, that little cat felt like she weighed a hundred pounds and I would push her off unless I was asleep. Her vastly superior feline intellect created a game intended to torture me for my trouble.
This game was played every night until we lost her in a move, a very sad time, and strangely enough I truly miss her.
Thomas H. Forthe
