carmen_lj: (doctor - kitten cuteness)
[personal profile] carmen_lj
I did sort of promise myself that I wouldn't tell any stories about teh kitten, because.

However, I've just seen my darling Theo take a run and leap at the glass door in the hall. And I'm informed that earlier today she was watching the spin cycle and decided that a run and jump into the washing machine was a good idea. She bounced off the door, ran up my sister and clung, terrifed, to her shoulder.

Shoulders, btw, are her favourite place for sleeping, resting, cleaning and, I'm sure if we could get a food bowl to settle there, eating. How does she get there? If you're sitting down, it's ninja stealth and a quick scramble (she's sitting on mine right now, snuffling in my ear.) If you're standing and wearing jeans then she'll sneak behind your legs, climb up to your waist in a flash and then go for your top. Wearing jeans around kitten = dangerous, dude.

On the bright side, it seems she has zero interest in curtains, which makes a nice change.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] fannishnonsense
This post is why kittens > humans.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:39 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (Default)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
I can't even be annoyed at her! She cheats by making adorable snuffly noises!

Date: 2007-08-12 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] and-i.livejournal.com
*flails at all the cute*

Date: 2007-08-12 11:40 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (ds9 - dress up)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
I believe her cuteness is merely a part of her cunning plan of something or other, yes.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purple-smurf.livejournal.com
I'm kind of sitting here making tiny longing noises at how friggin cute your kitten is. And looking at my own, much larger, kitty in a way that makes him a little scared... I think I need to harass him now.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
In my house kittens harrass peoples. Or, at least, decides that her plan for the day is to spot a human and bound over and try and trip them up. If they walk away, repeat! And again! until the human gives you undivided attention and love. Curse this cunning.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purple-smurf.livejournal.com
My cat is like that, except on his terms. Right now he's asleep, and won't appreciate being woken because I want to play with him!

Date: 2007-08-13 12:01 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
Two out of three are generally yay attention even when they're woken up, the vain ickle things what they are. I assume.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:16 pm (UTC)
evil_plotbunny: A bunny goes where a bunny must (bun)
From: [personal profile] evil_plotbunny
Hee.

My rabbit doesn't climb up me...unless I pick him up and then he'll find the easiest way of escape which is often onto my shoulder and down my back.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
Theo is not for escaping so much as Clinging To Clothing As Though for her life.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arefadedaway.livejournal.com
I really ought to move past my inability to do anything but make silly baby noises and say "Eee, kitten!" in replies.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
She totally GUILTS ME ALL THE TIME BY CUTENESS.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:45 pm (UTC)
ext_939: Sheep wearing an eyepatch (spiralsheep Ram Raider mpfc)
From: [identity profile] spiralsheep.livejournal.com
One of my friends has taught his ickle kitten to fetch. I put it to you that any kitten which can't perform such a simple task is, in fact, broken. ::runs away and hides::

Date: 2007-08-12 11:47 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (brig - with sunglasses!)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
I put it to you that any kitten who will do as it's told has been reading a bit too much about puppies.

Date: 2007-08-12 11:58 pm (UTC)
ext_939: Sheep wearing an eyepatch (spiralsheep Ram Raider mpfc)
From: [identity profile] spiralsheep.livejournal.com
I put it to you that your puttingness is extremely unlikely due to shockingly high rates of feline illiteracy.

Date: 2007-08-13 12:03 am (UTC)
ext_17485: (Default)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
I put it to you that the feline education system is top-notch and cats merely feign ignorance when humans are around.

Date: 2007-08-13 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitkatdoll.livejournal.com
Oh the little bundle!!!! Cuteness overload! I wants one. Purdy has now got very suspicious and jealous of this and has come over to buffett me to death with her head.

Ohhhh but Theo sounds beautifully dappy in that kitteny way and the snuffling in the ear is just a CRUEL TRICK to lure you into a false sense of security so she and her feline kinda can TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH TEH CUTE.

Date: 2007-08-13 03:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
is just a CRUEL TRICK to lure you into a false sense of security so she and her feline kinda can TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH TEH CUTE.

I SUSPECTED AS MUCH!

Date: 2007-08-13 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitkatdoll.livejournal.com
They are Machiavellian overlords, these kittens. Even the 10 year old one that's trying to pretend to be asleep in the chair alongside me. She's constantly plotting my downfall...usually by running between me legs as I walk through the house so I fall over.

Date: 2007-08-13 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capriuni.livejournal.com
AAAAWWWWWW....

Aawwww....

aaawwww...

(giggle, take deep breath, repeat):

AAAAAWWWWWW....

You need a theo icon.

Date: 2007-08-13 03:33 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (Default)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
I shall endeavour to create one, yes.

Date: 2007-08-13 06:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whatho.livejournal.com
Oh, kittens. Slightly great. It's unsettlingly tempting to just watch them randomly terrifying themselves because they do it so engagingly. And probably it's a learning process. My first kitten that was properly mine flung herself paw pads first at the glass window on a wood-burning stove. Only the once.

Date: 2007-08-13 03:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
Ouch! One of the grown-up ones once decided to jump in the bath whilst a kitten, when the sister was in it. Cue many a shriek and much splashing of water. This did not happen twice.
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Date: 2007-08-13 03:35 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (Default)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
She LEAPS ON YOU AND SCRAMBLES UP and it's so quick and I was in my pyjamas and oh, her wee claws.

Date: 2007-08-13 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] --kali--.livejournal.com
But tales of adventurous cats are always the best. Does Theo fight the strange kitten in the mirror?

Date: 2007-08-13 04:27 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (Default)
From: [identity profile] calapine.livejournal.com
I read once that cats don't see their reflection properly or some such.

She does seem determined to believe that transparent things are not actually there however.

Date: 2007-08-13 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bonniegeorge.livejournal.com
The question, really, is whether cats are self-aware, and judging by their personality one would naturally assume that they are - at least in the classical sense of the phrase. It is this strong likelihood that is usually regarded to be the reason that both cats and, generally speaking, dogs show little interest in their mirror images, rather than any such theory about poor eyesight.

So say psychologists and the like, though really *I'm* not entirely convinced by these claims of probity.

Date: 2007-08-13 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
My cat is smarter than I am. Otherwise he wouldn't BE ABLE TO FORCE ME TO FEED HIM AND PET HIM AND SUCH BY PURRING IN MY EAR. Cats truly are adorable little Machiavels.

Date: 2007-08-13 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] --kali--.livejournal.com
Yes. They do that. Even when they're grown up they do it.

Date: 2007-08-13 07:57 pm (UTC)
fyrdrakken: (Kitty has a Doctor)
From: [personal profile] fyrdrakken
Shoulders are not bad. Even if the kitty doesn't outgrow the perch, it's not too unmanageable to have a cat on a shoulder. (One of mine used to curl up on my cleavage as a kitten, and he had very much outgrown the available space before he gave up on it. This led to him nearly suffocating me a few times when he went for his accustomed ledge while I was actually lying down and wound up draping himself across my neck...)

Date: 2007-08-14 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marymac.livejournal.com
Hee. Shoulders. My aunt's huge ginger tomcat jumps from the top of the Jeep onto my uncle's shoulder and well, Tully's not a big guy, and Jerry is a BIG cat and if he gets up enough momentum he can actually take the poor man down.

Date: 2007-08-15 04:39 pm (UTC)
fyrdrakken: (Kitty)
From: [personal profile] fyrdrakken
True, most shoulder-kitties don't have the puma-taking-down-a-deer weight advantage -- but even a small cat can bring you down if they get underfoot. (One of ours has a positive affinity for ankles and thinks I'm an utter idiot for tripping over a black cat in a darkened hallway when she was lurking just outside the bathroom door. She throws herself at my feet walking up to the front door, too, and tends to rush in front of me and then put on the brakes.)

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