| Fun for dogs and cats of all ages.... |
| 01.06.05 (3:50 am) |
You know that game that kids play where they take ahold of a baseball bat and then go hand over hand until they reach the end? We play a version of that here. All you need is two cats and a Pomeranian. I'm the bat.
It starts whenever I let the dog come up on the bed. She then lays down on me. This is a signal to the cats that the game as begun. The goal now is to lay down on the best human real estate. Apparently, that is as close to my face as possible. But, you don't just plop down there. No, there is finesse and skill involved in this game. You lay down as close as possible to the animal already there but marginally closer to my face. The game moves on in fits and starts as the animal now farthest away gets up, walks around everyone else, and lays down closer to my face. It generally ends when Powder, the undisputed feline world champion of this game, lays down right across my face causing me to spit calico hair for hours.
As the vehicle for this game of unending fun I put one rule in place. No teeth, no claws. This is competitive, people. There needs to be limits. The cats love the dog. They think she is soft and cuddly and they want to pet her. The feeling is not mutual. I think this stems from the dog's knowledge that in an ideal world cats would not be bigger than her. So the cats rub up against her luxuriously and reach out and touch her fur with their paws. This just pisses her off. So she shows teeth. This has no effect on the cats whatsoever but since my body is the scene of the conflict I don't want it to escalate. Hence, the no teeth rule. But, sometimes when the cats are petting her, they just can't help it, the claws come out. If the claws come out then the dog is allowed to show teeth. She knows this corollary to the rule well. You can sometimes see her looking at the cats like, "Go ahead. Bring out the claws. Make my day." But most of the time she has to close her eyes and turn her head away because if she looks at them she'll just have to snap at the them. The only way to resist the temptation is to pretend they aren't even there.
This game can be made even more fun by the human trying to watch TV or for the ultimate in self-expression try to artisically crush the human's reading material while moving into position.
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posted by: newbie
post date: 01.06.05 (4:01 am)
Ha! So this is how it would be if my Jack Russell terrier evolved. Right now, he just plays "chew toy" with my cat, and she tries to turn it into hide-and-seek.
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