Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for January 10, 2022

Wanna bet.

It is one of many methods to get at your food.

Showing affection for your food, that is.

My cat’s a hoot ‘darting’ past at lighting speed as a walk into the room. Great entertainment for both of us!

Ah, yes…something else I don’t miss about having cats.

My cat would learn of other, less obtrusive ways of showing affection.

Thank you Mr Cat Whisperer

cats have a sense of humor too

Well, they does it on purr-pose.

Cats have four legs and a great sense of balance. They don’t understand the concept of tripping, or how the big can-opening apes they live with manage to do it.

LOL!

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Are the cats trying to trip you up?

The cats are under the kotatsu this morning. They are too cozy to trip you up. But if you sit down at it and put your legs underneath they will attack your toes.

They have managed to fool her, anyway.

Actually, they are rubbing their scent on you, marking you as one of their possessions.

It can be a form of dance. My cat rubs the outside of my leg as I pat her back. Then she passes between my legs. I turn around and she rubs the outside of my leg on the other side, as I give her a stroke. Then, she passes between my legs, again. All that’s lacking is the docey-doe. :)

That’s how I wound up with a fracture in my shoulder!

My late wife finally got the Oriental Shorthair cats she wanted a few months before her death. We were convinced that they were trying to trip us and make us fall down the stairs all of the time. One of the fears I had was that they would trip MIL who had dementia and didn’t see well. Luckily they never tripped her, sadly she died last year as well. And they are still trying to trip me.

Purrfect!

I’m never all that sure about that!

Love it Mark – I do think they do it on purpose, to get the food we drop.

ROFL…..to see the little cat with it’s leg stuck out!

Don’t count on it!

Would you believe that they wouldn’t trip you if they didn’t like you?

Yeah, of course not!