Conversations with cats
Jennie and I will occasionally hold mock conversations with our cats. As in, one of us will ask the cat a question, and the other will supply the answer, usually speaking in a distinctive voice so we can tell it’s the “cat” talking.
Today at the store, Jennie got some of those magnetic letters that you can put on your refrigerator. Good cat toys. We got some a month or two ago, and they’re all missing now, most of them having been knocked under the stove or the refrigerator. Hence the need for refills.
So Jennie put the new letters on the fridge, and Sox immediately started leaping at them, pulling one down, batting it under the fridge, looking briefly forlorn that he couldn’t reach his toy anymore, and then pulling another one down to play with.
I was watching him do this, and I asked him, “What are you going to do when you’ve filled up all the space under the fridge, and there’s no room for any more letters under there?”
Jennie supplied the answer, in her best Sox voice: “I don’t know, Dad. I guess we’ll just have to get a new fridge.”
November 9th, 2004 at 6:15 am
Hey, Joe:
I’ve been to your place. . . You don’t have room for another fridge! Or have you moved? Say hello to Jennie & the cats (still 3?) for me. I loved the story, it’s a feel-good moment.
Charlie
November 9th, 2004 at 6:27 am
Actually, we’ve had our own refrigerator (in addition to the one that came with the kitchen wherever we were living) since a couple years before we moved to Omaha. When you were in our apartment, we had it in the second bedroom.
But we bought a house last July (http://blog.excastle.com/2004/07/02/joining-the-landed-gentry/). We had to take the refrigerator door off to get it out of the apartment, and now it’s sitting in our basement, still doorless. The owners left their kitchen fridge in the house, so we still have two. Sort of.
November 9th, 2004 at 6:28 am
Oh, and we have four cats now (Sox being the fourth). http://blog.excastle.com/2004/09/03/suckers-us/