Comments on: Critter Quirks http://www.petsgardenblog.com/2006/04/19/critter-quirks/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: The Random Yak http://www.petsgardenblog.com/2006/04/19/critter-quirks/#comment-659 The Random Yak Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:24:10 +0000 http://www.petsgardenblog.com/2006/04/19/critter-quirks/#comment-659 Tigger's behavior may be disturbing, but it's making me feel (slightly) better about our own Willy-the-Bengal, who engages in many of the same behaviors. Mainly the soap thing. She's the first one in line to get in the bathroom when I'm finished in the morning, and she makes a beeline for the shower to see if, perchance, the soap was left within reach. If so, it's a regular festival of soap-licking (because it's apparently tastier wet and sudsy). We don't understand this but we, too, have learned to hide the soap. Body-slamming doors is also sadly familiar. We just don't close doors in our house anymore - bathroom excepted - and then it's a matter of sneaking in when the cat doesn't know you're in there or listening to her try to beat the door down until you open it again. Not that she wants IN, mind - she just needs the door open. Willy doesn't like to be picked up, though. Pick her up and she sets up a racket the likes of which you've never heard outside a zoo. Whining, growling, wailing, spitting - she sounds like a caged panther. Fortunately, she's all talk and no bite. But don't get me started on the cat puke... Tigger’s behavior may be disturbing, but it’s making me feel (slightly) better about our own Willy-the-Bengal, who engages in many of the same behaviors. Mainly the soap thing. She’s the first one in line to get in the bathroom when I’m finished in the morning, and she makes a beeline for the shower to see if, perchance, the soap was left within reach. If so, it’s a regular festival of soap-licking (because it’s apparently tastier wet and sudsy). We don’t understand this but we, too, have learned to hide the soap.

Body-slamming doors is also sadly familiar. We just don’t close doors in our house anymore - bathroom excepted - and then it’s a matter of sneaking in when the cat doesn’t know you’re in there or listening to her try to beat the door down until you open it again. Not that she wants IN, mind - she just needs the door open.

Willy doesn’t like to be picked up, though. Pick her up and she sets up a racket the likes of which you’ve never heard outside a zoo. Whining, growling, wailing, spitting - she sounds like a caged panther. Fortunately, she’s all talk and no bite.

But don’t get me started on the cat puke…

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