Critter Quirks
Tigger has a few quirks..
Well truth be told more than a few..
I was visiting with the Random Yak from the right side of the mountain
About critters and odd behavior..
Tigger is watching for the best opportunity to get BlackJack TheBlackLab
For instance because Tigger can vomit 4000 times his body weight..
We no longer use bar soap in our house, liquid in a pump
Thank you. It only took him eating 3 bars of soap for me to learn..
Yes I am quick..
Cat vomit always seems to land in the spot I am about to step into..
And body slamming doors..
if you dare close a door in our house, be
Prepared to stop what you’re doing and open it. Now. Immediately..
There is a cat door in our bedroom door now
Tigger likes to be under things, like the entire center of our bed,
He climbs up under the sheets ….
if you move .. he bites.. Hard
Its a Bengal game..
He also likes to lay in wait under the bed skirts..
he never ever misses..
Bloody toes are pretty common,
as are Tigger ya little .. well fill in the blank..
But he is a lover and snuggle honey…
Has a purr that once you learn to breathe under his weight parked directly on your chest..
Guaranteed to put you to sleep..
Dang Cats!
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…