The towel thief of Beech street.
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pen_gruntCaution: Cat story ahead.
Our youngest cat has started this insanely annoying habit. On Monday when I got home from work, I noticed that all our flour-sack-material dish towels were on the floor in the basement. I thought that, since Derrick had done laundry on Sunday, he had left them there until he could fold them and bring them to the kitchen (all the other laundry goes on a different level, so it would have been semi-logical to leave these behind). I diligently folded the clean towels and carried them to the kitchen, where I put them in their beside-the-sink cubby.
I continued on with my run (down on the treadmill in the basement). During a pause in the workout, I noticed that I had missed a towel. Funny. I folded it and put it back upstairs. A while later, I see Puck bounding down the stairs with a towel in his mouth. This towel, though not heavy, is probably as big as he is. He carries it all over the basement before deciding to play with it--tossing it up in the air and catching it, then batting it around.
When this towel ceases to amuse him, he trots back upstairs and retrieves another one. This continues throughout my run until all our dish towels are downstairs on the floor. I think it's just a weird thing he did once, so after my run I fold them up and put them back in the cubby--shoving them waaaay back in the compartment. We also have a hand-towel on the oven handle--I see it on the floor and the oven is open. I shut the oven and put the towel back.
I think we all know where this is going. Dish towels have become Puck's new favorite thing. Every single day this week I've come home to a pile of dish towels on the basement floor. He carries them around in his mouth like they're something he caught and killed. Dish towels.
I'd be more concerned, I think, if I weren't so amused. This also explains why I haven't moved the towels yet and why I keep putting them back--I kind of want to see if this is a phase, or if this is a new, yet ongoing, amusement. And yes, we give them plenty of cat toys. This is the same as a toddler ignoring a present because they like the wrapping paper.
*sigh*
Our youngest cat has started this insanely annoying habit. On Monday when I got home from work, I noticed that all our flour-sack-material dish towels were on the floor in the basement. I thought that, since Derrick had done laundry on Sunday, he had left them there until he could fold them and bring them to the kitchen (all the other laundry goes on a different level, so it would have been semi-logical to leave these behind). I diligently folded the clean towels and carried them to the kitchen, where I put them in their beside-the-sink cubby.
I continued on with my run (down on the treadmill in the basement). During a pause in the workout, I noticed that I had missed a towel. Funny. I folded it and put it back upstairs. A while later, I see Puck bounding down the stairs with a towel in his mouth. This towel, though not heavy, is probably as big as he is. He carries it all over the basement before deciding to play with it--tossing it up in the air and catching it, then batting it around.
When this towel ceases to amuse him, he trots back upstairs and retrieves another one. This continues throughout my run until all our dish towels are downstairs on the floor. I think it's just a weird thing he did once, so after my run I fold them up and put them back in the cubby--shoving them waaaay back in the compartment. We also have a hand-towel on the oven handle--I see it on the floor and the oven is open. I shut the oven and put the towel back.
I think we all know where this is going. Dish towels have become Puck's new favorite thing. Every single day this week I've come home to a pile of dish towels on the basement floor. He carries them around in his mouth like they're something he caught and killed. Dish towels.
I'd be more concerned, I think, if I weren't so amused. This also explains why I haven't moved the towels yet and why I keep putting them back--I kind of want to see if this is a phase, or if this is a new, yet ongoing, amusement. And yes, we give them plenty of cat toys. This is the same as a toddler ignoring a present because they like the wrapping paper.
*sigh*
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Date: 2007-10-24 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-24 04:45 pm (UTC)Either that, or there's a map to an alien tower in my basement right now...
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Date: 2007-10-24 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-24 05:14 pm (UTC)"But it's cute!" Has become the excuse for allowing "bad" behavior. The cats like to pop their heads up and steal a rubber band lying too close to the edge of the table, then quickly pop back down? Well, they're not supposed to, but it's so CUTE...
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Date: 2007-10-24 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-24 09:05 pm (UTC)