Comments on: My cat is a climber.

By: Dave Vogt

Dave Vogt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:26:03 +0000

There will never be a cat daycare. Cats wanna do their own shit, and fuck you if you don’t wanna be involved. They’ll do their shit without you then, cunt. Just don’t be coming around expecting the cat to give a damn when suddenly you wanna be like “yeah but I feed you so you have to let me pet you” because you have to do that shit, otherwise it’s like, child abuse and they’ll just call CPS or SPCA or whatever.

I’m sorry, I don’t know where that came from.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:53:11 +0000

Cats know how to minimize even momentary awkwardness.

Well said.

Would that we all had that gift, she muttered (thinking, as so often, of herself).

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:36:42 +0000

Oh! I know that twist you speak of, Sheila. It’s like seeing a person open an umbrella in a high wind, and you know what’s going to happen–but then it doesn’t. Cats know how to minimize even momentary awkwardness.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:34 +0000

Daryl! You must meet Lena!

She descends a tree as quick as one-two-three. She shinnies partway down, then does a beautiful three-quarter twist and flings herself to the ground.

I have seen her do this from a point quite high up the trunk of a tree!

She is not. I imagine, an economically theoretical animal — of any stripe.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:22:01 +0000

I’m intrigued by the way cats can’t get down from the tree until they see a ladder they don’t want. Somehow I think this could be applied to economic theory.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:58:08 +0000

The cinder path of wrath

— I like that.

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:44:05 +0000

Look what I just found

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:34:11 +0000

The best is that moment when they stop abruptly and look distractedly about, as if to say, “How did I get here?”

Lena, too, gallops. She must be related to yours.

By: Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:25:41 +0000

Our cats climb trees too, they race up, then get this look on their faces like they can’t remember what they needed to do there, and sort of fall down. Yes, it is like the Road Runner. They also gallop. I have never seen cats gallop like our cats gallop. They gallop.