I just love how Mel will thumb her nose at fresh, untouched Friskies, but will eat day-old Pet Pride that was half-eaten by Pepper. Mel likes ghetto food.
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Flying Omelette |
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I buy this really cheap cat food (Pet Pride, I think it's called) for Pepper's breakfast. Pepper almost never finishes all of it, and Mel finishes up
whatever she leaves.
I just love how Mel will thumb her nose at fresh, untouched Friskies, but will eat day-old Pet Pride that was half-eaten by Pepper. Mel likes ghetto food. |
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Flying Omelette |
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Mel did something she has never done before!
She walked up to me while I was in the kitchen and was purring and rubbing up against my legs. I couldn't resist. Even though I know she hates it, I leaned over and picked her up.... But she didn't get upset! She continued purring in my arms and was looking all around. She even started purring more loudly. She eventually got fidgety when Pepper walked in the room, so I put her down. Then I gave her a kitty treat for being so good. Normally, Caramel cries and struggles and even tries to nip if you pick her up. She's never been that good for me before. I wonder if Mel is just more receptive to being picked up when she's in a loving mood to begin with. |
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I also wonder if she's learning from seeing us pick up Pepper? (say, learning that it's not so bad to be picked up) Maybe she even gets jealous when we
pick up Pepper and shower her with affection.
"Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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Flying Omelette |
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Mel just LOVES those little pink plastic balls. Yesterday, she played almost all day with them, like a one-kitty soccer team. She has four of them, but at
least three have gone missing. I'll have to look around for them. When the one she's currently playing with gets stuck or lost, she'll start crying
until I find it for her.
She must have really worn herself out playing all day yesterday because both Mel and Pepper are curled up on the bed asleep. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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One way to let Mel play with her pink plastic balls with less chance of her losing them is to put them in her Cheese Chaser. Actually, she has accidentally
done that herself somehow. She seems more interested in it when the pink ball is in there, maybe because she has intuition that she should be able to get the
pink one out.
"Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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Flying Omelette |
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I just wish Mel and Pepper could learn to play with the balls together. Sometimes, Pepper does like chasing after balls, but mostly those fabric catnip-treated
balls.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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Well, they have totally different goals in their play. Caramel wants to run around really fast. Pepper likes the catnip ones because, well, they have catnip,
but also because they're covered in fabric, so she can hold and bite them.
"Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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Flying Omelette |
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Pepper has a specific way of playing with toys, too. She likes to walk over top of a toy, lie down completely on top of it, roll over onto her side, and then
start kicking at it and biting it.
Mel only sometimes does that with her catnip toys, like the bananas or the cigar. She did that with the cigar this morning. I went over to pet both of them. They both woke up, started purring, then sat up and cleaned themselves....and then they promptly curled up and went back to sleep again. Lazy kitties. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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We came home tonight, and the kitties tried to great us. Then Caramel smelled Pepper, and Pepper smelled Caramel. Then they smelled each other
simultaneously. It looked like things were about to be very cute, but then Caramel wrapped her arms around Pepper, like she was starting a highschool
wrestling match. And of course Pepper didn't like that and they scuffled.
I wonder what Caramel was thinking, or trying to do. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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They sort of did that again tonight. Pepper looked like she was about to swat Caramel. Then Caramel wrapped herself around Pepper and kind of bit at her
neck.
The worst case scenario was that Caramel was treating Pepper like a rat, though FO assures me that's impossibly unlikely. Maybe the most likely scenario is that Caramel is acting like she's Pepper's mother, and was biting at her scruff to discipline her, as mother cats do. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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It's great to wake up with two cats on you.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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Last night in bed, Mel was licking Pepper over and over. Eventually Pepper learned that it was Mel who was licking her and she kind of freaked out.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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Pepper has nazis. Those are the little knots she has in her beard.
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Flying Omelette |
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They're not nazis.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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I wish I could take credit for that, but you and I both know you came up with that. FO was telling people how little Pepper Pepsi gets little knot-sies in her
beard, without knowing what she was saying or realizing that the spelling isn't shown when you say something aloud. Then there was a long pause.
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FO was telling people You're more than one person now?
without knowing what she was saying or realizing that the spelling isn't shown when you say something aloud. That doesn't mean you should just go calling them that on the internet.
What surprises me is that Caramel, a long-hair, has no knots or tangles, but Pepper, a short-hair, does.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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I combed Pepper's beard with a fine tooth comb, and it got some loose hair out. And it might have helped with the knots a little. But I think the main
effect is that now the knots that remain stand out even more.
I wonder if Mel would like her fur combed. My sister said it can make it easier on the cat to not have to lick up so much shed hair. "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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One of our cats likes being brushed or combed, but the other one just constantly bites the brush and it's impossible to make any progress on that one.
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It seemed like Pepper liked it right away, though I think I might have eventually gone overboard with petting her that time, because she finally nipped me.
(Meanwhile, I don't think she has ever nipped FO)
Caramel seems to take more time to get used to things like that. Now, she loves to climb on me and let me pet her cheeks and chin, but she used to nip if I pet anything other than the top of her head. I imagine it might be the same with a comb. "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon |
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FO for some reason didn't want to post this, but she told it to me to post. (I didn't see it myself)
Pepper got a spanking today. She ran out of the bathroom past FO, towards the table. She looked left and right, but not behind her (where FO was), and then did the scoot thing where she wiped her ass on the carpet. FO gave her a pat and said "Bad kitty!" and she looked up at FO with her She knows she did something bad. She knew it was bad before she did it. She sometimes acts embarrassed. Sometimes when she fights with Caramel, we'll try to break it up, and she'll hiss at us. Then she'll look and see that it's us, and she looks embarrassed for doing that.
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