Wordful Wednesday: Cat

Ok.  I have this cat.  She showed up on our doorstep when she was just a little kitten and we took her in.  She was precious.  She's still a beautiful cat, BUT...

She is the most troublesome, temperamental cat I've ever seen!

For starters, she meows a lot...really loud!  She insists on being an indoor/outdoor cat.  I can't seem to make her choose one.  We have a kitty door.  She brings in lizards, birds, snakes and whatever else she catches in the backyard. 

She makes a lot of noise at night so we put her in the laundry room to sleep.  Its her room...she has her own space under the stairs...a plush little set up for a cat.  However, she likes to let herself out and roam the house making noise.  Did I forget to mention that she has learned how to open our doors??  That's right.  We have door handles, not knobs, and she has learned how to jump up and open them.  She does this every night now.  A couple nights ago she let herself out much earlier than usual and woke us up at 1:30 in the morning.  (On our first day of school, I might add!)  My husband got up and put her in the garage.  I had to get up again at 4 am to put her in the crate in the garage because she would stop making noised with the locked door!

It's too hot here to leave her in the garage all night so the next night I put her in the crate in the schoolroom.  She made a huge mess with the litter box.  I cleaned the crate and got it ready for her again last night only she actually stayed in her room until about 5 am so I never put her in it.  However, she found her way to her clean crate and decided to use the clean litter box I had in it even though she has her regular litter box.  So, I had to clean her crate again today!!!

So, guess what we made for her....

That's right.  The cat has a box of shame!  Now, we really don't torture our cat...we just put her in here for a picture, but the kids get a kick out of her having a "time out" in the box of shame when she does something bad. :)  It's our way of laughing when we are totally frustrated with her!!

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Yea, she doesn't need anything from Pottery Barn...she can just snuggle up with the catalog!

The catalog was actually on the other side of her while she was napping in my chair. I moved it because I wanted to take a picture that looked like she was actually reading the catalog. She wasn't very interested in posing and went back to napping....right there on the catalog!


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Simba, the mighty hunter.

What do you see, Simba?

A Squirrel!

Can you catch it, Simba?


What do you think? Do you think she caught it?



She didn't! Those little things outsmart her everytime!
(Which I am glad about because if she ever gets hold of one I have a feeling
it will put up quite a fight!)



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Our move was a little traumatic for our cat, Simba. She's a very skittish cat anyway, but when the movers showed up in a big truck she really freaked out! I wasn't there. My husband and son were. They said she ran and hid under the neighbor's car and then ran off. They get to the new house and my husband says, "oh, yea. Your cat ran away."

I went back that afternoon to look for her, but I couldn't find her. We went back again that evening...no simba. The next day was Sunday so we went to church and then went back to the old house to look for her. We could hear her meowing in the back yard, but she wouldn't come. I went around back and got her. She really just laid down in the garage and that was it. So, we went to eat lunch and then went back for her. She went right in her crate, which was odd. She hates the crate. She also just laid in it on the way to the new house. Again, odd. She usually paces back and forth the whole time she's in the car. She spent the rest of the day just laying in the crate! That night she came out and was acting weird. She was just kind of crawling around, not really walking. I turned her over to see her paws. I thought she might have a thorn or something. Worse. Her front paws were completely raw! She must have come back during the night and pawed at the door to get in. She actually pawed 3 screws out of the metal that holds the weather stripping on! That explained why she just laid around all day.

She spent about 3 days just crawling around. Her paws are better now--still a little pink, but she walks just fine now. Poor thing. I felt so bad for her! Somehow, somewhere she lost her collar and tags so we had to get her new ones. The kids picked out a hot pink collar with rhinestone paw prints on it! I tried to get it in the picture, but she wasn't real cooperative! She's getting used to the inside of the house. She hasn't explored the outside yet. I'm a little nervous about letting her out there. I got her new license tag today so maybe we'll do a little supervised exploring this weekend. :)

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Wordless Wednesday: Christmas Cat

She thinks we put the tree up just for her!