Friday, January 31, 2003

About my cat:

Our last house-guests gave our cat, Elijah a ball of yarn with which to play. He creates works of multimedia fine art throughout the house. Running with the yarn and getting it caught on anything it can possibly get caught on. He picks up the ball of yarn sometimes and runs around the house with it, as if he were a puppydog. If you throw the yarn to him he will have it strung throughout the entire room in less than five minutes. He then sits and stares at his art. I then announce to him "Elijah, you've broken it WIDE open." He is very proud.

Our cat does not like it when we close the bathroom door to take a shower. The bathroom door should never be closed according to Elijah, and there's really nothing we can do about this, since the door does not lock and if you push on it, it will just open. So if you go into the bathroom and close the door, within a minute he will push the door open and stand on the threshold.

Our cat is often too lazy to actually meow. If he has things to say and you are looking directly at him, he will merely open his mouth as if to meow, but make no sound. As if he were conserving his energy for other occasions.

Our cat is an indoor/outdoor cat. When he wants to come back inside he meows at the front or back door. Sometimes we don't hear him. When he is tired of being left outside and we do not immediately respond to his meows, he goes around to the side of the house and throws himself at the window. Those of us on the inside are treated to occasional flashes of his side against the window and the sound of the window rattling. I think he might be a genius.