In hindsight, maybe we should have put up a “wet paint” sign for the cats, but then again, cats typically can’t read. Personally, I think they can, they just choose to pretend they can’t so that we don’t burden them with activities such as reading a book or paying the bills.

Guilty As Charged – Intentional Vertical Space Jumping

Over the past weekend Dan and I had been doing some home renovation projects. We are redesigning a guest bedroom we have and are down to all the fun little details like decorating and accessorizing. Dan was in the process of painting a very tall, VERTICAL column that stores books and cds. Well, any of you that watches My Cat from Hell with Jackson Galaxy, knows that cats instinctively LOVE “vertical space.” So, when I heard Dan yelling, first at Mia, then a half hour later at Peanut, then minutes later at Zoey, and minutes after that, Rolz, I knew Jackson would be very proud of my cats. Dan, not so much. No matter how many times he yelled, they did not understand that he was yelling at them to NOT jump up to a tall, VERTICAL space while he was swishing a paint brush up and down like a playful invitation to a game of bat and swat. What is wrong with these cats? Don’t they know they are jumping up to wet paint???

Needless to say, each one of them branded the tile floors with the stencil of little white paint-dipped paw prints and I had to dunk each of their paws into some water to clean the paint off! The only ones who did not bother with the activity, were our resident elder cats in this order, Jazz, Harley, and Zee. They were doing another instinctive “cat thing” that Jackson would be proud of – they were very contentedly napping on the new bedspread we purchased for the guest room and christening it with their hair!