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!

Could someone please get up and feed me?

Zee is very much a creature of habit, so he kind of had a rough weekend because his humans decided to sleep in on Sunday morning, which caused him all sorts of scheduling issues. First of all, who was going to get up and feed him and the others? It could be quite possible that they could all perish from starvation if he did not think quickly.

I said, GET UP!!

Taking his cue from his favorite cat, Simon, Zee watched this classic archive video for some inspiration and sure enough, a simple solution was at hand! While a baseball bat is quite effective to wake a human, we find in our household that a small dose of Zoey and her blood curdling meows is a far quicker and more effective solution! Good boy Zee! There is no way we can fall back to sleep now!!!

While I’ll admit I have not gotten caught up in the royal fanfare of the impending nuptials of William and Kate, nor do I plan on getting up at 4:00 a.m. to watch the blessed event (do you hear me, Zoey),  I still felt it appropriate to post our tribute and congratulations to the royal lovebirds, Zee and Zoey style! After all, no one has more of a fairy tale love story than these two feline aristocats. Read more