{"id":2569,"date":"2011-06-04T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2016-01-17T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T18:25:31","slug":"caution-wet-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/caution-wet-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution&#8230; Wet Paint!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In hindsight, maybe we should have put up a \u201cwet paint\u201d sign for the cats, but then again, cats typically can\u2019t read. Personally, I think they can, they just choose to pretend they can\u2019t so that we don\u2019t burden them with activities such as reading a book or paying the bills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Guilty-as-Charged1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2582\" title=\"Guilty-as-Charged\" src=\"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Guilty-as-Charged1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Guilty-as-Charged1.jpg 460w, https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Guilty-as-Charged1-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">Guilty As Charged &#8211; Intentional Vertical Space Jumping<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/animal.discovery.com\/tv\/my-cat-from-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Cat from Hell with Jackson Galaxy<\/a>, knows that cats instinctively LOVE \u201cvertical space.\u201d 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\u2019t they know they are jumping up to wet paint???<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201ccat thing\u201d that Jackson would be proud of \u2013 they were very contentedly napping on the new bedspread we purchased for the guest room and christening it with their hair!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hindsight, maybe we should have put up a \u201cwet paint\u201d sign for the cats, but then again, cats typically can\u2019t read. Personally, I think they can, they just choose to pretend they can\u2019t so that we don\u2019t burden them with activities such as reading a book or paying the bills. Guilty As Charged &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,365,1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat-behavior","category-cat-humor","category-the-zee-zoey-cats-and-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}