{"id":9037,"date":"2013-03-16T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2013-03-15T20:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T00:22:45","slug":"cat-compulsions-red-lightgreen-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/cat-compulsions-red-lightgreen-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Compulsions \u2013 Red Light\/Green Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it about cats that they cannot control the urge to chase the red dot from a laser pen? As you well know, if a cat doesn’t want to do something, they won\u2019t. But yet, take the laser pen out and they will wake from a deep sleep or stop whatever they are doing to chase that dot \u2013 almost like when a light changes\u00a0from\u00a0yellow to green and it’s full speed ahead, all systems go! Even the laziest cat on earth, our Miss Harley is powerless to the spell of the laser pen and is unable to NOT<\/strong> try to capture this elusive red monster.<\/p>\n

\"Harley-dot\"<\/a>

Sure, Harley looks her relaxed and lazy self here, but she has a secret \u2013 she has bravely captured the evil red dot and is holding it hostage under her paw\u2026.<\/p><\/div>I was thinking how odd that must be, to be that compelled to do something that it almost puts you in a hypnotic state. Then I realized I hadn’t fallen too far from the cat condo myself and was EXACTLY<\/strong> like my feline companions and had no right to question (or laugh at) their culpability. You know that little red\u00a0box that pops up on facebook when someone either \u201clikes\u201d or comments to a post string you are part of? Well,\u00a0I have no self-control whatsoever when I see that notification and I have to instantly click on it. My hand reacts before my brain can tell me that it\u2019s probably not that critically important that I find out Jane Doe likes the picture I posted of Kizmet looking ridiculously cute\u2026 Yet, I MUST CLICK\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"KizmetBox\"<\/a>

Foolproof directions for more facebook \u201clikes.\u201d Take one adorable wide-eyed kitten and place it in an empty box. Post picture on facebook and be patient – approximately 6 seconds later you should have at least a dozen \u201clikes.\u201d If you don\u2019t have a kitten handy, you can substitute puppies, bunnies, or ducklings\u2026.<\/p><\/div>I used to have a droid phone that would flash a little green light anytime I got an email notification \u2013 naturally, the moment I saw the light, I would pick up the phone so that I could read that really important message sent to me from the nice folks at Viagra who are concerned about improving my sex life. I no longer have that phone \u2013 I now have an iPhone and sadly there is no light to let me know of these important opportunities that are being sent to me. I have to actually pick the phone up when I feel compelled to do so to see if I have any messages\u2026\u00a0 Man, what a cumbersome drag that is\u2026<\/p>\n

So, yeah, I\u2019m overly<\/del> a bit compulsive and driven by colors like my cats, but to my credit, I have contained my addiction to colors only and not sounds. I have silenced ALL<\/strong> the sound effects for text and email notifications on my phone and my ringtone is set to vibrate so that I am no longer a slave like the Pavlovian dog who was trained to salivate when hearing a bell ring when I hear a certain noise. I don\u2019t allow my phone to interfere with my day while I am at work with crazy noises and I eat my dinner in peace without special sound effects. Now, of course, the cats are an entirely different story\u2026. they have no problem at all interfering with my dinner. Perhaps I should keep the laser pen nearby\u00a0so that\u00a0one quick flick of the switch and their attention goes from my dinner to that\u00a0all powerful\u00a0red dot!<\/p>\n

\"Leopard-shoes\"<\/a>

Excuse me? Did someone just whisper that I might have obsession issues with leopard printed items also? I admitted I had a problem with colors… Isn’t leopard a color? But seriously, cut me some slack… shoes with hearts and leopard print? Clearly I had no choice…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Irish_clover\"<\/a>P.S. Speaking of colors – we wish you all a bit of the Irish green!! Happy day before St. Patrick’s Day!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it about cats that they cannot control the urge to chase the red dot from a laser pen? As you well know, if a cat doesn’t want to do something, they won\u2019t. But yet, take the laser pen out and they will wake from a deep sleep or stop whatever they are doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,345,565],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cat-behavior","tag-cat-habits","tag-laser-pens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037","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=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}