If you don't have cats - or more to the point, don't "get" cats, then dear god, just look away now. For your own sake.
Right.
You know how you're supposed to love all your children equally? Um... yeah. I don't have any children but I have acquired two cats.
Unofficially, Twiggy, aka Twiggle, Twigetha, Twig-Twog, or Wiggle, the black and white mog, is 'mine'. Shrimp, the black one is XH's. Twig is much more passive and it's rare for her to come looking for affection. Though when she does, drop everything. She'll mewl until you do. Plus she's as soft as an angora bunny, a wonderful feline hot-water bottle to snuggle up beside you on the sofa.
Shrimp, [Shrimple, Shrimpington, Shrimpey or her full name of Shrimpton] on the other hand, may in fact be a dog.
She answers to her name, begs on her hind paws and comes when called. But recently she has also developed a very cat-like prediliction...
for YARNICIDE!!
CSI* photo 1: the wip glove, mauled and hauled down out of the knitting bag, and caught on the chair. Luckily for the glove.
Because to find the ball...(btw she's a discerning cat - she prefers angora)...
CSI photo 2: follow the thin red [pink] line down the hallway...
CSI Photo 3: and keep following....
CSI photo 4: the culprit was actually found at the scene of the crime, crying because she couldn't get the wool any further. Presumably the goal was out through the cat flap and into the garden. What you don't see in these photos is how much of the ball she managed to unravel too.
I was kind of hoping it was an isolated incident but today she's also stolen a hat knitted from kimono ribbon and savaged a ball of extra fine merino. Like I said, discerning. And her transgression rate is rising so I'm scared to think what's coming next - probably nicking the entire bag of sock yarn.
"Mmmmmm, wooooooool" - better keep an eye on this one... a potential partner in crime.
'Just pretending to sleep... now where's that Lux I saw earlier?'
*Cat Scene Investigation
Very cute - hope you feel better soon. I hear ice cream is very good for relieving the throat. ;)
Posted by: Ting | Friday, 23 February 2007 at 12:17
Oh so cute!!
I have learned from my cats never ending fascination with all things yarn related, to keep each and every project encased in some of those plastic sandwich bags with the snap closing, they are a little tougher than normal sandwich bags. You can get them in tesco here, im sure you'd find something similar there. Anytime I leave any wool out, its trailed around the house, similar story!
Posted by: Sara | Friday, 23 February 2007 at 19:48
Oh god thats so funny (sorry glove!). OMG, how clean is your floor ... when I take a photo for my blog I have to push everything to the edges of the camera viewfinder to give an illusion of tidyness!
Posted by: Rebecca (eco felter in rural Ireland) | Friday, 23 February 2007 at 21:20
I love your cats names and all the variations, cheeky little minxes that they are - they're obviously ladies of quality and breeding, no acrylic for these girls!
Posted by: Julie | Friday, 23 February 2007 at 22:11
Living in a blended household of now 4 cats (says she who stopped at one because I didn't want to end up being the 'old mad cat woman' - i never figured I'd hook up with a man with 3 of the critters) I know all about Bad Cat Behaviour. Your black cat has a good dose of oriental in it I think - the one in this house is known as "naughty" and in fact comes to that name now. She has scratched my new dinning chairs and shredded the curtains! The maine coon on the other hand likes to drop fossilised turds off her hairy bottom! Oh well, you either love them or hate them I suppose :)
Posted by: another outspoken female | Saturday, 24 February 2007 at 05:48
Their names are priceless! Now, if they were just DOGS they'd be perfect ;)
Posted by: kirsty | Saturday, 24 February 2007 at 07:32
utterly blasé about the entire crime!
oh, to be a cat!
Posted by: Elise | Sunday, 04 March 2007 at 04:27