Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for April 09, 2019

This is why we don’t have a cat.

Time to throw the cat outside!

One day my father-in-law received a cigar from a co-worker. He put it on a shelf behind an antique Grecian vase he had. My husband & I were living with him at the time. A day or 2 later we had all gone shopping. When we got home, Tiki (our 25-lb. Tuxedo cat) was lying on the floor, chewing on the cigar. All 3 of us spun around to look at the shelf…only to see that the vase was exactly where it always was. Even the bit of dust around it (we hadn’t dusted yet) wasn’t disturbed!

That looks like “I Dream of Jeannie”’s bottle.

Cats are children. Very inquisitive and make up games with whatever ‘toy’ is available. And, they leave their toys for us to pick up. Just like children.

That’s why I leave the top of my chest of drawers piled up with stuff. I’ve found that balance between more than they are willing to push off, and enough that they don’t want to climb upon.

I find squirt guns are effective cat trainers.

I saw a house once where the owner had installed shelves in every room and on every wall that formed a continuous “Cat Highway” all around the house.

There were even Cat Doors between the Shelves in each room so the cats could go from room to room without having to leave the Shelves to use the “Human Doors”.

I have to say, my cats only knock things over by accident. (Such as Frodo the Hobbit-cat trying to get into the treat cupboard.)