Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 31, 2024

Yes. They deliberately choose the place of maximum inconvenience for everyone else.

My cats do this a lot, especially Rose. Being as we’re older, it’s not so easy to step over her and I don’t want to trip on her so I gently nudge her out of the way.

Ah-HA!! As I always suspected! Cats CAN make themselves invisible!! ;-)

Pavlov’s response?

Step on them once and the problem goes away, if you must generalize. Most cats don’t want any trouble with something that outweighs them by ten.

Maybe he didn’t want a full watering can spilling on him.

Their stances made me think of the Rough-as-a-Cob March:

We’re marching, marching to Shibboleth, with the Eagle and the Sword!

This is very much our cat. We have accidentally stepped on him due to his insistence of laying down in the middle of the way. Being stepped on has not changed his behavior one bit!

Ludwig’s speed bump.

Every night when I go to my bedroom to watch some TV before going to bed, my Great Pyrenees lays down in the doorway to the bathroom. As soon as I turn out the light, she moves to the end of the bed.

I LOVE pets, just don’t understand people letting them run their lives & homes. If our own precious offspring have to learn that our house means ours rules, what’s wrong with us teaching a dog or a cat the same thing?

Google "Did Zsa Zsa Gábor ask Johnny Carson: “Do you want to pet my pu$$y…?”. Can’t say anymore for fear of getting flagged. :)

Eventually even a cat will move.

My cats would never sleep on the floor. It’s the bed, couch or chair for the spoiled ones.

We unwittingly reinforce this behavior. They want attention. That is one way to get it. I bet most people say something to them as they step over. Sometimes even a quick petting. They know they are going get some attention paid to them.

Pets normally don’t like to get stepped on. When I was a kid, we had a smaller dog whose mottled brown fur blended into the carpet quite well. Dad had poor eyesight due to glaucoma, couldn’t see her, and stepped on her a few times. Neither one of them enjoyed the experience. Our dog learned the sound and cadence of his footsteps and when she heard him coming, her head would pop up to find where he was at, and where he was heading, so as to move when it was necessary to prevent from getting stepped on again.

Just because you can’t see him doesn’t mean he’s not still there.

Janis is still over-stepping, even though he’s gone. Ludwig has trained his grasshopper well.

Have you done your Steps today? ☺

We have 2 new, young kats, and I have learned to ALWAYS check my feet before I take a step. Them son-of-a-guns are QUIET!

I will miss that.

Dogs do it too

There goes that Rubenesque lady!

That’d last one time thru. Boots the 2nd time

Many years ago I lived in Oslo Norway where all the door sills were raised as a fire prevention. For sometime after I left Oslo I still picked up my foot while going through a doorway

Survival instinct…know what predators may be around…

Mine stand up as soon as I attempt to step over them for maximum human discomfort and cat jocularity.

Even though we do not have cats because of my wife and two oldest children being allergic to them, my neighbor’s Anatolian Shepherd paid us a visit on the morning of July 4th and proceeded to flop down in the middle of the garage floor and go to sleep. Normally, not a big deal. She is big, dumb and very sweet. However, on this day we were trying to build the fireworks show for that night. There were four men and my eleven-year-old daughter trying to step over and around this huge dog asleep in the floor. it looked like we were applying for a job at The Ministry of Silly Walks.

“Preventive” actions… just in case.

One of our cats is nicknamed “Speedbump.”

My Cat! My Master! I want no other!

Muscle memory.

Humans. If the cats don’t train them, who will?

I come here for Ludwig.