HELLO! My name is CHICKIE!
This is my week to post, but Mommy asked me to post this thing she made for GISH about how picky-picky Tipper is when we have company:
Tipper Allen, Lord Snowbottom will attend family gatherings under the following circumstances:
- No dogs
- No children
- No humans except my hooman mother and hooman sisters
- No loud music
- Tickling Lord Snowbottom’s feet will be grounds for immediate cancellation of his presence.
NOW, all about ME!
Mommy and I went upstairs. I go upstairs a lot when the upstairs door is open. Mommy opens it when the weather is warm, so it’s warmer up there than it is downstairs. Mommy doesn’t go up there very much, because Poppy used all the upstairs rooms for stuff he did. Mommy and my hooman sisters go up there sometimes, but they always cry.
When Mommy went back downstairs, I came after her.
I stretched, and Mommy said, “Oh! Look at your terrible claws!” She knows she’s safe when I’m around!
Mommy got some catnip from somebody at the farmers market, and she stuffed some playtoys in the bag and then gave them to us. The little red puffball was my favorite!
Tipper liked the triangle.
Then we traded for a while.
We are lucky cats! Thank you, Mommy!
A WRITING PROMPT FOR ANIMALS: Do you like it better cool or warm?
CA
Dan Antion
May 29, 2021 at 7:33amAwww, you guys are lucky cats. You need to help mommy feel better on bad days.
Marian Allen
May 29, 2021 at 9:13amThey do help, Dan, they do help. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
acflory
May 31, 2021 at 5:51am-grin- Lovely photos of you and Lord Snowbottom, Chickie. Tell him he should be a bit more sociable! And yes, you are winsome. 🙂
Marian Allen
June 1, 2021 at 11:43amHe’s so unsociable, when he sees a car pulling up, he growls and hides behind the bathtub, between the walls.
acflory
June 2, 2021 at 1:01amlmao – so do mine! I think it’s because we don’t get many visitors so they associate cars with the vet [wonderful lady who does home visits]. 😀
Marian Allen
June 2, 2021 at 9:22amWe’ve never had any cat-threatening visitors. I understood it when our dog got his hackles up if a van pulled up, since he started it when an ambulance came and took me away, but nothing has happened to make Tipper hate visitors. He just does. Sometimes he gets over it and makes friends; sometimes he doesn’t. I think it depends on whether he goes to sleep behind the tub.
acflory
June 3, 2021 at 6:10amAaaah. Yes, some cats are introverts, just like us. My lovely boy Buffa was a bit of an extrovert and would come out and greet people when we had a party. That stopped when we had a halloween party and one of the guest greeted Buffa with ‘Boo!’
Instant introvert. 🙁
Marian Allen
June 3, 2021 at 9:53amOh, how sad! I’ll bet the guest was so sorry! If they weren’t, I’d never have them over again, unless they were family and I had to. Poor kitty! 🙁
acflory
June 3, 2021 at 10:01pmI actually saw it happen. The expression on poor Buffa’s face…. he literally went from the-cat-who-meets-and-greets to the cat who disappeared until the party was over. 🙁
Marian Allen
June 4, 2021 at 9:25amPoor baby! Who would think a simple BOO would freak him out like that? Did he recover? I hope it was only for that party.
acflory
June 5, 2021 at 3:28amNo, he became completely untrusting of strangers, from that one, rather loud boo. I think it was that the ‘boo’ was aimed at /him/.
Marian Allen
June 5, 2021 at 9:21am🙁