Nico has done quite a few things that have added to his mystique and celebrity, or should I say, notoriety. In case my daughter has forgotten how mischievous her crazy cat is, here are a few items of note.
Nico cannot stand having any decorations on the mantle in the living room. At Christmas, I had garlands of holly framing the fireplace and spent quite a lot of time getting it to look just right. Nico was observing this and seemed quite captivated by batting the garland until he was shooed away. My mistake was in believing that he would lose interest in the decorations. Wrong!
A few minutes after I had moved on to another decorating project elsewhere in the house, I heard some suspicious sounds and returned to the living room, only to find Nico lounging on the hearth, surrounded by fallen holly garlands, looking totally innocent, as if to say,"Who, me?" As I approached him, he sprang up and began playing hockey with the push pins that I had used to keep the holly in place. Fearing that he might swallow one of them, I took them away from him and put the holly back in place, all the while wondering how he had managed to knock everything down. Loco Boy was watching me, pretending to be bored, but he was plotting his next move. My mistake was to underestimate his determination.
I waited until he went elsewhere to shred carpet or whatever he does to entertain himself, and put everything back together. Stepping back to admire the effect, I was almost knocked over by him as he rushed past me and sprang onto the top of the mantle. Before I could remove him, he sank his teeth into one of the garlands and tore it completely off, then jumped down and ran away. I could hear him batting more push pins in the kitchen, and since they posed a potential danger to the little darling, I went to take them away from him. He let out a loud and annoyed "Meow!" before racing back to the living room and getting another push pin from his secret stash under the coffee table.
Guess who gave up eventually ? I'll give you a hint -- it was not I! The garlands were removed and put away. Nico obviously has high decorating standards which I did not achieve. Apparently, Christmas stockings also offend him because he kept knocking those down as well. Perhaps he objects to them for religious reasons because he's of a different faith?
Nico cannot stand having any decorations on the mantle in the living room. At Christmas, I had garlands of holly framing the fireplace and spent quite a lot of time getting it to look just right. Nico was observing this and seemed quite captivated by batting the garland until he was shooed away. My mistake was in believing that he would lose interest in the decorations. Wrong!
A few minutes after I had moved on to another decorating project elsewhere in the house, I heard some suspicious sounds and returned to the living room, only to find Nico lounging on the hearth, surrounded by fallen holly garlands, looking totally innocent, as if to say,"Who, me?" As I approached him, he sprang up and began playing hockey with the push pins that I had used to keep the holly in place. Fearing that he might swallow one of them, I took them away from him and put the holly back in place, all the while wondering how he had managed to knock everything down. Loco Boy was watching me, pretending to be bored, but he was plotting his next move. My mistake was to underestimate his determination.
I waited until he went elsewhere to shred carpet or whatever he does to entertain himself, and put everything back together. Stepping back to admire the effect, I was almost knocked over by him as he rushed past me and sprang onto the top of the mantle. Before I could remove him, he sank his teeth into one of the garlands and tore it completely off, then jumped down and ran away. I could hear him batting more push pins in the kitchen, and since they posed a potential danger to the little darling, I went to take them away from him. He let out a loud and annoyed "Meow!" before racing back to the living room and getting another push pin from his secret stash under the coffee table.
Guess who gave up eventually ? I'll give you a hint -- it was not I! The garlands were removed and put away. Nico obviously has high decorating standards which I did not achieve. Apparently, Christmas stockings also offend him because he kept knocking those down as well. Perhaps he objects to them for religious reasons because he's of a different faith?
I guess I'll try again next year and hope that maybe his fat cat derrière will prevent him from reaching the mantle. I'm still finding push pins in odd places. Hey, at least he liked the push pins!
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