The Cat Jobs Report: Cats desperate for work take on menial household tasks
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Submitted by Valley Girl on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 5:41pm
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Dexter tests the safety of household fixtures in his spare time.
Dexter is one of two Maine coons who live in Scotland with John W, a flickr friend of mine.
JW says: "Whilst I was having my morning coffee, Dexter in one of his 'moments' decided to test the strength of our curtain rail! Thankfully it passed.........."
All stories welcome in comments! Moar plz! Or, add your own post...
If anyone else feels inspired to add posts to the "Cat Jobs" collection/ meme, please do. Lambert gives it his blessing. Hugh, known for his more serious "Job Reports" at Corrente, also gives this his blessing. Hugh's household includes four cats. I suspected there were cats in his life, given some of his very funny cat comments.
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Back in the days when there were typewriters....
... Buster would test a stack of typewriter paper for flatness by sitting on it.
I guess that explains why he sat there, and not somewhere, anywhere else.
Because he would slash you if you tried to move him to get the next sheet.
Lambert....
You have/had a cat? We didn't know that!
Dexter is very cute...and resourceful!
That was my mother's cat...
... the famously vicious Buster.
I don't have a cat, though I am going to try to attract a barn cat.
Not sure about how to attract a barn cat
But the best hunter/mouser I've ever had was a very large Tabby who was left with an outdoor mother well past 6 weeks, and appeared to have learned all of her skills.
Cats are natural experts on
Cats are natural experts on boxes and clothes baskets. Put a small box down or a clothes basket, empty or full, down and pretty a cat will come along and test it. The testing consists of jumping into the box or empty clothes basket and looking at the world from this new vantage point. Usually one or two other cats will repeat the experiment showing the cats' commitment to the scientific principle of replicability. For the full clothes basket, multiple cat testing does not occur because whichever cat gets there first falls asleep.
Cats must sit upon Things.
They cannot sit upon mere surfaces. So if the 6' x 4' table has nothing on its surface but a paper napkin, one of my cats will sit upon the napkin. Or placemat. Or notebook (paper). Or envelope. Must be a deep feline instinct.
Then again, it is funny to see a cat try to make himself small enough to sit on an insufficient Thing one sits upon. The paws are stepped closer and closer together and the tail wrapped tightly around all paws, then the body is lowered to the surface. Then the cat pretends he is not widely overlapping the Thing one sits upon.
Here's Ernie, illustrating Hugh's point,
about the attractiveness of baskets, even if they're filled with dog toys. Preventing the dogs from playing with their toys is really just a part-time gig for Ernie, but here he combines it with his full-time job, sleeping 23 hours out of every 24.
Ah... what a sweet picture- & I love tabbies
Grew up with tabby cats, and they have a special place in my heart.
Ernie's pattern is really interesting- mackerel tabby, except it looks like the stripes break into spots in some places.
I haven't seen this pattern much (well, not that I've done a thorough search), but spotted tabbies in Morocco caught my eye b/c they seemed unusual compared to what I'd seen in US.
here
our motto here including cats is: "everyone works, no one quits"
and it's true. my cats are here for vermin control. for intruder altert. for winter time heating and summer time twilight hunting. organic gardens attract organic beings, including voles and little furry things that eat roots and green shoots. i let the cats out at least 3x/wk in the gardens, to pee in the dirt to warn off vermin and eat them, if they can catch one.
not so sure they're rated for beam testing, however. we'll have to work on that.