Month: July 2020

Aunty M came yesterday morning and gave me the bestest face rub!  She is definitely my favourite – not counting Kaz and Sooz, of course, they’re still the ones who feed me most of the time.  And speaking of those two, it’s probably time that they both went away for a while so Aunty M will come and spend more time with me!  I thought that was going to happen last weekend but only Kaz went.  Darn!

It has been a busy week here.  The harness keeps making an appearance – and Kaz has managed to get me into it again – and I managed to get out of it … again.  She was last seen fiddling around with it – I think she’s tightening teh straps.  Let’s see how long it is before she tries to get it on me again.  I think we’re now at Me: 1.5 Kaz:0 Undecided: .05.  I couldn’t believe it when she sent a photo of me and the harness to Aunty M … suggesting I had it on – but it was just that Kaz had put my tail in it while I was sleeping.  Bad form!

Not one to let me be, Kaz has been taking photos of me whenever I do anything … except abluting and eating that is.  When I’m trying on the Coke box for size – there she is; when I’m asleep on the bed on the flannies – there she is; when I’m sitting on her computer station in the bedroom – there she is. But, she did bring me a new bag on Wednesday – that they were given by Aunty M’s cousin Mi [not to be confused with Aunty M’s cat MiMi).  Kindness runs in that family!

Sooz has been keeping me company on the bed for part of this week … but it is way less fun since her electric blanket stopped working.  The best I can do is snuggle up close to keep warm – or lie in the sun next to the window doors.

Deja vu.  That’s a thing, right?  Where you get the feeling that you’ve done exactly the same thing before.  Like when Kaz gets really excited when she gets a package from Amazon and she says those words “You are going to love this Nigey” – which we all know means nothing of the sort.  Yes, the new harness has arrived – a couple of sizes larger than the one that went off to my nemesis Mimi (may she wear it in good health) and in fluorescent orange.  I don’t think I’m going to be able to hide this one as successfully as the one before the last … which Kaz still hasn’t found! 
Anyway, within minutes of her tearing the new harness out of its package, she was calling me to come and try it on.  Hmmm.  To go or not to go, that was the question.  And there might have been a choice if I didn’t know that Kaz would come and get me if I didn’t go … or if I had actually been anywhere but two feet from her at the time!  She said it was going to be easier to get this one on and that would have been so if I didn’t know how to fold my arms (read: legs), and then cross them, and then wriggle like crazy to prevent the harness being slipped on.  But, you have to give it to Kaz, she kept trying until she managed to do it.  And then you have to give it to me … I just laid there with it on, then jumped on the floor, and then Tas’d my way out of it.  (That would make more sense if you knew Tas – the whirling Tasmanian Devil cartoon character!). Anyway the score stands at Me:1 Kaz:0.  Let the games resume!

It took a while but I finally found out why Kaz was calling me Milton recently when I played in one of my boxes.  But before I explain, I just need to take a second to say how strange my humans are (sometimes).  They delight in knowing what they call Trivia … and they even used to go out and play it on Monday nights … but that was before the COVID lockdowns changed life as they know it and brought about a “new normal”.  Hmmm … except that they are home more and they keep more food on hand for me – and toilet paper for them – it hasn’t changed all that much here for me!

It is now getting a little bit back to normal in that they have been able to go back to their Trivia … except it’s not their Trivia any more.  They went back last week and they keep talking about the new “format” and the new “host”.  And they have started doing more Trivia “research” by asking each other questions off the interweb and coming up with random “facts” … like “What was the name of Schrödinger’s cat?”.  (And what are those two dots above that o called?) And that’s where Milton comes in … from what I understand, it wasn’t the name of “the” cat from Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger’s famous “experiment” because it wasn’t really an experiment – more of a discussion … but Milton was the name of a cat Schrödinger had. Phew … and believe you me, Kaz took longer than that to explain it!