Welcome yet again to the "Sunday File".
As I paw through my fan mail, one caught my curiosity! What read through as something mundane and ordinary, turned into a comedy skit.
Mary writes, "It was a REGULAR Sunday afternoon - so I thought. It had all the air of a lazy quiet .....book reading kind of day. Sun streaming in the window, with dancing shadows on the wall. Cat curled up on the table, soaking in the sun....or as I thought....!!!
Lost in my book I delved in. Just then.....a sudden rapid movement caught my right eye."Mischief...was inside a shopping bag. Her head moving back and forth, shaking like a dust mop!! No verbal noises of loud meows. Victorious and proud...smack, smack the tongue found its treasure. Asiago cheese crumb...or a archeological find......[any Calico with a high olfactory sense of smell could easily root it
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Oh that is "Miss Mischief", up to her antics again (thought I) shaking my head I returned to my mystery......).
The bag and contents started to move, not like a wave in the ocean....no, no.
It reared up like an elephant trunk high in the air! The plastic bag surrounded the cat. Then the cat and object was walking backwards...trying to escape.. Or was this a new circus act repeating itself ....'horses standing on their hind
legs'.
No, no, no...STOP... I uttered. The book dropped to the floor, shuddering as it fell finding it's resting place on the carpet. "Bonk". Meanwhile "Mischief" proved HER POINT the show goes on.
Bolting upwards, I removed the offending bag...."Miss Mischief's" head looking bewildered and pleasantly satisfied with achieving her goal. The Asiago cheese chip crumbs fell to the floor;as a barnacle swept by an ocean wave. Temptation was her just reward. (Sigh)... I was reminded......never leave anything to chance, cat, dog or child around. Sure enough it will be an opportunity to get your attention...no matter WHAT!!
"Miss Mischief" looking bemused, washing her face in the sunlight. Finding herself a sunlit carpet patch to fall asleep....stretching into yet another cat nap"!!! I think I will stick to this activity next time....(more creative) Paper-Bag-Cat-Puppet and leave the acting the 'Divva Jenni'!!!
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Well, that is a lovely story Mary, thank you for sharing. Yes, indeed the more intelligent the cat or dog.....the more likely they are to get into mischief. This is also quite true of human children, both of which I have observed. As I did some research on the matter myself.
It is quite unusual for cat's to have a highly developed olfactory sense of small. As we know a dog's sense of smell is 10,000 higher than a human, with the cat's a close second.
Cat Senses - Smell
{A domestic cat's sense of smell is about fourteen times as strong as a human's. Cats have twice as many receptors in the olfactory epithelium (i.e. smell-sensitive cells in their noses) as people do, meaning that cats have a more acute sense of smell than humans. Cats also have a scent organ in the roof of their mouths called the vomeronasal (or Jacobson's) organ. When a cat wrinkles its muzzle, lowers its chin, and lets its tongue hang a bit, it is opening the passage to the vomeronasal. This is called gaping, "sneering", "snake mouth", or "flehming". Gaping is the equivalent of the Flehman response in other animals, such as dogs, horses and big cats.
It is commonly assumed that dogs possess a superior sense of smell among domesticated animals. However, new studies have shown that cats average 200 million olfactory receptors (though numbers vary by breed), higher than the average number of receptors in dogs}.
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| THE CAT WINS YET AGAIN!!! |
Well for those of you who missed "Never A Dull Moment" a couple of weeks ago you may paw over to: The Sunday File: 2014/01/27
See you next time.....Follow the Diva................................
