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Sponge Cat's version of Cutted-Up Pear

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SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 03/01/2021 06:47

Anyone remember that thread, where the OP's toddler had been asked how he wanted his pear, and he wanted it 'cutted up', then went into an absolute screaming hissy fit because she had, indeed, cut it up?

Well, Spongecat has a variation on that, kind of. Please make me feel better with your versions. Despite having a quite expensive cave house, she insists on sitting on top of it, squashing the beejaysus out of it. So, I unsquash it, bash it back into shape, and she does it again. Rinse and repeat. So I tried to think like a cat. Cat house is by the radiator. So I put a cushion by the radiator, with speshul blankie from the cat house (has paw prints). Cat says no, and goes back to squashing cat house, which is now about a yard further from the radiator. The other day she was so intent on being on it, despite knocking a shrink wrapped copy of the Radio Times on top of it, she was sleeping on the magazine on squashed house. So yesterday I decided to have another Unsquash, when Spongecat had left it for a bit. I was mid-pummel when she returned, and leapt on it. We had a comedy few seconds as I tried to lift her off it to finish the job, and she clung on for dear life like a cartoon cat on Tom and Jerry. Most unimpressed. Although the house is currently unsquashed, and she has slept in, and presumably been much warmer in our not very warm house, I am not expecting this to last. Later this morning it will have been 24 hrs, which will be a record, if we make it. What does yours do, that is absolutely batshit?

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SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 06/01/2021 13:11

Thanks Hunky. She was not a sweet old lady, but she was sharp as a tack, and much brighter than our Tom, who was nice but dim. But he would let you turn him upside down and go 'Bowooooo' on his tummy. She, very sensibly, wouldn't. She lived to about 17. She also hated being brushed, but was long haired, and sometimes we had to cut knots of furt out of her as she got less able to groom herself. She devised a three strike system when she didn't like you doing it. Paw up, warning 1. Patting you on the hand, warning 2. Ignore those, and you got a swipe from the claw. Miss her! And the old tom. Weirdly, they hated each other in life, but when she died he looked for and cried for her for about 2 weeks.

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SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 08/01/2021 15:34

Three days before the house has been squashed again... Okay Spongecat, you win! Hmm

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