Life's Sad Little Lessons

[ladysprite]

Thankfully, at least this time I wasn't the student.

Unexpected post-surgical conundrum #73 hit today. Which is to say that I am not allowed to lift anything heavier than about five pounds. This includes my little orange kitten, who is now well on his way to becoming an orange cat of significant length and heft.

So when he decided he wanted to play in the bathtub this morning, right at the time that I desperately needed to take a shower (hot showers apparently decrease my need for pain meds rather significantly), we had a bit of a problem.

No amount of coaxing, coercing, reasoning, or emphatic gesturing on my part could get him out of the bathtub. I swear I tried.

So now I have a rather damp and bedraggled orange kitten, who is looking at me with an expression of hurt betrayal that words cannot do justice to. I feel like a traitor... but not quite enough to regret my actions. We all need to learn painful - or at least soggy - things as we grow...

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[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

some cats - and not just manx cats ime - decide they like water. fang liked batting drips from the hand basin & bath taps and would play like this for hours, sometimes (and not be interested at all, other times, of course :-) ) - and *look hopefully* at us, if the drip magic wasn't working when she wanted to play... biff at 42 bath street - the grottiest house in lancaster - used to go out into the rain if it was heavy enough (!), and sit in the middle of the back garden lawn, enjoying the downpour... (he was a densely-furred, large and dense-because-well-muscled neutered tom, who never saw why he should move, just because some mere dog thought he should - or wanted a toy to chase: he saw off several far larger than he - a well-aimed feline martial arts clawstrike to a canine nose can be very educational - that i saw him face, from the low front window ledge at the front of no.42, where he'd been sunbathing.) others, as i said, even learn to swim, and seem to enjoy doing so - when they feel like it.

so next time, offer/try swaddling your soggy orange kitty in a warm, fluffy - and thick! - towel, hug whilst drying, and pamper a bit extra (edible pampers are good - ask glinda_w *g*), and see whether he decides wet is after all so bad, tolerable - or even good...