One of the reasons I think Fig and Ibid are related

[james_davis_nicoll]

Aside from the fact they turned up in the same neighborhood and look similar, I mean. Neither one appears able to master sleeping on laps.

Not 100% keen on the current experiment of standing with a hind paw on either shoulder and trying to drape across my head.

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CAT DRAPE

[(Anonymous)]

TYPING ON MY "STUPID" SMART PHONE IS HARD ENOUGH BUT MADE MUCH WORSE BY ABBYTABBY WHO WAS DOING HER HAT IMPERSONATION THE OTHER NIGHT WHILE I WAS TRYING TO RELIVE MY WODSS DAYS - THUS THE REALLY BAD SPELLING IN MY REPLY. SHE HAS TAKEN OVER THE NIGHTLY PILLOW SPOT EVER SINCE EINSTEIN VACATED IT LAST YEAR - I BELIEVE EACH ONE JUMPS SHIP TO THE LAST ONE THEY TOUCH BEFORE THE "BLACK RABBIT" COMES FOR THEM. IT CAN BE A LITTLE EASIER IF YOU STILL FEEL THEIR PRESENCE - THEY EVENTUALLY ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOU IN YOUR DREAMS - YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM TIME.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Very 80s suit jacket with big shoulder pads might improve your circumstances?

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

yes!

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Cat Chapeau or Toupee? You decide!

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

It should be warm, at least. As long as they don't decide ears are for gripping, you should be okay.

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

Must. Get. Crittercam. For. James.

Must!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Think of the money you'll save on hats!

[(Anonymous)]

Neither of my cats have mastered this lap thing.

Tiger (former feral) will lie on my left arm for a few minutes, but not for long. He'll sit on my chest if I'm prone, but never sleep there. His eyes nearly close, but not quite.

Grayson (abandoned domestic) must have had odd former owners. When we first got him he, though very friendly, wouldn't put a paw on anyone. Even when climbing down from the table to the floor, with my thigh the obvious middle stage, he'd put a paw out, withdraw it, put it out, withdraw it, and then take the long jump down. After a year or two he got used to stepping on us, though.

William Hyde

cats walking on you

[tamar-lindsay.livejournal.com]

Some Book I Read Once said that when a cat walks on you, it's asserting dominance. Maybe Grayson had a very dominant owner.

Re: cats walking on you

[(Anonymous)]

Grayson is hugely tolerant of people. Tiger will try to take your hand off at the wrist for offenses that make Grayson purr.

When he was an outdoor abandoned cat he liked me, when he came indoors he began to fear me - but only if he was on ground level - now he reproaches me if I leave the house.

William Hyde