Basket Bandit

Irish · #1 05-11-2006, 08:55 PM

Stealing a few moments for one of my 'other' hobbies this morning I finished up what I thought was going to be a CD basket. When it was done I dropped it on the floor to dry so that I could oil it later in the day ... But I found it occupied when I finally had a chance to get back to it.

Susan

Tom H · #2 05-11-2006, 09:35 PM

Susan, I don't know which is better the carving or the painting. But that cat sure looks realistic. Tom H

Nancy_G · #3 05-11-2006, 10:14 PM

~~ sigh ~~ They always get what they want. They always get to keep what they take.

If there's such a thing as reincarnation I sure hope I come back as a spoiled cat.
~sigh~

AlArchie · #4 05-11-2006, 10:24 PM

Is there any other kind of cat, than spoiled??

Al

Marci MN · #5 05-12-2006, 12:56 AM

Oh for petes sake... how cute!! Do you suppose your going to get to reclaim it?

squbrigg · #6 05-12-2006, 06:45 AM

Just takin' it for a test drive!! Cats love unusual but comfortable places to snuggle up. Nice work.

Bob

Irish · #7 05-12-2006, 07:23 AM

Bob, you are so right! usually there is an empty cardboard box sitting in that area from some incoming shipment. And what ever box is there will quickly be claimed by one of our five felines. So I guess when I dropped my basket in Their Box space I was making it fair game to be claimed by which ever one got to it first.

Marci, I probably will not try and reclaim the basket. It's a lot easier to just make another one than to have to fight over ownership with Mr. Mittens. I already know he will win.

Susan

whitecree · #8 05-12-2006, 07:31 AM

Heh. Typical cat.

squbrigg · #9 05-12-2006, 07:37 AM

Five cats............. wouldn't my Kira have a ball there!!! She'd create havoc in that house in seconds! Huskies love to torment cats. She drives our cat nuts.....sprinting at her like she's going to devour her, only to stop at the last second and stare . If she runs , Kira chases her, if she doesn't , Kira just turns back to what she was doing .....chuckling as she goes!!!

Great "other skill" by the way....love the basket work!

Bob

Irish · #10 05-12-2006, 07:55 AM

Now Bob, it was like this ... totally not my fault that we ended up with five cats!

See way back in 1990 we owned three neutered tom cats - Rascal, Lion and Rockie. All three were older gentlemen that made great lap warmers and ankle stroppers.

So ... it snowed that winter, I mean deep snow for Maryland. We had this 20" snow where Mike and I spent several hours digging out paths from the house to the drive and back just so that those three toms didn't need to use the litter box.

(Before anyone hollars that 20" isn't much snow ... snow in Maryland is very wet, very heavy and often with multiple layers of ice throughout. For a state that panics at 1" it was a huge storm!)

So ... the snow paths finally opened I let three neutered toms out that morning. They saundered off through thesnow tunnel path to do their daily business. At lunch time there was the rattling of the screen door meaning someone was ready to come back inside. I opened the door and three neutered toms wandered in followed by two small very-very-very pregnant queen cats!!!! One so far gone she looked like a watermellon on legs.

So ... what do you do ??? I ask you seriously ??? Someone obviously decided they didn't want kittens and chose that awful snow storm to dump their responsiblities along the side of the road. I guess that our shoveled path was the only place those two little girls could find to walk and so they followed our boys home. Neither of them could have been a year old, just babies themselves.

That night our family of cats went from 3 to 5. A couple of days later the family grew to 10 when Miss Calico dropped her five kittens. The next week Miss Fuzzy Butt had her litter of three and we became a cat family of 13!

After 16 years we have five left. We were able to find homes for a few, we lost our three old toms several years ago and still miss them. Today Miss Fuzzy Butt (my son, who was five at the time named her!) and three of the kittens - Liger, Bumble Bee and Mouse. Plus one stray who wandered in a couple of years ago. That stray is Mittens, the one that stole my basket!

So ... you see I'm totally blameless for having come to the odd situation of owning five cats!!!!!

Susan