My cat, who goes by many many names (Kitten, Shadow, Shady, Fuzzy, and Darth Kittious, just to name a few), has had a very long week... he lost a back tooth to decay, got his beautiful long fur run over by the massive computer chair (which left a huge welt on his backside when he panicked and the fur was pulled out in an enormous clump), had the tip of his tail stepped on a couple of times, and it's been stupidly hot and humid here, thus hindering his desire to do anything but sleep and drink lots of water... some good things happened too, mind you... he enjoyed the ceremony of opening a new bag of kitty food, went on a few walks outside on his leash, had plenty of people in the house to play with him, and he drank out of my water cup (that I set on the floor by the couch when I sit there) at least 4 times... he loves to drink from my cup even though he has his own water cup that sits right next to mine... I'm beginning to think it's the novelty of the coloured water (the cups I use are colourful see-throughy plastic and when light hits them it makes the water inside look like the colour of the cup) that makes him drink...
Yes, my kittycat had a rough week...but he also proved to me this week, that he might have been a ship's cat in a past life... yesterday, as we were playing together with his favourite bit of rope (it's a chewy, non-fraying, drawstring from my hubby's joggers/shorts if I remember correctly), he managed to tie a figure-of-eight knot into it! I used to be in the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets before I got married and I used to teach kids how to tie that very knot since it's very useful in sailing and such... it was not always an easy task to get them to learn it, let me tell you... but my cat, who has no training whatsoever, tied it all on his own! He did a flippity flop and tossed the rope to me and voila! Perfect stopper knot! Needless to say, he was well rewarded for his wonderful trick... any cat can tie an overhand knot... but mine kicked his up a notch... Go super-kitty go! ^_~
