I think Senyah has put catnip off limits to Little Feet.

Ordinarily, Presto loves his catnip, and Little Feet runs and hides when I open the jar. Tonight I sprinkled it out, and Little Feet came over to investigate.

In moments, both cats were on drugs and feeling good.

Little Feet has this thing where he lies on his side, then pulls himself along the carpet with a front paw - normally for only a few feet. Tonight, he pulled himself along from the hallway into the living room - about twenty feet or more.

He was doing pretty good, maneuvering around the basket of yarn, the couch, even a pair of Senyah's shoes. But then he got to Senyah's feet. Using the claws on his right paw, he took a good hold of Senyah's foot to pull himself as far as he could, before Senyah shrieked and jerked most of her foot up on the couch.

Little Feet just ignored her and kept on going. Oh yes, Senyah did move the other foot before he managed to set an anchor on that one as well.

She pointed at him *and* me (how did she do that?) with one finger, and said "No more catnip for Little Feet!" (yeah, right). Good thing I remember my first aid (grin).

Copyright © Mark Edwards
September 20, 2000