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Continuing the Minnesota Zoo set. This set of highlights contains a potentially disturbing photo of a hermit crab. You have been warned. Highlights follow:
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Feb. 11th, 2008
A short story
Feb. 11th, 2008 08:16 pmNow that I am feeling a bit more energized, I got a tad irritated at the general cleanliness (or lack thereof) of the house. Thus, a while ago, the vacuum cleaner emerged from the deep dark of the closet.
Upon hearing the rumbling roar, the two cats hurled themselves from room to room. The vacuum doesn't attack often, but when it does, immediate action is required if you wish to survive. Both cats wound up in the bedroom... which may have been a tactical error, as that was the very room to which the vacuum was headed.
The fear was palpable.
The orange cat, thinking quickly, lept into a nearby laundry basket. The tortie was then faced with a dilemma. The laundry basket was obviously a safe place to be, as the vacuum had never previously been observed to investigate within, but the Rules Of The Laundry Basket prevented it's use.
Rules Of The Laundry Basket
Obviously, if she were to make a run for the laundry basket, she would have to first displace the orange cat. As the vacuum (obviously bent on world (or household) domination) was approaching, her ability to fight off both the orange cat and the vacuum was a concern. Not willing to violate Rule #1, she looked around for another laundry basket.
Luckily, there was another laundry basket nearby. She jumped into it! But catastrophe struck, and the basket tipped over! As a laundry basket on its side is no longer a laundry basket, rule #2 did not apply, and she was down to two cats but only one laundry basket.
She paused to do the math.
Upon concluding that the laundry basket strategy would not help her, she took a gamble. Upon quick inspection, the vacuum appeared to be mechanical. Reasoning that mechanicals are like mechanicals, and having recently seen Dr. Who (from the warm safety of a lap), she concluded that vacuums and Daleks might be related. Not seeing any stairs nearby, she teleported to the top of the bed.
There, in safety, she was able to observe the vacuum as it completed its circuit of the room. Not finding any prey other than dust mice, it investigated the other rooms of the house prior to returning to it's cave to sleep for another week.
Now that the danger has passed, both cats are attempting to calm down by blocking the heat registers of the house. It is most fortunate that the number of heat registers exceed the number of cats, so there is no need to codify the Rules Of The Heat Registers.
However, they know not that the Dread Nail Clippers of Doom are to make an appearance shortly... followed by the ritualistic drenching and soaping.
However, to make it up to them, I have arranged for Wet Food Manna to drop from the sky onto convenient food dishes, after which snuggling under the covers shall commence and dry them out.
Upon hearing the rumbling roar, the two cats hurled themselves from room to room. The vacuum doesn't attack often, but when it does, immediate action is required if you wish to survive. Both cats wound up in the bedroom... which may have been a tactical error, as that was the very room to which the vacuum was headed.
The fear was palpable.
The orange cat, thinking quickly, lept into a nearby laundry basket. The tortie was then faced with a dilemma. The laundry basket was obviously a safe place to be, as the vacuum had never previously been observed to investigate within, but the Rules Of The Laundry Basket prevented it's use.
Rules Of The Laundry Basket
- There may be a maximum of one cat per laundry basket.
- There is a minimum of one cat per laundry basket.
Obviously, if she were to make a run for the laundry basket, she would have to first displace the orange cat. As the vacuum (obviously bent on world (or household) domination) was approaching, her ability to fight off both the orange cat and the vacuum was a concern. Not willing to violate Rule #1, she looked around for another laundry basket.
Luckily, there was another laundry basket nearby. She jumped into it! But catastrophe struck, and the basket tipped over! As a laundry basket on its side is no longer a laundry basket, rule #2 did not apply, and she was down to two cats but only one laundry basket.
She paused to do the math.
Upon concluding that the laundry basket strategy would not help her, she took a gamble. Upon quick inspection, the vacuum appeared to be mechanical. Reasoning that mechanicals are like mechanicals, and having recently seen Dr. Who (from the warm safety of a lap), she concluded that vacuums and Daleks might be related. Not seeing any stairs nearby, she teleported to the top of the bed.
There, in safety, she was able to observe the vacuum as it completed its circuit of the room. Not finding any prey other than dust mice, it investigated the other rooms of the house prior to returning to it's cave to sleep for another week.
Now that the danger has passed, both cats are attempting to calm down by blocking the heat registers of the house. It is most fortunate that the number of heat registers exceed the number of cats, so there is no need to codify the Rules Of The Heat Registers.
However, they know not that the Dread Nail Clippers of Doom are to make an appearance shortly... followed by the ritualistic drenching and soaping.
However, to make it up to them, I have arranged for Wet Food Manna to drop from the sky onto convenient food dishes, after which snuggling under the covers shall commence and dry them out.