From walkyrja: Pet Quirks

[lwood]

walkyrja has asked for seven of my pets' quirky habits, past and present.

Thus!

1. ("I want to hug him and squeeze him and call him") George and ("Well, we can't call her Gracie...") Wibble are littermates. Wibble is a tortoiseshell, and George would be too--if he were female: the tortoiseshell coat is a sex-linked trait. However, in good light you can see chocolate stripes and splotches against the black. Well, this is a trait, not a habit, but dammit-it's-quirky.


2. George loves garlic and tortilla chips. Once, he tried to eat a whole head of garlic, managed his way through several cloves, then threw up.


3. When George wants to be petted at bedtime, he will let me know: he will use just-one-claw to de-li-cate-ly tap my lip when he feels he has been inadequately served, thank you.


4. All three of my cats know their names and will look up when they hear it. George actually comes to his.


5. Whenever any woo goes down in the living room, George will be there. In the middle, if possible.


6. Sigdrifa, like her mother Treeflower before her, is a Vertical Cat: she loves to climb and survey from a lofty perch. She much prefers scritchies to pets, and Nearness to actual contact. Except when she doesn't, and she will let you know this.


7. Wibble's Happy Places are closets, and she has learned how to open the very very heavy sliding doors if any space is left whatsoever. As this includes the crack needed to thread, say, networking and power cables, her need for a Happy Place has shut down our server multiple times--eventually, we moved the power supply so she couldn't step on it anymore!

I refuse to tag people on these things--do it or don't. 8-)

In other walkyrja-related news, the scale sweater of soy "silk" is ambling along nicely; I am thinking a cardigan for her. To keep my own interest level up, I am adding the extra challenge of "intarsia cables in the round", for which some would think me mad. I pick up the ordinary-looking green tube, and eight little bobbins of gold dangle past the bottom, leading to cables that trace four diamonds up the body.

-- Lorrie