Dear Sparkle,
I love laundry day! My favorite part is when my human throws all the dirty clothes in the basket! I immediately have to jump in and roll around in all the great smells. Then, I pull out one or two especially fragrant items — a gym t-shirt or shorts usually — and roll around on them some more and then take a nap on them. I look forward to this ritual, but there is a problem (otherwise I wouldn’t be writing you!): my human gets mad when I do this! She acts all put out and either pulls the dirty clothes right out from under me, or even worse, shoves me off. Is there some way I can enjoy laundry day without all the drama?
Signed,
Scentsible Siamese
Dear Scentsible,
Hm. Do I get the feeling that you are being a little dramatic yourself? I bet your human is not half as annoyed as you think she is. In fact, I bet she just gently tugs the dirty laundry out from under you, or merely picks you up and places you somewhere you deem to be not as fun. You Siamese kitties tend to exaggerate things. But the attitude with which your human is separating you from your beloved dirty laundry is not the point — the very fact that she is doing it is the issue.
What you must remember is that you and your human have completely different goals when it comes to laundry — she wants to wash it and you want to revel in it. Why humans insist on washing their clothes is a mystery — they replace totally good, natural smells with stinky chemical scents. Once they are done “doing laundry,” I am not even sure how they can tell which clothes belong to who because they all smell the same! Since humans are a little confused on this issue, I think you might as well claim an item or two of clothing as your own before it gets tossed into that scent-killing machine. You will first need to find a good place where humans never go — under the bed is always a good choice. Then dig out a particularly aromatic piece and drag it there. You will, of course, have to do this when no one is looking; otherwise your item will just be taken away from you. As long as you are not caught absconding with a nice, smelly t-shirt or shorts, you will probably be able to keep it indefinitely. Either the humans will not miss it, or they will think that the washing machine “ate it.” I am not sure why humans want to put their laundry into a contraption that occasionally consumes items of clothing, but that quirk is beyond the scope of this column.
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Dirty, clean…it doesn’t matter. Laundry is laundry. And I LOVE laundry.
xo
Katie
I myself getinto the laundry in the sly, they have no idea the things I do on or IN their laundry!
Great idea! I’ll just drag the fragrant shorts under the bed…I mean that’s great advice you’ve given “Scentsible Siamese, Sparkle!
Dirty laundry is the best! Great answer Sparkle!
Good advice, Sparkle! i guess we have to be thankful for our lazy mom who heaps her dirty clothes on the bedroom floor and doesn’t care if we roll in them 😀
Pip, Smidgen, Minnie, and Hollie
Great advice, Sparkle! It’s so true … humans are pretty weird when it comes to laundry!
Sparkle this is timey advice since tomorrow is laundry day and now I can use this strategy when my Mom shoos me away from the the pile.
Sparkle
You always know exactly the best advise!
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♥Abby♥
Cool advice. It’s sooo much fun to jump in the dirty laundry basket!! 🙂
Good advice, Sparkle.
Great post. The boys, specifically Bugsy, enjoy the warm clean laundry. They are not into dirty clothes. You saw right into that problem. Good one Sparkle.
pawhugs, Max
I prefer clean laundry, but that’s because we are Not Allowed any dirty stuff. The Mystery P-er likes dirty laundry, a little too much.
The Baby
We like rolling in the clean laundry so we can get our smells all over it! Oh yeah…and a few furs too!! Clothes look better with furs on them and when they smell like us!!
I prefer the clean clothes, especially when they haf just come out of the dryer and they are all warm! Then I can get my own smell all ofur them so efurrybody knows that my mama belongs to me!
Alfie does laundry rolling in our howse, and wet towel rolling, and fresh laundry rolling! He just LOVEs rolling!
Love Milo xx
Hmmm, the Farm cats seem to like to “iron” the clean clothes. The publicist does not like this.
I think Scentsible Siamese’s human sounds like a kill-joy and should lighten up 🙂
I have never in my life exaggerated anything! Even when Ichiro came to live with us and I nearly killed myself because I just could not live with the little creature! I can’t imagine exaggerating a thing! I resemble that remark!
You’re right Chey!!! Meezers do not exaggerate!
Yeah, why is Scentsible Siamese likes sleeping on the DIRTY laundry. I like to wait until it comes OUT of that machine and than sleep on it. Then my peeps get REALLY upset. HAH! They use soap that doesn’t have perfumes so I can give it MY perfume. I used to love to roll on Pop’s sweaty shirts when he took them off but TW spoiled that fun by excusing me of putting pulls in his shirts and ruining them. How rude.
Great advice I thought your advice was dead on Sparkle, but me resents that yous thinks us siamese are dramatic! Me is a DRAMA QUEEN!
Kisses
Nellie
You are very tactful Sparkle. Maybe we should get you a psych license and you can go into business and make lots of $$.
We just get our smells nicely arranged on the bedding and mum changes it and puts it in that stupid washing machine and we have to start all over again!
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Indeed Sparkle, humans are weird about the laundry, but I really am fond of the basket thing!
In my opinion, doing laundry is a lot of work for minimal difference in the clothing. Why humans do it at all beats me.
We think that is fabulous advice, Sparkle!
Our silly Bella is very dramatic with laundry too. She always gets caught though, because she drags around socks and howls while she does it!
Great advice Sparkle. We think dragging something under the bed is a super idea. It will take some planning so you can do it when no one is watching. Hope it works Scentsible. Take care everyone.
Nice Advice, Sparkle
Thanks COD ! I never like to do roll around on dirty clothes, but cleaned one..heh..heh..heh