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Diary – September 2004

October 4, 2004 By: Sparkle Cat1 Comment

Stupid Human Gifts

I should come up with stupid cat gifts for my human

I still don’t like the dog, but I’ve discovered she is kind of scared of me even though she weighs nine times as much as I do. I find this rather intriguing. Maybe I will be able to use this to my advantage at some point.

I definitely have her intimidated

Unfortunately I only had limited time to explore those possibilities this month. My human’s boyfriend went out of town, and she followed him a week later. Before she left, she had this woman named Nora come over. Nora is a professional pet sitter and at the meeting, she petted us and took a lot of notes. She even gave my human special tags to put on us that had her number on them in case any of us got out while she was taking care of us. My human thought I’d hate the tag, but I felt it was a nice fashion statement.

Pet sitter accessories It's actually much nicer than some of the other stuff I've had to wear

We were all kind of annoyed when my human started packing her suitcase. Here she was, shirking on her duties and leaving us in the care of a near stranger.

Binga tried to get packed I will definitely have to dock my human's pay

Even Boodie was kind of bummed.

Thinks it is all her fault

The pet sitter human was nice and Boodie even let her stroke her. (This impressed my human to no end since Boodie is scared of everybody.) The only thing I thought was annoying was that she spent so much time with the dog. That dog is so needy for attention — it’s really kind of irritating. Why don’t dogs understand that humans are lesser beings meant only to see to our food, litter boxes, and to buy us toys? I mean, it’s so obvious!

Somebody will have to pay for this insult!Of course, we were expecting my human to return with some really great toys. Or at least some yummy crab (she and her boyfriend went to Maryland, and I keep hearing about the crab they have there). The best thing about humans going out of town — at least for cats  — is that they feel guilty about leaving us and bring home special treats. Or that’s what’s supposed to happen. So we were all excited when the humans came home. The moment my human opened the suitcase, Binga leaped in looking for the toys, but she couldn’t find any.

Well, it turned out they were there, buried deeply under some clothes. According to my human, Maryland has some really fancy pet stores, but this is what she brought home:

Chintzy to the max!

That’s right — one dumb sparkly ball and a two-dollar catnip bag. I was appalled, but the other cats didn’t seem to care. Binga immediately grabbed the sparkly ball and stalked off. Inevitably, she lost it under the couch.

Refuses to share Only what she deserved

Boodie has industrial-strength droolBoodie, of course commandeered the catnip bag and drooled all over it, making it totally unappealing for anyone but herself.

But there was more — my human said she got something especially for me. (Later on I found out it was an impulse buy at the airport on the way home. How insulting!) I thought maybe she had come through with some crab. Well, I was right and I was wrong. It was a really lame crab toy that vibrated when you pulled its string.

Bears no relation to actual living crab Only an idiot would mistake this for something fun

I tried pulling the string myself but I couldn’t make it work.

Was actually trying to break it

What a boring toy! The blank TV screen is even more interesting than a dumb vibrating crab.

What was my human thinking? So would watching paint dry

The month ended on a bad note. My human was putting together my photos for my 2005 wall calendar and she decided she didn’t like any of the shots of me wearing that hideous clown collar that she got at the Pet Expo in April. So she pulled it out and made me pose in it again. Of all the photo sessions to do over, it just had to be that one!

Somebody is going to pay for this

»October 2004

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  1. Professional Pet Sitters Week and Suitcase Tips | Sparkle the Designer Cat says:
    March 7, 2014 at 12:10 am

    […] As you probably have guessed, we kitties have lots of experience with pet sitters! The first one we had was back at the old house, in 2004. My human went back east for some shows her boyfriend was playing and we got a nice woman named Nora. In those days neither my human nor her boyfriend had a cell phone, so Nora put temporary tags on the collars we were wearing at the time that had her phone number, in case something happened and we got out. If you want to read more about Nora, and the humans’ trip, you can read my September 2004 blog post! […]

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