The time: a lazy autumn weekend afternoon. The place: the bedroom.
All three McKittens agree that it’s time for napping. Where better than on their bed? It is a lovely, cozy bed, with plenty of room for Lyra to have a place of her own far away from the snuggling brothers.
What’s this? One of the humans wants to nap, too. Oh, but he is a well-trained human, who fits himself into the space that the cats are not using. Good human! Later… when they feel like it… the cats will favor him with their attention. They will allow him to feed them, and pet them. They will lean their warm, furry presences against him. Such are the rewards for one so well-trained.
As the male human naps quietly beside them, the McKitten boys contemplate the woman.
Sergei: Why does she persist in following us around, pointing that box at us? And is that a ribbon hanging down behind it? She has not offered it to us. Shall we favor her with some playing anyway?
Sasha: She does appear to be untrainable. We should not reward this behavior. Shall we bathe instead?
And so they did.
The McKittens know well-trained humans when they see them: Steve helps all the animals board the Friday Ark each week, Linda will feed all the cats who show up for Weekend Cat Blogging, and Sharon is planning some special Halloween spookiness for the Carnival of the Cats on Sunday.
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Friday Ark #110
We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….? We add boarder…
Oh my, those are some cute pictures. Judging by their expressions, I think you have perfectly translated their thoughts!
The “man” did a great job fitting himself in between the McKittens. It is a much more difficult thing to do with five on a Queen size bed. Actually, Willow is large enough to count as two cats all by herself. Only someone very, very, very thin would fit in between the crew here.
I am still working on training my humans. Sometimes when I am sleeping on my half of the bed, the Man actually lifts me up and moves me to the center! Then I am left with only a couple feet to strech out in! Please, Mc Kittens, if you have any human-training advice, lay it on me!
Cute pictures! I love the face expression on the McKitten boys’ faces…
The bed linens and covers are quite lovely up against the beautiful McKittens. I love your little story that goes with your picutures. Very pretty kitties.
Carnival of the Cats #136 - Halloween 2006 Edition
Welcome, witches and goblins and critters of all sorts, on this annual celebration of the cat and all her particularly scary, mysterious, and spooky qualities. This Carnival of the Cats is ornamented with scary animations from Lucy Rand; the spitting c…
Your cats are beautiful!
Nice post of a happy family!
Your cats have a sleepingman on their bed, too? Wow. He photographs well. My cats are crawling all over their sleepingman right now–breakfast time!
I think your kitties are very nice to let that human man share their bed! They’re quite beautiful. (So’s the bed linen.)
This has me laughing…. our cat has taken to sleeping with Bear, and I find him sleeping curled around her Highness - who takes the center of the pillow thank you.
That is too cute! Perhaps I should institute “cat-man of the week” and award it to your husband for his consideration of sleeping felines.