Banjo is so different to Unix. Unix is a softy inside and out - and if he does something wrong and you make him aware of it (by, for example, yelling at him), he'll put his tail down and run away to hide... and will be unlikely to re offend any time soon. Banjo is a completely different story. His rehabilitation period lasts about 2 seconds (if it ever exists). He re offends straight away and gives a hugely surprised look when he gets told off yet again - kind of in the art of "huh? why are you bothering me human?"
He became a big fan of the bathtub... may be it's a British short-haired thing, because Sommerset (my parents' cat) also loves anything to do with water - and spends hours a day lying in the bathroom sink. I don't like Banjo in the bathtub, because he keeps leaving black paw prints on it, and I'm sick of cleaning them before I can take a shower. No amount of discouragement seems to work. And recently it has gotten worse... on the side of the bathtub along with various shampoos and what-not, we have a sponge, that is used to clean the bathtub (from his very paw prints among other things). Well apparently the little devil doesn't have enough toys (of which there are about 10 lying all over the flat), and he decided that the sponge is also a toy. So now I find this poor sponge under the table, under the couch, next to his food bowl... *sigh* why, why, why?! I wish he could talk and explain to me his fascination with it, and just in general his desire to be naughty in ways I never thought were even possible...
Here's a little movie of him playing with a catnip toy mouse on a new cat tree that Jack put together for them.
Banjo sounds like our cat Cleo. I don't think they are trying to be naughty. Just doing something they love doing and not understanding our reasoning for stopping them. :)
ReplyDeleteCatherine is addicted to your blog thanks to all the videos of cats :-)
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