Hi Sean,

>> haha.. I can picture the sneaky come back .. Most days, Leo, our
>> male kitty also sleeps with my son (probably because he's still doing
>> the "man thing" in hanging out with Toby, the dog ), but once in
>> a while Leo tries to convince Indy that he's a boy just like him.. Indy
>> is scared stiff when that happens, and usually jumps off the bed -fast-
>> haha

>There's no sneaky comeback-he just suddenly appears like "I'm here, love me!".
> Typical cat, you know.

hehe.. I think our kitties are still very feral as I think I've mentioned in
here before.. so they do literally sneak around.  Lulu and Leo though seem to
be the most socialized now, though, even letting you (gasp) pet them :)

> But there must be 20-something toys scattered around
> in the living room and dining room-cum-computer room.  At night, having to
> traipse through the house to avoid the toys to use the bathroom is always
> fun.

Ah.. because of my idiot pups penchant for thinking every toy in the house is
'theirs', we keep the kitty toys in our dining room, which is always gated off
against Dog-intrusion.. But yeah.. try walking in there at night when the
lights are off, and you end up stepping on, or trying to avoid a wild
collection of "stuff" 

>  What's even more fun is if we feed them too late and they leave little
> kitty "landmines" of regurgitated food around.  It's as bad as stepping on
> cockroaches with your bare feet.  Yes, I've had the distinct displeasure of
> doing both things...

eew.. :) :)  Leo does that too.. I'm pretty sure it's him.. I think it's his
long hair causing the problem.. for a while I tried buying them cat food that
was supposed to help with that, but of course the other's sniffed it, and
refused to eat it haha

>> Yep, the only way to do it, we've discovered :)

> And here the cats thought they had us trained...

Heh.. know what you mean there :)  I have to re-start training the pups.. Indy
recently decided that he 'doesn't know' what sit means :)

> Now I must go.  Tigger has appeared for his bi-hourly snuggle session in my
> La-Z-Boy recliner.  No, really, it's true! :)

hahahaha...  We don't have one of those.. if we did, I think the pups would be
fighting the kitties for snuggle space!

Take care,
Janis

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