Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Cat training


So much for that. Elizabeth and Michael for the last few weeks have spent a half hour at a time trying to cat-train Josie, that is, to make her understand that the cats are none of her business. Alice, who is moving soon from Little Rock to Atlanta, sent us some extra cat doors, which the kids immediately installed in their room doors with a little help from Dad and a jigsaw. When it came time to show Jack and Cinder how to use them, Jack decided that we looked dangerous and shot downstairs for the first time in ages--right into the maw of....Josie! We heard a great scramble from her scrabbling feet as she chased him under the guestroom bed and low-grade grumbling and hissing from Jack. We backed off, forcing Josie from the room once, twice, about fifteen times. It might be better to let Cinder teach Jack about the door.

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