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<\/p>\nshe’s just lying there under her favorite blanket, thinking some deep thoughts.<\/p>\n
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Lord knows what I will do when the weather finally gets hot and I have to put the red fleece blanket away. Hope will be devastated.<\/p>\n
Another one of Hope’s quirks:<\/p>\n
She enjoys perching on my printer right beside my desk, but she only sits there when I am sitting at the desk at my laptop. Because, you know, it’s all about closeness. She, and her “Listen, lady, I don’t need you, just give me more Fancy Feast and leave me alone” don’t fool me! She sits on the printer, her front arms curled up beneath her so she looks like an amputee, and she stares at me with unblinking eyes that, frankly, freak me out.<\/p>\n
But the quirk is: I am not allowed to pet her while she sits on the printer. She finds touch UNBEARABLE when she is there. When she’s lying on the bed or on the floor, I can basically pet her to my hearts content, she sprawls out on her back revealing her belly to me, I can make her stretch her arms and she just GOES with it, every muscle stretching, her “toes” all splayed out, I can do anything to her when she’s on the bed, she loves it, her purrs thunder through the room.<\/p>\n
But while on the printer? NO TOUCHING, I BEG OF YOU.<\/p>\n
I reach out and she recoils, standing straight up, staring at my hand, like, “WHAT. ON EARTH. do you think you’re doing?”<\/p>\n
I’m just petting you, Hope, chill out.<\/p>\n
But don’t you see that I am on the printer right now? And don’t you know, doesn’t everybody know, that I must not be touched while up here? Isn’t it obvious why?<\/p>\n
Well, actually Hope, no, I’m a bit confused as to why.<\/p>\n
I reach out to pet her again, because I enjoy tormenting her, and she backs up, horrified, and leaps off the printer to go and sulk in the corner.<\/p>\n
She’s so weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
she’s just lying there under her favorite blanket, thinking some deep thoughts. Lord knows what I will do when the weather finally gets hot and I have to put the red fleece blanket away. Hope will be devastated. Another one … Continue reading