Another delightful little fact I had totally forgotten about kittens

[conuly]

THEY'RE NOCTURNAL!

So when you finally finish what you have to do in the evening, and hop into bed, and turn off the light - guess what? You're only going to get 10 or 20 of your winks because at 4:30 on the dot the kittens are going to start racing around madly in a fight to the death. My alarm went off at 6:10 (yeah, like that was gonna happen) and by 6:20, when I absolutely HAD to get up, the kittens had decided to curl up and sleep again. Great timing there.

Did I mention they did this on my bed? Yeah, a few weeks ago mama cat figured out they couldn't jump up onto that bed, so she started hanging out there. But then the kittens learned how to climb up there, and now they stay on the bed as much as possible, which is GREAT when they're sleeping and quiet and cuddly, but not so much when they're trying to kill everything that moves, and also me.

Also, they can't get down on their own, which means their mom likes to climb up there, mrowp so they follow her, and then jump down and leave them stranded while she goes about her day. Guess who gets tasked with kitten retrieval?

The obvious solution here, of course, would be to lock the kittens in the kitchen for the night. But then I wouldn't be able to snuggle them right before bed!

Man, whoever domesticated cats.... I like cats just fine myself, but what genius first thought "Hey! A nocturnal killing machine! I'm gonna bring it into my house and see if it'll sit on my lap and lick me with its icky mouse breath!"?

(Logical punctuation is a fine thing, but sometimes it looks really funny. Not that the standard way would look any less funny.)

Comments

[siderea]

There's a theory I'm partial to that nobody domesticated cats but themselves. They just kinda moved in and occasionally deigned to allow us to pet them. Since they protect humans from some serious diseases by kiling vermin, they conferred evolutionary advantage on the trait of finding cats cute and wanting to provide for them, and thereby effectively bred humans to be their servants.

[conuly]

Sounds like cats.

[ncp.livejournal.com]

Pictures!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

This is why those little balls with the bell inside are called Midnight Crazies. Wheee!!

[leora.livejournal.com]

Possibly somebody who wanted a guard animal while s/he slept?

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Research seems to indicate that cats domesticated themselves. Humans started collecting grain, grain attracted rodents and the rodents attracted cats. Eventually cats that were less fearful of humans discovered that we would actually give them shelter and a bit of extra food if they played nice.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

I was going to mention the above. Nothing like a nice symbiotic relationship to get domestication going. Our pair were extra snuggly this morning. Then Daishi sat on the stairs when i was trying to head out for work, and was all "So where are YOU going? Instead of staying here and using those clever monkey fingers to scratch my magnificent ears"

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

Stylistically, I've always believed that things being quoted should be in quotes, including punctuation, and things that aren't being quoted should be outside of the quotes, including punctuation. Apparently there are people who feel different?

It can totally change the meaning of a quote if I put punctuation where it doesn't belong.

[conuly]

Yes, the accepted way to do it is to put all punctuation inside quotes, even if that doesn't make any sense. It "looks better". (Or "looks better." I should say!)

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

That's not the stupidest reason I've ever heard for anything, but it ranks up there.