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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (30837)	7/4/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: PCModem	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

"Often, they don't ask for food, but simply sit, staring at the empty bowl, as if waiting for the food to appear." According to my mom, when I was a toddler, I did the same thing in front of the TV waiting for it to begin entertaining me (back in those days, the TV had to warm up before you saw a picture...). Like most cats who don't make the connection between where their food comes from and how it gets to the bowl, I did not understand the connection between turning on the TV and seeing a picture until we moved and a neighbor explained it to me. I guess I was born for remotes, but they did not come along for quite a while... In a way this is kind of sad, (getting back to your cats who wait to be fed) since cats are anything but lazy by nature. But it is part of the trade off. If a cat decides it wants to keep you as a pet, once you are trained how to feed it, it will probably not do much on those occasions when you don't perform properly. Cats are very patient as a rule. In fact, the longest word in cat language, according to Peaches, is their word for patience. As for how dogs and cats get along, it is as much a mystery to me as it is to Peaches. He was honestly startled to learn that dogs were not human. He was under the impression that dogs were merely young children crawling around on all fours. He thought they were made to live outside by their parents because they were mean (every dog he ever met lived in a back yard or roamed the neighborhood and was mean to him). The idea that his pet human could have a pet dog really rocked his world. PCM