quixoticThat being said, Thomas is only eleven months old, and this is actually the first really serious heat wave of his life. My house has air conditioning, but it doesn't run twenty-four hours a day, which means that it can get warm inside during the gaps. (Never dangerously warm. I am a good cat owner who does not bake her babies. But there's a big difference between "springtime cool" and "what is this shit?", especially when you've been genetically designed to go tromping around in heavy snow, mocking Jack Frost for his inability to nip at your nose.) Alice and Lilly are quietly miserable, but Thomas? Thomas is distressed.
Monday night, I got home from a hot, sweaty day at work, and promptly jumped into the shower, because sometimes, that's the only solution available to you. The Maine Coons thought so, too. In short order, I was joined in the shower by both Alice and Thomas, who splashed around in the water, got thoroughly drenched, and then took turns sitting on the plug so as to create a puddle for the other to swim in. Yes. My cats cooperatively filled the bathtub in order to have swampy funtimes.
After our shower, they squelched around the house like extras from Sigrid and the Sea Monsters until I chased them down and toweled them off. I think they're still annoyed about that. Sadly, their inability to understand "don't walk on keyboards while wet" is why they can't have a wading pool.
Heat wave with cats. It's going to be a long July.
June 22 2011, 18:04:26 UTC 6 years ago
Solution: fill bathtub with cool water.
Locate cat #1. Capture cat #1. Dunk cat #1 in water. Make second, third, and fourth attempt to dunk cat #1 in water, each time getting a different section of cat wet. Perform cursory toweling of cat and extensive cataloging of damage to person.
Locate cat #2 (may take a while). Capture cat #2 (may take even longer, depending on how loudly cat #1 complained). Repeat dunking attempts, toweling, and injury cataloging.
Despite the effort and noise, it managed to keep kitties cool and occupied for the rest of the day while they groomed themselves... and me in smug satisfaction.
June 22 2011, 18:14:06 UTC 6 years ago
June 23 2011, 00:09:19 UTC 6 years ago