Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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Heat wave with cats.

My part of Northern California is currently experiencing its first really serious heat wave of 2011. I know better than to whine about this too much; by this point in the year, in a normal year, we'd be on heat wave three or four, and temperatures would be trending substantially higher than they are.

That 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.
Tags: alice, cats, silliness, thomas, weather woes
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seanan_mcguire

June 22 2011, 19:00:00 UTC 6 years ago

I sometimes wish they worked together a little less. Usually when they disconnect and hide my alarm clock.

shiyiya

June 22 2011, 21:21:52 UTC 6 years ago

That's quite impressive. And sounds exceedingly inconvenient. "Mommy, stay home with us!", I assume? (My cat gets upset when I go out into the backyard for five minutes. She is made of clingy.)

seanan_mcguire

June 23 2011, 16:18:07 UTC 6 years ago

They don't like the big noise, and they don't like me getting out of bed. Killing the alarm solves both problems.