Further Adventures in Cat-Sitting

[major_clanger]

Potchka seems to have taken to me very well. A little too well, perhaps, as she decided that I was a sufficiently appropriate target for affection for her to jump onto my lap whilst I was drinking a glass of red wine.

Whilst wearing a white shirt. A very nice white shirt from Messrs T M Lewin which I had been wearing for my weekly Advocacy practical.

I may, as I ran off into the kitchen to swiftly disrobe, rinse said item and then bung it in my host's washing machine, have made remarks to Ms P along the lines that Bad Kitties will end up being recycled as surgical sutures.*

However, it all came out in the wash - literally - and there are no hard feelings on either side. I even put up with the 'if I sit on your chest will I get breakfast sooner?' act at 5am...


* Yes, I have been reading American Cyanamid v Ethicon. Although we learn it because it's the leading case on the grounds for seeking an interim injunction, the case itself was about a patent dispute regarding artificial replacements for catgut** sutures.

** Which, according to this article, were made of the inside of anything but cats. But Ms P doesn't know that.

Comments

[cosmic-anchovy.livejournal.com]

You mean to tell me she hasn't tried to trip you up at the top of the stairs yet?? How very odd :) The only time I ever stayed over Miss P spent 15 minutes jumping on my lap, with all claws, hissing and then jumping off. Repeatedly, in a lovely cycle.

[cdave]

Ooh. I dyed my hair last weekend. Can I nick that icon?

[cdave]

Actually, given that's your default, it could be confusing. I'll think about making another. I don't know how long I'll keep my hair like this.

[cosmic-anchovy.livejournal.com]

I can change my default - that's no problem. I just never get around to doing it so it stays at this. This is, after all, a lot more apt for you than the girl with foot and a half long black hair with random, natural highlights.

[cosmic-anchovy.livejournal.com]

You surely can :) I want to see Spike gracing LJ's all around the world!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Potchka seems to have taken to me very well

Our Talia (who looks very similar, also being an Abbie) can get very affectionate. There was at least one incident when a supplier was visiting our house, and she suddenly appeared on that person's shoulder (her VTOL capabilities when younger were astounding). If you like intelligent, affectionate and athletic cats, then the Abyssinian is an excellent breed to go for - there are very few duds in my experience.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

'if I sit on your chest will I get breakfast sooner?'

The answer to this question always has to be NO.

Sadly, I seem unable to persuade certain people of this...

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Bother. Now I've spent half the afternoon reading patent-infringement cases from the chemical industry on BAILII. I am hardly interested in law in general, but the ten-paragraph careful summaries of the relevant state of the technical universe at the beginning of High Court judgments are such nice bits of exposition ...

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Indeed - also a nice antidote to the perception that High Court judges are luddites. Those who sit in the Patents Court certainly aren't; the late and much lamented Sir Nicholas Pumfrey in particular was renowned as a polymath who would write detailed judgments delving into the technicalities of a wide range of different scientific fields.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I'm told she would head-bump me on the bottom repeatedly, give up, and then walk on my face.

But I only have secondhand reports--I'm a sound sleeper.