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Saturday 12 January 2013

Why the interest in a vacuum cleaner?



Is the question I have for Button....  I had to purchase a new vaccum cleaner this week.  I am no Domestic Goddess by any stretch of the imagination so did a quick bit of research on a consumer site and round friends. When I asked Irene at Breckan questions about her vacuum there was a pause and she said "What have you done with the real Sian? Bring her back immediately!"  Anyway I decided on a "cat and dog" variety  that is supposed to be better at sucking up all the fur and hair from pets.....  It arrived this week.

Button has concerns about it being a cat AND a dog and can't understand how that works...... Or maybe it EATS cats and dogs????



The question is - why are cats so curious??? Have they not heard what happens to curious cats??!  I mean - this could be a fire breathing monster that will singe her whiskers in a trice.  But even when it's making its strange hissing whirring noses - she's still curious......




My next question is - how do I teach a cat how to vacuum to save me a job???

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    1. Hmmm yes I'm unlikely to get a cat to do anything useful - unless it benefits ;-)

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  2. We humans with our nifty monkey eyes are so vision oriented that we don't realize what the world is like for Kittehs. In exchange for keener motion perception, they traded away their ability to pick objects out from a background. (you've seen it. You roll the ball toward them. It stops moving and they just sit there staring at it -- once it stops moving, they lose it. They watch the general area waiting for it to move again!) When they want to find out about something new, they have to smell it all over. Then they rub their faces on it to mark it as "smelled." They leave these scent trails all over the house. That's why they get so put out when you rearrange the furniture. They've got to go smell everything again so they know what's where -- LOL!

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    1. Yes I forget we "see" the world differently to our kitty-cats. I should be more understanding of dear Button ;-)

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  3. Sure I taught mine to vaccuum, but they never put it away when they're done and the cord is always in knots. I might as well do it myself !

    it's easier just to strap the cat to the bottom of a pole and use 'em as dust mops ...

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    1. I nearly choked on my tea reading your comment. LOL! I can't see Princess Button putting up with THAT.

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  4. Our cats used to leave the room when the vacuum cleaner entered, Sian, so buttons is truly a very curious cat.

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    1. Yes I think most cats object to a vacuum cleaner. Usually Button climbs onto a windowsill and pretends disdain. But she must have smelled something new about this one and wanted to check it out.

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  5. Our cat runs away when we vacuum! So we don't clean the floor as often as we should!

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    1. Tee Hee. Well I confess I HAVE left the vacuuming till later if Princess Button is curled up cosily snoozing on her blanket! Largely because I know I will pay later for disturbing her!!

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