grodscorp@grods.comTerritorial pissings
 | Posted by The Editor on Sunday 1 June 2008, 2:12 pm Categories: Cats, Napoleon Tags: Napoleon, urination |
Whenever McBec or I go out the back to hang up washing Napoleon comes galloping over from wherever he is to join in the fun. Napoleon loves hanging out the washing. He plays with the pegs, runs back and forth, and flops down to watch the proceedings right underneath your feet. But for some reason washing time is also a cue for him to do number ones in the garden bed beside the clothes line. Being forced to watch Napoleon go through the convoluted process of weeing (sniff around, dig hole, turn three times, sniff hole, position, wee, turn around, sniff hole, scratch around hole to cover it up) has revealed something a bit shocking: our cat is an idiot. When he’s finished the business he spends a good two or three minutes scratching the dirt around the hole in an effort to fill it in but never actually fills the hole! All he does is move a whole bunch of dirt around without actually putting any in the spot he’s aiming for.
So I ask you, GrodsReaders with cats, is our Napoleon a little bit special or are all cats this dumb?
GrodsThink Ep.29 (26/8/08)
Sunday 1 June 2008, 4:40 pm #Damian
Napoleon’s long lost twin, Penny, does the same thing. So much buggerising around, flicking dirt and leaves, but always in the wrong direction. I think cat evolution got stuffed up at some point.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 4:45 pm #The Editor
McBec and I have a theory that cats only survive because they’re so damn cute humans have no choice but to care for them. It’s their only evolutionary advantage.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 5:19 pm #Bron
Napoleon and Penny’s long lost distant old uncle, Mr Bean, is exactly the same. As much as I don’t really enjoy watching a cat do its pooing and weeing business, I’m fascinated by how they put so much effort into covering the hole… only to NOT cover the hole.
I live in hope.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 7:13 pm #Bruce
You know, with a title like “territorial pissings”, I thought this was going to be a post about Kate McCulloch around the Camden boundary.
I can picture a farmer trying to work out why the wires of the fence rust faster near the posts.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 7:23 pm #Ant Rogenous
Pussy Rogenous stands on the side of her box and scrapes imaginary kitty litter from the wall when she’s trying to cover up her Landeryou.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 7:36 pm #Goobermetrics
Slow news week = cat blogging.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 7:36 pm #Jeremy
Polly tries cleaning it up BEFORE SHE EVEN DOES IT. And then does a pissweak effort afterwards.
It’s not Napoleon, it’s the whole retarded (but cute) species.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 7:37 pm #Jeremy
Could be worse, Goober.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 7:46 pm #John Surname
Edgar “Eddie” Surname is very discreet about his business, and he always fills the hole.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 8:06 pm #Bron
So Eddie is a dog, then? Can’t be a cat if he always fills the hole. (*resists making lewd joke*)
Sunday 1 June 2008, 8:54 pm #alister
Cocoa - a pedigree Burmese - is inept at this, as she is with everything she does except looking impossibly cute, purring loudly, and being affectionate. Qi - a (ahem) grey tabby - is actually able to cover his landeryous quite effectively. It’s evolution in action - the pedigree cats retain the instincts but not the capacity, while the non-pedigree cats retain both. It’s the same reason as to why Qi’s brought in several (non-native) birds, while Cocoa’s flat out catching a toy mouse.
Sunday 1 June 2008, 11:36 pm #Lenora
I think the purpose of flicking dirt around is not necessarily to cover the hole, but also to spread around their scent so other cats will know this whole area, as far as the wee-dirt has been thrown, belongs to Cat #1.
I love cats.
Monday 2 June 2008, 1:22 pm #keri
I’ve never had a cat who was incapable of covering up the evidence, so to speak, but I ‘ve owned plenty of cats who decided that every single piece of cat litter needed to be on the floor around the tray.
Fuckers. Swear to god I could hear them laughing as I vacuumed the stuff up.
Monday 2 June 2008, 2:45 pm #Bron
That’s not so bad. Mr Bean is currently going through a phase where he’s pooing whilst standing in his litter tray… with his bum hanging over the side, thus pooing on the floor next to his tray.
It would be pointless to point out how much angst this is causing me.
Monday 2 June 2008, 2:46 pm #keri
Oh, they do that as well. Which is why I always put the litter tray on newspaper. But you still have to scrub the tray then, because they always, always get it on the edge.
Tuesday 3 June 2008, 12:01 am #notallright
cats are dumb. mine goes through a similar procedure in the tanbark. the dog on the other hand does the smart thing. just leaves a huge steaming turd for the humans to put in the bin at another time.
Tuesday 3 June 2008, 1:46 am #THR
Oh, they do that as well. Which is why I always put the litter tray on newspaper.
O, Grods is beautiful.
You need a Stalinist controlling those cats, girls. Your mission is to find somebody with a moustache.