Mary knits and crochets, so there’s always yarn and other knitting paraphernalia (needles, crochet hooks, stitch markers, tape measures etc.) floating around in the living room. This was a problem when we had more than one cat, especially when we had Sherman.
Given half a chance, all of our cats would grab hold of Mary’s projects and drag them all over the living room, undoing a couple of hours’ work in the space of a few minutes. Sherman, however, was an artist. He would wrap it around table legs and make sure the entire living room was decorated with what used to be something Mary was working on.
Mary finally got smart and put her projects on the mantel. The first time or so, she was still coming down to yarn all over the floor. One day, she was working on a project and watched as Sherman got on a chair that we had placed in front of the fireplace (which we never use, anyway) and climbed onto the back of it, where he could reach the project she had left there, drag it down to the floor, and then begin to deconstruct it.
We moved the chair away from the mantel. Problem solved. Sherman then found a new hobby: fighting with the other cats…
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Sherman was one handsome and clever cat. I feel for Mary, glad she figured out how to keep her projects away from him. Oh, my, goodness that Budweiser commercial, that’s something we wouldn’t see made today! 😉
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Sherman died almost 20 years ago and we still talk about him. He was quite the character.
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Aw, pets do make an imprint on our hearts. He was no doubt a charmer!
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The director in that Bud commercial was an old comic actor named Fritz Feld, best known for his slapping his hand on his mouth and making a popping sound…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b5LHLo3wc
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Oh, my gosh, my husband makes that sound too! I’ll have to show him that video.
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I’ll bet he learned it from Fritz. That’s how we learned it…
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It sure could be. He also makes the noise by tapping on his cheek – he tried to teach it to me but I never quite got the hang of it. 😉
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lol! Sorry Mary’s hard work was ruined but the antics of Sherman made me laugh. Especially his the new hobby of fighting with other cats …
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Sherman was definitely one of a kind, and thank God he was the only one…
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I adore cats, however, they can be stubborn. I ordered cable covers to keep our little diva from chewing them. I don’t understand the attraction and afraid she will get hurt!
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I got so tired of repairing speaker wires that I finally got rid of my component stereo system, for which I could kill myself… We tried wiping the wires with bitter apple, thinking that would stop them. It didn’t…
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I don’t get the attraction. I guess they think wires are a toy.
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They think EVERYTHING is a toy. Ours liked coins, and we got to where we knew what denomination they were playing with…
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Cats! Love them or despise them, they will cripple themselves trying to get to what we wish them to avoid.
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They see it as a challenge…
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It must be some kind of hunting instinct to unravel the yarn.
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Either that or they’re just being jerks…
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Lol cute, but frustrating for Mary I’m sure.
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Well, it was… but it taught her not to leave her work out…
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Balls of yarn are for cats to play with, not for humans!
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Mary hasn’t figured that out yet. Although the one cat we have now doesn’t seem interested…
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