All Things Woompty

This is why I am leash training her

We watched a movie this weekend called The Ugly Dachshund; okay, we started watching it and then i fell asleep and Kevin decided to play a video game but anyway, it was a lovely little movie starring a lovely young Suzanne Pleshette about a Great Dane who was having an identity crisis thanks to having been raised with Suzanne's prissy little Dachshund puppies. I felt for that Great Dane, because we have a little identity crisis going on in our own home.

See, Vivi seems to think she is a dog. Strange cat comes near the house? War cry, growling and general house guarding. She runs to the door to see you when you come home, she refuses to sleep during the day if you are home, and she loves cheese. Well, she loves everything really; if you drop something, she'll eat it.

But here's the kicker: Vivianne the Cat likes to play fetch. She has a toy that is her baby, which she will lovingly take into her bed at night or bring to us in the morning, begging us to play with her. It's the absolute only one she will fetch with, but she'll fetch for 20 minutes at a time when she's in the right mood. She broke her original one a couple months ago and we had to replace it (it's a Panic Mouse attachment) and we figured that she would have forgotten the whole fetching thing by now. It arrived this weekend and within 24 hours, she was dragging it up onto the bed to wake us up and ask for us to throw it.

As proof, I offer this video. I showed it to my friend Leslie and she immediately said "Well, she fetches better than Latte does!" (Latte being her 6 month old puppy) It's kind of dark since for some reason it gets darker when you upload it anywhere, but you can see what's going on there.


Identity Crisis Cat is species confused from Melinda P on Vimeo.


Now would someone please tell me how to make some money off this cat already??

posted by Melinda @ 8:49 PM