weilongfu replied to your photoset “Some days Dearborn forgets how to lap.”
@copperbadge Deebs looks like she regrets everything in that last picture. Same Deebs. Same.
She’s mostly just confused as to how she ended up in that configuration. It’s the least pettable of all lap positions!
proudbright replied to your post “junker5 replied to your photo “Tol Bab vs. Soft Bab” ...”
One of my two (sibling) kittens has always been the slow one, the one who was last to explore, who doesn't climb, who is perfectly happy to lounge near you for hours and be belly-rubbed to oblivion. He's also the one who opens the dry food bag by removing the clothespin on top and unrolling it, rather than tearing into it, so y'know, dim is a very relative concept... =D
That’s exactly it -- she is less destructive than Polk (doesn’t knock things off shelves getting up them, doesn’t chew on plastic, doesn’t rummage in the toy bin) but she manages to cause more trouble, somehow.
niennanir replied to your post “junker5 replied to your photo “Tol Bab vs. Soft Bab” ...”
I have a dog like that. You'd be tempted to think she's dumb because she's not nearly as intensely curious or hyper affectionate like her sister but the opposite is true. She's laying on the nice cold floor and refusing to go out because she knows it's too hot to be outside, she doesn't need to poke and prod at things, thank you, she's seen them already, she's fine, she'll just have another nap until the weather's more reasonable.
Reminds me of a photo I once posted of the dogs I was dogsitting, where the Big Dumb One was on the futon and the Small Irritatingly Smart One was underneath. Someone said it was so sad the Big Dumb One bullied the Small Smart One off the futon, and I was like “Oh, no, she bullied him onto it. It’s like 80 degrees here and the floor’s nice and cold.”
philosophykitten replied to your post “junker5 replied to your photo “Tol Bab vs. Soft Bab” ...”
If you figure out how to keep your cell phone on the nightstand, please share the trick. My beast has cracked the last two screen protectors I bought doing the same trick. Not sure how to get them to lose interest in the phone, but they only bother when I'm trying to sleep.
I think probably just putting it in a little tray with a lip on it will do the trick -- she’s too lazy to do much problem-solving. But we’ll see! I have a few other ideas in reserve.
waititsyu replied to your post “junker5 replied to your photo “Tol Bab vs. Soft Bab” ...”
There's a school of study of animal behaviour that places individual behavioural profile on a shy/bold axis; this separation in not only in regards to what it says on the tin, but also a kind of active/passive; curious/cautious etc sort of classification. Anyway, I think this might be what you're dealing with, two different behavioural profiles along that axis :)
That seems about the size of it! Deebs is definitely the more passive of the two, though when they play with the cat dancer, once she shows up Polk backs off and lets her play with it. I can never decide whether Polk is like “she needs the practice” or is being bullied out of playing.
