Poor kitty! I have a cat who takes any precipitation as a personal insult also. She covers large amounts of ground in a single leap so she doesn’t have to get her paws wet.
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It’s amazing how dogs and cats take on aspects of other mammals when embarrassed. I’m thinking of sheep.
It’s funny—the difference in cats. Stinky having lived out in the elements for the better part of his life, is perfectly content to enjoy nature from the windowsill of an opened window. Whenever a door opens, he backs up. Or just plain runs in the opposite direction. No desire in that cat to go outside at all.
Thank goodness none of my crew have alleries. I’ve known dogs who have had grass/pollen allergies. Poor things. I can relate!
Comparing cat embarrassment with dog embarrassment...I still lean toward cats doing it better. Dogs, at least, seem to require soothing and lots and lots and lots of “oh sweetie, you’re wonderful, don’t worry” types of reassurances. Cats just stoically withdraw from the world and fill an entire room with their silent suffering.
Gravatar suffered a meltdown yesterday. Of some variety. They don’t seem to be back up and operational yet. I’ll put ‘em back up when Gravatar’s problems are resolved. I was wondering if they suffered a DOS attack, but haven’t heard anything from other quarters regarding it.
It may be partly a cache and cookies issue. I just get little blank boxes at Chloe’s blog. For a while yesterday, before I took the gravatars off, your gravatar, Chloe’s, Jennifer’s, and mine showed up in old posts, but not the new ones. The page never fully loaded and kept waiting for a response from Gravatar. I tried adding the gravatars back a while ago and none of the icons showed up and the page kept trying to finish loading. Don’t know what the issue is, but it must be coming from the gravatar site. The blog over there seems to be offline, too.
Huh. Or maybe it’s FireFox. Everything works fine in Internet Explorer. I don’t get it.
Well, beats the heck out of me. I can’t get them to show up anywhere. But if you guys can see them, I’ll plug them back in.
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Now that’s cute.
Aside, I knew of a similarly nature-inclined cat. Sad difference is, it was somehow allergic to grass or pollen or something like that. Every time you’d open the door, the cat would make a break for it, only to end up puffed up and on the way to the vet’s office. I don’t think it was a lethal allergy, so it was kind of funny, in a way.