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kittens are solar-powered
May. 16th, 2006 11:33 amThis morning, Juniper had his morning treat (with his medicine in it, as usual) and then decided he wanted to go outside with Greebo. (Greebo has a morning constitutional, except in the worst weather--he goes out after morning treats, and generally arrives back at the house before we leave for the day, has some breakfast and a nap, then goes outside again when Laura comes home for lunch.) Juniper's not usually interested in morning outsideness, but this morning the abundance of sunbeams lured him out.
He didn't go really far. I was writing at the kitchen table, and saw him poke around the deck, looking for a place that was just right. He finally found it, flopped over, and proceeded to sun himself.
For this cat, sunning is no passive activity. He goes at sunning with all of the determined luxuriousness of a beach bunny looking for the perfect tan. First, there is the sunning of the ears and the back. Then one side, then the other. Then, sitting up, there is sniffing at the air to make sure that, say, crackers have not appeared suddenly next to him. Then he rolls over and suns his belly. It's a very fluffy belly, and there's a lot of it. He has to wiggle around quite a lot to get the proper distribution of sunbeams on his belly.
Finally, he was done sunning, and came inside for breakfast and, I assume, a nap. Because that's pretty much what he does every day. At 6:30 he'll start hanging around the door, wondering when I'm going to get home.
He didn't go really far. I was writing at the kitchen table, and saw him poke around the deck, looking for a place that was just right. He finally found it, flopped over, and proceeded to sun himself.
For this cat, sunning is no passive activity. He goes at sunning with all of the determined luxuriousness of a beach bunny looking for the perfect tan. First, there is the sunning of the ears and the back. Then one side, then the other. Then, sitting up, there is sniffing at the air to make sure that, say, crackers have not appeared suddenly next to him. Then he rolls over and suns his belly. It's a very fluffy belly, and there's a lot of it. He has to wiggle around quite a lot to get the proper distribution of sunbeams on his belly.
Finally, he was done sunning, and came inside for breakfast and, I assume, a nap. Because that's pretty much what he does every day. At 6:30 he'll start hanging around the door, wondering when I'm going to get home.
