slippers

[dragonlady7]

Have I blogged this? I don't think so.

Last week or the week before, when Z got out of the shower, Chita was sitting right at the edge of the tub waiting for him.
She does this to me every time I shower, because I leave the door open a crack for her. Z usually doesn't, so he hadn't experienced this.
"Oh look," he said, "fuzzy slippers," and pretended to step on her.
She ran away in great excitement, and proceeded to tear around the house like a mad thing the whole time he was getting ready for work. To the point that he became exasperated with her, and threatened to actually make her into a pair of slippers.

So now anytime she is being hyper and annoying, Z calls her Slippers.

She has no voice at the moment, and can't even squeak. She just does silent-meows. Which, I admit guiltily, has made things much more peaceful in the mornings. It must be a cold; she coughs and sneezes now and then, too. But she's just as hyper as ever, and eats fine, and displays no symptoms of any distress.

But... now I have a cold.
Can you get a cold from your cat???
And where did she get it? She's an indoor cat!!!

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

My cats gets colds sometimes and they're indoor cats too. I guess germs just float in through the door...
I don't think you can catch an illness from a cat -- but maybe you can. Seems unlikely, doesn't it?

[soulofbuffalo.livejournal.com]

Germs are everywhere. She doesn't have to go around making out with other cats to catch a cat cold. Cat mono on the other hand, there you're safe.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Mmmm cat mono.
D-:
I am just amazed that she managed to find cat-cold viruses floating around our neighborhood in the middle of winter when she never goes outside at all. I must've tracked some in, but I have no idea how. I never have contact with other cats!
Not anymore, anyway.
Unless maybe there was a long incubation period on something one of my parents' cats had from when I went home for Christmas... I suppose that's plausible timing. I guess cat colds are very contagious.
That doesn't explain *my* cold, but Lord knows I've been under enough stress lately that anything floating by would get me.

But no-- no kitty makeouts.

[buschibaby.livejournal.com]

Slippers! Sounds like the mittens and stew song that we sing to our boys. The lyrics are an inspired:

Mittens and stew! (Stew!)
Mittens and stew! (Stew!)
Yummy, lovely, yummy, lovely
mittens and stew! (Stew!)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha. That's awesome.