Maybe this cutie could guard your PETA PAL!
Posted on 02/01/2009 2:51:44 PM PST by girlangler
Some of my gardening freeper friends (and cat loving ones) may remember me posting about my new portable greenhouse on wheels.
It's a four level metal shelf on wheels, with a plastic cover that zips over it.
I am very pleased with it, and was able to actually get some tomato seeds to sprout in a few days using it.
I had bought some tomatoes at an indoor flea market recently, and they were the best tasting tomatoes. The guy who sold them to me told me they were vine ripened in Florida.
So, I took the seeds and put them in pots and sprouted them in my new toy, my portable greenhouse. I was so thrilled when I saw those sprouts, and went out a couple of days ago and carefully placed seeds for passion plant, phlox, bell peppers, and thyme in it.
It was about 59 degrees here today, and after a week of fighting off a flu bug, and anticipation of the coming gardening season, I rolled my portable greenhouse out to the porch, where I could take advantage of the sun.
About 30 minutes ago I went down and found my greenhouse overturned, with all the seeds, soil, pots, sprouts, and some flowers seeds I had placed in it in an open container all trashed and mixed into a pile.
Walking a WIDE swath around it, with a look as if to say "Man, that was an experience," was my cat. I know what he did, he decided I had put that new toy there for his benefit, so he'd just jump right on top of it.
There was no wind to knock it over, and I had the wheels locked. I could also tell by my cat's expression he did it.
My tom is like that. He thinks everything placed in his world is there strictly for his benefit.
Once, I had a friend visit, and she brought her big expensive bass boat. She parked it in the yard.
I have a guest apartment, so folks aren't really exposed to my cat, since he isn't allowed in there. My friend is allergic to cats, she said.
Later that day, I looked out my window and there was my cat, sprawled across the bass seat, with that look on his face. The look he gets when he just KNOWS that new perch was put there for his benefit. You could tell he really appreciated all the effort we went to, putting that new perch in the yard for him.
Today I swept up all my dirt and seeds, all mixed together. I put the dirt back in pots, and no doubt this spring I'll have some lovely plants, all mixed together. I won't know what they are (I had labeled the pots) but hopefully they'll all sprout and do well.
I did pick out the tomatoe seedlings, and repotted them. I put them back in the pots I had labeled "Florida Tomatoes."
You have to love cats. If you didn't, you'd want to kill them all (LOL).
Stuff the cat down the garbage disposal...
Problem solved...
My cat KNOWS he is in trouble. He is meaner than a striped snake!!!
You should see that little brat slinking around my destroyed portable greenhouse.
I still love him. But I am mad at him right now!!!!
Get a dawg.
Hmmm. Wonder if thyme smells like catnip.
I have a dog too. She can be just as sneaky. I love her anyway. Both the dog and cat bring me lots of love and joy.
I’ve had the cat about 11 years, and the dog 10. My sweet dog chewed up lots of shoes, belts, a photo album and the corner of an antique trunk when she first came to live in our household.
Cats are forever skulkin ☺
Us dogs would never do that......cats are shifty...never trust them...
Maybe this cutie could guard your PETA PAL!
An adorable story (well for the cat... for the plants it’s more of an assualt story). I love my cat, even though she’ll look at you sniff you, lick you, and then promptly taste you. (or sometimes she just skips all the other steps and just try to eat you) But she give the best stories cause (at least four which involve falling or almost falling through the celling.) I hope you and your “viking kitty” have many more years (which will be easier if you can figure out how to save your seedlings of course :D)
“He thinks everything placed in his world is there strictly for his benefit.”
LOL! That’s ALL cats! :)
Sorry for your misfortune. I’m glad you could save a few! :)
My fathers cat brings him live prey so that he can teach dad how to hunt.
The rotten cat thinks we are funny looking if defective cats.
Conjure, if you will, the mental image of an entire household at three in the morning chasing a live rabbit around the kitchen with the cat gleefully herding the frightened lepun invader back at the scrambling frantic humans.
I have 2 Cats and I wouldn’t trade either of them for all the money in the world or anything else.
We have a house full of cats .... we’re never surprised at what they destroy! Glad you have a good attitude about this!
Me, too. Two cats, two dogs. :)
But then they do something wonderful, like a cool acrobatic stunt, or rub against your leg when you are feeling low. I have a male cat that is nearly 20 years old and is literally on his last legs. I know and I believe he knows that his time is near. He is pressed right up against me right now as I type.
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