I think she might have "sprained a giblet" or something
There's another good one for PT words that make you smile!
On the topic of kitchen jumping - my kitty has never gotten on the counters when I'm looking, but I did come home one day to find him neatly ensconced between the kitchen window and the shutters on it (a space of about 4"), which means he would have had to go up on the counter and then make a very nimble leap behind those shutters. Another one that makes me smile is when my husband and I were house-shopping and we went to see a home being shown by a realtor while the owners weren't home. We came in to this very nicely furnished, immaculately clean home, with a beautiful black and white cat laying like a centerpiece in the middle of the dining room table. I can pretty much bet that wouldn't be allowed if the owners had been home.(I would have bought the house if the kitty came with it!)
A sadder story is when my girl kitty, who rarely jumped up on the counters, jumped directly up onto the stove while I was browning hamburger. (I never saw her coming - you know how stealthy these kitties are.) She unfortunately landed with her front paws directly in the frying pan. I had to rub ice on her pads and then take her to the emergency vet, who prescribed some ointment. Naturally this put an end to her kitchen jumping altogether.
(By the way, this has taken me 15 minutes to type one-handed because I have a lovely kitty sound asleep on my lap and I can't reach the keyboard properly! I guess I'm Mohammed reincarnated.)
The legend says that Mohammed adored cats. When one of them was sleeping on his sleeve and he had to go out, Mohammed supposedly cut off the sleeve so as not to disturb his pet.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast - Proverbs 12:10
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. - Robert A. Heinlein
What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~ Charles Dickens
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. - Dan Greenberg
If purring could be encapsulated, it'd be the most powerful anti-depressant on the market. ~Alexis F. Hope
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