Why Can't a Cat Be More Like a Dog???

[Edwina's Secretary]

Once in a while I kinda, sorta, wish my Es were more like a dog. One of those times was at 4:30 this morning.

My husband is out of town. We have a security system on the house that, when armed, detects motion at various points throughout the house (and glass break and doors opening and smoke.)

It went off at 4:30 this morning. It would wake the dead. I stumbled downstairs to disarm it. Here I am...pjs. no glasses, no slippers. The systems says...motion detected...garage. Great.

Where are my brave guard kitties? Peeking cautiously down the stairs. "Is it safe to come down?" they asked. "We'll just wait for you here!"

So as I am looking out all the windows with a flashlight they slowly come down and peek around corners watching me.

I decide to go back to bed. THEY decide it will help my jangled nerves if they play for a while. I believe the game is called Mongrel Hordes? Run up and down the stairs, stomp, thump, pound.

Long about 5:30 they rejoined me in bed. "Don't worry momma, we'll protect you!"

Yeah, right!

[kimlovescats]

hehehe..... well, I guess they decided to provide the "comic relief"... glad it wasn't anything REAL going on in the garage!!!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Big brave E's! Yeah right!

[jazzcat]

LOL, Mongrel Hordes. So that is what that game is called. Guess they know how to play that one here in TN too because I've heard it from Scout and Jazz in the wee hours of the morning. Wonder if that is one of the rules, only to be played when the furless ones are asleep in the dark.

[catmandu]

I have read that Siamese Cats will defend your homes , but that might be a mtyh as the Cat Sitters hasd no trouble , what so ever. And JJJ3 , all he did was to hide his Whiskas Temptations! Guard Cat , indeed!

[Randi]

Oh Sara, I sympathise!! I know how you feel. Must have been scary, but I'm glad no one actually broke in!

What a help the E's are! Fister would have behaved the same way.

Ps. I've just had a half an hour nap - well 2 hours, says John. Guess who kept me awake last night! Fister decided to clean his litterbox real thouroghly, he kept on and on rearranging the sand - until John got up and banged the door!

[catlover4ever]

I'm glad that everything is OK, but I do understand just where you are coming from. My watch kitties would have been under the bed playing, "Bounce mommy and daddy"...they get into the boxspring frame (they torn all the fabric off the botton) and then they run back and forth, and in between the springs.....it sends us bouncing to say the least.

[Cataholic]

Well, it is good to know there wasn't any breakin! I always tell my cats to be good, and protect the (tree)fortress. I can tell when something isn't right in the house...the cats hide. So, if I come home, and all are laying about in various poses of sleepiness, I know no one is inside my house!

[catnapper]

Who says dogs are brave? Nicki would be cowering right behind me! Either that, or she's be waggin her tail asking them if they need any help loading the van with our stuff.

It was very thoughtful of them to releive the stress with play. They say laughter is the best stress buster.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

If they were dogs, they would HAVE to go out at 4:30 in the morning. Then they would somehow manage to have you meet the intruder in person and/or manage to get you locked out of your own house in your jammies, setting off the alarm yourself. Glad it was a false alarm!

[Pam]

Well personally I think it's a MARVELOUS IDEA for you to add a dog to your family! I am sure Gavin would agree. There would be a little more "common ground" for him when he comes for those tasty holiday meals!

I know for a fact that Andy would have been hiding and I am quite certain that Trevor would have been also.

Gosh I wonder if somehow the "burglar" could be a "burglaress" in the form of Shirley. We had a mommy squirrel in our attic once (she gave birth up there! .) Maybe Shirley snuck herself into the garage when no one was looking! Glad it was only a false alarm anyway. Those alarms are enough to send one's heart thumping, aren't they!!

[slick]

Glad everything is OK Sara. At least the E's came downstairs. If that were to happen in my apt, Max and Specks would hide

[Barbara]

A sound like turning the sheet of a newspaper can cause Tigris to make a kickstart from your lap and get him in 2 seconds upstairs under the bed (now you know where the scratches on my calves come from).

I think you have very brave E'S

[trayi52]

Grover and Stubby are like that! No help there. Now my Rottweiler, Dana would be a different story, the intruder would be in so much trouble! The intruder would be licked to death. Ump, death by loving and licking.

The only way Dana would be any help is if she decided she wanted to sit in their laps, and done one of her smack right in the face routine, which usually ends up making you see lots of pretty stars. What a watch dog!

Glad to hear there wasn't a breakin.

Willie

[rg_girlca]

I'm glad it wasn't anything serious. My guys would have been running and bumping into each other trying to figure out where to hide from the noise.
Buddy, on the other hand would give his usual low and I mean low, little woof, woof. Yeah, like that is going to do anything.