Pop Goes the Head

[catwhispers]

My Rocky plays peek-a-boo.

I have a futon that has a series of thin metal rods that hold the futon mattress up, but allows most of the mattress to show through.

If I lay down and fold back one end of the futon mattress and say, "Peek-A-Boo" and let it drop back down, that's her que.

She runs under the futon, rolls over on her back, grabs the bottom of the mattress with all fours and runs up and down and back and forth under the mattress, upside down. My job is to keep folding up the corner of the mattress again, stick my head down to the slats and say, "Peek-A-Boo, Rock. Peek-A-Boo, kisses please, Peek-A-Boo," which is her cue to pull herself, still upside down, over to where my face is to either tough my nose with her nose or to present her forehead for a kiss, then to get a quick belly rub while I say "Jelly belly, jelly belly" at which time she will immediately run back, still upside, somewhere else under the mattress where she waits for me to do this all over again.

If I don't instigate this first and she feels like playing peek-a-boo she will go under the mattress, grab hold of it upside down and pull at it, which makes that scratching sound that is my signal she wants to play.

If she's in her fabric box with the holes in it, she'll scratch at that to alert me to play. Then I have to say, "Peek-a-boo, where are you? Where's those little cheeks?" (she has the cutest cheeks you've ever seen, and she knows I love her cheeks -- I'm getting a camera this week, and will post pictures). In this peek-a-boo game she sticks her little cheeks just up above the edge of the holes and waits for me to say, "There you is. There's Mommy's little cheeks. I'm gonna pinch those little cheeks" And then I have to rub her cheeks and tickle her nose.

She really is one crazy little peanut. This is just one of her "shtick." She's got quite a few more. She's always doing something to make me laugh. Next tme I'll share one of her other favorite games, like "kiss my you-know-what" or "maniacal serial killer." What a piece of work she is.

I have 3 other kitties and I love them all the same, but Rocky is quite unque. She and her 4 other littermates were literally all fetching by the time they were only 5 weeks old. I would have an assembly line going.

Gotta go. Someone is scratching under the futon. LOL

[catwhispers]

Hopefully my new camera I will be getting this week will work and as I mentioned I will simply have to post pictures and brag.

But if you'd like a small coming attraction check out my avatar.

That's Rocky at about 5 months old in one of her more "interesting" moments. You can see why I can't resist pinching those little cheeks.

And then at other times she can actually look cute.