D'vorahDavida
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Swear Not By The Cat, The Inconstant Cat, That Changes Nightly In His Troubled Mind.
Thu Nov 03 2005

While I was away, Hub Man ran slap up into a serious evaluation of our cat's psychological profile. 

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We decided he had been misnamed. We bestowed upon him the name Griffen before we had become truly aware the full range of his personality. As soon as we had identified his dominant personality trait, he was summarily and forthwith dubbed: 

"Hamlet" 

And as such he will be henceforth referred to. 

A more conflicted and indecisive animal, I have never known. When he's in, he thinks he wants out. If we let him out, he immediately thinks he wants back in. I say "thinks" because his favorite place seems to be just inside or just outside of an open door. Since bugs applaud this situation, and winter approaches, Hamlet may not have his most perfect of worlds. And it's driving him AND us crazy. 

I heard him mutter under his kitty whiskers not long ago, while lying pressed up to the back door window with one paw over his forehead. . . 

"To outside, or not to outside. 
That is the question. 
Whether it is nobler in the mind
to suffer the jays and stray dogs
of outrageous serendipity 
or to take up claws
against a sea of cat-terrors 
and by clawing, end them.

 Aye, there's the rub."
 

Shakespeare, where ever you are, I beg your pardon. 

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7 Comments
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 03 2005
    Cat are strange thata away, Perhaps He should apply to FEMA as they act thata away.
    Hamlet does seem to fit the present time frame.
  • From:
    Supertrooper (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 03 2005
    My cat is just like Hamlet ..lol
    I totally sympathise !

    Hugs
    l
    xxxx
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Nov 03 2005
    I think Shelby may have been a cat in a previous life as this sounds very much like her behavior. That and when she yawns it distinctly sounds like a "Meow".

    Love the pic you have here of your little fellow, it looks like he knows how to stop and eat ... I mean smell the flowers.

    Alli
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 04 2005
    That is a great photo of Hamlet! And even dogs seem to answer a bit to that profile, I'm sorry to say. Really, really, REALLY sorry.
  • From:
    LifeOFLouise (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 04 2005
    Think that's bad? my cat is indecisive about whether she wants to be under the covers or not, cold, too hot, cold again she wakes me up four or five times a night what's worse her chosen method of waking you up to let her back under the duvet is a combination of eyelid licking and pawing at my face, lovely!
  • From:
    Parett (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Nov 04 2005
    At one time I had about 23 stray cats that I fed on my front porch and I was amazed at just how human some of their characteristics were. So MANY individual personalities! Some more endearing than others.
    Great photo composition and really cute cat.
    Have a wonderful winter. Love ya, Parett
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Nov 05 2005
    hehe jessica is the same. she sits neither inside nor outside but right on the border of both of an open door ;)

    sez