August 24, 2008
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Strange Attraction
I have been trying for days and daze to get some pictures of Koji and Linda Piebean, and they just won’t hold still for it. This is an active interaction they have, so try and overlook the motion blur and focal problems.
She started this weird game they play. From the time the Piebeans came out of their nest under the kitchen cabinets, this one has liked to curl up next to the dog on my bed.
I think Koji might have misunderstood her intent. Maybe she liked the warmth, or felt more secure hanging with the big guy, but he is not content just to curl up with her..
The dog won’t leave her alone. He sniffs her all over, licks and slobbers, puts his snoot under her and flips her over. When she bats at him with a dainty paw full of sharp claws, he yelps, rears back, and whacks her with one of his big paws.
She flees from him, then comes right back for more. It’s obvious that they both want to play, but just not the same game. Koji has been spending a lot of time on his tether. He whines, and she goes over to him, and they do it all again. Earlier today, she was trying to hide from him in an empty cereal box, and he was giving her a wild ride all over the room in the box.
“Fighting like cats and dogs,” is a cliché I have heard all my life. Nobody ever mentioned playing like cats and dogs.
Comments (9)
I have learned that they come to an understanding and do learn to care in a diffrent way…my tika and my maddie are constantly together maddie mothering tika and tika playing with Maddie
Aw, how sweet. I love your last night — so true, so true.
I like to watch my dog play with my cat. They’re rather amusing.
Cute!
We had a kitty who was so small when we got him he could fit in the palm of your hand with room to spare. He never seemed to understand that he got “bigger”. He was an enormous cat…just really long and tall, and we called him Fatty as a nickname.
He would run headlong as fast as he could to try and jam himself into an empty soda box, but he just could no longer fit, and the box would skitter away across the floor. He’d try again and again, but to no avail. Poor thing. But it sure was funny to watch!
We could learn a lot from dogs and cats who have learned to get along so well.
sweet!
That sounds like great entertainment! I love animals! They do the most hilarious things! Good thing they don’t know the roles humans keep trying to assign to them.
Sounds like love to me.
Hi!
You could make a video and then extract some pictures from there! =)
They play but… aren’t you afraid that the dog get hurt?
Have a nice week!
Isabel