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Quote Of The Week
Cats are dangerous companions for writers
Because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
Dan Greenburg
The Distract-A-Cats
It’s the start of another busy week. Your To Do List is overflowing with tasks that simply must get done. You feel the weight of all that is on your shoulders. Perhaps you feel a little tense before your day even starts!
Have you noticed how sensitive our pets are to our emotions? Sometimes, it seems that they’re even more aware of what’s going on inside of our heads than we are! When I get super-focused on the task at hand, I’ve noticed that the Distract-A-Cats come vying for attention. They hate to see us stressed. These tenacious kitties won’t stop until they get what they want!
The Distract-A-Cats have many tricks up their sleeves for diverting your focus from your tasks to them. They’ll jump on you, lie on your stuff, shut down your electronics, knock things over, break things, bring you toys to play with, and meow incessantly. Perhaps the most effective trick they possess is their innate ability to stare at you with big imploring eyes and make themselves so irresistble that you simply must stop whatever it is that you’re doing to spend time basking in their beautiful presence!
Rumor has it that other species have noticed how effective the Distract-A-Cats are at ruling their roosts and want in on the action! If you have noticed this too, we’d love for you to share your stories with us this week!
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Do you live with a Distract-A-Cat, Distract-A-Dog, or Distract-A-Kid?
Please share your stories and their antics in the comments –
Inquiring minds would love to know!
Wordless Wednesday – Week of September 12, 2017
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Twitter: bethere2day
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Aww! what a lovely photo of Magellan 🙂
Have a tanfastical week 🙂
Twitter: CreateWithJoy1
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Thanks Steve – you too! 🙂
Interesting thought – Distract-a-cat. Yes, people (esp kids) do it too.
Twitter: CreateWithJoy1
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You’re right – lots of distract-a-humans of all ages running around!
Have a great day Lydia! 🙂
Twitter: thenanahood
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That sure is one good looking pampered kitty!
Twitter: CreateWithJoy1
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Thanks Teresa – we think he leads a good life! 🙂
Kitties can be naughty, good thing they are cute. Our cat, Prancie loves to knock things off the nightstand to make us get up in the morning.
Twitter: CreateWithJoy1
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Ah I used to have a Distract-A-Cat who was the king of nightstand knock-offs – guess he has found new life with your dear Prancie – they sure know how to get our attention, don’t they!
Twitter: Myllls
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I lie with two “Distract-A-Cats” and boy do they cause havoc and insistently meow meow meow, I sometimes wish they could “talk” to let me know what they want. its a guessing game.
Thanks for hosting!!
Twitter: Xmasdolly
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Look at me! Two Wednesdays in a roll. Must go in for a Stress Test tomorrow though so I may only be around in the morning for a bit. I hear it takes four hours… dang!!!! Well wish me luck! Time to go ni ni!!!!
Looking good, Magellan! And hey, we know some Distract-a-Cats, too. Just saying. 🙂
Binga is a master at this! I’m different – I try to defuse tension. But then, I’m a therapy cat.
My distract-a-cat just simply comes over, walks right up, and pushes me back in the chair. He is downright pushy. Can’t ignore him at all.
Yael from Playing In Catnip
Many years ago, we had a “Distract-A-Cat”. She would knock things over or run crazily through the house while we slept waking us periodically throughout the night. We confined her to one room at bedtime and that helped. After that era passed, we had a “Distract-A-Child” times three. You can’t leave one of these unattended too long or the world will come to an end! We found they woke up more frequently through the night than our “Distract-A-Cat” ever did, and left tiny toys scattered all over the floor for bare feet (usually mine) to step on causing horrible injury, and scribbled on hallway walls or table tops requiring the strength of Mr. Clean to remove, and…the list goes on! Now, I have only a “Distract-A-Hubs”! He doesn’t tear up things but at times he can keep me on my toes. It really isn’t so bad to have these distractions in my life because they did/do bring me joy. 😀
Happy WW!
My cat used to jump onto the computer whenever I was doing work. she would not leave me alone. As soon as I stopped working she disappeared and ignored me! Cats are so funny
Yes, I have two distract-a-cats with many effective techniques, especially at dinner time!
Thanks for the link up.
xxoo
Yes, we have a distract-a-cat and some distract-a-kids. 🙂 Hope you have a great Wednesday. Thanks for hosting!
Cats are sometimes smarter than us and they are cute.
Thanks for hosting and have a wonderful rest of the week.
We are an entire family of distract-a-cats. Lily is the starer and computer expert. Astrid is the one who shuts the computer down and lies on the keyboard. Mau is the talker who brings toys to be played with. Calista Jo follows Mom everywhere meowing. We all like to lie on reading material. And www are all experts at cat-wants-out/cat-wants-in. Best game ever! It’s a wonder our human accomplishes anything. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo and Cooper Murphy
Yes, Mom thinks I must be a District-A kitty, too. When she gets consumed in a project, I get her attention by sitting on the counter and staring at her, knocking something off the counter onto the floor (like a drinking glass or glass jar), sit on her computer, or pounce on papers so they crinkle. Very effective methods! I like how your kitties bring you toys when they want your attention, too! I bet that works to get your attention every time! Tee hee hee!
We have thow3. Mum says its a special breed * sigh * takes a lot of training…….
Ahem, as though we would! What I think it is, is that peeps forget to take the requisite breaks to play with us and thus help their own well being. I mean we are not just here to purr and eat and sleep (most of the time any ways)!
Toodle-pip and purrs
ERin
Oops! Your photo is so cute that any human would forget that oops.
Bunnies can be naughty too,xx Rachel