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My cats like wool yarn. What cat doesn’t? But no, maybe you don’t understand. They don’t just like it - they LIKE like it. Acrylic yarn is mildly entertaining, but they usually walk away in disdain after a few sniffs. But there’s some kind of residual animal-i-ness about the wool yarn. Maybe the lanolin, I don’t know.
Wool yarn triggers a catnip-like reaction in my cats. Do yours do this? If they come across an unguarded skein, they will tackle it, and hug it to their chest, and rub it all over their faces, and drool and chew and kick it. It’s that feline I-love-you-and-also-I-am-kicking-you-in-the-face thing, that strange mixture of affection and violence.
All knitting must be tucked into a secured container when leaving the room, even for a minute. They have learned the sound of setting knitting needles down on the coffee table, the way that a dog learns the finality noise of cereal (which is a combination of spoon hitting bottom of empty cereal bowl, and bowl being set down on table). And nothing brings them running - in a casual I-was-just-wandering-in-here sort of way - like the distinctive sounds of my stash box being dragged off the closet shelf and opened.
Let’s try an experiment. First I snuck into the living room, and took this picture of the boys, cozy in their favorite spots. (Brady, left, is sitting in MY spot. Kimble, right, is enjoying the bed that I bought them for Christmas. It’s not a cat bed. It’s a dog bed. They’re too big for cat beds. Brady weighs 18lbs, Kimble 16. As you can see, they are plump, but not gigantic footstool-sized belly-dragging-the-ground fat. They’re just… big.)
Then I went into my room, took down the stash box and started counting seconds. Nine seconds, and there they were.
Can you see the invisible dotted line from Kimble’s eyes up to the closet shelf where the yarn is stored? And see how Brady came in and immediately began sniffing things. “I heard yarn. I smell yarn. Is this it? It doesn’t smell like yarn. Where’s the yarn?”
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[…] our knitting in so many varied ways. There are the yarn loving pets. Some, like Erika’s Kimble and Brady, hunt stash. Hearing, any activity in the yarn stash area, they rush to the […]
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1/22/2006 @ 10:28 am
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PLease Help: I want to knit a simple soccer sweater for my cat Maria. We play soccer toghether and she has a little soccer ball and I would like to make her a soccer sweater and then take videos of my soccer playing cat. She weighs about 12 pounds. I am not a fancy knitter….Thanks…Nancy
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7/21/2007 @ 4:53 am
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