brucie, have you ever tried bathing a cat?

re cats and dignity, it is funny how they can do something like miss a jump but it is never thier fault. I think I did manage to hurt the pride of one of ours the other day though. In spite of my comments above, I did smack one of ours the other day when I caught her on the kitchen table tops helping herself to an open tub of margarine. It was only 2 light 2 fingured smacks on her backside which I don't think hurt her at all but I think the indignity of having a smacked bottom did upset her a little. In this instance, it seems to have at least part worked too. She gets off the kitchen units pretty smartly if I am around but still speaks to me - this ones favourite bedtime spots at the moment are on the computer monitor in my bedroom as well as on my bed when I'm asleep.

She is a little sod in the morning BTW and has 3 methods of getting me to wake up if she wants letting out. She will climb on the bed post and jump down on me, she will paw at my face and worst of all, she will nibble at my nose!

Like Mick, I do have feline friends that I really miss. One called Starboard was my favourite. He had a method of waking me up too. His was not only to locate one of my ears and purr loudly down it but to dribble down it at the same time!