Mike,that is to cute about MM and his " timber" and rolling PLOP into your arm and stretching out and relaxing with you. That has to be to cute to watch. Its so cute how they respond to certain words/commands.! Headbutting. Our Fancy does a little more then just laying his head on our chin/nose/face. he gets really crazy with it. When I get up in the morning, he will get up on the table and gently put his little forhead on my chin, or my forehead if I lean into him wishing me " good morning mom", but then we play a game of who loves each other MORE. when we do this..I will say I love YOU MORE..and he will rub his forhead real wildly on my chin, as though to say NO I love YOU MORE, and I'll say NO I Love you more,and that makes him go crazy with HARD headbutts, and we go back and forth like that. He loves that. When Marlin takes him for a ride on the tractor or in the truck,that he will head butt Marlin with very enthusiastic headbutts and it can be kind of difficult for him to drive..hahaha.!! They do that as a greeting and to say I LOVE YOU. They have scent glands in their cheeks. Sneaky little furkids. so thats a good way to get their scent on you as though to say I own you too.. lol. Our other furkids don't really headbutt, but Marlin did teach Annie to nose beep. She would come up close and touch him on the nose with her nose, so he started saying " nose beep" when she did it, so now if you ask her for a nose beep, she will happily give you one. Every morning when I have to lift her up to the kitchen door window so she can watch the tail lights on Marlins truck as he goes off to work, I ask for a nose beep, and she always looks at me with this cute, loving look and gives me a little beep..never more then one though. lol.
Edward, ah, thats great you are keeping the rest of the kittens. Betcha the wife would like to have kept the calico, huh? just thinking. lol. So, if you lived in Africa, the problem would have been what? She would have a gathering of the big puma's.? is that what you are hinting at? hahaha. hummmm, actually Big CATS headbutt too. I was just thinking about the story of Christian the Lion. Have you heard of that story? Christian the lion is about a cub lion that was adopted by two men years ago, and when he got to big to keep, they had a problem of course. They end up taking him back to africa, and well, the whole story can be seen in a video here. It is quite the story, and in the video you can actually witness Chistian headbutting his once old human companions when they meet up again. watch it here( this is a short version) but will touch your heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuxO-
The weather is so awesome here, with highs in the 50's. That's great since Fancy and I have to do his power walks. He is so excited to go out and walk, but he still won't go walk with Marlin. Guess its going to stay a mommy and Fancy thing. anyways, Fancy did a real power walk yesterday. I was so proud of him. On the turn around though, he wanted to meander off and go eat grass. so to entertain him and to get him to walking back towards the house, I would walk off some and then bend down and look at him between my legs and swing my arms and he would come trotting, then he would go look for good grass to eat again, so I would walk off again, and repeat the process till I saw Marlin coming down the street. I was bending down calling Fancy when all of a sudden the truck pulls up behind me. WHAT? oh, Marlin decided to pull off the street and drive through the yard, instead of driving around and coming in the alley. lol. Fancy looked at him kind of funny, like who is that. I scooped him up, and we went for a ride, as I needed to get cigs. Fancy was all excited, and was giving daddy major head butts~ all the way to the store. I guess when I went into the store, Fancy came over to my side of the truck and was looking out my window, calling out a very clear " mom"...Mom". I actually have heard him say that too. It totally shocked me one day. I thought Marlin was pulling my leg when he told me Fancy would call out for me, but he's right, he does say Mom very clearly. So as we headed home, Fancy settled down inbetween us in the seat. It was so cute, like "I'm cool man, I'm hanging with my mommy and daddy and we're just crusing".. he was so relaxed and happy.!! He did have to duck though when we went under the railroad overpass. I feel bad for him, that its a scarey thing for him, plus a train was on the overpass at the time..we warn him, but thats not much help, other then to let him know its coming, but ie doesnt close his eyes or anything.. lol.
Today after work Marlin and Fancy will have to drive around the tractors and machinery one last time across the road, as the big auction is tomorrow. Fancy LOVES looking at all the tractors. Honest he does. He really looks at them, and he loves it when Marlin lets him out of the truck and lets him get in the big tractor cabs. One year Fancy was so excited and led me to the edge of our yard, he wanted me to look across the street at the tractors. At first I couldn't figure out what we was doing, but then I realized he wanted me to acknowledge I saw the tractors, and once I said I see all the tractors, he wandered off in the other direction, like thanks for looking.! lol. After tomorrow he will be all bummed out..no more tractors to look at till next year.
Cathleen
