It is a good dang thing I love my Merlin!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has been so irritating lately!!!!!!!! And I KNOW why!!! It is because we are going through a really bad cold spell here in Iowa this past week....temps below zero, and Merlin doesn't like it....at all. He is usually an indoor/outdoor cat....comes and goes at will....but lately, it is too cold for his blood, and who could blame him, so he stays inside. BUT....he gets bored.....VERY bored!!!!
He is trying my very patience!!!!
He has knocked food off the kitchen counter, which he knows he is not supposed to even be on the counter, he has tried to knock pictures off the wall, and yesterday.....I went grocery shopping and they had some "lite" roast beef in the deli case...looked pretty good...but it was $5.00 a lb....kind of expensive on my budget...but I decided what the heck, I am on a diet, and lite roast beef sounded like something hubby would like as well as good for my diet. So I splurged and bought a pound and a half.....cost me over 7 dollars for the bag!!!!
Not cheap!
Come home...hubby helps me carry in groceries. He put them right inside the front door...I carried a couple of them into the kitchen and started putting them away....I come back out to get the rest of the bags (hadn't been more than 5 minutes).....and there is Merlin's dang tail sticking out of one of the bags!!!!!!!! I reached in and gently pulled him out by the scruff of his neck and there in his mouth is some of my 7 dollar roast beef!!!!! I looked and of course, the bag had been chewed through, clawed and mauled to death.
He got his hiney smacked a couple times (not hard, I would never hurt him for anything) and tossed outside for a bit. :tounge2:
I was able to save some of it...the part where he hadn't touched, and put it into a freezer baggie, but quite a bit of it was lost, because even though he hadn't chewed on it all, alot of it had claw marks on it from him trying to get into the bag!!!
Then today, I came home and found my big potted plant that is in my bedroom turned over, and all the dirt dug out of it!!!!! He NEVER acts like this!!!!! It is simply because he can't go outside because it is too cold, so he is bored!!!!!!
It's a good thing I love him so much or his @ss would be booted to the curb right now!!! :laughing:
Can't wait till this cold spell is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has been so irritating lately!!!!!!!! And I KNOW why!!! It is because we are going through a really bad cold spell here in Iowa this past week....temps below zero, and Merlin doesn't like it....at all. He is usually an indoor/outdoor cat....comes and goes at will....but lately, it is too cold for his blood, and who could blame him, so he stays inside. BUT....he gets bored.....VERY bored!!!!
He is trying my very patience!!!!
He has knocked food off the kitchen counter, which he knows he is not supposed to even be on the counter, he has tried to knock pictures off the wall, and yesterday.....I went grocery shopping and they had some "lite" roast beef in the deli case...looked pretty good...but it was $5.00 a lb....kind of expensive on my budget...but I decided what the heck, I am on a diet, and lite roast beef sounded like something hubby would like as well as good for my diet. So I splurged and bought a pound and a half.....cost me over 7 dollars for the bag!!!!
Not cheap!
Come home...hubby helps me carry in groceries. He put them right inside the front door...I carried a couple of them into the kitchen and started putting them away....I come back out to get the rest of the bags (hadn't been more than 5 minutes).....and there is Merlin's dang tail sticking out of one of the bags!!!!!!!! I reached in and gently pulled him out by the scruff of his neck and there in his mouth is some of my 7 dollar roast beef!!!!! I looked and of course, the bag had been chewed through, clawed and mauled to death.
I was able to save some of it...the part where he hadn't touched, and put it into a freezer baggie, but quite a bit of it was lost, because even though he hadn't chewed on it all, alot of it had claw marks on it from him trying to get into the bag!!!
Then today, I came home and found my big potted plant that is in my bedroom turned over, and all the dirt dug out of it!!!!! He NEVER acts like this!!!!! It is simply because he can't go outside because it is too cold, so he is bored!!!!!!
It's a good thing I love him so much or his @ss would be booted to the curb right now!!! :laughing:
Can't wait till this cold spell is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!