You Don't Bring Me Flowers...
"Oh, great, Daddy bought us flowers," says Angela.
My husband surprises me often with flowers. He knows I love them. However, the puddies think those nice smelling, colorful things with the green juicy leaves are for THEM. I turn my back a minute, and the plundering begins.
"Hey, McDuff," Angela says, alerting her brother, and making a bee-line to the bouquet. "Daddy's bought us treats!"
"I'll just nibble these a bit and see if they're fresh," she says.
I grab them just in time. My goal is to keep the flowers intact at least a day. I don't mind the cats admiring my roses. But when they start smelling them, swatting them, tearing them apart, nibbling them, and then devouring them (after which they jump on the couch and purge), I have to put my foot down.
"Mommy keeps putting these flowers in different rooms. I wonder why?" asks Angela.
So I close them away (the flowers, not the cats)...in the bathroom, the sitting room, my work room.... (I feel like a woman who locks up her engagement ring instead of wearing it, because she doesn't want anyone to rob it.) But, always, eventually, no matter how fastidious I am about closing the doors, sooner or later I don't do a proper job, one of the darlings paws his/her way into the room, and CRASH!. I've lost two Waterford and Baleek vases that way.
"Gee, Angela ate all the good flowers," says McDuff. "There's hardly any left for me."
What's a mother to do? My husband and I have been giving this cat/flower problem some thought for a while now. And he's come up with a great solution. We're going to buy one of those glass showcases people put collectibles in but instead use it as a flower holder. This way I can have my flowers and my cats, too.
In the interim, he's still buying me flowers...but WE'RE eating them not the cats.
"Hey, McDuff. What kind of bouquet is this?" asks Angela. "Smells like a cantaloupe."
Does your cat eat your flowers? What do YOU do about it? Write me stories@Petside.com Subject:"Please Don't Eat the Flowers."
"Flowers? What flowers, Mommy? Angela, you didn't see any flowers, did you?"
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