Not yet, but he's going to be. In the Harris house, we have a cat who likes to knock things over. He's very good at it, too. He's broken lamps before. Routinely knocks over water bottles. Do NOT leave a glass of wine out. He'll knock it over and then try to bury it. So what did he try to knock over that nearly got him killed?
I have a piano (nope, can't really play). On top of the piano I have some knick knacks. One is a lovely young lady playing a piano. I didn't think much of it until my mother said, “Uh, you might want to look that up. I think it's pretty valuable.” It's a Lladro, a piece of Spanish porcelain, and it's very beautiful.
Still, I wasn't thinking it would be like astronomical or anything. So, I find the cat on the piano with his paw on the Lladro. The figurine is making a sort of glassy chunking noise as it moves over the top of the piano. I yell and toss the cat into a room to chill. Then I research.
OMG, the twerp almost knocked $1200 onto the floor where it would have shattered and been worth ZERO. I'm thinking of killing him. Or maybe I'll just move the figurine.
So, have your kids or pets ever broken something valuable? Ever ticked you off severely because you CANNOT have nice things!? (Wasn't it Bill Cosby who said that? We can't have nice things because of you…) Has something gotten broken and then you realized after the fact that it was valuable? Grrrr.
Maybe tomorrow this blog will return to its regularly scheduled writing-type posts…. 🙂 Idiot cat.
Sigh…sounds like every day of my life, although I doubt anything in my house is worth $1200. I have 2 cats and 2 dogs. If they don’t outright break something, they either chew on it, puke on it, get their hair all over it, or bat it under the couch so I can’t find it.
I think its time to bust out the squirt bottle. They hate that.
I definitely have the squirt bottle. It’s always ready to go. But the figurine and the piano are in a different room, so I’m worried he’ll do serious damage before I even get there.
Today, I moved the figuring. *sigh* It actually looks good where I put it. It was a gift from my parents a few years back, so while I knew it was worth a couple hundred bucks at least, I didn’t know it was a “retired” piece and that the value was that much.
Totally understand the chewing, puking, hair wallowing. They’re lucky we love them….
Of course I moved the FIGURINE. But first I figured out where to put it, so I was figuring. Gah.
My poor mother. This would have been around 1972 when I was 6 and my sister 3. My mother had been paying on a lamp (can you see where this is going?) for months and had finally, that day, paid it off. We had a babysitter that evening who wasn’t watching us. My sister and I ended up playing behind the piano on which sat the lamp. My sister got the cord wrapped around her leg and off goes the lamp shattering into a million pieces. My mother never bought another nice thing until we were much older.
Oh, David, yikes! Your poor mother.
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
I’m glad to be here. I was looking at those people with web site links on the soapboxqueens and found yours. Having three cats I can relate to what is happening with you. Luckily the one cat that likes to climb to the top of anything is very graceful.
Graceful cats are certainly preferred! My bulldozer cat not only loves to knock stuff over, but he has NO grace. *sigh* What are you going to do? You love them at this point. 🙂
We have another one, though, and she is much better behaved. More graceful, sweeter, etc.
My Princelings chew both real and fake flowers and plants. We’ve gone without a Christmas tree since we’ve had them. They are very large (25 pounds ea) muscular cats and we don’t argue with them. We know our place.
LOL, Morag! I haven’t had a tree in years either. I want to have one this year, but hubby keeps telling me it’s a bad, bad idea. I may have to give it a try anyway, but I bet I’ll have ornaments everywhere and a tree on its side….