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I had been debating whether Quirk was merely young (she'll be 3 at the end of March) and enthusiastic, or not all that bright, but I've come down on the side of young and enthusiastic. I figured out this morning that she's been training me to come retrieve cat toys when she gets them stuck. She lets out a pathetic little meow and if I'm quick enough, she'll hang around where she thinks the toy went so I don't have to hunt all over the room (usually the kitchen, and the toy is usually under the cookbook shelf/birdbath viewing platform, or down the side of the washing machine). But now that I've figured out the game, it doesn't always work. And training goes both ways; I can call her by jingling the ball with the bell in it.
Quirk is mostly delightful, but every so often I still miss Snip fiercely.
I ordered an out-of-print book on December 23. It shipped from California on December 30, with an estimated delivery date of between January 15 and February 2 and no tracking available. I'm amusing myself imagining a tortoise with the book tied to it, crossing the Rockies and making its way through Kansas and so forth, because that's about the only thing slower than book rate mail.
Quirk is mostly delightful, but every so often I still miss Snip fiercely.
I ordered an out-of-print book on December 23. It shipped from California on December 30, with an estimated delivery date of between January 15 and February 2 and no tracking available. I'm amusing myself imagining a tortoise with the book tied to it, crossing the Rockies and making its way through Kansas and so forth, because that's about the only thing slower than book rate mail.