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Skriven 2010-06-15 22:09:48 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 38964 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Smoke 'N Bacon
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-=> Quoting RUTH HANSCHKA to NANCY BACKUS on 13 Jun 10  22:47:56 <=-

 ->  RH> I've tried, but cats have owned me for too many years.  I've
 ->  RH> learned
 -> Hmmm...  maybe the difference between being raised by cats and coming to
 -> it as an adult...?  ;)  The one kitten I brought home as a kid, I had to
 -> find another home for that very night... Daddy wouldn't let me keep her.
 -> 
 RH> You had a MEAN daddy.  My father was the one who insisted on cats. 
 RH> He'd been raised by cats too, and a house wasn't a home unless at least
 RH> one cat had taken up residence.  

Well, maybe not a mean daddy, just too realistic... also very protective
of my mother...  He was sure that if I'd kept the kitty, she would have
been the one to get the brunt of it.  As I was in junior high already, I
think he was overreacting, but not from his point of view...   And he
hadn't been raised by cats, his family was too nomadic for too long (his
dad was career Navy, on board ship, and they used to follow the ship up
and down the coast) to have settled into having felines, or canines, for
that matter...

 ->  RH> not to do what they want immediately, but they usually get whatever
 ->  RH> they want sooner or later.  One of the two is a loudmouth with a
 -> Like a kid, that figures out if you keep pestering, Mom or Dad will give
 -> in.  And once you do, it takes a lot longer before the kid will give
 -> up... hope springs eternal, and all that... ;)

 RH> It's worse when you sometimes give in and sometimes don't.  They
 RH> figure they have to keep pesting because it eventually works.  They're
 RH> right. :) 

Yup.  Exactly why I don't give in.  Eventually they figure out it
doesn't work.  :)  (kids, too... ;) )

 -> Around here, they generally give up first and go away when I'm ignoring
 -> them... Not that they don't regularly try again... but it doesn't work
 RH> Don't I wish.  

See above.  ;) 

 -> until I'm ready...  ;)  They certainly honed MY stubbornness... my kid
 -> didn't appreciate it either... (G)  But he wasn't a whiner, since he
 -> knew it wouldn't do him any good whatsoever... ;)

 RH> It's a good thing he wasn't raised by cats; two stubborn humans in one
 RH> house can be trouble.

Ah, but HE was!  Hubby had been raised by cats, and we did have cats in
OUR house from the time he was quite young, first boarding a friend's
cat and then having our own succession.  Richard's grampa had a Siamese
that Rob was introduced to as an infant, laid on the floor on a blanket,
when we were visiting there... That cat came to live with us eventually,
after first Gramps and then Grams died...

We have three stubborn humans in this house... well, the kid has grown
up now and isn't really usually part of the normal household, but yeah,
he's stubborn too... :)  He also became a master manipulator, since he
couldn't manipulate me (once I caught on), but he kept trying.  Lesser
folk haven't a chance... (G)

ttyl     neb

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