Sunday, March 15, 2015

Penny and The Terrible Twos

Penny is now seven months old so I guess it is safe to say she is going thru the terrible twos.  I told you a little about her in November right after I received her for my birthday.  Now it is time for an update.
 
Let me say, I think she is adorable and wouldn’t trade her for anything.  However, she is a handful!  The first thing I learned is she cannot be trained with a spray water bottle.  She thinks it is a game and tries to catch and drink the water.  She loves water.  She lays in the kitchen sink and tries to drink from the faucet.  When I would let the water drip because of the freezing temperature outside she would actually get in the sink and smack at the drops with her paw and try drinking the water.  She also likes the bathroom sink and now likes to lay in the bathtub.  I keep the lid down on the toilet because she would probably try to get in there. 
 
She loves watching the birds and squirrels.  She runs from window to window to watch them. I have three windows and two doors along the front of my house, and she runs to each one.  And, I do mean run.  She runs, leaps and jumps from one place to another. This includes jumping from one piece of furniture to another.  I have had to move a lot of my knick knacks and decorations so they don’t get broken.  She does not meow, and I think it is because she doesn’t know how.  I’m not sure she ever heard another cat meow.  However, she does make this chirping sound like a bird. 
 
She has learned how to jump on top of my filing cabinet, and to the top of a large five shelf curio cabinet.  She walks across the railing between the two rooms.  She has figured out how to get on top of the refrigerator.  The other day I heard this strange noise and when I went to check it out, she had jumped on my washer and then onto my pantry.  The pantry is tall and almost reached the ceiling.  She just fits.  I have two decorative wall hanging birdcages.  In the November post I added a couple of pictures of her climbing all over them.  I finally took them down so she wouldn’t get hurt if she fell off.
 
When we stayed at Brian’s we stayed in their basement which is actually a game room.  Well, she had a ball in the game room.  She found a couple of ping pong balls which she learned that if she smacked them into the wall they could come back to her and she could hit them again.  She woke me up a few times in the middle of the night playing ping pong.  She also liked the pool table.  I had to cover the table including the pockets because she would try to get inside them.  That could have been very interesting.  They also have a ski ball game and she figured out if she jumped up on it at a certain point she could slide down.  Actually that was rather funny. 
 
One of her favorite places to sleep is in the bathroom.  I have a three shelf storage rack over the toilet and she likes to sleep on the bottom shelf.  It’s a weird feeling going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and finding her sleeping on that shelf.
 
Those are a few of my Penny and the Terrible Twos stories.  Hope you got a chuckle.  Below are a few pictures of her.
 







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