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[coraa]

The cats have learned to get onto the counter. We discovered this when my loaf of bread wound up on the floor.

I will probably make some kind of vague effort to keep them off it (if nothing else, I don't want them lighting themselves on fire on the gas range), but I have no hope that it will be successful when I'm not in the room. Perhaps I should get a breadbox for safer and less tempting-to-push storage of baked goods... though before this point my only real understanding of breadboxes was as something to be bigger than.

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[triath.livejournal.com]

Thank you for making that joke. I've found that people in the real world have no idea what I'm talking about when I make a joke about something being bigger than a breadbox.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Weird! Yeah, it's very familiar to me. (I think stemming from games of 20 questions -- "is it bigger than a breadbox?")

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

My problem is that i've seen the reference in terms of guessing games a lot, but never actually seen a breadbox, so it always strikes me as a rather odd thing to use as for comparison.

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

How do you know it wasn't Pava's fault that the bread ended up on the floor? ;-)

[coraa.livejournal.com]

BAD Pava! No biscuit!

hee hee hee.

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

Because Pava wants to EAT the bread! If it just "disappeared" than I might be suspicious.

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

So when leaving the house you stick the kittens in the breadbox so they can't get at the bread? ;)

[clairebaxter.livejournal.com]

I have bread boxes -- they are about the size of a large shoebox, a boot box, say.

[profgreg.livejournal.com]

When I had cats in Baltimore, and a kitchen counter in sight of the living room, I had a supersoaker for this very purpose. My cats got to be rather ornery... they'd jump up on the counter even when we were watching, and not get off until we actually got up and came after them. The supersoaker meant we could get them down w/o having to get up, and had the added benefit of being very satisfying.

It didn't keep them off the counter the rest of the time, though. Many mornings, we'd hear twin *thump*s as we were coming out of the bedroom.