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10:12 pm
February 10, 2009
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WHY, WHY, WHY do all the cats in the house come into the kitchen and sprawl across the kitchen floor like little mini throw rugs when you are canning and need to haul giant pots of boiling water and insanely hot jars of STUFF around???? 
They NEVER hang around the kitchen that much any other time!!! At least not all at once!!
11:56 pm
February 8, 2009
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I only have 1 and he is stone deaf and he does the same thing. Only when I am canning it seems!
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2:07 am
June 5, 2010
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Years ago when I lived with my most favorite cat "Momma Cat", she would go crazy in my kitchen when i started to make home made pizza. She would appear and sit quietly while I started the dough, but when i started stirring the home made tomato sauce she would go wild! She would try to climb up the cabinets to the counter top. At the time, I was living in a 100 year old house that had metal kitchen cabinets and the white porcelain counter tops. She could not get a claw hold! Needless to say, she always got the first slice of pizza! I so much miss my deceased animal friends/house mates…..
Was that oregano or catnip in that sauce?
7:00 am
August 30, 2008
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I have a cocker and labrador who both try to lay ON my feet if I pause more than a second while canning or cooking, lol. They don't do this anywhere else in the house!
7:44 am
Buckeye Girl, I'ts a conspiracy! I have two cats who disappear during the day. That is, until I decide to cook something in the kitchen. Then, like magic, POOF!!, there they are again.
Now we (cats) don't just come and sit like ladies, NOOOOOO, we strategically locate our prone bodies in locations where Mom will trip over us while she's desperately trying to get things done! Oh, and our specialty…the Let's-sit-behind-mom-and-trip-her-when-she-steps-backwards maneuver! Works every time! Usually accompanied by a loud, "DARN IT! GET OUT OF MY WAY!" scream after which they magically disappear again.
Hmmmmm! I truly believe it's a cat conspiracy!
10:36 am
Our cat's follow me to the bathroom, when I get out of the shower there they are for me to step on really (trip) over, have a big pile of clean laundry in your arm's watch out they run in front, yes cooking is for the dog's, I call canning the big pot and little pot, two dog's in the way, peanut likes to sit on my feet while I am chopping, or right in front of the stove when making jam, I have to move him, afraid he will get burned with hot jam. Yes these little critters are always under foot. Human's are the same way, dinner is done, but just let me go into the kitchen to can or make something, hubby and son follow like puppy dogs.
11:02 am
February 10, 2009
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Well, we have had cats in this house for 40 years or more, after the last one died, someone THREW a kitten out the car window on their way by, he was very tiny, we weren't even sure he'd been completely weaned, so we got cat milk replacer for him just in case to add to his diet (that stuff is expensive!) and we took him in. Sweet guy, problem is, when he was nearly a year old and he made his way all the way down to the main road and over the bridge and got hit. Now, in 40+ years, we've never had a pet get run over, we live on a sleepy dead end road. This fellow had to work at it!
My elderly dad missed that little guy so when one of his home care ladies said she had a litter of kittens, I said we'd take two males. Figuring they'll pal around, keep each other company and stay closer to home (hope, hope, hope). They're still young, (6 mos?) and totally indoor kitties, yes I know that's best for the forever, but this is a tiny house, rural environment, they'll be indoor/outdoor eventually.
Then, we had some horrible rainstorms, and during one, a NEW kitten, younger and very starving broke INTO the house a couple weeks ago. ….and then there were THREE in the house! Oh well. She's sweet and shy and now on the road to learning what it's like to have lots of food and love. The boys don't quite know what to make of her, they're so rough and tumble and she's this shy little lady.
They don't spend that much time in the kitchen, but last night they all thought they were rag rugs! They have between them caught several mice so that's good!
The jelly jelled up real nice though! I think it must have been because I wore my new apron while I made it! It's a magic apron!!! It's really too sweet for my taste, I need to make another batch with 'low sugar' pectin.
8:47 pm
July 24, 2010
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Same story with the cats around here. Even when they come in from outside the first thing they do is sprawl in the middle of the kitchen floor. 3 are rag rug size, and one is trying to be a wall to wall carpet!
9:06 am
May 23, 2009
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With me it's two basset hounds! Try cooking/canning with two long-eyed, sad-eyed pups looking at you like they are starving to death (I guarentee you they are not!). Poor Biscuit is so long that he gets between me and the stove and then he can't get turned around without knocking me in the legs and this is usually when I have my hands full of hot stuff!
11:21 pm
December 28, 2008
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Hey! Cut them some slack!! They are just trying to HELP!! 
At least that's what mine have always told me 
10:57 pm
June 29, 2010
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Ha ha! For me, it's two mischievious little boys!! They complain about that stinky canning smell (hot mustard sauce) but eat dill pickles by the jarfull!
2:20 pm
November 15, 2008
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My cats are crazy about fried chicken! I have to give them some when I eat and they fight over the scraps. Only time they really follow me is when I go into the kitchen and that's not where I keep their food hmmmmmmmmmm!
2:40 pm
November 4, 2009
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Yup…my cat, too…always underfoot at the worst times. At our house we call it "cat help". I think its a kind of cosmic law. Or a cosmic joke…I can't tell which 
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