Kyrielle
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Things have changed a lot in the past two months. Kamino is now approaching 6 months old and has discovered several new (read: annoying) things.
First, somewhere in the past month, he started talking...all. The. Time. Unless he's asleep, he's almost always vocalizing in some manner. It's...incredibly annoying and hard to ignore. I'm having to learn that half the time, it's like he's talking to himself. He's also proven to further his vocal talents in his occasional attempts at mimicking what I'm saying. The first time this happened, I found it highly disturbing. Of course, he gets nowhere near what I said, but he's gotten close to matching the "shapes" of the sounds I made and the pattern in which I made those sounds.
Second, he's started to play the "counter game". This is a game that tests my patience and I have decided is purely done because he knows it annoys me. At this point, he KNOWS he's not supposed to be on the lower counter (I have a bar and the counter is split into two levels with the lower level containing the sink). So, I'll be sitting on the couch, minding my own business, while he runs up to the bar chair and sits next to it. He starts to meow and grumble and make noises until he's sure I'm looking right at him then proceeds to jump up onto the upper counter. Again, he makes sure I'm looking at him before he slowly...and I do mean sloooowly, steps down onto the lower counter. As soon as I see him start to do it, I start warning him to get off that counter. Of course, all he does is chatter right back and me and step onto the counter anyway. As soon as I get up, he jumps off the counter and manages to look at me and meow as if saying, "What? What? I didn't do anything!" Sometimes it gets so annoying, I have to stick him in the bathroom so I can simply eat.
One time, I didn't respond at all and he looked over at W and me in utter confusion as if we could dare to ignore him doing such a heinous act. By the way, he didn't try again for the rest of the night. Hmm...
However, while his attempts to test his limits are starting to get more extreme, his affection is swinging towards the extreme end as well. He's wanting more of everything. In fact, I'd say he's, without a doubt, hardly any different than every other greasy, uppity 13-year-old I've ever seen.
I just have to remember...it's just a phase... At least he hasn't destroyed anything. The only other terribly annoying thing he's done is learn how to turn off the power strip that my computer is hooked up to. :| Four times, usually right when I'm intensely staring at the screen working on something, has he shut off the computer. It only took once for him to learn that doing so makes me extremely angry with him.
First, somewhere in the past month, he started talking...all. The. Time. Unless he's asleep, he's almost always vocalizing in some manner. It's...incredibly annoying and hard to ignore. I'm having to learn that half the time, it's like he's talking to himself. He's also proven to further his vocal talents in his occasional attempts at mimicking what I'm saying. The first time this happened, I found it highly disturbing. Of course, he gets nowhere near what I said, but he's gotten close to matching the "shapes" of the sounds I made and the pattern in which I made those sounds.
Second, he's started to play the "counter game". This is a game that tests my patience and I have decided is purely done because he knows it annoys me. At this point, he KNOWS he's not supposed to be on the lower counter (I have a bar and the counter is split into two levels with the lower level containing the sink). So, I'll be sitting on the couch, minding my own business, while he runs up to the bar chair and sits next to it. He starts to meow and grumble and make noises until he's sure I'm looking right at him then proceeds to jump up onto the upper counter. Again, he makes sure I'm looking at him before he slowly...and I do mean sloooowly, steps down onto the lower counter. As soon as I see him start to do it, I start warning him to get off that counter. Of course, all he does is chatter right back and me and step onto the counter anyway. As soon as I get up, he jumps off the counter and manages to look at me and meow as if saying, "What? What? I didn't do anything!" Sometimes it gets so annoying, I have to stick him in the bathroom so I can simply eat.
One time, I didn't respond at all and he looked over at W and me in utter confusion as if we could dare to ignore him doing such a heinous act. By the way, he didn't try again for the rest of the night. Hmm...
However, while his attempts to test his limits are starting to get more extreme, his affection is swinging towards the extreme end as well. He's wanting more of everything. In fact, I'd say he's, without a doubt, hardly any different than every other greasy, uppity 13-year-old I've ever seen.
I just have to remember...it's just a phase... At least he hasn't destroyed anything. The only other terribly annoying thing he's done is learn how to turn off the power strip that my computer is hooked up to. :| Four times, usually right when I'm intensely staring at the screen working on something, has he shut off the computer. It only took once for him to learn that doing so makes me extremely angry with him.
