Saturday, January 25, 2003

I know it’s supposed to

I know it’s supposed to be impossible to teach a cat anything, and our Rufus is unusually dense even for her species, but I think she’s picked up on certain subtlties of our language.  She seems to know that garbage strewn around is “litter” and that she has a “litter box”.  And now she’s made the connection that we expect her to distribute the contents of the “litter box” liberally around our living space. 

If we’d started calling it a “tidy box” at the outset I think things would have been very different.