If you live with cats, this will sound familiar.

[apocalypsos]

Upon walking into my parents' house and spotting Owen on the dining room table.

Me: "Owen, get off that table!"
Owen: *calmly walks off the dining room table and onto the dry sink*
Me: "Well, at least he can follow directions."

Comments

Yep. Been there.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

I slept in the other bed, where the new cat likes to hang out. Old cat followed me. New cat and old cat noticed each other. Cue sounds of a horror film as they played gotcha last.

Re: Yep. Been there.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Whenever we see the one cat on the kitchen counter we have to say, "Get off there!" because if we say, "Get down!" he just flops down on the counter or squats all the way down on his haunches. It's hard to yell when he's being that adorable.

Re: Yep. Been there.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

At least "Get down!" doesn't prompt him to start breakdancing. Although that would be pretty hardcore awesome.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

You need to be really specific with them. They're awfully literal.

[hawklaw.livejournal.com]

Huh. Because my cats, despite the obvious handicap of non-detached digits, just flip me off whenever I say something like that. It takes actual physical intervention.

I fully expect to come home soon to find they've staged a coup.

[dodger-winslow.livejournal.com]

This cracked me up. After living with an excrutiatingly well-behaved tom for 20 years (my friends insisted he was more dog than cat because he always did what I told him to do), I'm now living with 2 excrutiatingly not-well-behaved 6 month old toms (which are evidently more typical of cats than Dodger was), and this so reminded me of one of them.

Case in point: I was in the living room the other day and saw him, in the reflection of the bay window, standing on the kitchen table. When I yelled at him, BY NAME, to get the hell off the table, he looked up and had this "that's my name, and I know I'm doing something I'm not supposed to be doing, but she can't be talking to me because she can't SEE me" look on his face that just about killed me. Because evidently a 6 month old cat doesn't get the whole "see you even though I'm turned the other direction" thing.

Who knew?

[1grl-revolution.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm a lurker!

Your story is similar to what happens with my cat:

Me: Speckle! Get off the table!
Speck: *looks at me* MEEE-OOOOWWWW! *jumps off table*
Me: Ok then, little Miss Attitude!

[shardofnarsil.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Pardon my intrusion, but I was going through my friends' friends page, and I saw this entry. My parents have a cat named Owen, so I hear "Owen get off that table" almost everytime I visit them! :o)