Eeww! What's that smell?

Just now, Caliban was sleeping on the cat tree. I was sitting beneath
him. Decided to eat an orange. I started peeling it and heard a faint
'snork' from above. Then I felt two holes burning into me. Looked up,
and Caliban was sitting on his perch, looking all sleepy and tousled,
and looking at me with a look of deepest disgust and reproach in his eyes.

It seems I woke him up with the horrific assault of the smell of
oranges. I think this is the only food I've discovered that he dislikes.
(Mir-Mir doesn't mind them.) (Bet you didn't think this post was going
to be about oranges. :P)

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:
It seems I woke him up with the horrific assault of the smell of
oranges. I think this is the only food I've discovered that he dislikes.
(Mir-Mir doesn't mind them.) (Bet you didn't think this post was going
to be about oranges. :P)

In fact, I thought it was going to be about the fingerprint scanner on
your laptop.

Marina wrote:

Just now, Caliban was sleeping on the cat tree. I was sitting beneath
him. Decided to eat an orange. I started peeling it and heard a faint
'snork' from above. Then I felt two holes burning into me. Looked up,
and Caliban was sitting on his perch, looking all sleepy and tousled,
and looking at me with a look of deepest disgust and reproach in his eyes.

It seems I woke him up with the horrific assault of the smell of
oranges. I think this is the only food I've discovered that he dislikes.
(Mir-Mir doesn't mind them.) (Bet you didn't think this post was going
to be about oranges. :P)

No I didn't - lord knows the bad smells go in the other direction
often enough! But now you have excellent weaponry when you need it.

--
Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

Takayuki wrote:

In fact, I thought it was going to be about the fingerprint scanner on
your laptop.

He tries that trick every morning now.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

wrote:

No I didn't - lord knows the bad smells go in the other direction
often enough! But now you have excellent weaponry when you need it.

I'd noti9ced before that he doesn't like oranges - he always gave me the
most disgusted looks when I was peeling one (he's so cute when he
wrinkles his nose). But I wasn't aware that the smell could *wake him
up* from a deep sleep, at several feet away. :P

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

We've never had a cat that liked the smell of 1) bananas, 2) oranges, or 3)
any kind of mint. It's priceless watching their faces wrinkle up in disgust!

David

David wrote:

We've never had a cat that liked the smell of 1) bananas, 2) oranges, or 3)
any kind of mint. It's priceless watching their faces wrinkle up in disgust!

I can understand the first two, but mint? I guess yours weren't 'nip heads,
were they?

I've read that in general, cats don't like citrus smells or flavors. Of
course, if there's a generality that cats don't like citrus, that just
means that there *are* cats who love citrus, right?

Maybe there should be a special sub-discipline of symbolic logic, dealing
specifically with cats, such that:

All cats do X
Y is a cat
Therefore, Y *never* does X

.... would be perfectly logical.

--
Joyce

To email me, remove the triple-X from my user name. ^..^

wrote:
David wrote:

We've never had a cat that liked the smell of 1) bananas, 2) oranges, or 3)
any kind of mint. It's priceless watching their faces wrinkle up in disgust!

I can understand the first two, but mint? I guess yours weren't 'nip heads,
were they?

I've read that in general, cats don't like citrus smells or flavors. Of
course, if there's a generality that cats don't like citrus, that just
means that there *are* cats who love citrus, right?

Maybe there should be a special sub-discipline of symbolic logic, dealing
specifically with cats, such that:

All cats do X
Y is a cat
Therefore, Y *never* does X

... would be perfectly logical.


Yup. Like I said, Mir doesn't mind oranges at all.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Marina wrote:
Just now, Caliban was sleeping on the cat tree. I was sitting beneath
him. Decided to eat an orange. I started peeling it and heard a faint
'snork' from above. Then I felt two holes burning into me. Looked up,
and Caliban was sitting on his perch, looking all sleepy and tousled,
and looking at me with a look of deepest disgust and reproach in his eyes.

It seems I woke him up with the horrific assault of the smell of
oranges. I think this is the only food I've discovered that he dislikes.
(Mir-Mir doesn't mind them.) (Bet you didn't think this post was going
to be about oranges. :P)


Soncek hates the smell of all citrus fruits.
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek