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Happy barfday, Axolotl_lan!

Mar 25, 2010 00:24

Well well March 25 is our lovely axolotl_lan's birthday sooooo I wrote her some fic.

Title: Kitchen Nightmares
Author: Katzedecimal
Characters: just Pipster, Happyverse flavour
Prompt: "baby ratties do not belong."
Summary: There are downsides to living with a domestically clueless celebutante with a rat obsession.

( To James's dismay. )

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runenklinge March 26 2010, 12:40:39 UTC

"So very, very clever yet so very, very clueless."

awwww

sweet, snugglemuffin!
some people have the blinds on when it´s about their pets^^
("don´t be scared, he just wants to play.")

katzedecimal March 26 2010, 18:58:17 UTC

G'morning, Sunshine! ^__^

Boy are you not kidding.

runenklinge March 29 2010, 17:15:52 UTC

...ratsicle?
I think only one party there is enjoying itself...and it´s not the rat

katzedecimal March 29 2010, 17:18:28 UTC

Uh-huh. There's a disaster in the making, while the owners aww and coo, 'cause they are totally misreading the cat's body language, not to mention the rat's.

runenklinge March 29 2010, 17:26:06 UTC

well, I don´t have a cat or a rat, but I read the langauge as following

cat: ratsicle? *lick* yep, definetely rat. tasty rat. mmmmmmm
rat: ohgodpleasedonteatme

katzedecimal March 29 2010, 17:41:40 UTC

You're pretty much correct on that. The fact that the rat had to be placed back with the cat repeatedly, then froze in place and didn't move, that's exactly what he was doing, playing dead in the hopes that the cat would get bored and go away. Rat body language is very different from dog or cat body language, but that one was pretty obvious. The cat, OTOH, he is not an experienced hunter, probably an indoor cat. He IS playing BUT the way the tip of his tail is twitching in that jerky, excited fashion, his instincts are starting to get the better of him. You notice two things happen when the tail goes twitchy like that: The hind feet kicks get more powerful, and the neck bite gets deeper. The way that he goes from a light pinning neck-bite to a deeper, 'chewing' neck hold, that is a very bad sign, things could go sour faster than the humans could react; it goes from pin to hold to CHOMP! - broken neck. The way the cat keeps glancing up to see if the humans are still watching is also not a good sign; if they turn their backs ( ... )

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katzedecimal April 3 2010, 20:20:15 UTC

Inorite? People who simply don't understand their pets, and aren't going to until something awful happens. I love YouTube for this, I can find just as many "what to do right" videos as well as "what not to do" videos, so comparison is easy and the differences become really obvious. The body languages of cat/rat pairs who really are friends is 100% different from what's being displayed here.

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