December 30th, 2007
Wish Photon was like this…
Cute vid of cat in bath—who seems happy about it! (via Neatorama)
As opposed to Photon, who spends most of bathtime on her hind legs trying to get out, and so who needs two of us to keep her in the tub.
I thought it was just our dog, Teagan, who hated baths! She looks like a drowned rat in the bathtub and she makes it known once we let her out that she is NOT happy with us!
I had them sign a waiver that I didn’t have to bathe her while they were away. But I still had to take her to see “I Am Legend” because of the dog, and she can’t jump off the couch to get her own tennis wiener, because, as she tells it, it’s too far.
The annoying thing is: Photon loves swimming. She’ll plunge into the lake at the cottage for hours. She even likes getting soaked in the rain—maybe not at first, but once wet she’ll get super-energized and happily tear around outside and inside. Even after the bath she doesn’t seem to hold too much of a grudge against us (and that’s saying a lot, since she can certainly hold a grudge!) as she’s too busy rubbing herself on the couch trying to get rid of the shampoo smell.
Laura and I (but mainly Laura) faked up the packaging for a Wii game, modelled after one of the ones Nintendo itself created. Erik contributed great hunks of the promotional copy for the back. We inserted the label into a spare DVD case, labelled a DVD inside and added a little instructional handbook (that acutally contained a gift certificate), and with that we had Meghan and Austin hovering between belief and skepticism for a good three minutes. The coup de grace was that I had carefully removed the shrink wrap off of one of Jon’s DVD presents and more or less seamlessly got it on the fake, adding that extra bit of verisimilitude. (Jon was sold; he wanted to play it before we gave it to Meghan.)
I love my doggy Photon. I like to give Photon some kibbles and I also like to give Photon a kiss and a hug. When I see her I say, “Photon kisses for me”. I like to play ball with her. On Saturday, December 15/07 my daddy is going to help me video tape the ski conditions and the highway conditions.
Cobalt gets almost all her baths at Urban Dog, but we keep getting A+++ report cards about her behaviour. And she’s been very cooperative the few times we’ve bathed her at home.
Has Photon taken to swimming yet?