The cats are doing their usual. All six of them are patiently waiting for me to feed them.

I am "wasting" their time as I sit here pounding ou my blog yet they have learned to "tolerate" this idiosyncracy of mine while they await their next meal. It should not be too hard for them to wait as they just ate about four hours ago..at six AM this morning. Right now,..a mass communal "washing" is taking place.

Everyone is taking a bath...one hindmost leg in the air...everything is hanging out!! I am getting stares of outrage from Lizard Breath as I do not take part in the mass group activity!!
Lizzie is the "bath initiating" cat. When she says lift your leg and wash,..all of my felines do so or she either yowls at them,..bites them,..or pounds the rebel into submission as the others sit and watch in mute admiration of her persuasive "tactics."

Liz is giving me the cat version of the "fish eye." She remembers me chasing her all over the house with a rolled up newspaper,..however. She walks over and wacks Fluffy,..my one long haired kitten,..over the head as he is too slow deciding which leg to start licking.

As Fluff has to learn to stand up for himself,..I stay out of the squabble. Lizard Breath has the mornings acivities well under control. If she decides that the whole "kitty Crew" will wash till I decide to feed them,..they will sit on their cans and lick themselves clean.

I have a feeling,..however,..that Fluffy is going to be the rebel of the bunch...if I don't interfer. Lizzie has "brained" him one time too often for him to forget. One of these mornings,..when the Fluffer gains another three or four pounds,..Miss Lizzie is going to get her butt beat!!

Heh! The joke is is that Lizard Breath is really quite the most cowardly of the my cats. She has a louder voice than the others,..and can screech most of them into submission, and hits the cats smaller than herself..as hard as she can,..but if another cat,..bigger than herself or feistier,.. really up and challenges her...she runs like the devil for behind the bathroom door..her favorite hiding place.

(more on cat politics at another time!!)