Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The unbearable cuteness of Imp


This is my cat Impediment, nicknamed Imp. He is one of Mocha's kittens. I found Mocha living in the basement of a building we manage. I had to board up a broken window in the basement and she was a friendly and sweet cat and I took her home. Of course she was pregnant, and she gave birth to three kittens in my bed while I was sleeping! I thought that cats were supposed to find a closet or something to hide their kittens away but I guess they don't always.

Back to the subject of Imp, he's a really cute cat. Imp loves my feet, both to attack them while I am sleeping and also to get underneath them when I am trying to walk somewhere! In fact once I was going down the stairs on my way to feed the cats and he was very excited and I ended up kicking him downstairs accidentally! His little body rolled down about 5 stairs like he was a very loose bag of potatoes, completely relaxed. At the bottom of the stairs he hopped up fine and commenced meowing for food. I felt horrible but the cat really did get on top of my feet while I was walking. That's why he is called Impediment.

He's Imp because he's a naughty little guy, always playing and being mischievous. He loves water. He's fascinated by sinks, toilets and the cat fountain we have for him to drink out of.

When anyone flushes a toilet, he runs up and looks in. We have to keep all the toilets in our house with the lids shut or he will play with the water. He leaves little footprints all over because he is always getting his feet wet.

He likes to play with our older cat, Oliver. Sometimes Oliver enjoys this, but a lot of the time he doesn't! Imp plays with Oliver's tail. This makes Oliver very mad, and being mad makes Oliver's tail thrash around. This makes it irresistable to Imp, so he has to try to grab Oliver's tail more, until Oliver gets really mad and growls at him and runs off.

Imp didn't used to like to cuddle and seldom purred but now he does. He likes to lay against me while I am in bed sleeping or reading, and when he's petted he does now give a very loud and content purr!

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