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1) Cat show. It's become smaller over the years, and for the last couple has been moved by the county fairgrounds into a smaller hall. Full of Persians and Maine Coons. One of the breeders of the latter was called Bounding Maines. Do Maine Coons - big, stolid-looking cats - actually bound? The breeder said yes, they do.

The cat show remains the only convenient place to buy peacock feathers as cat toys. (Pet stores don't carry them.) After years without much need, we now have Maia who loves them. Loves them to pieces, in fact: we bought a dozen. If those last a year, it'll be because she loses interest.

2) Baptism of infant grand-niece Alex(andra). She cried lustily; so did the other baby up for the fount. In stereo! Loud family celebration afterwards.

1.5) In between, lunch at a late-breakfast place that serves apricot French toast and blueberry-banana pancakes. And a visit to my mother at the nursing facility, not that I haven't been spending most of my time there lately anyway.

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[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Our local pet store sells peacock feathers. Our cats will assail them enthusiastically, so that they fairly quickly lose their integrity, but after that they seem less interested. It's kind of appealing, though, to see our younger cat strut about the apartment with a feather clenched in his jaws.

His single favorite cat toy, though, seems to be the laser pointer.

[mithriltabby]

Maine Coons do bound upon occasion, making great thudding sounds and leading human observers to think that Carl Sandburg was not thinking of a Maine Coon when he described fog coming on little cat feet.

I have also seen Cleo prance when coming to accept a treat for having scratched on the cat tree (which is how we get them to leave the rest of the furniture unscratched).