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Smartest Pets - young reader & writer series - Cover

Some animals are so smart! In this book you will read 25 funny and exciting true stories about our favourite pets. More!

Oscar the kitten

Oscar came to us as a six- month old kitten just as my husband was taking long service leave to work on some projects around our property. Tony was initially unenthusiastic about adopting a cat, having always been a dog-person. But he soon warmed to Oscar, who would accompany Tony on his daily forays into the garden, supervising and inspecting the quality of his work. Every lunch time, Oscar would find a suitable vantage point on the back of Tony’s chair in order to groom Tony’s head, so that he was clean and refreshed for the afternoon’s activities. And at the end of a hard day’s work, nothing goes down better than a beer and chips- minus the beer, of course, in Oscar’s case!

The early bonding between Oscar and Tony firmly established, in Oscar’s mind at least, the domestic hierarchy: Tony was top, next was Oscar and then came me. This was clear from the way Oscar would “biff� me and/or chase me around the house when things didn’t go his way.

That’s not to say that Oscar is a bully. Quite the contrary- Oscar is a charismatic ladies cat. His appeal to the opposite sex (and species!) began from an early age when he so charmed and inspired our friend’s young and attractive girlfriend that she adopted two kittens from the RSPCA. Our teenage daughter and her girlfriends would smuggle Oscar into her bedroom to spend the night with them. And Oscar’s normal abhorrence of visiting the local vet recently disappeared after the employment of a young and pretty new vet, even going so far as voluntarily offering her his injured paw for treatment. In his most recent encounter, he was chased about the house by two giggling young French students and a camera.

Oscar has some endearing, if somewhat eccentric, habits. One is his method of stretching during which all of his extremities are extended, including his tongue. However, when the stretch is over, the tongue remains extended, and the effect is cumulative so that after a number of stretches there can be a good 2 or 3 centimetres of pink showing.

Another habit is talking in his sleep, usually in response to the television being turned off and the call of “Bedtime!!�. Oscar’s speech is a strange combination of clicks, whimpers and whines delivered with a twitching upper lip and closed eyes. His tone changes from pleading to resigned then ultimately grumpy as he realizes that resistance is useless and he stalks off to bed in a huff, muttering to himself.

Eccentricities aside, I think that Oscar’s most enduring achievement will be that he is credited with single-handedly “educating� my husband, an avowed dog-person, that cats can be just as charming, individual and devoted as their canine counterparts. I, of course, have always known this!

Author: Michelle Hedges
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True story: Yes
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funny

Posted by karen 2 months ago  x

Quite a nice story,I once had a cat like that, she only liked men, and every time that I went past her, she would give me a whack.

Posted by Ruby.from NZ 2 months ago  x

that was a very very good laugh

Posted by courtney 3 months ago  x

I was amused by Oscar's love of the female of any species. What a flirt!!

Posted by Joyce Elphick 8 months ago  x

Oscar sounds like he has a lot of personality :)

Posted by Bernadette Klavins 14 months ago  x

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