Punishing Gus

Do other people put their animals in "time-out?"

Gus aka Sir Chunk-a-Lot, can be a naughty kitty.

Jumping onto and into anything he can. Picking on his brother Mac. Generally annoying all two-legged and four-legged roommates.

Swatting him and telling him that he is a "bad cat" doesn't work because he thinks you're just playing with him. Even squirting him with the water bottle doesn't help because it just riles him up more.

So he gets a time out. He is placed (gently tossed) into the bathroom, the door is shut behind him, and he remains in there for 5 minutes.

This happened Saturday. He was just being naughty and so received a time out. At the end of the time out, I walked over to open the door and nearly stepped on Mac. He was sitting outside the door waiting for his playmate to come back out. And his sensory deprivation time worked! He was relatively calm for the next hour or so. After that, Matt and I didn't care because we went to bed. Mac was on his own!

Once again, Matt and I would make great parents as long as we can: train our children to eat off the floor, use a litter box, put them in rooms along for extended periods of time as punishment, and take them to the vet's office when it's time for their annual rabies/distemper shots!



On an unrelated note, last night Matt made Chinese food for supper. Yum yum!!!! It was chicken with broccoli and other Chinese vegetables in a hosin/ginger/honey sauce! Yum!!! It's amazing to me how "international" American's diets are. One day you might have Chinese for supper, the next Italian, Mexican, Thai, who knows what!!

Last week we made a huge batch of waffles (supper for breakfast again!) and froze what we couldn't eat (about 15 waffles) We've been slowly using them up by: taking them out of the freezer, placing them into to the toaster, and enjoying! You know, it's such an easy thing to do, toasting these pre-made waffles, someone should start a business doing this.

They could name it "Wafflo" or "Toast-ems"....
Oh, right. Eggo....