'Dear' (*sigh*) Hubby's Cat:

[melredcap]

Are you required by some evil feline contract to be occasionally destructive... and only with my stuff? I dunno, you behave beautifully for about five weeks at a time and then BAM, you've lulled us into a false sense of security and I discover you sitting in the wreckage of something I care about. >:(

I opened my study door this morning and found April sitting outside it with a piece of yarn in her mouth. My train of thought went something like this:

"Uh-oh. That's yarn."
"That's my yarn."
"...that's my nice sock yarn that I'm using to knit a kind of complicated shawl thing that represents quite a lot of work for the amount of progress I've made so far damnit cat!!!"

I made sure she hadn't swallowed any first, because. Y'know. Cat owner. Required to be calm and make sure the beastie hasn't harmed herself before getting mad. And then I tracked the trail of massacred yarn bits around the house, leading from the disembowelled project bag in the lounge room (shawl in progress seems fine; very nice circular needle has been fanged just enough that I probably can't fix it), along the hallway, around several corners (yarn chewed into bits that aren't quite big enough to save for anything), to under the bed in the main bedroom (remaining ball of yarn has been divided into three chunks and scrag-kicked hard enough to tangle it into an unsalvageable mess).

I told the hubby that he needs to dock her allowance to buy me replacement yarn. He pointed out that she doesn't get an allowance. I told him he needs to start, so that he can dock it to buy me replacement yarn. :P


ETA: Here, have a link to Ravelry so you can see the project! :P http://www.ravelry.com/projects/MelRedcap/haruni

Comments

[tephra]

I am so thankful that my cats haven't figured out project bags yet. I can't leave sweaters out because Shadow will steal them to knead to death and nest in, but despite her interest in bags she hasn't yet connected the two together in her all too clever little head. She has, however, stolen doll knitting projects in progress more than once, so those live in little plastic project boxes with secure lids.

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

Both our kitties loooooove bags, and loooooooove yarn, and Holly's done yarn macrame through multiple rooms and around bits of furniture before... but I thought that one was safe! Clearly bags without actual drawstrings/zippers are no longer good enough, because April's proven she can and will get into ones that are just wrapped around the project and tucked into another bag if there's something made from natural fibres in there. :P

[tephra]

Shadow has managed to climb into and sleep in an empty project bag, so I know one day I will slip up and find she's pulled a sweater in progress (or blanket, or shawl...) out of a bag. The only thing I don't know is if she will prefer to sleep on the knitting or in the bag.