-=> Quoting Ross Sauer to Jo Peshek <=-
 JP> I've surmised that Piper is intimidated by me when
 JP> I'm standing up.  He's a real love-fest when I'm
 JP> reclining on the couch, or when I go to bed at night,
 RS> 
 RS> There's the problem.
 RS> You tower over Piper, and that terrifies him.
 
 JP> Anybody else have this experience with their feline?
 RS> 
 RS> I haven't. Yet.
My situation is a bit different.  Meko demands to be petted when I walk near 
her, she enjoys being picked up (probably because I sometimes carry her 
outside with me), and she'll stop off at my bed to be petted on her way to 
the bedroom window; but she will not sit in my lap, and won't even stay if I 
sit on the sofa beside her.  She clearly isn't intimidated by my size, she 
just doesn't have much use for humans who are sitting down.
I guess it's true: Dogs are from Mars, cats are from Venus.  (Or is it "Men 
are from fireplugs, women are from litterboxes"? Either way I understand cats 
about as well as I understand women, which is to say "not much".
Walter, wluffman@usit.net    CompuServe: 74721,3464
... In plumbing, a straight flush is better than a full house. ___ Blue 
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