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Codifer

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38. When Fleasle was a
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 08:08 PM
Mar 2025

about 3 months old, wife and I took her outside for her evening relief. It had been windy that day and just at the steps to the circle I saw a leaf that had been trapped by a strand of spider web. Flea saw it too. She stared at it suspended there; no visible means of support. She barkingly damn sure that the leaf obey the law of gravity like everything else. But the leaf remained, un-moving, about three feet above her head.

Perhaps that is intelligence.... I don;t know. It was sure some sort of awareness of normal and abnormal.

I wish she were that young again.



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2 Cases. Dorothy V Mar 2025 #15
My Siamese cat Yum Yum. catbyte Mar 2025 #16
catbyte... Niagara Mar 2025 #19
She was a once-in-a-lifetime cat catbyte Mar 2025 #30
Thank you for sharing your enjoyable memories about Yum Yum Niagara Mar 2025 #34
I had a cat named Yum Yum too! womanofthehills Mar 2025 #23
My parents' calico cat used to walk... Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2025 #18
So many good stories! Marthe48 Mar 2025 #20
They sound like a great tandem, Marthe True Dough Mar 2025 #21
They were Marthe48 Mar 2025 #22
I'm sure that's true for a lot of pet owners True Dough Mar 2025 #24
Nefarious veterinarians! Marthe48 Mar 2025 #25
Yes, it would be! True Dough Mar 2025 #27
lol Marthe48 Mar 2025 #28
our dog briefly terrified a dog sitter DBoon Mar 2025 #26
Just big enough for plumbers to work if lying down. True Dough Mar 2025 #31
My Abyssinian cat Lizzie fetches. bif Mar 2025 #29
My beloved Borzoi, Jazzy, was a vegetable critic Bayard Mar 2025 #32
Ha! But you know what, Bayard? True Dough Mar 2025 #33
Six years before I lost her to cancer Bayard Mar 2025 #39
My first dog... GardenGnome Mar 2025 #35
I have witnessed similar behavior in a few dogs in our neighborhood True Dough Mar 2025 #36
Who would have thought that animals would con each other GardenGnome Mar 2025 #37
When Fleasle was a Codifer Mar 2025 #38
Curious True Dough Mar 2025 #40
Her full name is Fiona. Codifer Mar 2025 #41
I'd be willing to bet that's the story of the majority of pets True Dough Mar 2025 #42
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