Is Onion Smart? Hardly.
Sunday, September 14, 2008 Is Onion, my sixteen-pounds-and-still-lean kitty, smart? Hardly. We have had him for over two years now, and in that time, he has had ample opportunity to learn from his older cohort, Oskar. Oskar knows how to pull open cupboard doors, push doors open into rooms, scale to the highest points in every room, and drink from faucets. None of this is rocket science, but simple or not, Onion has not learned to do any of it.
It is not surprising, because he has only mastered one physical action for demanding our attention / getting under a blanket / opening the top of a bag: he hits whatever he wants to maniplate with a downward motion of his paw. If patting things repeatedly actually achieved anything, he would be an incredibly successful cat, but one look at his eyes will tell you that he is a huge, lovable, cuddly, and completely blank slate.
I apologize for the darkness of the following video, but I did not have time to find my camera, check its energy level, AND set up appropriate lighting once Onion started swimming along the windowsill in an effort to squish himself under the windowframe. It is much more clear if you watch it in the dark. I missed the most sincere of his efforts to push his huge self under the window, but you can at least get a taste of his adorable lack of smarts.
His kind of stupid delights me.
Reader Comments (10)
I see nothing but the blinking lights of Zanadu.
But you have a very sweet voice!
There is sweetness, too, in his persistence! What a cute kid.
It was like looking at a sonogram, I think. But I agree with dgb. You have a very sweet voice.
I could see it okay. He's definitely all looks and no brain!
Awe.. too cute.
i had a cat that picked the middle of the street as her favorite nap spot... hey! it was really warm. ;)
His kind of stupid is mesmerizing.
I'm intrigued by his spots! I could watch cat vids all day and giggle! Thanks.
His persistence is endearing. And he's v. v. cute and cuddly.
My Max, on the other hand, is slowly tearing all the wallpaper off the bathroom wall. Not so cute. Well, it shrieks 1970, but until I can afford to peel it off and paint the walls, I'd rather he left it alone. Stupid cat.
Alison: One way to dress up your torn wallpaper is to buy a gilt frame from a second-hand store and put it up around the worst of it. It says, yes, I know it's here, but now it's funnier, and my cat's an artist.
Awww, Onion and my cat, Casper, seem to have been cut from the same mold..and getting moldier all the time. :)