Crazy Cat Story

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My daughter posted the you-tube video that is at the bottom of this discussion on her Facebook page. It reminded me of when we first moved to Canada. We moved here because my husband was recruited from the states to work here. He had a work permit but I was not allowed to work until we became landed immigrants (a legal term). Once the kids were in school I was bored so I went to a neighboring town with an art school and took a basic class on Water Colors. I had never painted with water colors. I loved it, I learned a lot and made some good long term friends there while learning. I always made sure I was home before the kids got home from school. We lived on the shore of Lake Ontario. We rented a house where the living quarters were upstairs because of the gorgeous views. I painted upstairs. To wash my brushes I used a peanut butter jar with water in it. One afternoon when I unlocked the house and walked in it looked terrable. I carefully walked up the stairs to the main part of the house. It was a bigger mess. I could hear our cat Reggie yowling and he sounded strange. I called him and he responded verbally but I didn't know where he was. I finally found him. He had stuck his head in my brush jar with water in it and it got stuck. He had been trying to get it off his head for a while and almost destroyed the house in the process. The water emptied quickly as he ran around, mad and crazy with a jar on his head. I got down on the floor with him, holding him still I just popped the jar off of his head. He was not a happy cat and his face was soaked. He got over it and lived to be 16 years old. Just remembering that funny cat with a jar on his head makes me laugh still. He never stuck his head in a small space again that I know of. From then on I emptied my jar after using it and put it away with my paints. I hope you can laugh at the video. It made me smile.