Silly SIte o' the Day

Kitty gave us quite the scare earlier today. Every now and then Zen runs around the apartment like the wild thing he is, jumping up on top of things like our bookcase and the TV cabinet (usually sending my metroyshkas and maneki nekos scattering) at dizzying speed. It was really bad today, and I shouted at him to come down, whereupon he had the strangest reaction. It was like I'd hit him with my words. He started caterwauling, really loudly, the way he does when he's about to throw up a hairball, only he didn't. About a half dozen plaintive wails, then he just kind of collapsed, folding in on himself. We still don't know what happened, when he got up again a short while later his back legs (which aren't the strongest) seemed fine, and within the hour he was himself again. I cannot imagine my shouting created that kind of reaction. Cats Are A Weirdness. As well as being adorably ugly in medieval paintings, which is probably why folks thought nothing of getting rid of them and thus welcoming the Black Plague. Yes, I'm in a cheerful mood today.