anthropomorphism

Time to finalize my draft memo. I hate attempting to restate things in fewer words.

My pets are starting to feel my pain, or maybe my husband's, or maybe both. I opened their cage today to say hi, and Luca, who's normally reasonably mellow, completely freaked. He bolted away from my hand twice, landed in the wheel and ran like the wind. My husband came over to see what was going on, reached in as well, and was promptly bitten by Enzo (who has an aggressive streak).

"What's gotten into them?" my husband wondered as Luca scampered around in circles, wedging himself back between the wheel and the cage wall, and Enzo retreated back under his log cabin toy.

"Well, you know how they say you can smell fear," I mused. "Maybe these guys can smell strung-out, and they smell it on us, and they want no part of it."

Bad sign, though...when you're so strung out that your mere presence upsets your pets.

thus spake /jca @ September 25, 2002 09:01 PM