Am I the only one who no longer notices when the dogs jump up on my lap? I was watching the Pens, and had to use the facilities, started to get up, and noticed that Lily was on my lap, and not only was she there, but I was petting her. I looked her and said to myself “WTF- when did she get here?” Is there a point you simply no longer notice when your pets are starting to use you as a couch?
I’m cool with it, it was just weird. I had no memory of her coming up.
Baud
I’ve stopped noticing when dogs jump into your lap.
Litlebritdifrnt
The same way I wake up at 3am and both dogs are on the bed.
Schlemizel
are their adult beverages involved?
Betty Cracker
You’d notice if they weighed 60-70 lbs. like my mutts. I’ve been on vacation all week and dogless. Can’t wait to see the fur-bearing, farting critters again tomorrow when we get home. Oh, and the offspring too…
the Conster
When I watch hockey I terrify the cats and they claw to get out of the house. They’re hiding somewhere now.
FoxinSocks
I don’t notice when my cats sit in my lap. One day, I realized Harley, the Cat Who Bites Me When I Pet Her, was curled up in my lap. And I had been petting her absentmindedly.
She promptly bit me.
Ruckus
It isn’t the dogs. It is you getting older. You noticed but forgot that you did. Like walking into another room and forgetting what you went there for. BTW it only gets worse.
raven
Lil Bit will jump in any open lap.
protothad
There is no possible way for me to miss the fact that our dog has jumped up on me. She has an uncanny aim… we’ve nicknamed her ‘The Ball Stepper’.
Amir Khalid
Was Lily holding a jar of mustard, by any chance?
wmd
You notice when they hide your mustard.
Yatsuno
@FoxinSocks: At that moment you were petting her wrong. She was just correcting your silly hairless ape ways.
RepubAnon
It depends on the dog’s technique: this ranges from the flying leap into the areas of the lap most likely to cause pain to the stealthy approach. The stealthy approach involves getting slowly and carefully up onto the sofa near you, then slowly sidling ever closer until next to you, and then gradually moving onto the lap (nose on leg, then one paw, then the next…)
Just Some Fuckhead
I bet people that don’t have a dog would notice it. At least the first time.
Redshirt
Fascinating topic! I will give it some thought and report back later with my insights.
raven
never mind
jeffreyw
@raven: Dang, I was sure there were a couple of boys gonna be pissin on a fence.
MomSense
My old lab can’t jump anymore. We go to him on the floor now. And now he has a fear of walking across the wood floors after twisting his hip over the winter so we actually give him “magic carpet rides”. We have strategically placed towels throughout the downstairs. When he has a panic about the floors he makes a little whine and one of us shows up to unfurl the towel for him. He climbs on, sits down, and we drag him to his destination.
Comrade Mary
@FoxinSocks: That sounds like the Wile E. Coyote method of getting injured by your pets.
Sandra
@MomSense:
You’re a good Mom. Had to do the same for one of our old dogs, except I used small rugs.
raven
@jeffreyw: Nah, just a bunch of kids and a physicist grabbing the fence.
https://vine.co/v/b3WhvrlDtiV/embed
Amir Khalid
Seriously, Lily getting on your lap and you giving her skritches are the sort of ordinary event that doesn’t really grab more than a small part of your attention, and that you don’t wind up having a conscious memory of. I mean, do you remember every single step you took this morning on your way from bed to the bathroom? No. It’s just the brain avoiding clutter by not storing inconsequential memories.
schrodinger's cat
@raven: Did you like Monsoon Wedding?
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Yea, we had seen it so it came back pretty fast. There were a couple of 7th graders there and their parents were a bit concerned but they lost interest pretty quickly.
Today was a big annual pig pickin with tons of the other kinds of pickers as well.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Yep. I didn’t grow up with pets. Moved in with a buddy who had a dog (Kerouac, found on the road) and a cat (Theodore). Took about six months to get used to them sitting in my lap at all, but at some point I got to where I experienced what Cole describes above.
davebo
Per Betty, size does indeed matter. And mines pushing 125 lbs now.
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
We have 3 dogs and 4 cats, and I’d probably notice if there wasn’t an animal demanding my attention at any given time.
MomSense
@Sandra:
Thanks – every day we get with him is precious.
raven
Good pic of the pickers in line for the pickin.
raven
And the picked.
Redshirt
What about those people with no laps?
Scotty
Me thinks you can chalk it up to NHL playoff intensity. And Matt Cooke is an asshole.
schrodinger's cat
Bet you would notice if it was kitteh because of the sharp claws. Thread needs kitteh, since it is Caturday. You can has Trekkie kitteh
Cassidy
I don’t like pets.
raven
@Cassidy: You’d like mine.
Just Some Fuckhead
@raven: If yer talkin about that pig you just et, me too.
raven
@Just Some Fuckhead: I don’t eat it. Not for 20 years.
raven
Aw, Jean Stapleton died.
? Martin
Cardigan Welsh Corgis aren’t lap dogs.
But I’d like to thank my community for not fucking over our schools. Went to my son’s last HS concert of the year – in the community park, nice warm evening. Two full orchestras, a concert band, a jazz band, numerous quartets and other small ensembles. Top notch stuff too. That was followed by the choral concert – chamber, show, concert choirs, bel canto, and a variety of other small groups and solos.
Every graduating senior that performed is headed to college. A little bit overwhelming to realize how much effort from students to parents to teachers went into getting everyone to this point.
raven
@? Martin: Why, cuz they can jump up?
Cassidy
@raven: I honestly don’t like having animals. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve rescued kittens from a flea market, dogs off the street, etc. Two of our cats are strays and one’s a rescue. One of the dog is a rescue. I just don’t enjoy having animals. I do like mine, but when we finally reach zero, I don’t plan to replenish. The wife and kids love them to death and that’s why I have this many.
raven
@Cassidy: And I love kids and have never wanted any of my own. That’s one of the great things about this country, we can do what we want!
raven
Great win for the Braves!!!!!
jl
Awww, that is sweet. I’m glad Cole and the two doggies, even the JR Terrorist, have bonded.
But, I didn’t know that Cole was the type of person who ‘notices things’. I thought most of his personal anecdote/disaster posts were about just that issue.
Little Boots
like a dog on a lap, I appear.
Just Some Fuckhead
@jl:
lolz
Little Boots
this place came alive at night, once upon a time. not sure why it’s so dead now, but, oh well.
raven
@Little Boots: Stupid fucking hockey thread.
Little Boots
@raven:
oh, shit, that pens/bruins thing?
Just Some Fuckhead
@Little Boots:
The olds came and ran everyone else off the lawn. They go to bed early.
JWL
The dogs are biding their time until that day when you don’t move (“Mr. Cole? He dead”) and they can finally begin to really chow down.
Little Boots
@Just Some Fuckhead:
they gotta stop.
Little Boots
@JWL:
and don’t you whippersnappers start in about john. he’s okay.
a little cranky, but he’s okay, fer realz, as you kids say.
MikeJ
11-1 FTFY!
+5
Yatsuno
@MikeJ: I’ll take that.
Violet
I never notice when dogs jump up on your lap.
danielx
SATSQ – no. When either Erik the Magnificent or Zoey the Queen of Mean jump into my lap, I notice it immediately. When an eighteen pound claws-bearing critter starts kneading,which they both invariably do, it gets your attention right quick…
lockewasright
I’ve certainly developed an absent minded dog petting habit in my life. I am always petting one while doing other things. Even during the short periods where I have been without a dog I have caught myself hanging a hand off of the end of the couch in the same way that has always attracted a dog to come puts its head under my hand at the times when one was present.
Little Boots
everyone be awake. that is what this place is for.
different-church-lady
Wait… did someone say adult beverages?
Little Boots
@different-church-lady:
yes, and everyone drink!
different-church-lady
@danielx:
Oh, I thought you were gonna post that Erickson/Kelly dustup again.
danielx
Indiana Pacers beat Miami Heat 91-77, which by NBA standards is a righteous asskicking….yay
Mnemosyne
Popular new cat toy continues to be popular. Annie just fell over backwards trying to grab it.
JWL
@Little Boots: Whippersnapper?
Hell, I remember the Beatles hitting the airwaves and playing the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. I remember the day when JFK was murdered, too, and that entire weekend.
I remember pretty much everything from there on out, (albeit from a child’s eyes until circa ’70).
The Sixties were most definitely different. And most of the fundamental conclusions I’ve since drawn about our country were formed back then.
Indeed, I’m the personification of the dirty fucking hippie* you still hear so much about.
I’m even a native San Franciscan.
*(second wave, suburban class).
Tractarian
You should get that looked at, John.
Your brain, I mean.
? Martin
@raven: Can’t jump and are fat – 50 lbs.
lojasmo
Dogs belong on floors. They do not belong on laps, couches, or beds.
Dogs run and roll in dog shit.
handy
@lojasmo:
But, dogs got personality, and personality goes a long way.
opie jeanne
@Mnemosyne: You have an Annie? I have an Annie!
This was about four months ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80294279@N00/8257652365/in/photolist-dzGCmD-83fXwS-dzF4uc-dzLuA9-82KJJF-dzGC9n-dDepVp
KS in MA
@raven: Goodness! Did you enhance the colors in that photo, or do you live in Brigadoon?
raven
@KS in MA: HDR filter.
Rook
I’ve had the happy occurrence of finding both of my cats on my lap while I have watched an NCIS or The Clown Shows (Smackdown/Raw). Considering that about two months ago they were still fighting when they were next to each other, to find them sleeping on my lap is a complete joy.
Bruce S
I don’t know. It’s too bad Andy Rooney’s dead because I could check with him. Assuming he wasn’t preoccupied with the question of why one never runs out of paperclips.
JoyceH
@lockewasright:
*sniff* I knoooow!
My good girl died last week, ( http://joyceharmon.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/memorial-to-maggie/ , for those of you who missed it), and I’m always checking behind me before I push back from the computer. She wasn’t always right behind me, but almost always. And now — there’s nobody there! Waaah!
As for not noticing a pet in your lap, I’ve only got one laplander, and he makes sure I notice. Liam, my long-haired cat, when he comes aboard, first he puts his paws on my chest and gives me a long serious look eye-to-eye. Then when he settles down for a good lap session, he weaves around a bit, tickling my nose with his floofy floofy tail. Which is kinda hard to miss.
munsell10yr
I have three cats and it happens all the time. they’ve become somewhat co-dependent, so when I’m at the computer they’re trying to lay on my keyboard (except for one who lays behind my screen and is usually successful at turning off my computer at some point or another). If I’m on the couch there’s one in my lap, one on the armrest, and one behind my head. I’m so used to it I don’t even notice it anymore. Not a bad thing.
Mnemosyne
@opie jeanne:
Yes, we also have an Annie, and ours is also a brown tabby, but long-haired and very floofy. She looks exactly like the classic Maine Coon cat but weighs only about 8 pounds, so we call her our midget Maine Coon.
Mnemosyne
@JoyceH:
I’m so sorry. Our cat Natasha also died of cancer and it was really hard. Hers appeared to be operable, but that almost made it worse when we found out a few weeks after her surgery that it had spread to her lungs and there was nothing more they could do.
opie jeanne
@Mnemosyne:
She’s very pretty.
We had a big cat named Tommy who was probably half Maine Coon. Looked a lot like your Annie. He weighed in at 15 pounds which is why we thought he was half. They weigh between 15 and 30 pounds. I’m not up for a 30 pound cat.
Our Annie is “blue”. Maybe my photo made her look brown, but she’s really a gray kitty. 8 months old now and starting to have opinions of her own.
Mnemosyne
@opie jeanne:
People who pass by our window when she’s sitting in it always comment about how pretty she is. And she knows it, too. We also call her our little beauty queen, because she sits with her paws perfectly lined up and poses for us.