[sweetwater]

When we first started seeing each other I had a cat that was more like an angry raccoon to everyone but me. Big Siamese mix that was possessive so when she saw me lying on the floor, arms behind my head talking to That Man, she climbed onto my stomach and glared at him. I whined about the cat weighing so much, and continued talking, but he thought he'd help get her off me. Being unfamiliar with cats but very eager to help, he made big clawed hands and HISSSSSed at the cat. It scared her off all right - and she came this//close to disemboweling me with her claws, too. It's OK because the wounds are all healed and I get a lot of mileage from the story.