The Love of the Underfoot Cat for the Argyle Socks

[truepenny]

ME: Underfoot Cat, what are you doing?
UNDERFOOT CAT: I'm singin' in the rain, just singin'--
ME: Try again.
U.C.: Um. Your socks were lonely?
ME: My dirty and undoubtedly reeking socks that I just took off my feet after coming back from the barn?
U.C.: Yup! They're awesome!
ME: From the way you're treating them, you'd think I've been walking through the catnip mines.
U.C.: Um. I like horses?
ME: Have you ever seen a horse?
U.C.: . . . Maybe.
[UNDERFOOT CAT rubs his face lovingly against my argyle socks]
ME: You do realize this is not normal, don't you?
U.C.: It's not my fault! I was found up a tree! *
ME: Where all the horses wore argyle socks?
U.C.: It was an awesome tree.
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*True.

Comments

[libskrat]

Formerly Feral Fionavar (aka Finnsie, Finn, The Finn) has a similar obsession... but with only one pair of shoes, my oldest pair of Keen sandals.

Cats. IDEK.

[heresluck]

I really look forward to meeting Underfoot Cat.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

I have had cats do the same thing with raw unwashed fresh-off-the-sheep fleece. We'd done a large group order of fleece to save on shipping, so there was...a ridiculous amount of Icelandic fleece on my doorstep at one point. Something like 40 lbs. Anyway...

*sees fleece shipping boxes on doorstep (which is right on the driveway)
*goes and finds emails from friends with amounts of fleece
*draws up list
*retrieves kitchen scale and many paper bags from kitchen
*opens boxes on driveway
*separates out my share of fleece
*takes my share of fleece inside and puts it on the living room floor, for eventual relocation to the craft room
*goes back outside and separates out the rest of the fleece per the list
*puts all the bags in the car for delivery
*goes back in the house
*discovers both cats buried in the fleece on the living room floor, writhing about in purring ecstasy

[aerinha]

Fictitious Kitty (the shy one) also likes certain socks. And nylon straps, particularly when attached to things like backpacks.

I now have a mental picture of horses wearing argyle socks, and will have a perfect day because of it. Thanks!

[clhollandwriter]

My cat does this with my boyfriend's t-shirts, but only after he's worn them. We've never been able to figure out why. It's like what happens to the other cat on catnip.