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wnylib

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2. I wonder about that sometimes, too.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 10:01 PM
Monday

But most of these looked genuine to me., although I wasn't sure about some.

ETA: I had an orange kitten who accidentally rolled a toy under the couch. I slid a coat hanger under it to pull the toy out. He loved that retrieval and got next to me, like one of the video cats, to make it a team effort, mimicking my moves. I noticed that he started deliberately rolling things under the couch, just so we could work together on getting them out.

My current cat learned from watching me that touching my keyboard made a video stop or start. She loved watching with me. When I put a video on pause while I went to the kitchen, I heard the video playing again. The cat had tapped the right key and was sitting in front of the screen absorbed in the scene. I never knew if she hit the right key by accident or if she had learned from watching which specific key to touch.

She also used to turn off my phone alarm because she did not like the sound. Then she hid the phone under the couch.


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