{"id":132,"date":"2009-08-18T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz\/2009\/08\/cats-are-smart\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T03:58:05","slug":"cats-are-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Cats are Smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/Sos2L84CBXI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/mKOF547Sn5E\/s1600-h\/0028%5B1%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371446559517050226\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 200px; display: block; height: 150px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/Sos2L84CBXI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/mKOF547Sn5E\/s320\/0028%5B1%5D.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I have come to the conclusion that I attract dumb cats.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I grew up on the farm with lots of &#8220;barn cats&#8221;. The first one I recall playing with as a child was no genius- I named her &#8220;Run Around In Circles&#8221; after her favorite- and apparently only- pastime. When I was older we had a cat named Penelope who would sit on the ground and try to leap into the air to catch birds for hours on end and one named Bon Jovi (yes I named her) who would rountinely get stepped on by cows because she couldn&#8217;t figure out how to get out of their way. At the time I chalked this up to in-breeding.<\/p>\n<p>My first &#8220;real&#8221; pet cat was a very large tabby cat named Buddy. He was a sweet, loving cat who my vet called &#8220;the dumbest cat I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8221; . For the record, hi didn&#8217;t really mean it in a mean way- it was just a statement of fact. I once tried a popular dog intelligence test on Buddy- tossing a blanket on him to see how long it would take him to figure out how to get out. After spending about 3 seconds trying to get out he curled up and took a nap.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a sweet, loving cat named Pumpkin. She has a very small head and apparently there is a reason for that. I call her the &#8220;50 First Dates&#8221; cat because she walks around with this constant look of surprise in spite of the fact that she&#8217;s lived with us for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t trade &#8220;my babies&#8221; for the world. They make me smile every day. But maybe someday I can get one who could find their way out of a wet paper sack!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to the conclusion that I attract dumb cats. &nbsp; I grew up on the farm with lots of &#8220;barn cats&#8221;. The first one I recall playing with as a child was no genius- I named her &#8220;Run Around In Circles&#8221; after her favorite- and apparently only- pastime. When I was older we had a cat named Penelope&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=132\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warm-fuzzies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}