Bogart the Benevolent

Thank goodness we own a cat with a laid back personality! Brianna must spend 75% of her time chasing after him and talking to him and trying weird things with him and to it all he reacts with calm patience, only the tiniest mew or twitch of his tail to let you know he's feeling harassed. As she gets older though, Bree is starting to treat him more as a companion rather than just a living trampoline. More and more she treats him as she would a human friend. Today she was telling him a story from library time. They have a little chant we do there that starts with a baby shark, a mommy shark, a daddy shark, a grandpa shark, then people swimming, sharks coming, and shark attack! (where the kids get tickled by the parents). Well, today Brianna crouched down in front of Bogart, made the baby shark fingers and was saying "baby sark, baby sark" to him. That's all the farther she went, thank goodness, since I'm sure he wouldn't have enjoyed getting "tickled" by Bree. Then later in the day when Brianna had done what her daddy asked her he said "Allright! High Five!" and gave her a high five. Immediately afterwords Brianna said "kitty five too" and ran over to Bogart, lifted up his hind foot and put her open palm to it in a kitty version high five!