My friend and I were visiting on the phone; I asked her what all that noise was in the background. I said I did not know it must be on her end of the line. It sounded like a bell going off at times and someone hitting something while we were talking on the phone. There was not as much background noise if we did not say much. It sounded like chimes at one point during our conversation. My friend said is that your grandfather’s clock, I said, no, I was at the opposite end of the house from where the watches were located.
As we continued to talk on the phone, it sounded like someone tapping a pencil and a bell dinging at times. We finally hung up as it was hard to visit with all that background noise.
I went to the other room because it sounded like a phone was off the hook. Sure enough, the other cordless phone turned on was making all of the noise with Kohl’s help while my friend and I were visiting on the phone. Kohl had turned the phone on with his paw and did not like the noise, so he kept hitting the phone with his foot. The bell was a clock with a bell for the half hour, and the chime noise was indeed my grandfather’s clock.
I called my friend back and said that the noise had been caused by Kohl, my eavesdropping Tom’s cat. She thanked me for calling her back. Case solved perpetrator Kohl the eavesdropping Tomcat.
Cats watch us do things and catch on very quickly, sometimes for our benefit and sometimes to our detriment. Cats have watched their owners play the piano, do yoga poses, and much more, and they copy what they have observed their owners do. Have your cats learned what you want them to know for your benefit?
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