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Green-eyed Floofster (catfinition) – Animal who is jealous of other cats and displays this in passive-aggressive behavior.
In use: “Being a green-eyed floofster, Benji the cat would walk over and sit on Martha the dog’s head whenever their people gave the canine attention.”
Catopox (catfinition): An illness people use to call in sick or stay in bed, brought on by an unwillingness to disturb a sleeping animal. Originally associated with cats, the illness has been extended to include any animal.
Floofergeist (Catfinition): A troublesome cat that haunts a particular person.
In Use: “Underfoot at every turn, Jade was Brenda’s floofergeist, giving orders in stringent meows, and tailslapping when she was ignored, until resorting to ankle nibbles for attention.”
M.F.W.I.C., aka MFWIC: (Catfinition) – Mother floof what’s in charge, a reference to the household queen who organizes the other pets, and enforces order and structure in the floofhold.
In use: “She wasn’t big nor vocal, but she was the MFWIC, and touching any of her charges – the other household pets – meant you had to first pass her scrutiny, no exceptions.”
He was in the bath room, fresh from the shower and reaching for a towel, when he heard the sound.
It sounded like a thump in the other room, like someone was in the house. Knowing he was home alone, he grew still and listened for it again. He’d left the windows open to bring in fresh, cold mountain air before the day became the oven in hell’s kitchen. Someone may have come through one of the windows.
The thump came again.
It was not from the other room, but from below.
He looked down, considering what he’d heard and where it emanated. For, it seemed like the sound had come from his abdomen.
Listening for it, he heard it again, like someone jumping on the floor, coming from his abdomen.
Was that normal? He’d never heard a noise like that from his body before.
He resumed drying. Growing old was a murky business. The more he aged, the less he knew his body, and the less he trusted it.
He never knew what it was going to do next.
I was checking the temperature for our area via Wunderground. It said, “104.3 F.” Underneath, it said, “Feels like 78 F”.
We wondered where they were, that they were so optimistically cool.
Looky-floof (floofinition): a housepet who likes to follow people and spy on them.
In Use: “Papi is a classic looky-floof, following us around the house, close at hand to observe whatever we’re doing – washing, dressing, eating, reading, it doesn’t matter.”
