Remember the old excuse that schoolkids often give for not doing their homework:
"The dog ate it, Miss."
Well one of Aimee's students can now claim that....almost. Last night, Aimee was sitting at the dining room table marking essays and was putting the marked ones in a neat pile on the floor next to her chair. I saw Ebony hanging around and the next thing I heard was Rip....rip....RIP....RIIIIPPP.
"Noooo," I rushed out of the bathroom and chased Ebony away. Aimee hadn't even realised what was going on as she had turned away for a minute to talk to her dad who is here from Botswana and is staying with us for a few days. I drew her attention to the topmost essay which Ebony had mangled. It was beyond repair as she'd ripped a big chunk right out of it. Luckily Aimee had already marked it and recorded the grade.
BAD KITTY!
Aimee and her dad both actually thought it was very funny and Aimee doubted the student would be too upset as he didn't get a very good grade. Perhaps he'll even be glad it was destroyed?
I don't think Aimee will be leaving her essays on the floor again. Despite having a multitude of toys, Ebony does seem to have a fetish for paper and cardboard. A couple of weeks ago, I caught her trying to chew the box of a waffle maker that Duncan and I were going to be giving his cousin for a wedding present.
This time it'll be the teacher giving the old excuse to a student. Except this time, it's true!
4 comments:
Great story! :-))
Jet is a little monster too!
He has just finished pulling apart his bed (i am refusing to get him a new one) and has ripped apart two of those balls you get from red dot where its just rubber filled with air...he popped them and now there are millions of little pieces of rubber everywhere!
He also likes to chew snail shells...they dont sound too good going up the vaccuum!!
Ebony's not too bad normally. I'm grateful that she's not one of those cats who likes to climb up curtains and she uses her scratching post all the time instead of the furniture which is good.
Then again she does like to rip up paper and she also ripped one of her toys which is a feathery thing on a string with a plastic rod. There were feathers all over the carpet and she looked at me smugly as if to say, "I killed it!".
I remember when our family dog was a puppy (many years ago now), she use to chew the next door neighbours slippers.
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