My dad came home for lunch yesterday, he came upstairs and told me there was a dead cat on the road outside our neighbours house. Naturally I was quite upset by this, all I could think was what can we tell the owners! (My worst fear is something happening to my cats, and my parents lol)
My dad put on his marigolds and got a piece of paper to write down any information on the collar. He went outside – as he did so I was watching from the front door, then I thought, my dad doesn’t have a very good track record at being able to tell if somethings dead or not.
He came into my room when I was about 14/15 and told me that my hamster, Domino was dead. I was very upset at this news. I’m not very good with dead things but I wanted to see him before we buried him in our little graveyard by the shed – all the dead bird and mice have their own tombstones – bricks left over from our house. I went into the kitchen and there he was, a little black cuddly thing in the sawdust of his cage – I looked a little closer, he was still breathing! The house had been so cold he’d started hibernating!
After I mentioned his lack of ability to tell if something is dead or not, my dad looked around the hedge and sure enough – no dead cat! Ten minutes later he went back outside to check! Just to see if the ‘dead’ cat hadn’t gotten up and walked away!
Just like Jem, I sometimes have to get up and poke my puppy since I’m afraid that he stopped breathing, or so it looks anyway :P
To be fair to your Dad, I know Hex sometimes lies in the sun on a windowsill or whatever and I have to go up and poke him to make sure he’s still alive, because he just doesn’t move :S
Wow it seems to me like your dad is a little oblivious, adorably so, at times. I’m sorry that he scared you though because I have to say that whilst I was reading it I was a little scared of what was to come!!! I’m just so relieved that there was no death though!
Haha. It must of been just basking in the sun!
Hehehe. :D
Haha! That’s the kind of thing that shouldn’t be funny, and yet it is! :P
Hey Han, remember the last time you tagged me for the Five Vices Meme? :P you’re now tagged for another meme! Heheh :chick:
Heh, reminds me of Life of Brian and the old man being thrown in the plague victim’s wheelbarrow – “but I’m not dead yet!”…. Bang!
I’m just waiting for the day that your dad decides to right his track record on dead/alive diagnosis by helping things towards the light…. “I think there’s a dead cat outside, I’ll just take the shovel and give it a tap/thump to make sure”
I cringed when I read the title :blank: but thenafter listening to what your dad deems an animal is dad made me wonder whether the cat was really dead or not. And it isn’t! ^^ teehee. My father was the exact opposite of yours – I had a pet fish when I was 13 and one day he told me rather excitedly that my fish has gone into ‘hibernation’. And hell no it wasn’t – it was dead. But I guess he didn’t think it was dead because the fish didn’t float upside down. It wasn’t passing motion for the past week and I guess all the food that got stuck inside weighed it down or something :X I bured it under a chili plant, an alternative to a tombstone.
In one way or another, dads are always the funniest when they’re not trying. During the days when I was searching for which university scholarship to take, dad came into my room and exclaimed that there’s one that has only 2 years of… ‘BONDAGE’ after completion of my studies. I was literally laughing my butt off :D