One of life's many imponderables is why cats delight in interfering with changing the bed linen.
Even before you start to strip the sheets; even while you're thinking about it; any and all cats in the household will mysteriously appear in the bedroom, ready and watchful. And the instant you begin, they'll be interfering - sitting on the bed so that you can't remove the old sheets; entangling themselves in the blankets; crawling into the pillowcases, and most importantly, burrowing beneath the new sheet as soon as it's placed on the bed, thus preventing you from finishing the job, unless you delight in suffocating cats (which you probably will, before the ordeal is over).
I think it's something they learn in cat school, along with such valuable lessons as how to get underfoot when a human is carrying something fragile and/or cumbersome; the proper way of snubbing food and finding the most inaccessible and inconvenient spot to pass a hairball.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to see whether the cat is still under the sheet. I'd like to finish making the bed sometime today.
Posted by wetcoast at August 2, 2003 11:58 AM